Bassist Harish Raghavan has had a prolific career playing sideman to some of the biggest names in modern jazz music. Yet it took him over ten years since establishing himself in NYC to record under his own moniker. His debut album Calls for Action (which you can stream below), out now via Whirlwind Recordings, is a profound accomplishment, both refined and thought-provoking, … [Read more...]
Stream Kassa Overall’s “Please Don’t Kill Me” Featuring Joel Ross & Theo Croker Off Upcoming Album ‘I Think I’m Good’
Offering an atypical approach to the melding of hip hop and jazz, Kassa Overall sets up his own little arts and crafts table in the larger existing field of mostly heavy on the beat, sparse on the jazz music tracks. Overall utilizes jazz motifs as a focal point rather than a background component, and allows the music to freely move around within the loose embrace of his lyrics … [Read more...]
Stream Bassist Ben Wolfe’s “Uncle Leslie” From Upcoming Album ‘Fatherhood’ (Premiere)
Bassist Ben Wolfe is probably best known for performing in Wynton Marsalis’ Septet and Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra as well as being an integral member of Harry Connick Jr. and Diana Krall’s bands over the years. But the bassist has also had a fruitful recording career of his own with already eight albums as a leader under his belt, his newest opus, Fatherhood, scheduled for … [Read more...]
Joel Ross – “Yana” (Video)
Vibraphonist Joel Ross has been impressing us a great deal in the last couple years. Of course on last year's Makaya McCraven's Universal Beings, Walter Smith III & Matthew Stevens' In Common, James Francies' Flight and Marquis Hill’s Modern Flows, Vol. 2, and he certainly has been wowing us with his debut album on Blue Note, KingMaker alongside his Good Vibes band of Immanuel … [Read more...]
Vibraphonist Joel Ross Releases “Ill Relations”, First Single off Debut “KingMaker”
For those paying close attention, Chicago-born and Brooklyn-based vibraphonist Joel Ross has slowly been making a name for himself as one of the freshest and most exciting newcomers on the scene with appearances on Makaya McCraven's Universal Beings, Walter Smith III & Matthew Stevens' In Common, James Francies' Flight and Marquis Hill’s Modern Flows, Vol. 2. So it will come as … [Read more...]