Guardian Music — Scala, King's CrossJaga Jazzist aren't a jazz band, but they're not exclusively any other kind of band either. The 15-year-old Norwegian collective is guided by a jazz/improv sensibility and cool skilfulness that allows all its clamouring influences ... more info

Guardian Music — (ECM)Disappointments, even honourable ones, don't usually warrant inclusion over better offerings among the limited column-inches jazz secures. But since Norwegian trumpeter Mathias Eick, a regular member of genre-bending cult band Jaga Jazzist, has ... more info