May 16, 2019 9:16 AM
Sheila Maurice-Grey on Art’s Emancipatory Properties
Kokoroko, a London-based Afrobeat group, released its self-titled debut EP earlier this year after being featured on…
Trumpeter Sheila Maurice-Grey performs in both Kokoroko and Nérija, groups that recently issued debut EPs indebted to jazz, Afrobeat and more.
May 16, 2019 9:16 AM
Kokoroko, a London-based Afrobeat group, released its self-titled debut EP earlier this year after being featured on…
Theon Cross’ instrument enables the bandleader to consider his attack from a unique vantage point, the tuba’s relative obsolescence in contemporary music alleviating him from the burden of comparison.
Mar 25, 2019 9:51 AM
Even before releasing a full-length recording under his own name, Theon Cross had become a central figure of the…
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 9:57 AM
Soft Machine released Third in 1970, the same year Miles Davis issued Bitches Brew. What began as a trendy psychedelic…
Guitarist John Abercrombie (1944–2017)
Sep 28, 2018 1:19 PM
On 1999’s Open Land, guitarist John Abercrombie and his sextet played their way through a set of the bandleader’s…
Bassist Buschi Niebergall (left), saxophonist Peter Brötzmann and saxophonist Willem Breuker, shown here in 1970, perform on Machine Gun, which hits its 50th anniversary this year.
Jun 27, 2018 1:08 PM
The marathon, lung-bursting howl of Peter Brötzmann’s Machine Gun, which the saxophonist self-released on his BRÖ…
London-based saxophonist Leo Richardson sees the jazz genre changing, but knows that he’s an adherent to classic bop-era swinging.
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If you built a Spotify playlist of mid-’60s jazz classics, including everything from Lee Morgan’s “The…
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