Saxophonist and composer Chris Potter’s triumphant, expansive, visionary and boundary-blurring new release Imaginary Cities marks his second as leader for the ECM label, following 2012’s “The Sirens.” The creative impulse here stems, in part, as Chris himself puts it, from a...

Billy Hart has done as much as anyone alive to master the vocabulary of jazz drumming. Mr. Hart (b. 1940) has been the beat behind over 500 albums by artists ranging from Sam & Dave to Pharoah Sanders. With The Montgomery Brothers and Jimmy Smith in the ‘60s, Miles Davis and Herbie...

Vijay Iyer should be familiar to both jazz enthusiasts and people interested in creative new music of all sorts. He has collaborated with artists from Amiri Baraka to John Zorn on record labels from Asian Improv to Sunnyside. It is not only his piano playing and composing that has won him a...

The French jazz composer and percussionist Xavier Desandre Navarre has released a promising first album as bandleader entitled In-Pulse, on the Jazz Village label. He has assembled a tremendous combo behind him that enlists two upright bass players, Stéphane Kerecki and Bruno Rousselet, and...

The sometime politically-fractious, culturally heterogeneous, low country of Belgium continues in the present day to foster its lengthy and distinguished relationship with Jazz, one that includes producing the eminent musical personages Django Reinhardt and Toots Thielemans, the Brussels Jazz...

The acclaimed French pianist and composer Baptiste Trotignon appears on this evocative, elegant and diverse new album of original compositions entitled “Hit”, released on the Naïve label. After recording and working on numerous projects throughout Europe and the US, with...

Admirers of the NYC-based, Julliard School of Music faculty member and internationally respected jazz pianist Frank Kimbrough know well of the many gratifying characteristics – adept and evident swing, tunefulness and lyricism, melodic shapeliness and generosity, intimacy and reflection,...

With nearly a record a year as leader since his late 1980s recording debut, not to mention the dozens of recorded sideman appearances, veteran guitarist Dave Stryker has amassed a substantial discography of considerable depth and quality, leading varied small group combinations from trio to...

Sky | Lift, the Sunnyside label debut of pianist Randy Ingram and most welcome and overdue successor to 2009s The Road Ahead (Brooklyn Jazz Underground), announces itself immediately as an album of warmth, openness, buoyancy, thoughtfulness and optimism, and maintains a course reflective of...

Dreamy, evocative, exploratory, filmic, melodious, intermittently raucous, self-assured – just some of the descriptions one can use when describing Fuzzy Logic, the New Hampshire-born, Champlain Valley, NY denizen trumpeter and composer Taylor Haskins’ fifth and newest solo project, and...

Imprints is the debut album of piano player Vit Kristan, whose project boasts a piano trio core of extraordinary calibre. Kristan’s jazz is not new to Expedition Audio - and neither is the work of his bass-wielding trio mate Jaromir Honzak; three of their albums have been recommended...

Mediterranean Sound is a beautiful family affair! Father Yvan Belmondo and his two sons Stéphane and Lionel take inspiration from “returning home” - both physically and musically - to celebrate the jazz they love above all. Backed by the trio of Jean-Philippe Sempere (guitar),...