Review: Dave Douglas’s ‘Four Freedoms’

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Jim Hynes

Trumpeter-composer Dave Douglas has a remarkable sixty-plus albums credited to him as a leader. One of the major voices in creative music,…

Review: Tigran Hamasyan’s ‘Manifeste’

3 days ago

Over the last several years, Tigran Hamasyan has emerged as a visionary artists working at the intersection of jazz, progressive rock,…

Considering the Composer’s Black Box: A Conversation with Ted Gordon

5 days ago

The first law of thermodynamics states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, but instead, it must be transformed…

Review: ‘Take A.M.E.’

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The eponymous Take A.M.E. is the debut from a trio co-led by three artists based in New York City - alto saxophonist…

Review: Julian Lage Quartet’s ‘Scenes from Above’

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Julian Lage is unafraid to switch gears. While the guitarist has held together his trio with bassist Jorge Roeder and drummer Dave King, over…

Echoes of Chickadee Valley: A Conversation with Christopher Hoffman on ‘Rex’

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When one thinks of the great artistic cataloging of North American bird paintings, John James Audubon's name often first comes…

Review: John Ellis and Doublewide’s ‘Fireball’

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Despite the name of woodwind specialist John Ellis’s Double Wide, suggesting a large ensemble, the group is a quintet, with…

Finding Cues: A Conversation with Elias Stemeseder on ‘Studies in Prolation, for S-L plus Ensemble’

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Often, great treasures can be found in mines already long before dug. This is certainly the case with the lautenwerk.…

Review: Craig Taborn’s ‘Dream Archives’

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The first release by Craig Taborn since being named a MacArthur Fellow in late 2025, Dream Archives (ECM, 2026) finds…

Crossroads: A Conversation with Either/Orchestra’s Russ Gershon on Èthiopiques and Nerses Nalbandian

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Sometimes, the voice of an outsider provides a fresh perspective that adds richness to the status quo and pushes things…