The Recorded Legacy: Five Newport Performances that Changed Music History

2 years ago

One cannot adequately assess the history of the Newport Jazz Festival without examining the recordings captured at the event through…

Peace Through Sound: A Conversation with Lonnie Liston Smith (Part Two)

2 years ago

In the second part of our Conversation with Lonnie Liston Smith (read part one here), we discuss his time with…

Peace Through Sound: A Conversation with Lonnie Liston Smith (Part One)

2 years ago

Across their almost twenty volumes of the Jazz is Dead series, performer-producers Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge have exposed…

Conduit : A Conversation with Todd Clouser on The Mexico City Experiment

2 years ago

The fifth outing in Ropeadope’s Experiment series is markedly different from its predecessors. While all releases to date adopt a general ethos…

Mysterious Textures: A Conversation with Brandon Seabrook

2 years ago

Youthful zeal often brings a desire to show your technical capabilities. Young athletes try to sprint as rapidly as possible,…

Opportunity to Make Something Special: A Conversation with George Benson

2 years ago

To many, George Benson needs little introduction. During his career thus far, the guitarist-vocalist has been nominated for twenty-five Grammy…

Music at the Heart: A Conversation with Erik Friedlander

2 years ago

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the cello established itself as a mainstay in Western European classical music due to…

Review: Avram Fefer’s ‘Juba Lee’

2 years ago

F​​or the last quarter of the 20th century, Italian labels Black Saint and Soul Note issued an influential series of…

April 2023 Capsule Reviews

2 years ago

For April, Brian Kiwanuka and Rob Shepherd provide capsule reviews of four recordings by saxophonists who are pushing music in…

Mixing Vocabularies: A Conversation with Mike Dillon on Punkadelick

2 years ago

Artistic expression has a unique power to flourish even when the soil is arid and lacking nutrients. The COVID pandemic,…