Apr 16, 2019 9:00 AM
Chris Potter Has His ‘Circuits’ Rewired
Saxophonist Chris Potter’s new album, Circuits, simultaneously is a step forward and a return to earlier territory.…
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…
Lewis Porter, whose new album is titled Solo Piano, is in a prolific phase of his career.
Apr 4, 2019 9:00 AM
After flirting with a career in psychology, Lewis Porter, the jazz educator and pianist, turned to music full time…
A sense of unrealized creativity led Dr. Mark Lomax II to devise the 12-album set 400: An Afrikan Epic.
Apr 3, 2019 9:00 AM
Music born of the African Diaspora is ever-present in the mind of Dr. Mark Lomax II, an Ohio scholar, drummer and…
During two decades of performing at Tipitina’s, members of Galactic have amassed an abundance of memories tied to the historic New Orleans venue.
Apr 2, 2019 9:00 AM
Last fall, the members of New Orleans funk band Galactic signed paperwork to buy the historic Uptown music club…