Oct 22, 2019 9:00 AM
ELEW Interprets Kurt Rosenwinkel on ‘Cubism’
In 2005, Eric Lewis dropped off the straightahead jazz scene to reinvent himself. Adopting the moniker ELEW and…
Oct 22, 2019 9:00 AM
In 2005, Eric Lewis dropped off the straightahead jazz scene to reinvent himself. Adopting the moniker ELEW and…
Oct 21, 2019 9:31 AM
Great art can emerge from any residency. A staple of jazz through the decades—from Ornette Coleman’s 1959 series at…
Oct 18, 2019 9:18 AM
It’s amazing how much Nat “King” Cole material we have to forgive in order to find the man we revere in this, the…
Oct 17, 2019 9:22 AM
In many ways, guitarist Charlie Apicella has devoted himself to a kind of historical reenactment. On all of his…
Oct 16, 2019 9:45 AM
Jazz and wine have much in common. Both require the process of slow refinement. Both involve some level of continuity,…
Oct 14, 2019 9:19 AM
Vojislav Pantić, the artistic director of the Belgrade Jazz Festival, can recount all sorts of stories about the jazz…
Oct 14, 2019 9:19 AM
Bandleader and percussionist Adam Rudolph sees himself as an inventor, rather than a composer. Composers typically…
Oct 11, 2019 6:41 AM
Jaimie Branch wants to hear music that breathes. The trumpeter-composer out of Chicago, and now based in New York,…
Oct 10, 2019 9:14 AM
As one of the most in-demand horn players in Hollywood, saxophonist Bob Sheppard has appeared on albums by Steely Dan,…
Oct 9, 2019 9:25 AM
The title track of New York Voices’ new album, Reminiscing In Tempo (Origin), was one of Duke Ellington’s first…