Jun 4, 2019 9:00 AM
The Enduring Passion of Leo Feigin, Leo Records Founder
Leo Feigin brought lots of passion but little music-industry experience to the job when he launched his namesake label…
Pianist Simon Nabatov has released dozens of albums on Leo.
Jun 4, 2019 9:00 AM
Leo Feigin brought lots of passion but little music-industry experience to the job when he launched his namesake label…
Victor Haskins cultivated his affinity for EWI as a student at Richmond’s Virginia Commonwealth University.
Jun 3, 2019 9:00 AM
When trumpeter and composer Victor Haskins teaches young students about jazz, he tries to explain to them that the…
Bassist and bandleader Linda May Han Oh calls Aventurine her most ambitious compositional work to date.
May 31, 2019 9:00 AM
Linda May Han Oh has gotten used to carrying her double bass up the four flights of stairs to the Harlem walk-up she…
Ben Monder’s new double album features the guitarist in solo and trio settings.
May 30, 2019 9:00 AM
There are few guitarists whose vocabulary on the instrument renders them truly inimitable. Ben Monder is one of them.…
Israeli pianist Anat Fort has issued a pair of new recordings—and has more in store.
May 29, 2019 9:00 AM
For a jazz musician known internationally for her remarkable and picturesque piano playing, Anat Fort has a…
In 1958, John Coltrane turned 32. He’d just rejoined Miles Davis’ band after a sojourn with Thelonious Monk, and had in the previous year finally freed himself of his addiction to drugs and alcohol.
May 24, 2019 10:00 AM
Perhaps the most striking thing about the current resurgence of interest in John Coltrane is the extent to which it…
A Resonance collection of Wes Montgomery material uncovers more of the guitarist’s Midwest roots.
May 23, 2019 10:00 AM
Back in 2012, Resonance Records put out a collection of Wes Montgomery recordings that represented the first full album…
Antonio Sánchez opens his latest album, Lines In The Sand, with a disturbing ontage of sirens and voices.
May 22, 2019 10:24 AM
In May 2018, drummer Antonio Sánchez was performing with pianist/composer Arturo O’Farrill at the Fandango…
Aubrey Logan critiques Los Angeles and the entertainment industry on her new album.
May 21, 2019 10:00 AM
In a city recognized worldwide as the locus of glamour, success and superficiality, Los Angeles-based trombonist and…
Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber is marking two decades of music with a new album and a spate of reissues.
May 19, 2019 10:19 PM
As any well-informed chef will tell you, particularly one schooled in Caribbean cuisine, burnt sugar is not actually…
