Christopher Tordini

Alain Metrailler: Heights Prospection

by Dan McClenaghan
April 21, 2026

Who is going to be the next Miles Davis? Or the next John Coltrane? With their two most lauded albums--Kind Of Blue (Columbia, 1959) and A Love Supreme (Impulse, 1966, respectively, the trumpeter and saxophonist (again, respectively) set the bar for top-tier, post-bop jazz ensemble outings. A bar so high it may never be achieved again. But then some strive for that high level of artistic expression. Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko, with a series of albums on ECM Records, gave ...