Released in 1974, the Cecil Taylor Unit’s Spring of Two Blue-J’s captured the second set……...
January 2022
Prelude
Photo: ©Ray Avery/CTSIMAGES. Used with permission. Craft Recordings has begun commemorating the Contemporary label’s 70th……...
“I’m really excited about this one,” guitarist-composer Dave Stryker says of As We Are, a……...
Magazine Features
Singer-flutist-beatmaker Melanie Charles’ major-label debut, Ya’ll Don’t (Really) Care About Black Women, dares the listener……...
Originally published on January 3, 2022. By Neil Tesser Wadada Leo Smith enters his 81st……...
Auditions
There’s nothing quite like an Abdullah Ibrahim solo piano concert, especially in the golden late-life……...
The fourth time is, well, even more charming than the first three outings for Scary……...
Vocalist-composer Sara Serpa’s latest album, Intimate Strangers, which teams her with Nigerian author Emmanuel Iduma,……...
As an improvising bassoonist, Sara Schoenbeck is definitely a rarity. She has also forged a……...
Fifty-four years after his death, John Coltrane remains one of the jazz world’s most influential……...
The name Inside Straight alludes to the nature of this particular Christian McBride quintet: What……...
There’s something especially appealing about a piano-less jazz quartet comprising two horns, bass and drums….…...
Coda
By Allen Austin-Bishop London-based jazz and pop singer Allen Austin-Bishop’s recently released album, Sorry Grateful,……...