Jun 24, 2019 9:22 AM
Jamaaladeen Tacuma and The Last Poets Move Beyond the Nation’s Combative Moment
Jamaaladeen Tacuma, the electric bassist best known for his years with Ornette Coleman’s Prime Time, has…
Jamaaladeen Tacuma (center) produced the most recent album for The Last Poets, a collaborative effort called Transcending Toxic Times.
Jun 24, 2019 9:22 AM
Jamaaladeen Tacuma, the electric bassist best known for his years with Ornette Coleman’s Prime Time, has…
Drummer Adonis Rose has big plans for the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra’s next chapter.
Jun 17, 2019 10:12 AM
Drummer Adonis Rose, a founding member of the Grammy-winning New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, had his work cut out for him…
Saxophonist Alexa Tarantino recently has performed on a pair of Posi-Tone albums, Lioness’ Pride & Joy and her leader debut, Winds Of Change.
Jun 6, 2019 9:00 AM
Despite possessing an increasingly impressive résumé, saxophonist Alexa Tarantino projects an air of humility and…
Trumpeter Sheila Maurice-Grey performs in both Kokoroko and Nérija, groups that recently issued debut EPs indebted to jazz, Afrobeat and more.
May 16, 2019 8:53 AM
Kokoroko, a London-based Afrobeat group, released its self-titled debut EP earlier this year after being featured on…
Frode Haltli performs at the 2018 Nattjazz festival in Bergen, Norway.
May 14, 2019 9:00 AM
This year at Bremen, Germany’s jazzahead! festival and trade fair, Norwegian acts were featured during an…
John Patitucci says that his latest outing, Soul Of The Bass, is something of a sequel to his 1991 album Heart Of The Bass.
May 10, 2019 9:00 AM
Jazz pianists and guitarists perform solo all the time. Jazz bassists? Almost never. A program of unaccompanied jazz…
Since the 1980s, London-based DJ and record label founder Gilles Peterson has been a force in music. The first installment of his We Our Here festival is set to run Aug. 15–18 in Abbots Ripton, Cambridgeshire, U.K.
Apr 25, 2019 1:55 AM
Being a curator has become a defining ethos for the 21st century. With digital platforms bombarding us with choice, a…
Drummer Rocky Martin (left), bassist Hannah Marks and tenor saxophonist Barclay Moffitt perform as Heartland Trio.
Apr 24, 2019 5:50 AM
Des Moines, Iowa-born bassist Hannah Marks, a senior jazz studies major at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana…
Craig Harris gathered footage of Muhammad Ali boxing, turned off the sound and watched him move. The result is the trombonist’s recent Brown Butterfly (Afro Future Concept).
Apr 24, 2019 1:57 AM
Trombonist and composer Craig Harris might have released his digital-only album, Brown Butterfly (Afro Future Concept)…
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…
