“Outrospection” turns out to be an apt creative coinage for the musical goods contained on…
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Whether invoking ancestral tradition or innovating modern sounds, string musicians strive for a connection with…
Piano great Mal Waldron recorded several tributes to Billie Holiday, whom he had been a…
Richard Baratta knows movies. Starting in 1984, when he worked as a location scout for Desperately…
The picturesque Dutch city of Leiden seems an unlikely place to find a tribute to…
Pianist-composer Sebastien Ammann’s quintet offers lovely yet challenging music on Resilience, the group’s second recording.…
Billy Eckstine, whose velvety baritone voice made him one of the most popular jazz singers…
Jazz may not have an official yearbook, but it does have a vast and well-documented…
Jazz may not have an official yearbook, but it does have a vast and well-documented…
Today (May 3) marks the birthday of pianist and Modern Jazz Quartet founding member John…
An incendiary new album from one of today’s top music producers; a collection of previously…
Bandleader Stan Kenton’s Grammy-winning album Kenton’s West Side Story was recorded on this day in 1961.…
Joe Fiedler knows better than anyone that there’s more than one way to get to…
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With “Walking by Flashlight,” pianist Frank Kimbrough honors composer Maria Schneider with a touching re-imagining of a classic song from her 2012 album, ‘My Winter Morning Walks.’
A lesser-known entry in the Thelonious Monk canon, “Stuffy Turkey” is one of the few…
Trombonist Steve Turre is an acknowledged master of the jazz conch shell. He first learned…
No style or genre can accurately encapsulate the music of Steely Dan. Groundbreakers and rulebreakers…
At 6:55 p.m., Kandace Springs and her two sidemen amble onto the sprawling stage of…
