Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Both a joyous act of communion and a solemn farewell, “Beginning of a Memory” is a celebration of life, community and family expressed with the virtuosic wit and embracing humor that has made drummer Matt Wilson so beloved in the jazz community. Returning to the studio as …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. An artist whose music is at once timeless and yet utterly of its time, Gregory Porter solidifies his standing as his generation’s most soulful jazz singer with “Take Me to the Alley”, the much-anticipated follow-up to his sensational 2013 Blue Note debut. As he’s done with …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Saxophonist, composer and author Walt Weiskopf has made in impressive mark as both a leader and sideman with over a dozen critically acclaimed discs and countless sideman credits. In 1983, he began a fourteen-year association with pianist and arranger Toshiko Akiyoshi, making seven recordings and touring …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. From his roots in music-rich Memphis through his work with legends ranging from B.B. King to Max Roach to Slide Hampton and his renowned tenure with the Miles Davis Quintet, saxophonist George Coleman established himself as one of jazz’s most soulful and expressive voices. Last year he joined …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. To record “Culcha Vulcha,” their 11th album and first true studio disc in eight years, Snarky Puppy decamped to a pecan orchard at the remote Sonic Ranch Studios in Tornillo, Texas, a five-minute walk from the Mexican border. The Texas-bred/Brooklyn-based collective used a week in …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Known for his charismatic performances, Israeli saxophonist-composer-bandleader Eli Degibri has recorded and performed extensively since the mid-1990s. He has been called “an exceptionally melodic improviser with a big, bold tenor tone” by Jazz Times, and “a bewitching fellow who shows impressive chops, as both a …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Ever since Joe Chambers made his recording debut on Freddie Hubbard’s classic LP, “Breaking Point,” he’s remained a nearly peerless jazz figure in terms of consummate musicianship. His career throughout the 1960s established Chambers as both a noteworthy hard-bop and avant-garde jazz drummer and as an …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. When Freddy Cole is asked why he is finally releasing a tribute to his legendary older brother, who left this world 50 years ago, his answer is hardly surprising. “Because I felt the time was right.” Anytime is the right time for a new Freddy Cole …
