Oct 24, 2019 8:03 AM

A search for the heart of the ECM Records operation leads to a small, quiet space located on the second floor of a…

Oct 23, 2019 9:00 AM

Pianist Uri Caine had no idea that his 10-part oratorio, The Passion Of Octavius Catto, would somehow gain additional…

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,…