May 1, 2018 9:22 AM
Ryan Porter: Jams from the Shack
Late 2008 was a memorable time in the life of trombonist Ryan Porter.
Barack Obama had just won the presidential…
Ryan Porter is a member of the West Coast Get Down.
May 1, 2018 9:22 AM
Late 2008 was a memorable time in the life of trombonist Ryan Porter.
Barack Obama had just won the presidential…
Through her music, saxophonist Nubya Garcia explores her West Indian heritage.
Apr 27, 2018 10:26 AM
When Nubya Garcia plays the tenor saxophone, the first things you notice are her sound and phrasing. She wields a…
Nick Fraser says he’d feel incomplete if he only played improvised music.
Apr 26, 2018 9:32 AM
Nick Fraser probably has performed with as many high-profile musicians as any living drummer in jazz—a remarkable…
Pianist Greg Spero is the leader of the band Spirit Fingers.
Apr 25, 2018 4:04 PM
Many fans in the jazz world know pianist Greg Spero for his work touring with the Miles Davis Electric Band, a…
Karen Souza’s album Velvet Vault is a mix of pop and rock covers and jazz standards.
Apr 25, 2018 9:30 AM
Karen Souza has a voice that can make any song sound like an intimate confession. “Her voice is like a massage,”…
Saxophonist Caroline Davis’ new album, Heart Tonic, is informed by her study of the heart.
Apr 16, 2018 6:51 PM
Caroline Davis has become an expert in matters of the heart, physiologically speaking. The title of the New York-based…
Apr 16, 2018 6:05 PM
One of the many pleasures of last year’s Umbria Jazz Winter in Orvieto, Italy, was the opportunity to hear the…
London-based saxophonist Leo Richardson sees the jazz genre changing, but knows that he’s an adherent to classic bop-era swinging.
Apr 16, 2018 1:24 PM
If you built a Spotify playlist of mid-’60s jazz classics, including everything from Lee Morgan’s “The…
The performers in Angel Bat Dawid’s Cosmic Love Arkestra include elders of the Chicago jazz scene, who the composer said “are very important to me.”
Apr 16, 2018 11:00 AM
A new “cosmic love opera” based on the biblical Song Of Solomon and featuring legendary free-jazz musicians is set…
Cecil Taylor—shown here performing in Cologne, Germany, in 1987—died April 5. He was 89.
Apr 13, 2018 1:30 PM
Trumpeter Eddie Gale only made one album—the legendary 1966 Unit Structures on Blue Note—with pianist Cecil Taylor,…
