Rob Mazurek and Chad Taylor’s deft application of lo-fi electronics to out-jazz has been celebrated here a few times, and Locus, their second release as the Chicago Underground Duo with Northern Spy Records, is another reason to celebrate. You May Also Like: Hearts & Minds – ‘Illuminescence’ (2025) Chad TaylorRead More
For all the discussion in recent years about the current generation’s creatively unique piano/bass/drums trios such as The Bad Plus, e.s.t. and Vijay Iyer’s trio, there’s scant talk about the earliest and most unique of this batch You May Also Like: The Necks – Body (2018) The Necks – ‘Travel’Read More
A two-step shuffle, a slightly exaggerated country croon, and two feisty saxes with occasional late-period Coltrane wails arousing suspicions that these are wack jazz guys playing Merle Haggard, not dedicated country music musicians. You May Also Like: Jon Lundbom and Big Five Chord – ‘Harder On the Outside’ (2019)
Alternately volcanic, fragile, and threatening, but always jagged, Black Host is as inscrutable an ensemble as there is, consisting of five well-established figures of advanced jazz. You May Also Like: Brandon Seabrook, with Cooper-Moore + Gerald Cleaver – ‘Exultations’ (2020) Brandon Seabrook, Cooper-Moore + Gerald Cleaver – ‘In the Swarm’Read More
An assemblage of musicians the caliber of Marc Ribot, Ches Smith and Shahzad Ismaily usually signals that this is going to be seriously nerdy jazz, but Ceramic Dog is, in many ways, the exact opposite. You May Also Like: Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog – ‘Hope’ (2021) Marc Ribot’s Ceramic DogRead More
Anytime there’s a new release out that involves cornet player Rob Mazurek, it warrants attention because it’s certain to be interesting and unlike jazz you’d hear anywhere else. You May Also Like: Chad Taylor – ‘Myths and Morals’ (2018)
Like Giuseppi Logan, tenor saxophonist Charles Gayle was in the thick of it during the free jazz revolution taking place in New York during the 1960s. You May Also Like: How Tom Waits and Crystal Gayle Saved ‘One From the Heart’ Similar Fashion – Portrait Of (2018)
