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
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GRAMMY-winning singer/songwriter Joss Stone is back! She recently released her first new music in over…
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,……...