Tom Pierson – ‘Last Works’ (2019)
Tom Pierson’s ‘Last Works’ features some of the best and most listenable music with a traditional bias I have heard for a long time.

Tom Pierson’s ‘Last Works’ features some of the best and most listenable music with a traditional bias I have heard for a long time.

Whit Dickey uses his drums not to merely set a rhythmic pulse of the song, but the spiritual pulse, too.

Sarah Gail Brand has been described as “the most exciting trombone player for years,” and I agree.

Fabian Almazan joins Preston Frazier for a Something Else! Sitdown that includes an in-depth song-by-song analysis of the pianist’s forthcoming album.

Fabian Almazan’s nature-inspired ‘This Land Abounds With Life’ is an album with something for everyone.
Jazz is an inclusive music. So why did an established British journal publish a piece containing a gay slur?

Strong musical personalities impose themselves on these Dave Douglas originals, and it makes for a riveting trio that sounds like no other.

The three musicians in Shifa have played together in various combinations before but never recorded, so this is a first – and it is glorious.
Two hours, spent with Pat Metheny during a solo show in New Hampshire, and I was exhausted.

Fleur Stevenson makes very clear nods to the song’s original composers, but ‘Follow Me’ is also imbued with a remarkable originality.