Musical Mentors: Gary Bartz & Maisha’s ‘Night Dreamer’ and Archie Shepp, Raw Poetic & Damu the Fudgemunk’s ‘Ocean Bridges’

6 years ago

The term “mentor” comes from a character in Homer’s Odyssey, an epic written in the 8th Century BCE. However, the…

Review: Roy Ayers, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad’s ‘Roy Ayers JID 002’

6 years ago

Humanity has a longstanding fascination with incorporating the latest technological developments into music. This interest is perhaps most evident in…

Beating with Heart: Alexander Flood’s Percussive Exploration of Cultures and Technology

6 years ago

In 2015, Christian Scott Atunde Adjuah created the Stretch Music imprint with Ropeadope Records to support jazz rooted genre blind…

Review: Okkyung Lee’s ‘Yeo-Neun’

6 years ago

Cellist Okkyung Lee is best known for her visceral attack and extended techniques, which can be heard on past albums…

Review: HiFiLo’s ‘Speak Your Name’

6 years ago

During the last few years, many young musicians have approached improvisation not only in the traditional method – as instrumentalists…

Review: Norah Jones’ ‘Pick Me Up Off the Floor’

6 years ago

When many think of Texas, the first musicians that may come to mind are Bob Wills, Stevie Ray Vaughn, or…

Review: The Brecker Brothers’ ‘Live and Unreleased’

6 years ago

The Brecker Brothers, throughout their twenty-year career, always embodied an interesting duality in their music. On the one hand, every…

Review: Michael Olatuja’s ‘Lagos Pepper Soup’

6 years ago

It can be incredibly difficult to be creative at the culinary arts. Insufficient attention to detail or excessive or inordinate…

Review: Irreversible Entanglements’ ‘Who Sent You?’

6 years ago

In their debut and the live album released a year ago, Irreversible Entanglements wowed audiences with energetic free-jazz poetry performances,…

Review: Ambrose Akinmusire’s ‘on the tender spot of every calloused moment’

6 years ago

Tonic, minor third, fourth, minor fifth, fifth, minor seventh. While this describes the blues scale, such a summation misses the…