Matt Townsend has been one of the most sought-after personal trainers and saxophonists in New…
April 2021
Prelude
Columns
After releasing two albums on Blue Note in 1975 — When Joanna Loved Me and…
Magazine Features
Closing in on two decades since her breakthrough smooth jazz album It Just Happens That…
The singer Stacey Kent and her husband/musical director Jim Tomlinson have been riding out the…
Much has been made of the fact that during the pandemic, many of us have…
Auditions
So what did you do during the Great Pandemic? New York journeyman saxophonist and composer…
Though the seasons and natural world are generally associated with the works of new age…
Two names immediately jump out of the lineup of this avant-garde collective: bassist William Parker…
Do drummer-led big bands — think Buddy Rich, Louie Bellson, Gene Krupa — simply pack…
The quartet of twenty-something jazz hellions collectively known as Nortonk describe their music as chordless…
Bassist Charles Mingus was an ingenious composer whose socially conscious music was rooted in both…
Only 34 minutes long, drummer Reggie Quinerly’s quintet recording New York Nowhere practically qualifies as…
On paper, two British prog-rock musicians playing fully improvised live sets might have the makings…
While the Jazz WORMS quintet breaks no stylistic ground on Squirmin’, it does evince a…
Flor has been touted as vocalist Gretchen Parlato’s Brazilian-inspired project, and that’s true enough. But…
The third album by this star-studded quintet, conceived in 2015 as a loose homage to…
Front-rank pianist Lossing, who deserves much wider acclaim, follows up a string of impressive trio…
As the song title suggests, smooth jazz saxophonist Kenny Polson goes the Brazilian route on…
Veteran trombonist Clifton Anderson chose this self-penned vocal track as the title tune of his…
“Walkin’ Shoes” leads off baritone saxophonist David Larsen’s album The Mulligan Chronicles, a tribute to…