Last month, French-born New York-based pianist Romain Collin released a new single which went relatively unnoticed. “Gold Coast” features Collin’s trio from this Summer’s Tiny Lights… album, namely Matthew Stevens …
Drummer Terri Lyne Carrington is always ahead of the curve. She’s endlessly innovative and makes music that often seems to have deeper meaning at its core. On her upcoming new …
Linda May Han Oh’s prolific career never ceases to amaze, and her ability to keep raising the bar every step of the way is nothing short of remarkable. Widely regarded …
French-born, Brooklyn-based, composer and pianist Romain Collin returns with an ambitious and visionary multimedia project christened Tiny Lights…, guided by an original and personal narrative about a boy on a …
We’re still easing into 2019 and all the music we’re getting and will share with you soon, but in the meantime, saxophonist Ben Wendel is continuing his Standards with Friends …
In Common is an album co-led by tenor saxophonist Walter Smith III, guitarist Matthew Stevens, vibraphonist Joel Ross, bassist Harish Raghavan, and drummer Marcus Gilmore. It’s an album with a …
Lately Esperanza Spalding seems to be in the business of doing things her fans don’t expect. Considering the music of the more R&B-influenced Radio Music Society, her last album, Emily’s …
Guitarist Matthew Stevens, which you should know by now following his work with Christian Scott and Esperanza Spalding, released his latest album as a leader, Preverbal, last March. Our very …
Chet Doxas, arguably one of Montreal’s most illustrious saxophonists, left my endearing hometown three years ago, off to pursue his dream in the bigger and better pastures of the Big …
I’ve had “Lucid Lullaby” stuck in my head for weeks. It took an equal amount of time for the humor of the literal nature of the song title to wash …
What is the actual difference between adventurous, guitar-based contemporary jazz music and instrumental post-rock? Depending on the day, I can get down just as much to Explosions in the Sky …
I have had Linda May Han Oh’s “Lucid Lullaby” off her upcoming album, Walk Against Wind, stuck in my head for the last five days. While it still seems a …
I am extraordinarily excited about bassist Linda Oh. I still keep her last album, 2013’s Sun Pictures, in steady rotation. I feel genuine guilt that I didn’t love it more …
Corey King and Jamire Williams make a great pair. The dopeness of Williams’ 2012 release, Conflict of a Man (the album’s “Black Super Hero Theme Song” has been the theme …
On Emily’s D+Evolution (pronounced “D-plus-evolution”), Esperanza Spalding is a badass black punk rock frontwoman making her jazz musicianship work for her in a way that it didn’t on her last …
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah plays three different horns on his new album, Stretch Music (Introducing Elena Pinderhughes)— the siren, the sirenette, and the reverse flugelhorn. They’re horns by his own …
Another video by Matthew Stevens, Ben Williams and Eric Doob has surfaced in a series christened “Live Off the Floor”. The video, filmed at the Victory Social Club in Toronto, …
Matthew Stevens just dropped a new track off Woodwork, his debut as a leader. “Big Feeling” is a bonus track for the Japanese version of the album to be released …