Sean Bell. Amadou Diallo. Danroy Henry. Ramarley Graham. Orlando Barlow. Aaron Campbell. Timothy Stansbury. Oscar Grant. In the land of freedom and opportunity, the possibilities for these names to become …
With the sudden and astounding success of singer Gregory Porter’s Grammy-nominated debut album, Water, just fifteen months ago, there’s presumable pressure for his follow up, out this month, to do …
Simply put, there are bassists, and then there’s Christian McBride. With a career as a musician, composer, arranger, and producer, which began two decades ago, McBride has since set the …
After digesting the phenomenon which is Jason Moran, his eminence in music is even more mind-blowing once you consider the fact that he is just 37 years old. In addition …
I knew this list was going to be interesting. We’ve got a pretty diverse staff of writers with different sorts of taste. As diverse as our jazz list is for …
I was recently asked to define what trend ran through jazz in the past year and I found I couldn’t think of anything definitive about that other than the fact …
In the third season of the AMC series Mad Men, the firm, Sterling Cooper Draper Price, takes on a new client, the dog food company Caldecott Farms. Caldecott Farms was …
At the start of the second set at Greenwich Village’s Jazz Gallery last week, pianist Kris Bowers was playing for a packed and eager house. A packed, eager, young, and …
Geri Allen is, with all certainty, the renaissance woman of Modern Jazz. Musician (and more pointedly, instrumentalist), scholar, professor, mother, African American, and female, Allen has deepened the complexities (and …
This past September marked the anniversaries of some of the most pivotal music of my generation. It has been twenty years since Nirvana shook up the pop culture macrocosm with …
I was recently speaking with one of my professors about a recent performance Brad Mehldau and Joshua Redman did at The New School last week. After asking him what he …
After 43 years on the air, last Sunday, ABC’s Like It Is came to a sudden and saddening end. Emmy award winning producer and host Gil Noble suffered a stroke …
Today history is made. This morning, the first monument of an African American on the National Mall in Washington D.C. will be dedicated by, among many other distinguished figures, the …
An Open Letter, A Thank You Note, and Pulling the Card On Jazz Journalism and Gender Bias Also check out our list of the Best Jazz Albums of All Time …
One of my best friends and I often have arguments about hipsterism. We both share many of the attributes of hipsters but while I in some ways embrace parts of …
On Monday, February 7, I did a phone interview with Marcus Miller. He was in Los Angeles and I was in Montreal. It was quite cold that night in Montreal. …
It was rather difficult putting together a list of the best jazz albums of 2010. Unlike our list of non-jazz albums, there didn’t seem to be a massive sense of …
In order for this site to be what it is, we listen to a wide variety of music. That’s just how music is lately, we find strength in our diversity. …
On the night of Friday, November 19, I sat down to talk with guitarist Gilad Hekselman and drummer Ari Hoenig between sets at Upstairs Jazz Bar & Grill. (Find the …
On Friday, October 22, I sat down with pianist Aaron Parks between sets at Upstairs Jazz Bar & Grill where he was performing for the Montreal Jazz Festival. He was …
The Rick Rosato Quintet existed on stage for two nights, four sets, from October 22 to October 23, at Upstairs Jazz Bar & Grill here in Montreal. Well, that often …
In case you missed it, John Mayer’s concert at the Hollywood Bowl last night had a special guest: Brad Mehldau. Check out videos of the pair performing The Verve’s “Bittersweet …
Jazz is America’s music. Unfortunately, in most cases America has lost sight of that due to the extensions of jazz that have now taken over mainstream music due to “mass …