May 29, 2024 12:21 PM
Brian Bromberg: Of LaFaro and Reinvention
Driving into the San Bernardino National Forest, some 40 miles east of Los Angeles, the two-lane road snakes through…
“Maybe now after all these years I’m finally becoming the musician that I wanted to be,” says Bromberg.
May 29, 2024 12:21 PM
Driving into the San Bernardino National Forest, some 40 miles east of Los Angeles, the two-lane road snakes through…
“It has a twang, but it’s not country,” Gardner says of the music from On The Trail With The Lonesome Pines. “And it’s not exactly jazz, but I think it works best when jazz musicians come at it.”
May 29, 2024 12:15 PM
What Hilary Gardner wanted most growing up was to move to New York and sing jazz. But she lived in a small town in…
“If I just sit down and try to play a song all by myself, just tapping my foot, that’s going to be the best thing, because that’s the most honest and most true thing,” says Mulherkar in discussing his debut solo album.
May 29, 2024 12:08 PM
The first time trumpeter/composer Riley Mulherkar met his longtime mentor Wynton Marsalis, he was in the third grade.…
On Shadow, Wright has taken the words of vocalist Nina Simone to heart — that an artist must reflect her times.
May 21, 2024 1:34 PM
Twenty years ago, Lizz Wright emerged as an astounding new voice in music with her superb 2003 debut, Salt, spiced with…
Omar Sosa
May 21, 2024 1:10 PM
Music documentaries can come in a variety of shapes and sizes, as confirmed by this trio of highly inspired — and…
“It’s not like Bach, where you had better play the notes correctly,” Fleck says. “In the case of Rhapsody, it had been done so many ways and with the blessing of [Gershwin].”
Apr 30, 2024 12:35 PM
Over the course of his remarkably eclectic, multiple-Grammy-winning career — one that stretches across four decades…
“I want to inform myself to better convey ideas about nature and sustainability through my music,” says Freitas.
Apr 30, 2024 12:31 PM
Although Brazilian pianist Amaro Freitas amply displayed his compositional brilliance and instrumental derring-do on…
“I try to strike just the right balance of paying tribute to the original and also injecting new life into the music,” says Myles Wright about his music inspired by classic video game tunes.
Apr 30, 2024 11:55 AM
Australian composer/arranger Myles Wright chose the repertoire for his latest self-produced release, Gamer, with…
“Within our uniquely limited instrumentation, we can get people loud and excited,” Kahil El’Zabar says of his 50-year-old Ethnic Heritage Ensemble.
Apr 23, 2024 12:18 PM
The occasion needed some fire. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of his Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, percussionist,…
Irabagon has simultaneously released two albums on his own label, Irabbagast Records.
Apr 23, 2024 11:03 AM
If ever there were an artist who has earned the label “enigma,” it would be saxophonist Jon Irabagon, whose…
