Throughout a 55-year career that started in the 1920s, Mary Lou Williams always sounded modern…
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Plenty happens on the latest Outside in Music compilation. Live at Pinch Recording Volume 2…
Tenor saxophonist Ben Wendel uses the eight self-composed tracks on his fifth session as a…
Melody Gardot’s lush, intimate and multi-lingual Sunset in the Blue is a warmly inviting, sensual…
Drummer Diego Piñera’s latest recording is a rhythmic treat that’s trickier than it seems at…
One of the unheralded figures of the 1970s jazz-funk movement, keyboardist Doug Carn emerges from…
Although there’s no official record, El Arte Del Bolero could well be the first album…
From the vaults comes an album that aptly chronicles the kind of club dates that…
Swiss-raised, New York-based tenor saxophonist María Grand’s second album is a gem, the product of…
A Love Supreme Electric, A Salvo Inspired by John Coltrane: A Love Supreme & Meditations (Cuneiform)
Don’t tread here lightly. An ad hoc quintet of seemingly odd bedfellows plays A Love…
Susan Alcorn Quintet, Pedernal (Relative Pitch) Alcorn takes the pedal steel into new terrain by deftly combining…
Hermine Deurloo’s bold, jaunty, funky, bluesy and coolly swinging Riverbeast is among the most infectious and engaging…
One unspoken premise of improvisation is that serendipity can yield musical moments beyond the scope…
For the past 25 years, trombonist Conrad Herwig’s “The Latin Side of” series has been…
Those who have followed the career of alto-sax master Charles McPherson — starting with his association…
Trumpeter and vocalist Takuya Kuroda’s sixth release deviates from his norm of live-in-the-studio tracking by…
When the music is moody and complex, interpretive quality frequently depends upon the amount of…
There’s an appealing purity to JD Allen’s approach. From his big, luxurious tone on tenor…
Maria Schneider’s writing for orchestra has often reflected her passions as an environmentalist. This was…
Baltimore pianist Lafayette Gilchrist’s wide-eyed approach to making music is informed by a convergence of…