Features
Wednesday, December 8 2010
The Best Jazz of 2010
Jazz is working all the angles these days. Is there any other genre that has as much range -- from solo instruments to big bands, from instrumental to vocal, from European musicians to both North and South Americans, from truly pretty music to raucously avant-garde "noise"?
Wednesday, December 17 2008
The Best Jazz of 2008
More than ever, the best jazz is coming from small labels, and more than ever the best draws a decent slice from the dynamics of rock and pop music without itself being a commercial venture.
Columns
Thursday, December 18 2008
No Piano No Problem
Two new albums by piano-less quartets offer big doses of fun -- urgent rhythms, slabs of blues feeling, melody and invention with hardly any limit -- but also provide thrill-rides of surprise.
Reviews
Friday, April 9 2010
Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Forty Fort
A mad, jaunty frolic from bassist Moppa Elliott and his brilliant, playful jazz quartet.
