Apr 25, 2018 9:30 AM
Karen Souza Raids the Vault on New Album
Karen Souza has a voice that can make any song sound like an intimate confession. “Her voice is like a massage,”…
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,…
When visiting Cerreto Sannita, the village in Italy where his grandfather grew up, guitarist Al Di Meola was greeted with a celebratory dinner in his honor.
Apr 12, 2018 10:51 AM
As he approaches his 64th birthday in July, guitarist Al Di Meola remains a road warrior.
Last fall, he went out…
Tutu Puoane had to be convinced to take on We Have A Dream, a project on which she interprets socially conscious compositions alongside the Brussels Jazz Orchestra.
Apr 10, 2018 6:07 PM
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was not just an American figure, he was an international hero.
His burning advocacy for…
Pianist Yelena Eckemoff said her “task as a composer is to provide comprehensive music material to musicians who can both read and improvise.”
Apr 10, 2018 9:16 AM
Yelena Eckemoff is a Russia-born pianist whose idiosyncratic jazz albums speak to a classical sensibility, a taste for…
Saxophonist Philipp Gropper works in many disparate contexts, playing in bands led by vibrant German musicians, including bassist Pablo Held and fellow saxophonist Wanja Slavin, in addition to co-leading the electro-acoustic foursome Tau.
Apr 4, 2018 4:38 PM
Few cities in Europe today are more cosmopolitan than Berlin.
During the past few decades, the city has attracted a…
