Dan Tepfer has been thinking about the downside of mastering your craft, how it can……...
May 2019
Prelude
Vocalist and composer Claudia Acuña released her fourth album, En Este Momento, a decade ago….…...
Tenormore, the vibrant new album by saxophonist Scott Robinson, is the story of a beautiful……...
The Big Blind, Kurt Elling’s wildly ambitious “live radio drama,” received its premiere performances March……...
Magazine Features
Many of Andres Chaparro’s striking mixed-media-on-canvas works bring to mind the audacious neo-expressionist paintings of……...
When Dave Liebman gigs, teaches or does business in New York City, he often relocates……...
Auditions
On the oddly charismatic Clockwise, Anna Webber presents music that is rigorous and unrelenting, doggedly……...
Hazel, the exhilarating debut by the Wing Walker Orchestra, presents a challenge of sorts to……...
Long a reliable and prolific member of the jazz avant-garde, trumpeter/composer Wadada Leo Smith has,……...
This is what happens when five like-minded musicians strike the ideal balance between structure and……...
It’s an understatement to call Joey DeFrancesco his generation’s pre-eminent Hammond B-3 organist. For 30……...