feature photo: Laura Partain The happy-go-lucky folk troubadours The Wood Brothers will soon be touring around the USA again but this time they’ll be doing so with a fresh new set of songs that they recently recorded. Puff Of Smoke (Honey Jar/Thirty Tigers) won’t be out until August 1, 2025Read More

Tobias Meinhart makes a fully-formed statement about making music that goes further than just putting together harmony and rhythm and carrying it out with capable hands. It’s got to flow & ‘Sonic River’ does just that.

On ‘Sad Life,’ it’s evident this early on in his career that Ivo Perelman doesn’t suppress his own personal musical makeup in the presence of more established masters like William Parker and Rashied Ali.

‘Consentrik Quartet’ proves that even within a conventional jazz quartet format, Nels Cline retains that hunger to thrive on the edge.

Here is a video of the title tune from Seth Walker’s 2025 release, “Why The Worry”

With their third collaboration ‘Bone Bells,’ Sylvie Courvoisier and Mary Halvorson have become a entity that’s a major force unto itself.

Let’s return to a handful of lesser-known moments from Steely Dan’s ‘Katy Lied,’ which arrived 50 years ago this month.

Through imaginative composing and arranging combined with telepathic interaction, Alister Spence and his Trio make cutting-edge jazz out of an old format with ‘Gather.’

Just in case you forgot what a badassed band Tim Berne’s Snakeoil was, here’s a not-so-gentle reminder with the live souvenir ‘Snakeoil OK.’

Here is the groovin’ 1970’s nostalgia advance single “Stevie and Sly” from Young Gun Silver Fox’s upcoming 2025 release.