“The way I keep myself being original is by not listening to other recorded music,” Pascoal says.
Hermeto Pascoal’s Universal Music Flows Like Water in Windy City
Hermeto Pascoal, the Brazilian-born multi-instrumentalist/composer/orchestrator, is one of the world’s most prolific creative forces. If you check the 86-year-old’s more recent releases, such as the diverse No Mundo dos Sons (Selo…
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Blue Engine Records has released The Jungle, the fourth symphony by Wynton Marsalis, on all major streaming platforms.
Featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO)…
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The lines between jazz and classical used to be more stark, but they were never seamless — even before composer and theorist Gunther Schuller coined the term “Third Stream”…
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When David Friesen accompanied reed man Paul Horn on his historic 1983 tour to the Soviet Union, the eclectic Portland bassist was thrilled the trip might take him to what was…
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Aerophonic Records has set up a GoFundMe campaign for saxophonist Mars Williams, a prolific artist in the creative music community who was recently diagnosed with a rare disease…
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BY Frank Alkyer
We live in a golden age of jazz pianists. This writer has contended for years that at no other time in history have so many prolific jazz pianists traversed the planet at one time. It is truly an embarrassment of riches — in this case, the wealth comes from…
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BY Frank Alkyer
In an era of making singles that cater to the perceived attention span of the listening public, Lakecia Benjamin shows y’all how to throw down an album — an amazing album, at that. With Phoenix, Benjamin’s fourth studio recording, the alto saxophonist…
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BY Ed Enright
The Source is Kenny Barron’s first solo album to be released since his landmark 1981 recording Kenny Barron At The Piano (Xanadu). Like that initial, auspicious solo outing, The Source consists of Barron-penned originals (“What If,” “Dolores…
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Latin Percussion’s new range of synthetic and natural Rhythm Rods, hybrids of regular sticks and brushes that offer musicians greater versatility and a wider sonic range. The synthetic rods are made by binding many thin, high-grade polymer shafts together. All feature a comfortable, non-slip…
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Spector has updated its USA NS series of basses. Crafted in the new Spector USA Custom Shop facility outside of Woodstock, New York, these basses remain faithful to the intent of the original instruments while combining popular design elements of the brand’s nearly 50-year history. These updated…
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 Veronica Swift
The best in jazz happens at The 92nd Street Y this summer! Join 92NY for the new Midsummer MusicFest, this year celebrating jazz as never before. Experience one-of-a-kind concerts by the music’s most exciting artists at Jazz in July, and in an extra week of jazz-fueled, genre-blurring events. CLICK THRU FOR MORE INFORMATION!
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by Michael Bourne // September/1999
“We took a long vacation,” Jon says.
“Yeah, 36 years,” Annie adds.
Except for a brief reunion in the mid-’80s, Jon Hendricks and Annie Ross hadn’t sung the Lambert, Hendricks and Ross classics together since 1962. Hendricks worked as a singer and songwriter. Ross also sang, but she worked more in the movies as an actress. And…
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