This week’s single song review shines a light on avant-jazz composer/flautist/altoist Henry Threadgill. A part of the seventies avant-jazz movement that brought us such luminaries as Julius Hemphill, David Murray and the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Threadgill was one third of the modern creative ensemble Air with bassist Fred HopkinsRead More

by Pico From Stanton Moore we make a short hop to his Garage A Trois bandmate Charlie Hunter. Even among eccentric acid-jazz musicians, Hunter stands out. First of all, for all the soul-jazz, funk and world fusion he paints on his canvas, he is a bop man at heart; mostRead More

With the outstanding ‘Flyin’ the Koop,’ Stanton Moore leaves little ground uncovered in his search for the rare groove.