Trumpeter/percussionist/bandleader/composer/educator Etienne Charles is mostly known for his Creole Soul band and orchestrations. On Gullah Roots (Culture Shock, 2025), the…
New York-based flutist Itai Kriss leads his quartet and special guests on Daybreak (JoJo, 2025), an album sequenced to follow…
Tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis has established himself as the most versatile tenorist on the scene today in a relatively…
With Soul & Circuitry (Ropeadope, 2025), Los Angeles-based pianist/keyboardist/electronics wizard/producer Julian “J3PO” Pollack issues his second album on one of…
Every so often, an album moves beyond music, carrying the listener to an array of deeply reflective moods. Last year,…
Joshua Redman did not follow suit after his first vocal album, where are we (Blue Note, 2024). Sure, vocalist Gabrielle…
Pianist and composer Matthew Shipp seems to be garnering as much publicity for his criticisms of André 3000’s piano album…
If you have not yet read the two-part interview with saxophonist Ivo Perelman and pianist Matthew Shipp regarding Armageddon Flower…
My review of emerging piano great Isaiah J. Thompson’s Power of the Spirit (Blue Engine, 2023) ended thusly: “a must-have…
One never knows where drummer-composer Ches Smith’s muse will take him next. From the Haitian voudou of We All Break:…