Sep 3, 2025 12:02 PM
Keeping the Flame at Van Gelder Studio
On the last Sunday of 2024, in the control room of Van Gelder Studio, Don and Maureen Sickler, co-owners since Rudy Van…
Don and Maureen Sickler serve as the keepers of engineer Rudy Van Gelder’s flame at Van Gelder Studio, perhaps the most famous recording studio in jazz history.
Sep 3, 2025 12:02 PM
On the last Sunday of 2024, in the control room of Van Gelder Studio, Don and Maureen Sickler, co-owners since Rudy Van…
“It’s energetic,” says Brittany Davis of feeling the spirits of the ancestors. “It’s interpretive. It’s a dance of sound and vibration. It’s a memory, it’s a wash. It’s washing over you.”
Sep 3, 2025 12:01 PM
Since she was 3 years old, Brittany Davis has been mimicking bird songs on the piano. Davis, who was born blind, also…
Mark Masters, right, with Billy Harper.
Sep 3, 2025 12:00 PM
The Rising Star Category of this publication’s annual Critics Poll was once called Talent Deserving Wider Recognition…
“What I got from Percy was the dignity of playing the bass,” Buster Williams said of Percy Heath.
Aug 26, 2025 1:53 PM
Buster Williams, who at the age of 83 has been on the scene for 65 years, had never done a Blindfold Test. The first…
“I’m not getting any younger, and in my later years I want to make sure my own visions can be realized,” says pianist George Colligan.
Aug 26, 2025 1:48 PM
From one perspective, the eminently versatile pianist George Colligan claims membership in the population of jazz…
The Free Slave, Cosmos Nucleus and Sunset To Dawn: three classic Muse albums being reissued this fall by Timer Traveler Recordings.
Aug 26, 2025 1:32 PM
Record producer and “Jazz Detective” Zev Feldman has launched his next endeavor, the archival label Time Traveler…
This year’s Jazz em Agosto set by the Darius Jones Trio captured the titular alto saxophonist at his most ferocious.
Aug 26, 2025 1:31 PM
The organizers of Lisbon, Portugal’s Jazz em Agosto Festival assume its audience is thoughtful and independent. Over…
Tyreek McDole follows up his Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition win with a collection of jazz classics.
Aug 26, 2025 1:14 PM
Tyreek McDole cements his place as a vocalist to watch with his debut, Open Up Your Senses (Artwork; ★★★★ …
Butcher Brown, clockwise from top left: Marcus Tenney, DJ Harrison, Morgan Burrs, Corey Fonville and Andrew Randazzo. (Keyboardist Harrison couldn’t make the gig, so special guest Jacob Mann sat in with the band at the Reno Jazz Festival.)
Aug 19, 2025 12:41 PM
The band known as Butcher Brown has enjoyed the last half-decade basking in the glow from the twin engines of critical…
Kismet performs at this year’s Ystad Jazz Festival in Sweden.
Aug 19, 2025 12:36 PM
Jazz festival culture, that ever-expanding and international phenomenon, can serve many masters and functions. In…
