Jun 27, 2018 9:00 AM
A Year After Geri Allen’s Death, a Tribute from Howard University
A year after pianist, composer, bandleader and teacher Geri Allen died of cancer on June 27, 2017, innumerable tributes…
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…
Arturo Sandoval’s Ultimate Duets (Universal) features contributions from 13 guests across 11 tracks.
Jun 20, 2018 9:00 AM
While many other jazz artists of his age and caliber are settling into a comfortable groove as they head into their…
Marshall Trammell (left) and Zachary Watkins are set to release Black Access/Black Axes (Sige), an album that will be Black Spirituals last recording with its current personnel.
Jun 19, 2018 9:00 AM
The avant-improvisation duo Black Spirituals consists of two hyper-intelligent musicians, Marshall Trammell and Zachary…
Jonathan Barber’s debut album is titled Vision Ahead.
Jun 19, 2018 9:00 AM
Jonathan Barber sits atop the drum throne in trumpeter Jeremy Pelt’s and saxophonist Marcus Strickland’s touring…
