Side-Eye
By Suzanne Lorge
The Side-Eye Trio is Pat Metheny’s very cool new project with current members keyboardist James Francies and drummer Joe Dyson, which Metheny formed in 2016 as a platform for up-and-coming players. Even before he started building the band, he knew what it would be called.
“I had a tune called ‘Side-Eye’ that I never played, and several people said it was a great name for a band. So, I thought I’d use that,” Metheny said. “But more specifically, it’s been hard to be an American in the past few years and not have a kind of side-eye look at ourselves during this incredibly bizarre period of time. To me, the only possible way to survive it is to just raise an eyebrow.”
By John Murph
During COVID, saxophonist JD Allen returned to Cincinnati, Ohio, to ride out the pandemic and found himself anew with a solo-saxophone recording Queen City (Savant) and a growing voice for change in America.
By Tina Edwards
The players, the venues and the people behind today’s burgeoning British jazz scene.
Tower of Power’s David Garibaldi and Emilio Castillo take the Blindfold Test.
