Review: Jonny Greenwood’s Soundtrack to ‘Spencer’

4 years ago

Jonny Greenwood is primarily known as the guitarist of Radiohead, but he also has a superb discography of film scores.…

Sound World Exploration: A Conversation with Sara Schoenbeck

4 years ago

With its double reeds and complicated fingerings, the bassoon is one of the most difficult wind instruments to master. But…

Density and Space: A Conversation with Yuma Uesaka and Marilyn Crispell

4 years ago

Since the 1970s, Marilyn Crispell has been a major figure in creative music, pushing the piano into new realms, whether…

Melding of Worlds: A Conversation with Sylvie Courvoisier and Mary Halvorson

4 years ago

Over the past two and a half decades, pianist-composer Sylvie Courvoisier has established a formidable career in combining concepts from…

Eclecticism Continued: A Conversation with Dave Liebman (Part Two)

4 years ago

The second part of our conversation with Dave Liebman covers his incredible debut as a leader, Lookout Farm (ECM, 1973).…

Eclecticism Continued: A Conversation with Dave Liebman (Part One)

4 years ago

For over fifty years, Dave Liebman has been at the forefront of musical creativity. Whether his time as a sideman…

Talk Memory: A Conversation with BADBADNOTGOOD’s Leland Whitty

4 years ago

Over the past decade, Canadian ensemble BADBADNOTGOOD has established itself as a powerful force in creative music. The group initially…

Miles Davis: The Final Decade Revisited, Introduction

4 years ago

On September 28, 1991, the world lost a musical giant. An artist who, by his own estimation, changed the face…

Review: Henry Threadgill Zooid’s ‘Poof’

4 years ago

As some artists approach their late careers they become ruthless self-editors, paring down their style to remove everything that is…

Live Review: Herbie Hancock at the Paramount Theatre, Austin, TX, September 13, 2021

4 years ago

Established in 1915, Austin’s Paramount Theatre has hosted many iconic figures in American culture, including Harry Houdini, Katherine Hepburn, and…