Sep 21, 2018 9:00 AM
Roy Babbington on the 50-Year Evolution of Soft Machine
Soft Machine released Third in 1970, the same year Miles Davis issued Bitches Brew. What began as a trendy psychedelic…
Roy Babbington first recorded with Soft Machine on Fourth in 1971. The bassist is part of a revamped line-up that’s released Hidden Details (MoonJune).
Sep 21, 2018 9:00 AM
Soft Machine released Third in 1970, the same year Miles Davis issued Bitches Brew. What began as a trendy psychedelic…
Benje Daneman’s new album is Light In The Darkness.
Sep 20, 2018 9:00 AM
Michigan-based trumpeter/flugelhornist Benje Daneman is perpetually busy. In addition to releasing Light In The…
Pianist and composer Lynne Arriale
Sep 19, 2018 9:00 AM
Over the course of 13 albums, pianist Lynne Arriale has emphasized melodies—most often her own, but also those of…
Bassist Christian McBride (left) and Bootsy Collins sat down for a moderated conversation with journalist Andy Hermann in Los Angeles.
Sep 19, 2018 8:55 AM
“Greatest day of my life,” declared Christian McBride without a hint of hyperbole. Even for a six-time…
Walter Gwardyak is the music director and pianist for the New England Jazz Ensemble.
Sep 18, 2018 9:00 AM
In 1936, the Moscow Children’s Music Theater commissioned composer Sergei Prokofiev to write a symphonic fairy tale…
Ural Thomas and The Pain are set to issue The Right Time (Tender Loving Empire), an album of all-original material, on Sept. 28.
Sep 14, 2018 9:00 AM
The timeline of soul and r&b in America has followed some interesting byways during the past decade, as the once-quiet…
On Cuong Vu 4Tet’s Change In The Air (RareNoise), its namesake trumpeter ditches electronic effects.
Sep 13, 2018 9:00 AM
Despite pre-dawn airport pickups and scary midnight rides, bad food and worse sound engineers, there’s a romance to…
All About That Basie (Concord) includes a clutch of pop tunes that The Count Basie Orchestra makes its own.
Sep 12, 2018 9:00 AM
The Count Basie Orchestra was founded in 1936 in Kansas City, Missouri, and continues to this day, decades after its…
The Roundhouse hosts events, like the Love Supreme Jazz Festival and the London Jazz Festival, that feature performers from outside of the UK.
Sep 11, 2018 9:00 AM
For almost every British musician, hearing the word “Brexit” induces a quickened heart rate.
The UK is scheduled…
Guitarist John Abercrombie (1944–2017)
Sep 10, 2018 9:00 AM
On 1999’s Open Land, guitarist John Abercrombie and his sextet played their way through a set of the bandleader’s…
