Vibraphonist Sasha Berliner refines her aesthetic vision with the darkly sparkling Onyx. New York City-based……...
August 2022
Prelude
The much-missed Montreal International Jazz Festival makes a triumphant return. “We have missed the connection……...
Margaret Slovak battled back from debilitating injuries and continues to craft warm-toned, deeply personal guitar……...
In 1972, Blue Note Records unleashed Two Headed Freap, a debut album by organist-composer Ronnie……...
Magazine Features
Billy Drummond dips into the songbooks of Carla Bley, Jackie McLean, Tony Williams and Stanley……...
After 16 years with Santana, trumpeter Bill Ortiz releases a sizzling Afro-Cuban-flavored jazz album that……...
It’s impossible to convey the sense of anticipation and giddiness, mixed with maybe a slight……...
Auditions
This experiment in Eastern modes-meet-and-embrace-Western jazz traditions is, in a word, charming. Listeners with even……...
NYO Jazz is the jazz extension of three National Youth Orchestra ensembles created by Carnegie……...
After long stints with venerable fusion acts, bassist Jimmy Haslip (of Yellowjackets fame) and keyboardist……...
Lizz Wright’s first-ever live album launches the jazz and gospel vocalist’s indie label, Blues &……...
First Move, Aaron Seeber’s appropriately named debut as leader, captures the respected Washington, D.C., drummer……...
A set of nine standards and one original, Dream Dancing features the intimate trio of……...
Like its two predecessors in Steven Bernstein’s cycle of four “Community Music” albums being released……...