Of today’s living saxophonists we likely most associate Pharoah Sanders (tenor), Archie Shepp (teno,r), and Dave Liebman (soprano) with the legendary, influential John Coltrane. Selflessness, performed by Liebman and his
Eightfold Path by the reunited Sunwatcher Quartet was recorded completely outside and inspired by Buddhist teachings which one will quickly glean by seeing the titles of eight compositions beginning with
Kinds of Love is borne out of a year of reflection when we focused on the things that are most important to us, family, friends, close relationships and for most
Roots music fans know trumpeter/composer/arranger/bandleader Steven Bernstein as one of the pillars of the late Levon Helm’s large ensembles. The NYC Jazz community knows him too. Closer inspection reveals a
Legendary drummer Andrew Cyrille released his ECM debut as a leader in 2016, when he was 76, marking a kind of late-career renaissance. That spacious, highly acclaimed in-the-mold-of ECM album, The
This writer is still basking in Kenny Garrett’s roof-raising, entertaining, rousing set at the 2021 Newport Jazz Festival just a few weeks ago. In that stirring performance, he unveiled much of this
Persistence pays off. Singer-songwriter Mike Younger began this project now titled, Burning the Bigtop Down, in January of 2001, over 20 years ago. The original tracks, the same nine Younger
Trumpeter Terence Blanchard has widened his scope considerably in the last decade, receiving two Grammy nominations for his film scores and as a two-time opera composer whose opera Fire Shut Up
Nashville-based guitar great Robben Ford issues Pure, his first totally instrumental studio album since 1997’s Tiger Walk. As we’ve come to expect, Ford is not tied directly to just one
It’s difficult to believe that Yellow is the debut full-length for UK rising star of the burgeoning London jazz-not-jazz scene, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and bandleader Emma-Jean Thackray who has already established
