JazzMatters: The Best New Jazz of January 2023
Will Layman rounds up the best new jazz albums and cocoons with jazz documentaries, Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues and Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes.
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Tyler Mitchell Takes Listeners on a Spacey Groove with ‘Dancing Shadows’
Veteran jazz bassist Tyler Mitchell joins forces with fellow Sun Ra Arkestra alumnus on Dancing Shadows, a delightfully enjoyable sonic experience.
Space Is Still the Place for Marshall Allen and the Sun Ra Arkestra
Ninety-five-year-old saxophonist Marshall Allen continues to lead Sun Ra's legendary jazz ensemble through the turbulent present and toward a better future for mankind.
Close Encounters of the 4th Kind with the Sun Ra Arkestra in San Francisco
Allen leads the Arkestra in building a steady groove with layers of rich horn melodies over a tribal beat, with a torchy female vocal about those feisty angels and demons on the cosmic plane.
Hieroglyphic Being & J.I.T.U Ahn-Sahm-Buhl: We Are Not the First
Welcome back to the primordial ooze, a "return to roots" that is delightfully unrecognizable.
Sun Ra: Duke Ellington’s Sound of Space
Dear patrons in attendance at The Bottom Line on the night of February 17, 1987: shut up, won't you?
Sun Ra and His Arkestra: In the Orbit of Ra
On In the Orbit of Ra Sun Ra collaborator and Arkestra member Marshall Allen presents a portrait of the jazz legend every bit as complicated and strange as a cross-section of his reality could possibly be.