Apr 8, 2019 9:00 AM
Joe Fiedler’s Deep Playfulness
Jazz musicians have tapped all kinds of sources for material—folklore, hymns, Broadway—but Joe Fiedler has found…
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…
Ed Palermo incorporates large doses of humor in his big band’s music.
Apr 7, 2019 5:41 PM
To paraphrase a rhetorical question once posed by Frank Zappa: Does humor belong in jazz? For arranger, composer,…
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…
Among his numerous projects, Noah Preminger has written and recorded music based on the films of a distant relative, director Otto Preminger.
Apr 1, 2019 9:00 AM
Concept albums help an artist establish an identity. They’re more than a mere exercise in composing songs as vehicles…
Berlin-based pianist Håvard Wiik has mastered a stylistic hodgepodge on three recent recordings.
Mar 29, 2019 10:42 AM
Atomic, a tirelessly creative free-bop quintet, has carved out a niche in the Nordic jazz scene.
At the center of…
Songs Of Our Native Daughters—a collaborative set from Rhiannon Giddens (left), Allison Russell, Leyla McCalla and Amythyst Kiah—pushes back against expectations of American folk music, setting the record straight with a powerful quartet of black women who play banjos, fiddles and acoustic guitars.
Mar 29, 2019 9:00 AM
When she sings certain songs, Rhiannon Giddens feels herself become an oracle. The medium her messengers speak through…
Alfredo Rodríguez and Pedrito Martinez perform at New York’s SubCulture during Winter Jazzfest in January.
Mar 28, 2019 9:00 AM
On Jan. 5—four days after the 60th anniversary of the revolution in Cuba—two sons of that island nation, Alfredo…
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