Jazz Love Affair
By Phillip Lutz
The virtuoso guitarist braved the challenges of COVID year and pulled together his trio with drummer Dave King and bassist Jorge Roeder to deliver a brilliant recording on Blue Note Records, his new label. Contributor Phillip Lutz catches up with the exuberant 33-year-old to discuss this major milestone in his career as a composer and bandleader.
By Dan Ouellette
In Harmony serves as a beautiful document of a previously unreleased recording of two concert dates with modern-day legends trumpeter Roy Hargrove (who died in 2018 at age 49) and pianist Mulgrew Miller (who died in 2013 at age 57).
By Frank Alkyer & Daniel Margolis
Lovers of the needle drop, unite. In honor of Record Store Day’s 2021 RSD Drops on June 12 and July 17, the DownBeat staff has gone out, dug deep and brought back nearly 50 titles of great vinyl that have been released recently or will be coming out soon. Some are part of RSD Drops, while others are just titles our editors and writers got wind of … and began to lust over. It must be noted that many of these titles are on a limited vinyl run, so get your orders in and enjoy.
Composer and trumpeter Tim Hagans takes this month’s test. Here are the tracks he checked out.
