In the year of COVID-19, where once-thriving festivals and live music events are becoming increasingly……...
Fall 2020
Prelude
For guitarist Ike Sturm and bassist Jesse Lewis, who comprise the New York-based acoustic duo……...
For some, Billie Holiday’s Lady in Satin documents a great artist in decline. For others, like vocalist……...
Django Reinhardt is revered as a virtuosic guitarist and a pioneer of so-called “Gypsy jazz,”…
After a string of successful studio albums on Riverside, label chief/producer Orrin Keepnews was champing at the……...
Traditions
Originally published in the Fall 2020 edition of JAZZIZ Magazine. By Bob Weinberg The picturesque……...
Magazine Features
In April of 1923, King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band filed into the tiny Gennett recording……...
Using a rather primitive recording device — a suction-cup microphone attached to a telephone receiver,……...
In Michael Jarrett’s book Pressed for All Time, excerpted in this article, pioneering producer and……...
It’s a sensation familiar to many jazz fans: An album catches your eye from a……...
The first time most people caught a glimpse of musician and producer Don Was, he……...
Auditions
Drummer Matt Wilson (Photo: Courtesy the artist) Jeff Cosgrove History Gets Ahead of the Story (Grizzley……...
Kidd Jordan (Photo: Courtesy the artist) Despite its relative marginalization in terms of mainstream visibility,……...
On his debut album as a leader, pianist and composer Micah Thomas can perhaps best……...
Longtime pals and musical colleagues John Scofield and Steve Swallow recorded their latest project in……...
For decades, hip-hop artists have engaged in their own brand of fusion by drawing on……...
Imaginative saxophonist and composer Rudresh Mahanthappa pays tribute to his various influences on the lean and taut Hero……...
For his own projects, Jerry Granelli largely has resisted focusing on the music of two……...
This New York/Philadelphia/D.C.-based quintet delivers messages concerning black struggle and Afro-futurist liberation, delivered in expansive……...
For his second album as a leader on Blue Note, Bill Frisell returns to the……...
Vocalist Lauren Henderson’s last two albums were rangy affairs that included standards and jazz tunes,……...
Jazz is inherently revolutionary, steeped in African-American struggle and nurtured by inclusivity. Pianist and composer……...
Originally published on August 26, 2020. Trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire rebukes the notion that musical abstraction is inherently……...
Coda
I began working at JAZZIZ in the year 2000, not long after the great non-event of the new……...