As a vehicle to facilitate group improvisation - or collaborative creation in the moment, as some artists refer to it-…
One of our few links to bands of Miles, McCoy Tyner, Pharaoh Sanders, Lee Morgan, and Roy Hargrove, NEA Jazz…
This is the year that some of us learned that tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse was a leader of other bands…
A fierce expansion on the percussive focus of More Touch (Pyroclastic Records, 2022) and the addition of intricate saxophone parts…
Under the Same Stars (Motéma, 2025) is the second installment of Mongolian-born and Germany-based pianist-composer Shuteen Erdenebaatar’s planned trilogy drawing…
Go ahead and try this - Ask your friends who the most prominent female jazz vocalists have been in the…
With Alloy (Greenleaf, 2025), trumpeter, composer, and forward thinker Dave Douglas unveils his latest unique ensemble. Joined by two young…
In a musical environment that too often propagates concepts of genre, one label in particular often stands out as problematic:…
There are no written rules for NEA Jazz Masters. Clearly, they have earned the right to undertake their long-dreamed-of projects.…
Here is a fun exercise for a reader’s consideration. Consider these two quotes: “[It is] just a bunch of notes…