John Chacona

John Chacona is a freelance journalist, content writer and producer in Cleveland. He has been a contributor to the Erie (PA) Times-News, The Chautauquan Daily, Signal to Noise, CODA and Lake Erie FifeStyle magazines, and various online outlets, including PostGenre.

Review: ‘Triple Fever’

Just when you think we’ve reached peak piano trio, a new recording arrives to demonstrate the infinite elasticity of the…

10 months ago

Review: Lucas Pino’s ‘Covers’

There are recordings that dazzle you from the first few bars—or conversely, put you off—with their audacity. Then there are…

1 year ago

Review: David Ake’s ‘Green Thumb’

It takes daring for a producer to lead off a recording with a ballad. When that producer is Marc Free…

1 year ago

Review: Avram Fefer’s ‘Juba Lee’

F​​or the last quarter of the 20th century, Italian labels Black Saint and Soul Note issued an influential series of…

2 years ago

Review: Thumbscrew’s ‘Multicolored Midnight’

The fourth cut on Thumbscrew’s Multicolored Midnight (Cuneiform, 2022) is entitled “Shit Changes.” You don’t have to be a climate scientist or…

2 years ago

Review: Jussi Reijonen’s ‘Three Seconds | Kolme Toista’

"From the snowy, windswept peaks of Lapland to the desert of the Empty Quarter, Three Seconds | Kolme Toista is…

2 years ago

Review: Jakob Bro and Joe Lovano’s ‘Once Around the Room: A Tribute to Paul Motian’

In an interview with Ethan Iverson on his Do the M@th blog, writer Ben Ratliff related an anecdote that Paul…

2 years ago

Veer: A Conversation with Sarah Bernstein

If you want to make a career in contemporary creative music, you could do worse than use the Projects page…

2 years ago

Review: Tyshawn Sorey Trio’s ‘Mesmerism’

Did any artist have a better 2021 than Tyshawn Sorey? The 2017 MacArthur Fellow was the subject of a New…

2 years ago

Review: Steve Cardenas, Ben Allison, and Ted Nash’s ‘Healing Power – The Music of Carla Bley’

If Wayne Shorter is widely acknowledged as the most important living composer in jazz, who is the runner-up? Guitarist Steve…

2 years ago