Review: Jamile and Vinicius Gomes’s ‘Boundless Species’

1 month ago

The drum-less duo of vocalist Jamile and guitarist Vinicius Gomes, joined by bassist Joe Martin, puts a new spin on…

Opening Your Heart: A Conversation with DoYeon Kim on ‘Wellspring’

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Legend tells that Korea’s plucked zither, the gayageum, was developed sometime in the sixth century by King Gashil of the…

Review: ‘Matthew Stevens’

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The eponymous release (Candid, 2026) by guitarist Matthew Stevens is not a solo guitar album. He has already released one of those, Pittsburgh (Whirlwind,…

Review: Reverso’s ‘Between Two Silences’

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If there was ever a prototypical album to fit this site’s subhead, “Music Beyond Category”, Reverso’s Between Two Silences (Alternate…

Moving as One: A Conversation with Satoko Fujii and Myra Melford

1 month ago

In the Internet Age, we are continually surrounded by words. Statements inundate our every waking moment. But it is rare…

Review: Phil Haynes’s ‘Terra’

2 months ago

Phil Haynes keeps pushing ahead, often in unexpected directions. Terra (Corner Store Jazz, 2026) is less a revolutionary setting than…

Review: Dave Douglas’s ‘Transcend’

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We have barely caught our collective breaths. Only three months after trumpeter and composer Dave Douglas released his outstanding Four…

Finding Through the Unknown: A Conversation with Willy Rodriguez

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Where do we go from here? Though we all exist on a linear timescale, humans have always wondered about the…

Review: Jason Moran, BlankFor.ms and Marcus Gilmore’s ‘Shards’

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Shards (Red Hook, 2026) is the follow-up to Refract (Red Hook, 2023) by the trio of pianist Jason Moran, electronic…

Letting the Silence In: A Conversation with Nate Wooley

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Louis Armstrong once noted that “music is life itself.” Expression through sound is a requisite and inescapable part of human…