Review: Mark Turner’s ‘Patternmaster’

1 month ago

Patternmaster (ECM, 2026) is tenor saxophonist Mark Turner’s follow-up to his highly acclaimed Return from the Stars (ECM, 2022). It…

Electrical Field of Love: A Conversation with Harriet Tubman (Brandon Ross, Melvin Gibbs, J.T. Lewis) and Georgia Anne Muldrow (Part Two)

2 months ago

Below, we continue our conversation with the band Harriet Tubman and Georgia Anne Muldrow by talking about freedom, love, lifetime…

Electrical Field of Love: A Conversation with Harriet Tubman (Brandon Ross, Melvin Gibbs, J.T. Lewis) and Georgia Anne Muldrow (Part One)

2 months ago

Freedom is an inescapable part of the history of Black American music, as the yearning for such is an essential…

Review: Willy Rodriguez’s ‘In the Unknown (I Will Find You)’

2 months ago

Two years ago, drummer, composer, and bandleader Willy Rodriguez stunned improvised music audiences and critics alike with his leader debut,…

Review: Ben Wendel’s ‘BaRcoDe’

2 months ago

Given his penchant for unique projects, it is nearly impossible to predict what saxophonist, composer, and sound architect Ben Wendel…

Review: ‘Daggerboard: The Skipper and Mike Clark’

2 months ago

There is a clear Miles-esque feel to Daggerboard: The Skipper and Mike Clark (Wide Hive, 2026), the sixth release by…

Taking the Journey: A Conversation with Shabaka on ‘Of the Earth’

2 months ago

Artistic expression has a fascinating duality between isolationism and communal creation. There is a romanticized archetype of the lone creator.…

Review: Edward Simon’s ‘Venezuela: Latin American Songbook Vol. 2’

2 months ago

Acclaimed pianist-composer, Guggenheim Fellow, and SF Jazz Collective member Edward Simon continues his deep dive into Latin American repertoire with…

Review: ‘The Setting’

2 months ago

The eponymous debut of The Setting (Loyal Label, 2026) features a new trio of bassist-composer Eivind Opsvik, keyboardist Elias Stemeseder,…

Holding On: A Conversation with Bill Frisell on ‘In My Dreams’

2 months ago

Throughout the more than three hundred thousand years of human existence, the human mind has dreamt. Dreams are such a…