It’s the closest thing to a shake-up in the jazz journalism world: Bebop Channel Corporation has acquired Madavor Media, the … More
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Pianist Lynne Arriale Creates More Trio Magic; Tunes Inspired by Health Worker Heroics (album review)
Lynne Arriale Trio, “The Lights Are Always On” (Challenge) Can instrumental music that’s uniformly relaxed and occasionally tinged with melancholy … More
Marquis Hill Revisits, Refines the Music from His 2011 Debut (album review)
Marquis Hill, “New Gospel Revisited” (Edition) Call it a successful back-to-the-future gambit: Marquis Hill, the gifted Chicago trumpeter and composer … More
Meet Victor Wooten, Concerto Composer (feature)
The bass guitar and the symphony orchestra may strike some as strange bedfellows. But it’s not like they’ve never met … More
Hey, New Yorker: When it comes to jazz, do you do more than sneer?
At first glance, the chief crime of The New Yorker‘s latest “humor” column is that it’s not funny, and that it … More
Trio Jazz Intimacy: Mundell Lowe & Co.
Mundell Lowe, Lloyd Wells, Jim Ferguson, Poor Butterfly (Two Helpins’ O’ Collards) — Poor Butterfly has Mundell Lowe, the virtuoso journeyman … More
Newk in Real Time: Sonny Talks!
It was nothing short of fascinating: Saxophonist Sonny Rollins, the legendary jazz giant, streaming live, in an interview/conversation prompted by a … More
Louis Maistros’ The Sound of Building Coffins (Review)
The Sound of Building Coffins, by New Orleans author Louis Maistros, is an intriguing tale of jazz and voodoo. I … More
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