Columbia Icefield’s ‘A Silence Opens’ teaches twice over that the soul of an artist never dies, it’s simply transferred to the art they make.

For the conclusion of our 2-part conversation with creative jazz drummer and composer Devin Gray, the Maine-born musician speaks of his increasing ties to Europe and how the fertile Berlin music scene environment gave him new ways to flourish. S. VICTOR AARON: So now I want to shift over toRead More

Here is Part 1 of the SER interview with drummer/composer/bandleader Devin Gray, a passionate, hungry musician who’s both as intensely introspective as he is outgoing and engaging.

Phillip Golub’s microtonal-based ‘Partisan Ship’ is wildly ambitious, but the ambitions are realized.

Chris Potter’s ‘Alive With Ghosts Today’ shows the superior art that is produced when when the fault lines in vintage American music are blurred.

Here is the advance single “Disparate Chase” from the exciting, upcoming duet album from Patricia Brennan & Sylvie Courvoisier, ‘Talamanti.’

‘Creative Courage Trouncing Career Cowardice’ and ‘Mirror Dimensions’ are fine specimens of the unfiltered, raw free jazz that drummer Kikanju Baku does like few others.

‘Always Ever’ is an unaltered transfer of ideas from the fertile mind of Alister Spence straight to tape.

Having established himself as a top-flight sessionist, bandleader and composer, Billy Mohler reveals that all of those talents translates well onto the road with ‘Live In Europe.’

Whether in trio or momentary quartet, ‘Orbital’ provides proof that The Outskirts reunion was well justified. The highly-charged improvisational magic is back.