Jazz
The Blue Note Records president, producer, and bassist leads his Pan-Detroit Ensemble through original material and a freewheeling tribute to the Grateful Dead’s Blues for Allah at the Sinclair and Groton Hill Music Center.
A six-LP, three-CD collection gives us the bassist leading exceptional small groups in music of rigor, energy, and expansive range.
Two jazz writers for the magazine pay homage to the indispensable accomplishments of jazz writer Dan Morgenstern, who passed away on September 7 at the age of 94.
Mel Brooks called Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club “a little nest of happiness. All our recent wounds are healed there.”
Play The Way You Feel is the best volume around on the uneasy relationship between film and jazz.
Magos Herrera teamed up with the Brooklyn Rider string quartet to create a collection of music that makes its case for life, love, and liberation through its sheer beauty.
2018 saw the release of four ambitious and powerful jazz releases driven by poetic texts.
This volume is clearly critic Nate Chinen’s resounding response to the “jazz is dead” chant.
Jazz Commentary: Celebrating Bassist William Parker’s Lifetime of Achievement
It was not just networking that propelled William Parker into the front rank of bassists. He could generate such a huge and complex cascade of sound that he energized leaders from Cecil Taylor and Ivo Perelman to Zoh Amba.
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