On April 22, Jean-Baptiste Frederic Isidor “Toots” Thielemans turns 90 years old. Four weeks before that comes a look back on one of the richest and yet disregarded career in jazz music, Yesterday & Today. You May Also Like: Eliane Elias Confidently Expanded Her Main Influences on ‘Bossa Nova Stories’

Recently, we’ve said goodbye to some jazz greats. So, how about switching gears to focus on the best beginnings?

Here’s a brand new disc by Bill Frisell’s fiddle player. The music contained within, is well within Fris’ playing field, but there’s some adventurous circuit bent noises courtesy of Nels Cline with his bag of trick effects. Jim Black and Todd Sickafoose are on board, too, so the entire backingRead More

As one of the more talked about fusion records of last year, Naked Truth’s Shizaru put four established maestros from jazz, rock and avant garde words in the same studio, resulting in an album that pulled in creative streams from all of these music worlds into a purposeful, distinctive andRead More

Bob Belden has been in the thick of major jazz recordings issued or reissued in the last quarter century, but his name has rarely been presented in large, bright fonts. You May Also Like: Miles Davis’ ‘Bitches Brew’ Broke Every Rule: ‘An Art Form Unto Itself’

Travail, Transformation and Flow (2009) served noticed that everyone’s favorite up and coming alto saxophonist has come up and arrived. Now, Steve Lehman is poised to build his nascent legacy as an established artist You May Also Like: Steve Lehman Trio + Craig Taborn – ‘The People I Love’ (2019)Read More

There might not be a sunnier, snappier tune from Steely Dan than “Peg” and that’s undoubtably helped to propel the single to No. 11 on the Hot 100 charts.

As one of the three guitarists of the fleeting, all-star T.J. Kirk quartet in the mid-90s, Will Bernard’s career since then hadn’t generated the buzz that his former Kirk colleague Charlie Hunter does, but that doesn’t mean he’s been any less productive or creative. You May Also Like: Will BernardRead More

Over time I’ve found that the genius of the singular compositional style of Thelonious Monk manifests itself better the further away it is played from its original bebop context. You May Also Like: Gregory Lewis, with Marc Ribot – Organ Monk Blue (2018)

Steve Horowitz can be considered a jazz musician, but you’re not likely to have heard some of his music through the same channels as other jazz musicians. One of his main gigs is writing scores for movies, TV and even interactive media, and his accomplishments include scoring the award winningRead More