Interviews

Peace Through Sound: A Conversation with Lonnie Liston Smith (Part One)

Across their almost twenty volumes of the Jazz is Dead series, performer-producers Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge have exposed…

1 year ago

Conduit : A Conversation with Todd Clouser on The Mexico City Experiment

The fifth outing in Ropeadope’s Experiment series is markedly different from its predecessors. While all releases to date adopt a general ethos…

1 year ago

Mysterious Textures: A Conversation with Brandon Seabrook

Youthful zeal often brings a desire to show your technical capabilities. Young athletes try to sprint as rapidly as possible,…

1 year ago

Opportunity to Make Something Special: A Conversation with George Benson

To many, George Benson needs little introduction. During his career thus far, the guitarist-vocalist has been nominated for twenty-five Grammy…

1 year ago

Music at the Heart: A Conversation with Erik Friedlander

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the cello established itself as a mainstay in Western European classical music due to…

1 year ago

Mixing Vocabularies: A Conversation with Mike Dillon on Punkadelick

Artistic expression has a unique power to flourish even when the soil is arid and lacking nutrients. The COVID pandemic,…

2 years ago

Quiet Within: A Conversation with Ingrid Laubrock

Throughout its history, creative music has always been on a conceptual search for freedom. Ornette Coleman sought to move his…

2 years ago

Interview: A Conversation with an Anonymous Artist

If you are reading this, there is a substantial likelihood you arrived here under false pretenses. Apologies for the deception.…

2 years ago

Harlem Hellfighter: A Conversation with Jason Moran on James Reese Europe (Part Two)

We continue our conversation with Jason Moran by going deeper into the songs on his James Reese Europe inspired album,…

2 years ago

Harlem Hellfighter: A Conversation with Jason Moran on James Reese Europe (Part One)

The passage of time can leave the legacy of important figures underrecognized. For every figure like Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker,…

2 years ago