Apr 29, 2019 3:10 PM
Ralph Alessi Reconvenes Ensemble for ‘Imaginary Friends’
Trumpeter Ralph Alessi’s third album for ECM, the post-bop, neoclassical, subtly disjunctive Imaginary Friends,…
Ravi Coltrane (left), Drew Gress, Ralph Alessi and Mark Ferber perform Jan. 11 at Le Poisson Rouge in New York.
Apr 29, 2019 3:10 PM
Trumpeter Ralph Alessi’s third album for ECM, the post-bop, neoclassical, subtly disjunctive Imaginary Friends,…
Craig Tabor (left) and Vijay Iyer pay tribute to artists and pianists who recently have passed on Transitory Poems.
Apr 18, 2019 9:00 AM
A spirit of camaraderie and collaboration permeated the room when Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn took the stage of…
The Braford Marsalis Quartet’s latest album, The Secret Between The Shadow And The Soul, features compositions by the bandleader, pianist Joey Calderazzo and bassist Eric Revis. Drummer Justin Faulkner rounds out the ensemble.
Apr 17, 2019 9:00 AM
Whether riffing on his new quartet album, his recent work with singer Kurt Elling, his dynastic jazz family, his…
Eric Harland (left), Chris Potter and James Francies have recorded a new album, Circuits.
Apr 16, 2019 9:00 AM
Saxophonist Chris Potter’s new album, Circuits, simultaneously is a step forward and a return to earlier territory.…
Following a fire in her Rio de Janeiro home, improvising vocalist Claudia Villela has found a renewed interest in releasing music.
Apr 15, 2019 9:00 AM
Claudia Villela was all set to catch a December 2017 return flight to California from her native Brazil when a fire…
“From as early as I can remember, I’ve been experimenting with how many different sounds you can get out of a piano,” Elliot Galvin said.
Apr 12, 2019 9:00 AM
London keyboardist Elliot Galvin is a musician of implacable, nonchalant curiosity. Since emerging at the start of this…
Kassa Overall’s leader debut is titled Go Get Ice Cream And Listen To Jazz.
Apr 10, 2019 9:00 AM
In a small Paris hotel room, Kassa Overall lies across an unmade bed, praying for a sign. For months, he’d been…
Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi are co-leaders of the Tedeschi Trucks Band.
Apr 9, 2019 9:00 AM
From its 2011 debut, Revelator, to Signs, its current release on Fantasy, the blues-rock group Tedeschi Trucks Band has…
Joe Fiedler’s new album is Open Sesame.
Apr 8, 2019 9:00 AM
Jazz musicians have tapped all kinds of sources for material—folklore, hymns, Broadway—but Joe Fiedler has found…
Vibraphonist Behn Gillece is, by nature, eclectic, counting drummer/vibraphonist Joe Chambers, pianist Cedar Walton and guitarist Steve Giordano as his composer’s trifecta.
Apr 5, 2019 9:00 AM
Parallel Universe, the fourth album by New Jersey-based vibraphonist and composer Behn Gillece, blasts out of the gate…
