This past week, I spent perhaps too much time reading (and re-reading) a couple of bits on the Internet. The first was a series written by Questlove, entitled When the People Cheer: How Hip-Hop Failed Black America. The other was an only tangentially-related article published way back in 2003 calledRead More

It’s about more than mere individuals playing well, and this performance brings real meaning to the words “spiritual unity.”

A gateway to straight jazz? No, because if you embrace this music, you’ve already gone through gates and are heading down its fascinating corridors.

Continuing in the long line of jazz musicians who have molded and revitalized modern jazz from behind a drum kit, ‘The Passion of Color’ is Rob Garcia at his best.

This doesn’t often sound like big band music, as Fujii draws from every impulse at her disposal.

Each song on ‘Offramp’ is so different from the next, and yet it all hangs together.

One of the most influential players in the free jazz scene, Brotzmann remains a force.

An album shaped by both interpretations of Monk and the interaction among these three.

This song has become The Anthem at live shows.

Ideal Bread have made a career of lovingly presenting the music of the great Steve Lacy. On their previous records, The Ideal Bread and Transmit, the group trafficked in more or less straight readings of Lacy’s music. You May Also Like: Adam Hopkins’ Crickets, “Grounded” (2023): Something Else! One TrackRead More