New York City. The metropolis is more than a living space for over eight and a half million. It is…
A careful observer may notice that many of Ropeadope’s recent releases are tied to the Third Way Cultural Alliance (TWCA), a…
Twelve years have elapsed since drummer and composer Eric Harland released the first installment of Vipassana (Ropeadope, 2014). The music took many by…
Natural Rhythm (Posi-Tone, 2025) is the seventh album by composer and trombonist Altin Sencalar. The album features unorthodox takes on jazz…
Despite the instrument‘s long history in improvised music, the clarinet is often still an outlier instrument in contemporary jazz. Yet,…
Jean-Michel Basquiat once noted that “Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.” But such a…
The chordless trio, and especially the saxophone trio, continues to thrive in increasingly adventurous ways. New Jazz Underground (“NJU”), a…
Few figures have shaped the course of modern music as much as Miles Dewey Davis III. His chameleonic career can…
The performance by Joe Lovano’s Paramount Quartet at the 2025 Big Ears Festival was revelatory, in some ways the polar…
Most listeners don’t necessarily associate saxophonist and composer Chris Potter’s work as sociologically or historically focused. Yet, the saxophonist played a…