Jul 2, 2018 9:00 AM
Ry Cooder ‘Spellbound’ by Gospel Music
As a follow-up to 2012’s Election Special (Nonesuch)—a biting protest album that critiqued right-wing…
Ry Cooder will be on tour this summer promoting his new album, The Prodigal Son.
Jul 2, 2018 9:00 AM
As a follow-up to 2012’s Election Special (Nonesuch)—a biting protest album that critiqued right-wing…
Drummer Sasha Mashin recently issued his leader debut on the newly founded Rainy Days Records.
Jun 29, 2018 9:00 AM
The Moscow jazz scene marks its 95th anniversary this year and currently is potent enough to sustain four jazz clubs…
South African bassist and composer Benjamin Jephta recently issued The Evolution Of An Undefined (Self Release), a follow-up to his 2015 debut as a leader.
Jun 28, 2018 9:00 AM
“I grew up in the church. My dad was not a pastor, but he played a vital role there; I guess you can say that he was…
Geri Allen in 1979
Jun 27, 2018 9:00 AM
A year after pianist, composer, bandleader and teacher Geri Allen died of cancer on June 27, 2017, innumerable tributes…
On Kuba Więcek’s debut, Another Raindrop, listeners can find influences as far flung as the trip-hop feel of Massive Attack and folkloric dance rhythms.
Jun 27, 2018 8:59 AM
In May 2015, Warner Music Group acquired the massive catalog of Polskie Nagrania, the old state-run Polish label of the…
Gregory Agid is based in New Orleans.
Jun 25, 2018 9:00 AM
After recording spirited takes on jazz standards like “Caravan” and “In A Sentimental Mood,” as well as some…
Guitarist Ximo Tébar has a new disc, Con Alma & United, set for release on Warner Music Spain.
Jun 22, 2018 9:00 AM
For the past 15 years, New York has been virtuoso guitarist Ximo Tébar’s home away from home. The lifelong resident…
Andrew Hadro is a co-founder of Tone Rogue Records.
Jun 22, 2018 9:00 AM
Baritone saxophonist-composer Andrew Hadro has always bucked the status quo. “I just want to be different,”…
Bassist Buschi Niebergall (left), saxophonist Peter Brötzmann and saxophonist Willem Breuker, shown here in 1970, perform on Machine Gun, which hits its 50th anniversary this year.
Jun 21, 2018 9:00 AM
The marathon, lung-bursting howl of Peter Brötzmann’s Machine Gun, which the saxophonist self-released on his BRÖ…
Juan Andrés Ospina relied on an extensive Kickstarter campaign to finance his new album, Tramontana.
Jun 21, 2018 9:00 AM
“I do many things,” said Juan Andrés Ospina, over the phone from his apartment in New York. “I’m a piano…
