Saxophonist-composer Donny McCaslin is determined to move way beyond conventional concepts of jazz, jazz-rock fusion, or any label you want…
The title of Mike Clark’s latest record, Itai Doshin (Wide Hive, 2025) comes from the drummer’s Buddhist beliefs, a worldview…
Tribute albums have been an ubiquitous part of modern music. They generally fall into two categories. Some honor a specific…
With Quartets and Solos (Contagious, 2025), bassist and composer Noah Garabedian appears for the first time on saxophonist Dayna Stephens'…
Trio of Bloom (Pyroclastic, 2025) is the first meeting of three titans of creative music, artists to whom genres and…
Audiences who saw artist-in-residence Henry Threadgill at Big Ears in 2024 were enthralled with five performances, each featuring a different…
Carmen Staaf’s Sounding Line (Sunnyside, 2025) is the second album recently covered on this site that envisions a conversation between…
As a vehicle to facilitate group improvisation - or collaborative creation in the moment, as some artists refer to it-…
One of our few links to bands of Miles, McCoy Tyner, Pharaoh Sanders, Lee Morgan, and Roy Hargrove, NEA Jazz…
This is the year that some of us learned that tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse was a leader of other bands…