When I last spoke with Terence Blanchard, in 2015, I asked him to discuss the…
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Pianist, composer and bandleader Stanley Cowell has passed away at 79-year-old in Dover, Delaware. Excessive…
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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)
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As we look for silver linings in the maddening year that was 2020, it’s heartening…
Feature photo courtesy of Universal Music The fact that musicians love film should come as…
Each year, we ask our writers and editors to select their top 10 albums of…
Larry Vuckovich’s love affair with the movies began in his native Yugoslavia. The California-based jazz…
Susan Alcorn Quintet, Pedernal (Relative Pitch) Alcorn takes the pedal steel into new terrain by deftly combining…
Jazz big band culture remains the lingua franca of American music academies as well as state-funded ensembles…
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For the past 25 years, trombonist Conrad Herwig’s “The Latin Side of” series has been…