Almas Antiguas
Feb 15, 2019 9:00 AM
Some albums speak only to musicians’ collective talent and skill, the fruit of their labors worn like battle scars or trophies. Infrequently does music speak only to the joys of…
Feb 15, 2019 9:00 AM
Some albums speak only to musicians’ collective talent and skill, the fruit of their labors worn like battle scars or trophies. Infrequently does music speak only to the joys of…
Jan 15, 2019 9:00 AM
Brazilian pianist Amaro Freitas has developed an approach to the keyboard that’s so unique it’s startling. On his…
Jan 14, 2019 9:00 AM
For the past few years, pianist and composer David Virelles has mapped out an intriguing artistic path by delivering…
Jan 11, 2019 9:00 AM
The lovely Decade: Memoirs is as pastoral as the photograph on its cover—not exactly the expectation for a Chicagoan,…
Jan 10, 2019 9:00 AM
Susanna Risberg, blessed with a vibrant sense of musical self, fresh ideas and her own distinct voice, is a young jazz…
Jan 9, 2019 9:00 AM
If there’s an essence to London’s jazz scene, some witty and concise way of capturing its appeal, it continues to…
Jan 8, 2019 9:00 AM
With Jazz Batá 2, Cuban pianist Chucho Valdés returns to the small-group format that he used for his 1972 album Jazz…
Jan 7, 2019 9:00 AM
Free-jazz drumming icon Andrew Cyrille shows no sign of slowing down. At 79, he remains as wide open to the melodic…
Jan 4, 2019 9:00 AM
There is an explicit and personal statement at work in People Of The Sun that involves race, identity and what it means…
Jan 3, 2019 9:00 AM
“My flow is rooted,” asserts the album’s first line, and it’s not just swagger. Modern Flows Vol. II moves as…
Jan 2, 2019 9:00 AM
Poetry is having a moment in the jazz world again. Matt Wilson took a whirl with Carl Sandburg and Luciana Souza delved…
Dec 28, 2018 9:00 AM
There’s not yet a consensus around how to situate Kenny Wheeler—the Canadian-British trumpeter and prolific…
