Oct 21, 2019 9:31 AM
Mark Kavuma Crafts a Bigger ‘Banger’
Great art can emerge from any residency. A staple of jazz through the decades—from Ornette Coleman’s 1959 series at…
Mark Kavuma’s sophomore album, The Banger Factory, places him at the center of London’s rapidly expanding jazz scene.
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…
Nat “King” Cole sat at the crossroads of jazz and pop.
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…
Guitarist Charlie Apicella says his band gets “right to the point, just like Jack McDuff” on Groove Machine.
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…
Gabriele Mirabassi (left) and Roberto Taufic record Nítido E Obscuro at the Venica & Venica Winery in Gorizia, Italy.
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,…
Terence Blanchard performs at the Belgrade Jazz Festival in 2009.
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…
Adam Rudolph conducts the Go: Organic Orchestra at New York’s Rubin Museum of Art.
Oct 14, 2019 9:19 AM
Bandleader and percussionist Adam Rudolph sees himself as an inventor, rather than a composer. Composers typically…
Jaimie Branch’s approach to visual scores developed further while writing music for her latest album, Fly Or Die II.
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,…
Bob Sheppard says he’s “probably done everything there is to do in the music business.”
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,…
The members of New York Voices are Kim Nazarian (left), Peter Eldridge, Darmon Meader and Lauren Kinhan.
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…
Drummer Tyshawn Sorey and pianist Marilyn Crispell collaborate for The Adornment Of Time, a release on Pi Recordings.
Oct 7, 2019 9:00 AM
Sorey-Crispell Summit: Drummer Tyshawn Sorey and pianist Marilyn Crispell released The Adornment Of Time on Sept. 27…
