Vocalist Emma Frank has made the move to Montreal-based label Justin Time with her fourth album, Come Back, scheduled for a September 6th release. The record sees Frank deepening her musical relationship with pianist Aaron Parks who graced her previous outing, Ocean Av, last year. Rounding out the band is bassist Zack Lober and drummer Tommy Crane as well as producer and … [Read more...]
Stream Two New Songs of Drummer Terri Lyne Carrington’s Upcoming Double Album, ‘Waiting Game’
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 double album, Waiting Game, with her group Social Science of pianist Aaron Parks, guitarist Matthew Stevens, emcee & DJ Kassa Overall, vocalist Debo Ray, and multi-instrumentalist Morgan Guerin, is … [Read more...]
Aaron Parks ‘Little Big’ Remixes (Stream)
Last year, Aaron Parks dazzled us with his inventive, eclectic Little Big, continuing in the spirit of his highly lauded debut, Invisible Cinema. In a similar sense of that 2008 work still living on through covers and reinterpretations by others over time, Parks took the stems of the songs off Little Big, tossed them online,and let the music community at large have a chance to … [Read more...]
Ben Wendel – “June” (Video)
Ben Wendel is about to take his Seasons Band with him to New York's Village Vanguard May 14-19th. It's going to be a highly anticipated week for one of the best works of 2018. To lead up to it all, Wendel has released one last music video from The Seasons, for the song June, as usual directed by Alex Chaloff and showing this band with just as much beauty as the music they're … [Read more...]
Gilad Hekselman – Seoul Crushing (Stream)
Last year, guitarist Gilad Hekselman released Ask for Chaos, an album so full of great ideas it required two different bands -- his gHex Trio and his ZuperOctave -- to convey them all. There were so many ideas, they couldn't even be all held on one album, so Hekselman is releasing an EP of B-sides, Further Chaos, on May 10th. He just dropped the single "Seoul Crushing" with the … [Read more...]