Jun 13, 2019 9:00 AM
Theo Croker is a ‘Catalyst for Action’
It’s a Wednesday night, and a capacity crowd has filled Mr. Musichead, a spacious gallery on The Sunset Strip in…
The development of Star People Nation—the first album in which Theo Croker has sole producer credit—involved an 18-month journey to both U.S. coasts and multiple recording studios, where he played auxiliary keyboards and synths, crafted electronic and acoustic beats, incorporated samples and wrote lyrics to be sung by himself and special guests.
Jun 13, 2019 9:00 AM
It’s a Wednesday night, and a capacity crowd has filled Mr. Musichead, a spacious gallery on The Sunset Strip in…
“I’m looking for musicians who will kick my ass and make me grow,” Melissa Aldana recently said with a laugh.
Jun 12, 2019 9:00 AM
In the fall of 2013, T.S. Monk was hollering into a hot microphone on the Kennedy Center Stage: “ They gave you their…
Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt wrote a suite for his latest album prompted by his viewing the works of sculptor Rodin at the Musée Rodin in Paris.
Jun 11, 2019 9:00 AM
Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt is an avid museumgoer, and so it was only a matter of time until his love of visual art began to…
George Benson (left) accepts an award from André Ménard in 2010.
Jun 10, 2019 9:00 AM
It’s a frigid mid-winter day in Montreal, but in his eighth-floor office, André Ménard’s mind is focused on the…
Joshua Redman’s current quartet first convened in 1998.
Jun 7, 2019 10:00 AM
When DownBeat contacted Joshua Redman about an interview, the saxophonist and Berkeley, California, resident agreed to…
Vocalist Kristen Lee Sergeant’s new album is titled Smolder.
Jun 5, 2019 9:00 AM
It’s no coincidence that Kristen Lee Sergeant sings several lyrics referencing wine on her sophomore release, Smolder…
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.…
