When Sean Wayland gets inspiration, he holds nothing back. You May Also Like: Wayne Krantz – ‘Music Room 1985’ (2021) The Click Beetles – ‘Pop Fossil’ (2020)

Nik Bärtsch calls a concert a “meditative and explosive form of collaboration,” but exactly the same can be said about his and his band Ronin’s self-described “ritual groove music.” You May Also Like: Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin – Awase (2018) Nik Bärtsch – ‘Entendre’ (2021) Nik Bärtsch’s Mobile – Continuum (2016)

<<< BACKWARD (“Countermoon”) ||| ONWARD (“Snowbound”) >>> *** STEELY DAN SUNDAY INDEX *** It’s no fun to write about the failing of an artist for which you have an immense amount of respect and admiration, but we’ve reached that nadir for Donald Fagen with the flaccid “Springtime.” You May AlsoRead More

A young, prodigious Cuban born-and-raised pianist and composer recasts the folklore and culture of his homeland, filtered by the teachings of some of jazz’s greatest living avantists. You May Also Like: Chris Potter – The Dreamer Is The Dream (2017) Nik Bärtsch’s Mobile – Continuum (2016)

Some guys play the guitar extremely well and some guys who play the guitar just have great feel. Ottawa, Ontario-based plectrist Tim Bedner is in a special class of guitarists who excel at both. A summa cum laude Berklee grad and instructor at Carleton University, Bedner’s educational pursuits (he alsoRead More

Earlier this year, “Sacramento’s secret weapon” (quoting myself) made a wonderful out-jazz quintet record featuring saxophonist Vinny Golia. You May Also Like: Ross Hammond and Kevin Corcoran – ‘Music For Lighthouses 2’ (2021) Ross Hammond – ‘Roll Forward’ (2022) Ross Hammond and Jon Bafus – Masonic Lawn (2017)

Bring up the word “hard core” to describe music and most people might think you’re referring to “hardcore punk” or “hardcore techno”, or any music with a louder, primitive edge to it. You May Also Like: Brecker Brothers – ‘Live and Unreleased’ (2020) Greg Brown’s ‘In the Hills of California’Read More

Just a little more than a year after Italian power bassist Lorenzo Feliciati introduced the Naked Truth fusion-prog supergroup to the world with Shizaru, they’re back with another simultaneously fierce and fragile effort, Ouroboros. You May Also Like: Naked Truth – Avian Thug (2016) Mumpbeak – Tooth (2017) Adam Rudolph’sRead More

It’s a recurring theme we like to discuss here, about great jazz drummers who’ve composed music and led bands from the drum stool. You May Also Like: Gregory Lewis, with Marc Ribot – Organ Monk Blue (2018) Chris Greene Quartet – ‘PlaySpace’ (2019) James Brandon Lewis Quartet – ‘Code ofRead More

Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen gets down with the slowed-down, hand-clapping funk of “Countermoon,” but it could have been better.