Braxton, Fame & Building Code Girl
By Phillip Lutz
Guitarist Mary Halvorson, who topped four categories in the 2017 DownBeat Critics Poll, begins a new chapter in her career with Code Girl. The album features her poetic lyrics and inventive, intricate arrangements.
By Allen Morrison
Vocalist Kurt Elling has been asking The Questions since his early 20s, when he was working toward a master’s degree in divinity at the University of Chicago.
By John Murph
Blues People sounds like no other album by saxophonist Logan Richardson.
By Yoshi Kato
With echoes of classical minimalism, full-bodied Third Stream grandeur and subtle electronics, pianist Edward Simon’s Sorrows & Triumphs merges old and new traditions.
Johnathan Blake was tested on the following tracks for the “Blindfold Test”: