Review: Josh Johnson’s ‘Freedom Exercise’

4 years ago

One effective way to find new artists and music is through their works with others. A great example of this…

Review: Cat Toren’s Human Kind’s ‘Scintillating Beauty’

4 years ago

With a first track as striking as "Radiance In Veils", one immediately gets the sense that Cat Toren's Human Kind's…

Review: Bob James’ ‘Once Upon A Time: The Lost 1965 New York Studio Sessions’, Admas’ ‘Sons of Ethiopia’, and Takuya Kuroda’s ‘Fly Moon Die Soon’

4 years ago

Artists often produce some of their best work when given increased freedom over the creative process. In so doing, their…

Jazz from A to G: Sullivan’s Travels, 2020

4 years ago

It’s 1941, the world is up in flames, fascism has a chokehold, racism and imperialism are the fundaments of effective…

Review: Jesse Fischer’s ‘Resilience’

4 years ago

As the world seems to descend into increasingly challenging times every day, society needs music more than ever to respond…

Tilted, Sampled, and Scored: Producer Ben Rubin on the Analog Players Society’s Exploration of Hip-Hop’s Golden Age

4 years ago

It is no secret that 2020 has been a year of landmark change. The music community hangs on as tectonic…

Five Non-Traditional Tributes to Charlie Parker

4 years ago

On August 29, 1920, Charles Parker Jr. was born in a home at 852 Freeman Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas. The…

Review: Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah’s ‘Axiom’

5 years ago

In the field of philosophical logic, an axiom serves as a starting point from which other statements are derived. It…

Review: Marcos Valle, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad’s ‘Marcos Valle JID 003’

5 years ago

In the year 1500, navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral claimed Brazil as a colony for the Portuguese empire. Despite the region’s…

Review: Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids’ ‘Shaman!’

5 years ago

In the early 1990s, Allan Wilson and Rebecca Cann reached a scientific breakthrough in their testing of mitochondrial DNA. Their…