Last year Cory Wong made a sweeping musical statement — or should I say, several statements — sprawling over 2 discs. Quartet/Quintet revealed not just the wide ambition of this guitarist from Minneapolis, Minnesota but the wherewithal to realize it. You May Also Like: Yellowjackets – ‘Parallel Motion’ (2022) SatokoRead More

There are more than a few jazz fusion bassists out there with outstanding dexterity, who’ve mastered every Jaco Pastorius lick and made some fusion record full of endlessly serpentine melodies. You May Also Like: The Chick Corea + Steve Gadd Band – Chinese Butterfly (2018) Everything came together for JJRead More

Last month when chatting up an advance, streamed track of keyboardist Brian Haas and drummer Matt Chamberlain’s upcoming collaboration Frames, I made kind of a critic’s equivalent of a movie trailer about the album itself You May Also Like: Nolatet (Mike Dillon, Brian Haas, James Singleton + Johnny Vidacovich) –Read More

The guitarist and longtime ECM fixture Ralph Towner has always flourished in sub-group settings, whether it’s Trios/Solo with fellow members of Oregon, a duet with the vibraphone legend Gary Burton (Slide Show), You May Also Like: Wolfgang Muthspiel, Populous, Susie Blue + Others: Five for the Road [Quarantine Edition II]Read More

These rehabilitated acetates point the way for the career-defining music Robert Wyatt would record in the years that followed.

You know how one bulb goes out on a strand of Christmas lights and the whole strand goes dark? That’s because the lights are connected “in series.” Gavin Templeton makes the same observation in life and society in general You May Also Like: Dan Rosenboom – ‘Points on an InfiniteRead More

He was a founding member of Blood Sweat & Tears, a part of Billy Cobham’s seminal fusion band Dreams and one-half of one of the most exciting rock-jazz combos of the 70s and early 80s, the Brecker Brothers. You May Also Like: Brecker Brothers – ‘Live and Unreleased’ (2020)