Wednesday, August 5, 2015

The Bad Plus Joshua Redman - Brubeck-ian New Jazz

›
There’s been so much revolution among jazz piano trios in recent years, and accounts of the trend inevitably point to the Bad Plus: Ethan ...
Friday, July 24, 2015

Robert Glasper: Covered (Recorded live at Capital Studios)

›
If you listen to early recordings by Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, or McCoy Tyner, you will hear some superb but relatively ...

Repost from 2006: Jazz Today: The Strange, Mixed Fate of Steely Dan

›
Back in 2006 (wow, I am older than old), I wrote this JAZZ TODAY column for PopMatters that has since passed out of 'net availability. (...
1 comment:
Sunday, April 6, 2014

Keith Jarrett: No End

›
I love the music of Keith Jarrett. He has been a distinctive titan of jazz piano since the late 1960s, forging a style and a philosophy that...
Saturday, March 22, 2014

Ambrose Akinmusire: The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint

›
Casting a spell might just be the real goal of any artist. The filmmaker hopes to create a world that you will enter, the novelist wants you...

JAZZ TODAY: Is Blue Note Records on the Rise, Again?

›
Jazz has a small number of “name brands”, and one of the most consistent has been the Blue Note record label. For two decades, from the lat...
Tuesday, February 4, 2014

How Can a Listener Ignore the Influence of the Market on the Beautiful Art of Jazz?

›
Categories, definitions, labels, marketing, oh boy. When you are writing about jazz, to mention these things is somehow to ignore or taint t...