Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York – Shiki (2014)
This doesn’t often sound like big band music, as Fujii draws from every impulse at her disposal.

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.

This feels like a solo album dressed up in Echo and the Bunnymen’s clothes.
With the Beatles’ “Ask Me Why,” John Lennon and Paul McCartney embark on their unprecedented run as songwriters.

A force in its day, the music of this seminal funk-jazz-rock combo remains very much potent today.

Watch as Collins returns to perform ‘In the Air Tonight’ and ‘Land of Confusion.’

There’s little, if any, redeeming value to the message. And yet I can’t get the song out of my head.

I still don’t really know the entire story, and maybe its better that I don’t.

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

Several tracks were eventually released, but the bulk went unheard for decades.