Features
Tuesday, December 15 2009
The Best Jazz of 2009
This was a great year for melding innovation and tradition. The trend continues of piano trios playing boldly, creating a new language for this venerable jazz form. And other kinds of groups have been equally inventive, particularly in working through what it means to be a jazz group -- a notion that has evolved beyond trumpet-saxophone-piano-bass-drums.
Reviews
Tuesday, August 25 2009
Steve Lehman Octet: Travail, Transformation, and Flow
A composer and alto saxophonist experiments with "spectral harmony" in jazz -- a technical matter that produces a non-technical result known as "great music".

































