Michael Tucker

The bass clarinettist’s broad reading of spirituality includes Chaplin’s Smile, Legrand’s Windmills Of My Mind and Neal Hefti’s Girl Talk

CD reissue of the Tennessee tenor man’s take on orientalism, adding other contemporaneous tracks to the original programme

Biblically inspired Russian pianist mixes shape-shifting atmosphere with archetypal jazz poetics (blues and swing)

French saxophonist and US jazz pianist play a lyrical set invoking Messiaen, Rimbaud and more, with vocals from Martial Solal’s daughter

Honouring bassist Georg Riedel, the sax-led Swedish trio touch on folk, classical and, string quartet notwithstanding, jazz and rock ’n’ roll

Israeli saxophonist draws on the ‘breathing’ poetry of the bansuri flute and on raga inspirations probably trailing back to Coltrane

I remember meeting Nils Petter Molvaer in Oslo in the late 1990s, while he was mixing some of his new music. Molvaer commented that making an album had become much like making a film, built upon edits of improvisations with the cutting in and blending of various segments. (Among others, Miles and Te…

Drummer Villmow convenes a session in classic piano trio format featuring the well-travelled Norwegian pianist Vigleik Storaas

Another disc from the mystical Cuban pianist who finds that the less he plays the more his audience like him

Jazz trumpeter, later world-music proponent Don Cherry is the subject of a number of essays and interviews flowing from his years in Sweden

Swedish drummer mixes freewheeling swing, Traneish laments and Indian influences in the company of some good soloists

A seminal slice of Hollywood exotica gets a new outing on yellow vinyl, with bonus tracks