Cutting edge saxophonist-composer-bandleader Tim Berne has long been known for this dense, challenging compositions that……...
November 2021
Prelude
“What do you need a song for?” That’s the question Esperanza Spalding addresses on her……...
Singer and multi-instrumentalist Edgar Winter is best known as the man behind 1970s rock hits……...
It seems premature, if not downright presumptuous, to add the sobriquet “legendary” to an artist’s……...
Magazine Features
Jazz history is rife with brilliant musicians who never received their proper due. Some became……...
Attired in a shredded black muscle T and tight leather pants, long blonde hair framing……...
Known for her “as serious as your life” approach to musical production since she moved……...
Auditions
The Cookers is an apt moniker for a septet of all-star players who often worked……...
Like many recording projects slated for 2020, pianist Miki Yamanaka’s fourth session as a leader……...
South African trombonist, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Malcolm Jiyane is best known among American audiences for……...
Composer and woodwind player Henry Threadgill won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2015 masterpiece In……...
Although efforts to fuse spoken-word performance with jazz have often resulted in calamitous failures, Dear……...
To build on an old saying, there are three things that one can always depend……...
Coda
The scene was positively trippy. In a dimly lit chamber of centuries-old stone, cannons hanging……...