Vocalist Andy James was born in Australia and now lives in Las Vegas, but for…
Yet another trio that should whet the appetite of creative jazz lovers, Wadada Leo Smith, Jack DeJohnette and Vijay…
The tantalizing trio of Andrew Cyrille, William Parker and Enrico Rava came together last year to record a salute to…
A meeting of creative jazz titans, the OGJB Quartet performed for the first time at New York’s…
Another project from Wadada Leo Smith’s bountiful harvest of recent years, Sacred Ceremonies (TUM) reveals the magic of…
Growing up in a small town in Finland, Mikko Innanen picked up the saxophone at the age…
Birds have long been a source of inspiration for pianist and composer Iro Haarla, not just…
A triumvirate of imaginative jazz vets, the FAB Trio came together on a handful of recordings in…
Wadada Leo Smith has a penchant for trumpet and drum duos. In fact, he recently released…
Like fellow octogenarian Wadada Leo Smith, drummer-composer Andrew Cyrille remains a creative powerhouse in the jazz world,…
At the age of 80, Wadada Leo Smith remains a powerful creative force. The past few years…
Comprising four conservatory-trained Finnish musicians, the Ilmiliekki Quartet quickly piled up the accolades upon its founding in…
In 2003, guitarist Raoul Björkenheim and drummer Lukas Ligeti released a set of evocative duets under the album title Shadowglow (TUM).…
A landmark 1976 recording, Juhani Aaltonen and Henrik Otto Donner’s Strings, married jazz improvisation with orchestration. While the Finnish…
If it seems to some jazz fans that vocalist Eugenie Jones materialized out of the ether, well,…
As he mentions in the liner notes to his self-released album Be With Me, drummer-composer-arranger Matt Gordy originally…
The music of drummer-composer Kabir Dalawari is informed not only by jazz but also by cognitive psychology,…
Responding to the question of why jazz bands don’t play more songs that today’s audiences…
Guitarist-vocalist Jana Herzen has been on a creative roll. On the heels of a series of collaborative…