Featured Image by Andrea Klarin “Jazz” is how Grace Jones gently introduces and concludes the silky kind-of-jazz song “Victor Should Have Been a Jazz Musician” from her...
There have been instances when jazz artists have crossed over into soul or pop with a political message, and vice versa for extraordinary achievements, as singular recordings (one...
Donny McCaslin began touring his recording “Beyond Now” (on Motema) in early 2017, and the interest in this one was exceptional: McCaslin’s “Beyond Now” tour was partly...
The Brad Mehldau Trio is touring Europe with a new album, “Seymour Reads the Constitution” (Nonesuch, 2018). Their previous studio recording “Blues and Ballads” (2016)...
“Reverse-engineering” is the term drummer Jojo Mayer uses to describe his New York-based group Nerve, whose live sound is inspired by electronic beats. However, their sound...
Jazz vocalist Gregory Porter is touring his newest album “Nat King Cole & Me” (Blue Note 2017) with songs recorded or inspired by one of his earliest and strongest...
Tomasz Stanko is a singular trumpeter and veteran on the European jazz scene, and with his New York quartet with three high profile younger players, it’s an opportunity to see...
Doug Hammond is an extraordinary jazz musician, composer, poet and writer who began recording on the legendary Detroit-based label Tribe in the early 1970s. He has worked with...
Antonín Dvořák predicted the advent of jazz in the late 19th century. This significant late 19th century Czech composer, best known for his “New World Symphony,” composed...
In a short interview on the French La Blogotheque, the young American vocalist and guitarist Moses Sumney recalls his first time in Paris, a few years ago, when he was forced to...
Jason Moran has become one of the most prominent jazz pianists on the scene (born 1975 in Houston, Texas). He is also a composer, an artist, curator and a MacArthur Genius grant...