There are some excellent new releases to highlight in this edition of OMJ. The Sylvie Courvoisier Trio, with Drew Gress and Kenny Wolleson, continues its recent trend of making superior albums. The new “Éclats Live In Europe” reveals a group that is so in-sync and so explorative that finding a Continue Reading
February 19, 2026 #1450
February 19, 2026 #1450 Golden moments happen on a new recording called “Hz of Gold”, recently released by drummer Devin Gray, saxophonist Frank Gratkowski & multi-instrumentalist Andrea Parkins. They have been meeting a couple of times each year to create highly charged free improvisational music. This 2021 session captures the Continue Reading
February 12, 2026 #1449
Female power highlights the new albums sampled in this edition: Danish saxophonist Signe Emmeluth now living in Norway, joined by her Scandinavian quartet, Amoeba, talks up love on their new release “With Love”, while the heralded composer/arranger/conductor Maria Schneider laments on the lack of dialogue with her new EP “American Continue Reading