Creativity Begins At Home
By Phillip Lutz
Norah Jones says the jazz and pop worlds don’t know what to make of her. So, DownBeat caught up with the singer- songwriter in Brooklyn for a conversation about her latest Blue Note album, Pick Me Up Off The Floor, her collaborative spirit and her work with the group Puss N Boots—as well as her decision to abandon the traditional model for releasing and promoting new recordings.
By James Hale
As the coronavirus moved across Europe in mid-March, trumpeter Avishai Cohen sat in his Tel Aviv home, contemplating the growing probability that his monthslong tour in support of Big Vicious, his band’s new ECM album, would be wiped out.
By Suzanne Lorge
Pianist Andy Milne uses building metaphors to talk about music. Construction is “about how you bind two things together—and that’s how I think about composition,” he explained during a March interview in the Harlem apartment that he shares with his wife, singer La Tanya Hall.
Walter Smith III was tested on the following tracks for the “Blindfold Test”: