For Ben Goldberg It's a 'Good Day for Cloud Fishing'
Composer and clarinetist Ben Goldberg writes tunes inspired by the poetry of Dean Young for a shimmering trio, which in turn inspired new poems.
21 Oct 2019
Will Layman
Will Layman is a writer, teacher and musician living in the Washington, DC area. He has been a contributor to National Public Radio and WNYC's "Soundcheck" as a jazz critic. He plays rock, funk, and jazz in the bars and clubs in and near the nation's capital. His fiction and humor appear in print and online.
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Whit Dickey's 'Tao Quartets' Pose Key Questions About Improvised Music
Veteran drummer from New York's creative music scene, Whit Dickey combines two quartets that pose so many of the key questions about purely improvised music.
16 Oct 2019
Jazz's George Coleman and Harold Mabern Meet Up As Old Friends on 'The Quartet'
Two old friends from high school and from decades of playing together, George Coleman and pianist Harold Mabern make a final date as part of the saxophonist's quartet.
04 Oct 2019
Emma Frank and Aaron Parks Create a Plainspoken Kind of Magic on 'Come Back'
Come Back is another heartbreaking and beautiful collection of songs on the heels of Emma Frank's 2018 stunner, Ocean Av, again featuring the lighter-than-air yet potent contributions of pianist Aaron Parks.
01 Oct 2019
William Parker Swings and Plays on Jazz's Edge with 'Live/Shapeshifter'
On Live/Shapeshifter, William Parker goes way back to Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus in muscular swing and melodic grace while still seeming to play out on the edge.
25 Sep 2019
The Jamie Saft Quartet Revives '60s/'70s Spiritual Jazz on 'Hidden Corners'
Producer and pianist Jamie Saft convenes a band designed to create a current take on the "spiritual jazz" of the 1960s and 1970s, and the result is Hidden Corners.
16 Sep 2019
Jazz's Jenny Scheinman and Allison Miller Lift Each Other Up on 'Parlour Game'
A quartet of frequent collaborators creates a most ideal format for Jenny Scheinman's eclectic violin and Allison Miller's propulsive drums on Parlour Game.
09 Sep 2019
Fabian Almazan Trio's 'This Land Abounds with Life' Re-Invents a Classic Jazz Format
An increasing compelling and mature composer and pianist, Fabian Almazan is showing how the piano trio format can be renewed with an orchestral approach using texture and layers of compelling elements, including field recordings, intelligently utilized electronics, and strings.
05 Sep 2019
Mark Guiliana's Beat Music Finds the Jazz in Electronica
Drummer and composer Mark Guiliana carries an acoustic jazz quartet and an electronic music collective with equal passion. In this interview Guiliana explains how varied influences coexist in his mind and his music.
22 Aug 2019
Jazz's Stephan Crump Creates Thrilling Interaction with His Rosetta Trio on 'Outliers'
Stephan Crump's Outliers sounds like a great ECM record that forgot to lull you into too much easy beauty. It earns its loveliness from thrilling interaction.
13 Aug 2019
Chilean Jazz Artist, Camila Meza Impresses and Innovates on 'Ambar'
Chilean guitarist and singer Camila Meza makes her eclectic major label debut and creates an ambitious recording that includes string quartet writing, original songs, and riveting covers from David Bowie to Elliot Smith to Milton Nascimento.
12 Aug 2019
Matt Mitchell Rocks Out Impressively with New Jazz on 'Phalanx Ambassadors'
The most versatile pianist in jazz, Matt Mitchell makes a fiery album of new music that definitively rocks even in its intricacy.
22 Jul 2019
Linda May Han Oh Highlight Her Many Musical Talents on 'Aventurine'
Jazz bassist Linda May Han Oh adds a string quartet to her group to produce something wholly integrated on Aventurine.
16 Jul 2019
Ryan Keberle and Catharsis Prove Why They Are One of the Most Progressive Bands in Modern Jazz
Ryan Keberle and Catharsis' The Hope I Hold further expands the group's reach, orchestrally and creatively, with voices, guitar, and horns mixing in the studio.
10 Jul 2019
Brad Mehldau Spans Many Musical Forms on 'Finding Gabriel'
Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau creates another hybrid project built on a layering of keyboards, drums, woodwinds, voices, and strings—with a gloss of politics and religion along the edges. Occasionally brilliant.
05 Jun 2019
Jazz Tenor Saxophonist Melissa Aldana Lives Up to the Hype with 'Visions'
Tenor saxophone phenom Melissa Aldana makes her most mature, cooperative recording to date with Visions, evoking the great outside-in Blue Note records of the 1960s.
03 Jun 2019
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