The sharp, agreeable Haymaker will be Noah Preminger’s first album since the last one Before The Rain (2011) catapulted the tenor saxophone master to the front ranks of today’s current crop of young lions. You May Also Like: Jeff Cosgrove, Noah Preminger + Kim Cass – ‘Confusing Motion for Progress’Read More

The follow-up to 2010s’ Betweenwhile by Bacteria To Boys involved a transition from Darius Jones to Jon Irabagon in the sax role, but also a transition for its chief, Mike Pride, too. You May Also Like: Jon Irabagon – ‘I Don’t Hear Nothin’ But the Blues Vol. 3: Anatomical Snuffbox’Read More

Best known as the drummer in the barrier-breaking metal band Living Colour, Will Calhoun has quietly put together an impressive resume in jazz

Albums with as many songs as a 45 single are bound to be interesting, and that’s undeniably the case for Mike Pride’s dual epic numbers compiled into his upcoming Drummer’s Corpse album. You May Also Like: Mike Pride – ‘Marimba, July’ and ‘Drums, August’ (2019) Three-Layer Cake [Brandon Seabrook, MikeRead More

Whenever I describe a jazz artist as unique and eccentric, using odd meters and irregular note progressions, that means I’m describing a whack jazz artist about 99% of the time. Reedman Daniel Bennett on the hand belongs in that one percent. You May Also Like: Daniel Bennett Group – WeRead More

The allure of Danish-Swedish quartet David’s Angels comes from their uneasy truce among chanteuse jazz, avant-Prog and indie rock, and the tension that creates You May Also Like: Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber – ‘Angels Over Oakanda’ (2021) Bad Company – ‘Desolation Angels’ (1979; 2020 reissue)

Alex Snydman grew up playing guitar and didn’t decide until he was already well into college to switch over to the drums. He’s been pushing hard to make of for lost time ever since, learning under masters like Eric Harland, Joe La Barbera and Damion Reid. You May Also Like:Read More

It’s classical. No, wait. It’s contemporary jazz. Sure, but that’s not exactly it, either. Latin pop? That, too. In fact, Quattro’s deliciously uncategorizable forthcoming album Popzzical includes all of that, but ultimately fits somewhere in between. You May Also Like: Luca Crispino, Danilo Gallo, Luca Pighi + Roberto Zorzi –Read More

The story of Quartets, the new ECM box set covering five of Charles Lloyd’s albums, isn’t a sweeping career retrospective; it would take at least twenty discs to sufficiently do that for this tenor saxophonist whose become a lion in jazz over a fifty year span. Instead, this is aboutRead More

The appropriately named “Combustible,” part of an upcoming Wallace Roney project called Understanding, bursts out like a spit-shined hard-bop muscle car — and the trumpeter never takes his foot off the gas. You May Also Like: When Miles Davis Finally Looked Back on ‘Miles and Quincy: Live at Montreux’