The striking cover image of an abandoned swing illuminated against a field of glittering stars makes a compelling visual metaphor for the music on Close. “Music is a twilight language,” Steve Tibbetts confirms. “The job is to translate some shadow into sound.”
On his 11th ECM release the Minnesotan guitarist resumes the quest, slowly developing his yearning improvised melodies over layered loops and drones and darkly rumbling percussion. If the sound colours, including distorted electric guitar and sparkling 12 string acoustic, make this music of the west, its gradual, almost hypnotic unfolding continues to suggest eastern affinities.
“I am still reaching for the evocative sound of Sultan Khan,” says Tibbetts, speaking of…
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Son of renowned Brazilian percussionist Bosco de Oliveira, Fabio de Oliveira, aka 
On his fourth release on Orindal Records, 
Many musicians are content to write and perform songs, while others continuously explore deeper territory. Clarinetist, saxophonist, and composer 
American saxophonist and composer 
Like many a listener, Resonance founder George Klabin was bewitched when he heard Milton Nascimento’s singing voice for the first time. Introduced to him by Airto and Flora Purim when they were playing at a small NYC club, Klabin learned that the young man was in town to record at Rudy Van Gelder’s legendary New Jersey studio. Issued in 1969 on CTI Records, the resultant album was Courage, a classic-in-the-making (Klabin’s all-time favourite, in fact) featuring Herbie Hancock and orchestral arrangements by Eumir Deodato. Now, fifty-six years after its release, renowned clarinetist 
Just when you think you’ve discovered all the greats from the heyday of Turkish psych, along comes a rare nugget like this. Çetin Bükey was a saxophonist/flautist known for composing film scores, who also played on Barış Manço’s 1974 single ‘Bir Bahar Akşamı’.
Though the title may sound like a martial arts film, Anthony’s Wilson’s House of the Singing Blossoms is pure, jovial jazz. The guitarist is well known for touring with Diana Krall, but he is a good player in his own right.
Cohesive and fluid are not words one would associate with the wild, spontaneous collective 
French-born, New York-based saxophonist 
The fourth CD in Zorn’s remarkable series of piano trio recordings exploring classical forms, Nocturnes is an absolute delight.
The Greek duo of lyra player Sokratis Sinopoulos and pianist Yann Keerim’s first studio statement is a deep well of inspired musical dialogues that cross the idiomatic space between European folk tradition and chamber-jazz seamlessly.
There is something stark about Relative Pitch releases, something immediate and bristling about the sounds they contain. Of course, this is a gross generalization, and there’s a world of beauty underpinning each sonic gesture, certainly true on Conversation No. 1, this series of bass clarinet miniatures from 
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