Review: Bob Schlesinger’s ‘Falling From Earth’

3 months ago

To say that Colorado-based pianist/composer Bob Schlesinger’s Falling from Earth (Digmatic, 2025) was a long time coming is a vast…

Review: Jakob Bro’s ‘Murasaki’ and ‘The Montclair Sessions’

3 months ago

Danish guitarist Jakob Bro is the owner of the Copenhagen-based Loveland Records,, a label issuing two albums within a month…

Looking to the Cosmos: A Conversation with Patricia Brennan on ‘Of the Near and Far’ (Part Two)

3 months ago

We continue our conversation with Patricia Brennan on ‘Of the Near and Far’ by delving deeper into her compositional process…

Looking to the Cosmos: A Conversation with Patricia Brennan on ‘Of the Near and Far’ (Part One)

3 months ago

For eons, humanity has looked up at the vastness of the night sky in wonder. The pinholes of light shining…

Review: Armen Donelian’s ‘Stargazer’

3 months ago

Stargazer (Sunnyside, 2025) is a reissue of an album by a trio of pianist Armen Donelian with bassist Eddie Gomez…

Jazz Detective Zev Feldman Begins Yet Another Journey with New Imprint, Time Traveler Recordings, and Resurrecting Three Largely Forgotten Gems from the Muse Records Catalog

3 months ago

By now, most readers know that the Jazz Detective, Zev Feldman, does not limit his archival work to Black Friday…

Review: Phil Haynes & Free Country’s ‘Liberty Now!’

3 months ago

Drummer/composer Phil Haynes constantly leaves listeners anticipating what he will do next. In the past three years alone, he has…

Musical Tether: A Conversation with Sonya Belaya on ‘Dacha’

3 months ago

Music has a unique ability to convey emotions that transcend written or spoken language. Things lost in translation cannot be…

Review: Sarah Elizabeth Charles’s ‘Dawn’

3 months ago

While it’s been done in pop, appearing noticeably pregnant on an album cover is a rarity for improvisation-based music. Indeed,…

Review: Donny McCaslin’s ‘Lullaby for the Lost’

3 months ago

Saxophonist-composer Donny McCaslin is determined to move way beyond conventional concepts of jazz,  jazz-rock fusion, or any label you want…