The sound of pianist Marilyn Crispell changed following a trip to a festival in Stockholm: “I heard them playing stuff that really, really touched me.”
Oct 21, 2019 11:05 AM
In 1985, writer Graham Lock joined saxophonist Anthony Braxton and his band on a tour of England, making stops in…
Mark Kavuma’s sophomore album, The Banger Factory, places him at the center of London’s rapidly expanding jazz scene.
Oct 21, 2019 9:31 AM
Great art can emerge from any residency. A staple of jazz through the decades—from Ornette Coleman’s 1959 series at…
New York brass band Lucky Chops recently released its full-length debut.
Oct 18, 2019 9:23 AM
Maybe you’ve run into them shedding at a New York subway stop.
Brass band Lucky Chops recently issued its…
Nat “King” Cole sat at the crossroads of jazz and pop.
Oct 18, 2019 9:18 AM
It’s amazing how much Nat “King” Cole material we have to forgive in order to find the man we revere in this, the…
Bassist Nick Dunston is set to issue his debut as a leader, Atlantic Extraction, Nov. 1 through Out of Your Head Records.
Oct 17, 2019 9:25 AM
Bassist Nick Dunston’s name just keeps cropping up.
If you didn’t catch him on Amirtha Kidambi’s release with…
Guitarist Charlie Apicella says his band gets “right to the point, just like Jack McDuff” on Groove Machine.
Oct 17, 2019 9:22 AM
In many ways, guitarist Charlie Apicella has devoted himself to a kind of historical reenactment. On all of his…
Sarah Vaughan (1924-1990)
Oct 16, 2019 10:18 AM
The New Jersey Performing Arts Center on Tuesday announced the five finalists in the 8th Annual Sarah Vaughan…
Gabriele Mirabassi (left) and Roberto Taufic record Nítido E Obscuro at the Venica & Venica Winery in Gorizia, Italy.
Oct 16, 2019 9:45 AM
Jazz and wine have much in common. Both require the process of slow refinement. Both involve some level of continuity,…
Vocalist and bandleader Fay Victor is set to release Barn Songs on Nov. 15.
Oct 15, 2019 9:37 AM
Vocalist and bandleader Fay Victor—who’s worked with folks like Anthony Braxton, Ab Baars and Roswell Rudd—is…
Seeing a Charles Lloyd performance changed the trajectory of Maria Faust’s creative life.
Oct 15, 2019 9:00 AM
Growing up in remote Kuressaare, a small island village in Communist Estonia, saxophonist and composer Maria Faust had…
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