Pianist and composer Helen Sung delivers her first big band album with Oracles (Sunnyside, 2026). The seventeen-piece big band is under the conduction…
Few concepts so profoundly shape the human experience yet remain as elusive as time. Without a linear conception of it,…
Most press releases for new albums proclaim how their latest offering is the artist’s “most personal statement yet” or the…
We begin with a question. When is the optimal time for a rising artist to invite a bevy of guests…
Trumpeter. Composer. Bandleader. Arranger. Conductor. Steven Bernstein is many things, with those five descriptors only scratching the surface of his capabilities.…
We continue with the second half (read part one here) of our conversation with Joe Morris to discuss some of…
As if it were not enough for many to so willingly force music into genre-labeled boxes, the division does not…
The pairing of trumpeter/composer Ambrose Akinmusire and guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson seems almost pre-destined. They are two of our most inventive…
Since 2023, the Alvaro Torres trio - pianist Torres, bassist Masa Kamaguchi, and drummer Kresten Osgood - has uniquely merged…
Drummer, composer, and arranger Tyshawn Sorey has put together a top-shelf quintet for a blistering, intense, live double-LP reimagining of…