Jul 6, 2022 3:10 PM
Eugenie Jones’ Creative Strategy
Booking record dates in Seattle, Chicago, Dallas and New York demands a brand of grit, and high-level organizational…
“Songwriting is intuitive for me,” Eugenie Jones said.
Jul 6, 2022 3:10 PM
Booking record dates in Seattle, Chicago, Dallas and New York demands a brand of grit, and high-level organizational…
“The power of unison is super,” Turner said. “It’s 10,000 years old, or more.”
Jun 27, 2022 5:00 PM
Mark Turner is sitting in a coffeehouse bakery in Westwood, California, talking in circles. Concentric, full circles,…
Russell’s ability to captivate an audience is a well-honed craft.
May 31, 2022 12:11 PM
The energy at New York’s Birdland felt restless and distracted. When the band started playing “Honeysuckle Rose,”…
The Roxy Coss Quintet proves to be much more than the sum of its Disparate Parts, an aptly named new album on Outside in Music.
May 31, 2022 12:06 PM
Roxy Coss first made her name as a force to be reckoned with on The Future Is Female (Posi-Tone, 2017), her provocative…
Bassist-composer Ron Carter turns 85 on May 4.
May 3, 2022 12:38 PM
On May 10, the iconic bassist-composer Ron Carter will be fêted in an 85th birthday celebration at Carnegie Hall. With…
“The idea of dancing with a ghost, or a memory — I connect with that idea so much,” Salvant says.
Apr 12, 2022 11:06 AM
During the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cécile McLorin Salvant spent about 200 hours devouring Marcel…
Thurman was the first woman to tour and perform full time with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.
Apr 5, 2022 4:55 PM
Here’s a question: How many tenor saxophonists would feel comfortable stepping into John Coltrane’s shoes to…
Nicole Zuraitis composed most of the material on her new album, All Wandering Hearts.
Aug 6, 2020 8:58 AM
Nicole Zuraitis is accustomed to playing some of the finest rooms in New York, including Birdland and the 55 Bar.…
Goran Ivanovic (left) and Fareed Haque combine myriad idioms within jazz improvisation for IndoBalkan (Delmark).
Apr 6, 2020 8:20 AM
Chicago guitarists Fareed Haque and Goran Ivanovic started working together during the mid 1990s—just after Ivanovic…
Drummer Jeremy Cunningham enlisted Jeff Parker, Jaimie Branch, Makaya McCraven and others to play on his new album.
Mar 18, 2020 8:05 AM
About 12 years ago, drummer Jeremy Cunningham had plenty of reasons to feel that his life was going great. He was…
