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,…

March 2023 Capsule Reviews

2 years ago

For March, Brian Kiwanuka and Rob Shepherd provide capsule reviews of three recordings – Cécile McLorin Salvant's Melusine (Nonesuch, 2023),…

Quiet Within: A Conversation with Ingrid Laubrock

2 years ago

Throughout its history, creative music has always been on a conceptual search for freedom. Ornette Coleman sought to move his…

Blasting Through the Barriers: DoomCannon and SXSW’s Jazz re:freshed Outernational

2 years ago

The history of jazz presents a melding of different cultural cues which form the core of the music itself. It…

February 2023 Capsule Reviews

2 years ago

For February - just under the wire - we provide capsule reviews of recent works with an eye towards avant-garde…

Interview: A Conversation with an Anonymous Artist

2 years ago

If you are reading this, there is a substantial likelihood you arrived here under false pretenses. Apologies for the deception.…

Harlem Hellfighter: A Conversation with Jason Moran on James Reese Europe (Part Two)

2 years ago

We continue our conversation with Jason Moran by going deeper into the songs on his James Reese Europe inspired album,…

Harlem Hellfighter: A Conversation with Jason Moran on James Reese Europe (Part One)

2 years ago

The passage of time can leave the legacy of important figures underrecognized. For every figure like Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker,…

Review: Thumbscrew’s ‘Multicolored Midnight’

2 years ago

The fourth cut on Thumbscrew’s Multicolored Midnight (Cuneiform, 2022) is entitled “Shit Changes.” You don’t have to be a climate scientist or…

January 2023 Capsule Reviews

2 years ago

With the start of a new year, we also start a new feature on this site. These capsule reviews aim…