The risk for gifted artists as prolific as pianist Matthew Shipp is that a new…
Tag: Summer 2019
Nothing Here Belongs, a fitting name for an eclectic album, is the fourth release by……...
Drummer Charles Rumback had not played with this particular quartet prior to the session that……...
Cuban composers and instrumentalists are relentless in their quest to honor the past while projecting……...
Inventive, daring and impeccably executed and recorded, Shamania, by New York-born Danish percussionist, drummer and……...
On his composition “To Dave Treut,” from his new album, Mask, David Dominique leads his……...
A rigorous experimenter, trumpeter Steph Richards has a résumé that names avant-garde jazz stalwarts Henry……...
Judging by titles alone, it would be easy to mistake Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah’s recent……...
Joel Ross released his debut album, KingMaker, in May on Blue Note Records. But for……...
Since 2010, the trio of drummer Tom Rainey, guitarist Mary Halvorson and saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock……...
Originally published on May 31, 2019. By Josef Woodard. Violin and strings, in general, have……...
Pianist Russ Lossing and drummer Paul Motian recorded together at least five times over 10……...
On the surface, Reza Khan’s “day job” as program manager for the United Nations sounds……...
Les McCann and Eddie Harris Swiss Movement (Atlantic) — Call it serendipity. Pianist McCann and……...
Like it was yesterday, I recall driving my beat-up Monte Carlo with the windows rolled……...
On his latest release, Trinidadian trumpet wizard and emerging composer Etienne Charles has found a……...
Now in her fourth decade of recording, guitar virtuoso Mimi Fox has ensembled with legends,……...
The blues has produced countless instrumental virtuosos, but the genre has always been a singer’s……...
On a cold December night at Manhattan’s Jazz Gallery, drummer Kassa Overall, pianist Jon Batiste and bassist Ameen Saleem made music that was, by turns, hard-swinging, brooding, bluesy and abstract...
French pianist Michel Petrucciani (1962-1999) was born a dwarf. Reaching a height of only three……...