Mar 6, 2018 9:07 AM
Q&A with Steven Bernstein: On Respectability
Two decades ago, slide trumpeter, composer and bandleader Steven Bernstein caused some members of the jazz community to…
Sexmob’s debut, Den Of Inequity, is two decades old. And now, Steven Bernstein’s troupe is set to issue new work, Cultural Capital, on April 14.
Mar 6, 2018 9:07 AM
Two decades ago, slide trumpeter, composer and bandleader Steven Bernstein caused some members of the jazz community to…
The relationships bassist Martin Wind forged with the two disparate groups that perform on his Light Blue reach back decades.
Mar 1, 2018 10:00 AM
Bassist and composer Martin Wind sees Light Blue (Laika), his newest and 11th disc, as a two-in-one project. That…
Drummer Tony Allen has claimed to be able to play a different time signature with each limb simultaneously.
Feb 27, 2018 9:56 AM
Tony Allen has one of the most recognizable drum sounds on the planet. His polyrhythmic style, which combines swing,…
The new album by pianist Martial Solal (left) and saxophonist Dave Liebman is Masters In Bordeaux.
Jan 1, 2018 6:48 PM
By the time Dave Liebman first made his mark in the early 1970s, as the saxophonist and flutist in Miles Davis’…
Saxophonist Rahsaan Barber’s new album is titled The Music In The Night.
Jan 1, 2018 6:39 PM
Not long ago, Rahsaan Barber was talking with some friends about his new album of standards, The Music In The Night.…
Singer Lina Nyberg and her band perform at the 2017 Stockholm Jazz Festival.
Jan 1, 2018 6:17 PM
One of the first sets at this year’s Stockholm Jazz Festival, which ran Oct. 6–15, started with a formless,…
Luis Perdomo (left), Miguel Zenón, Peter Bernstein and Branford Marsalis perform at The Jazz Gallery in New York on Nov. 1.
Jan 1, 2018 6:12 PM
Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico on Sept. 20, causing unprecedented devastation, knocking out most of the island’s…
Dave Douglas in the studio with members of The Westerlies.
Jan 1, 2018 1:22 PM
The indefatigable Dave Douglas is sitting in his composition room surrounded by comfortable couches, a piano, a wall of…
Esperanza Spalding’s new album is titled Exposure.
Jan 1, 2018 12:46 PM
Witnessing Esperanza Spalding in concert in September 2006, when she opened for the McCoy Tyner Sextet at Berklee’s…
My Point is ... is drummer Willie Jones III’s most recent long-playing album.
Jan 1, 2018 11:30 AM
It doesn’t take a Ph.D. to complete the elliptical title of Willie Jones III’s new album, My Point is… (WJ3),…
