We continue our conversation with Maestro Hussain with a focus on how This Moment (Abstract Logix, 2023) differs from prior…
In the summer of 1970, a guitarist continually seeking new sounds visited the House of Musical Traditions, a musical instrument…
One cannot adequately assess the history of the Newport Jazz Festival without examining the recordings captured at the event through…
In the second part of our Conversation with Lonnie Liston Smith (read part one here), we discuss his time with…
Across their almost twenty volumes of the Jazz is Dead series, performer-producers Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge have exposed…
The fifth outing in Ropeadope’s Experiment series is markedly different from its predecessors. While all releases to date adopt a general ethos…
Youthful zeal often brings a desire to show your technical capabilities. Young athletes try to sprint as rapidly as possible,…
To many, George Benson needs little introduction. During his career thus far, the guitarist-vocalist has been nominated for twenty-five Grammy…
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the cello established itself as a mainstay in Western European classical music due to…
For the last quarter of the 20th century, Italian labels Black Saint and Soul Note issued an influential series of…
