Progressive - CD Reviews (378)
Rented Mule is the musical union of Philadelphia natives Don "D.A." Jones and Dan Greenberg. Drummer percussionist Jones has performed with Sun Ra, Sonny Stitt, Pharoah …
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Roy Nathanson has had a varied and richly diverse career in and out of music. The multi-reedist co-created the Jazz Passengers, a group with releases on 32 Jazz and Wind…
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It’s not your prototypical drummer-led solo outing. As a venerable jazz-based session ace, E.J. Strickland has graced recordings by saxophonist Ravi Coltrane and twin broth…
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The core trio augments it’s mode of delivery with prominent New England artists, guitarist Mick Goodrick and tenor saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi. And what a shrewdly balanc…
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In the world of introspective, feeling, and sensitive pianists you cannot find two stronger jazz pianists than Brad Mehldau and Jurgen Friedrich. Each of them has crafte…
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Drummer-percussionist Bill Bruford’s powerful percussive rhythms drove some of the best progressive rock bands during that genre’s heydays in the 1970s. He was the authorit…
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Thirty-three year-old Switzerland native and saxophonist Reto Suhner has spent time as a student of New York-based jazz artists like Dick Oatts, Billy Drewes and Rich Pe…
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Markus Renter from the band TUNER amid other progressive-rock endeavors produced this debut effort by a young German band that purveys charisma and strong musicianship d…
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While earning his Master’s degree at Mills College in Oakland, CA., trumpeter Darren Johnston studied under guitarist, improvising great Fred Frith and bassist extraordi…
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The jazz sax/bass/drums format yields bountiful residuals with this prismatic 2009 release. Featuring musicians that reside among the crème de la crème of progressive ja…
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With his fifth album as a leader, Australian composer/keyboardist Barney McAll continues his extraordinary fusing of the jazz vernacular into a unique voice. In 1997, he…
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Pianists Joachim Kühn and Michael Wollny make for a stirring combination on their latest venture, Live At Schloss Elmau. Recorded live on September 10, 2008 at Sc…
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Composer and multi-instrumentalist, Patrick Forgas has been making music for the last four decades, and now in the heart of his fifth one, he still has not run out of id…
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Scott Reeves Quintet’s new release, Shape Shifter was recorded live over the band’s two-night stint from March 14th to March 15th, 2008 at Cecil’s Jazz Club in We…
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With his debut solo outing as a leader, percussionist and first-call session artiste Daniel Sadownick fuses the progressive jazz element with Afro-Cuban cadences, marked…
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Drummer/keyboardist Gary Husband is a familiar name to jazz-rock and jazz-fusion aficionados, given his work with guitar gods, Allan Holdsworth and John McLaughlin among…
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Gypsy Schaeffer is the moniker used by the jazz quartet fronted by trombone player Joel Yennior. The group’s latest release New Album is a wild jam session that t…
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Stickadiboom is the second CD and Zoho debut from jazz bassist/composer Steve Haines and his quintet, who are best known for their classic New York-style hard-bop. T…
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Nels Cline is certainly one of the more versatile guitar heroes on the planet. He performs with the rock band Wilco while recording his genre-busting jazz-rock unit, …
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Good things are emanating from upstate New York as the region's prominent saxophonist/composer Brian Patneaude delivers the goods in rather resplendent, and unhurried fa…
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