Wayne Shorter has delivered a late-period masterpiece: The music on ‘Emanon’ is wonderful, the expectation delivered.

The big accomplishment of the first ‘Dirigo Rataplan’ was in Devin Gray’s insight in conceptualizing ways to get the most out of his fellow musicians and himself. That’s the same kind of brilliance found on ‘Dirigo Rataplan II.’

Before any of those seminal recordings by the AACM family could happen, Roscoe Mitchell’s ‘Sound’ needed to.

Shai Maestro was already living up to his flattering last name when we first noticed him as the pianist in Avishai Cohen’s trio back in ’08. He would stay with You May Also Like: Avishai Cohen’s Melodic, Masterful Gently Disturbed Was a Canny Update Jorge Roeder – ‘El Suelo Mío’Read More

Kind Folk is a new jazz supergroup that lives up to the promise its first time out, with ‘Why Not.’

The Pagliuca-Mena Sextet’s debut album ‘El Templo de Las Ideas’ is incredible – and that is not a word I often use.

The fourth Frequency Response release from Tom Abbs could well be his last for a long time; the man’s got things to do. If that’s the case, it’s all the more reason to savor ‘Hawthorne.’

Billy Cobham is joined by Brian Gruber in a talk with Mike Tiano that delves into the output and impact of many of the drummer’s contemporaries.

The album’s PR material describes ‘We Are the Orchestra’ as a “bold departure” for Daniel Bennett, but what strikes me actually is that it’s not.

New Orleans is a place where many cultures met in the past, and it continues to draw people from all over the world – including jazz lovers like me.