J.B. Spins

If more than two musicians played a bar of music in the same room together while the programmers were assembling Lady Ga Ga’s latest album o...

Although their fellow countrymen Terje Rypdal and Jan Garbarek might be better known in America, the trio of Ketil Bjørnstad, Jon Christense...

Great poetry has a funny way of yielding up secrets to readers at the strangest time. A volume of W.H. Auden’s poetry seemed to call to the ...

Cartography By Arve Henriksen ECM Records 2086 Inspired by the sound of traditional Japanese Shakuhachi flutes but employing the latest in ...

Equilibrium By Mikkel Ploug, Sissel Vera Pettersen, Joachim Badenhorst Songlines Suddenly wordless vocalizing is cool again. When Louis Arms...

Bohemian Maestro: Django Reinhardt and the Impressionists By the Hot Club of San Francisco Django Music By the Hot Club de Norvege The Belgi...

Live at Belleville Arild Andersen, Tommy Smith, Paolo Vinaccia ECM Records 2078 In 1905 Norway dissolved its union with Sweden, becoming the...

Yeraz By Trygve Seim and Frode Haltli ECM Records 2044 Those who do not associate the accordion with jazz, have never had the pleasure of di...

The Door By Mathias Eick ECM Records 2059 A debut release should be a happy occasion, but in this case it is also a reminder of something lo...

Life in Leipzig By Ketil Bjørnstad and Terje Rypdal ECM Records 2052 With thirty published books and novels to his credit, Ketil Bjørnstad i...

Persona By Massimo Biolcati ObliqSound Feel the Bergman love. Massimo Biolcati’s debut CD as a leader, Persona (on-sale today) , takes its ...

There was cool swag in the exhibit hall at IAJE this year, some of which I’m still working through. Music Export Norway actually had some ...