Pianist David Berkman’s new album Six of One was released last week on Palmetto Records. Here Berkman presents the latest evolution his sextet – featuring saxophonists...
As he’s made abundantly clear over the past 30 years, Joey DeFrancesco has plenty of soul. On his adventurous new album, In The Key Of The Universe, the master organist turns...
After Boston and New York, the French-American saxophonist known as PLUME has arrived on the Parisian scene with astonishing energy and an alto sound that is sweeping everyone off...
Saxophonist and composer Logan Strosahl has increasingly been involved in the myriad worlds of formal composition. His study of pre-1700’s and contemporary composition has led...
Nonesuch Records releases the Joshua Redman Quartet’s Come What May on March 29, 2019. This is the first recording in almost two decades for this group of musicians: the...
“If you are in a hurry, go slowly” – this Chinese proverb has been set aside on the Swiss composer and drummer Gregor Lisser’s On Eleven, his debut album with...
“… my music is written for audiences and musicians alike. I like deep and intuitive grooves, melodies you can whistle along to, and arrangements that surprise and...
This CD came to fruition after two successful tours featuring Randy Brecker fronting the NDR Bigband – The Hamburg Radio Jazz Orchestra. Arranger/Conductor Jörg Achim...
Today sees the release of The Branford Marsalis Quartet new album, The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul on OKeh Records. The album will the first Branford Marsalis Quartet...
Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, the trombonist/composer Nick Grinder felt a deep attachment to the Farallon Islands that lie just 30 miles west of the Golden Gate...
For jazz fans in 2018, it might be difficult to imagine a time when pianist/composer Fred Hersch was not intimately associated with the Village Vanguard. For more than two decades...