Album Reviews

Review: Henry Threadgill Zooid’s ‘Poof’

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

3 years ago

Review: Terence Blanchard’s ‘Absence’ featuring the E-Collective and Turtle Island Quartet

Wayne Shorter is among the best composers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. Several of his compositions including,…

3 years ago

Review: L’Rain’s ‘Fatigue’

Multi-instrumentalist Taja Cheek, who records under the moniker L'Rain, creates a unique experience in Fatigue. The album is kaleidoscopic and…

3 years ago

Review: Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog’s ‘Hope’

Nobel physicist Erwin Schrödinger once noted that “[i]f a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually…

3 years ago

Review: ‘Impulse! Records: Music, Message & The Moment’ and Sons of Kemet’s ‘Black to the Future’

In 1960, Creed Taylor founded Impulse! Records, which he dubbed "The New Wave in Jazz." While over time, Impulse! established…

4 years ago

Review: Tony Allen’s ‘There is No End’

An artist’s final recording is often an unusual gift to the world. In large part, this derives from the fact…

4 years ago

Review: Logan Richardson’s ‘Afrofuturism’

Memorial day weekend 1921 started just like any other day in the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma. One of the…

4 years ago

Review: Thumbscrew’s ‘Never is Enough’

It hasn't even been a year since Thumbscrew released their superb record in tribute to Anthony Braxton, but the trio…

4 years ago

Reflections Through Geography with Joni Mitchell and Theo Bleckmann and The Westerlies

Fifty years ago, Joni Mitchell released the most iconic album of her career, one that changed the trajectory of music…

4 years ago

Review: ‘‎R+R=Now Live’

If 2020 has shown us anything, it is how quickly circumstances can change. One day you are living your “normal”…

4 years ago