The latest recording by saxophonist-composer Quinsin Nachoff, Pivotal Arc is nothing if not ambitious: a…
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Veteran organist Radam Schwartz teams up with young tenor saxophonist Abel Mireles and his New…
Charlie Parker’s centennial provides a great excuse for today’s jazz artists to revisit his repertoire.…
The first two releases from pianist John Beasley’s MONK’estra were all about affirming the continued…
Violinist Regina Carter follows in the politically conscious footsteps of drummer Max Roach and bassist…
Guitarist Michael Musillami and pianist Peter Madsen waited 18 years to record a follow-up to…
Longtime Herbie Hancock sideman Lionel Loueke pays tribute to his employer and mentor on HH…
An unprecedented summit of jazz vocal pioneers convened at New York’s Birdland in September 2015.…
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Drummer Matt Wilson (Photo: Courtesy the artist) Jeff Cosgrove History Gets Ahead of the Story (Grizzley…
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In April of 1923, King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band filed into the tiny Gennett recording…
Using a rather primitive recording device — a suction-cup microphone attached to a telephone receiver,…
On his debut album as a leader, pianist and composer Micah Thomas can perhaps best…
Longtime pals and musical colleagues John Scofield and Steve Swallow recorded their latest project in…
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Imaginative saxophonist and composer Rudresh Mahanthappa pays tribute to his various influences on the lean and taut Hero…
For his own projects, Jerry Granelli largely has resisted focusing on the music of two…
This New York/Philadelphia/D.C.-based quintet delivers messages concerning black struggle and Afro-futurist liberation, delivered in expansive…