Review: Jerome Sabbagh’s ‘Stand Up!’

10 months ago

Over the last few years, tenor saxophonist Jerome Sabbagh has released recordings thst featured his dulcet tones with several jazz elders…

Living Proof of the Same Cell: A Conversation with Lucian Ban and Mat Maneri on ‘Cantica Profana’ and ‘The Athenaeum Concert’

10 months ago

Folk music is often broadly defined as being a music “of the people.” But what does that really mean? Of…

Review: Bill Ware and the Club Bird All Stars’ ‘Martian Sunset’

10 months ago

The vibraphonist Bill Ware is perhaps best known for his work with The Jazz Passengers and Groove Collective. He has…

Review: John O’Gallagher’s ‘Ancestral’

10 months ago

With Ancestral (Whirlwind, 2025), alto saxophonist and composer John O'Gallagher explores the late-period work of John Coltrane, specifically Interstellar Space…

Review: Simón Willson’s ‘Feel Love’

10 months ago

In many ways, the burgeoning improvised music community in Brooklyn resembles downtown New York's loft movement of the ‘70s. But…

Review: John Scofield and Dave Holland’s ‘Memories of Home’

10 months ago

Guitarist John Scofield and NEA Jazz Master bassist Dave Holland are not only both masters of their respective instruments but…

The Willpower of Notes: A Conversation with Eyvind Kang on ‘Riparian’

10 months ago

Over the last half-century, a growing number of artists and theorists have explored the concept of ecomusicology, a theoretical approach…

Review: Billy Hart’s ‘Multidirectional’

10 months ago

Over the past six months, several NEA Jazz Masters - all of them octogenarian, or close to - have released…

Review: Lina Allemano Four’s ‘The Diptychs’

10 months ago

Give the devil of algorithmic media its due for knowing things about you that you never suspected. Who knew, for…

Review: Mark Turner’s ‘Reflections on: The Auto-Biography of an Ex-Colored Man’

10 months ago

A more cerebral artist, saxophonist and composer Mark Turner, never makes it too easy for the listener. However, he may…