Charles Gayle burst on the NYC jazz scene in the ’90s, at which point...
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My friendship with Fred Moten spans a nation of Black music. Black improvised music...
First things first: I hate almost all of Lou Reed’s music. The Velvet Underground, his solo stuff,...
There’s no clever setup this column can concoct to describe Tom Williams, who died...
My next two records would be for Gramavision, which had an important run of...
I first heard Gerald Cleaver playing with pianist Kris Davis at the Knitting Factory...
Ambrose Akinmusire takes the helm at the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance: Video, Photos
Ambrose Akinmusire was 25, a trumpeter and composer obviously on the rise, when he...
Tony Bennett, the American jazz singer who became the torchbearer for the Great American...
During his early Atlantic years, Ornette Coleman recorded a whole bunch of immortal music...
When Herbie Hancock moves his hands across a piano, the notes come and go...
Once regarded as jazz’s hot young iconoclast, David Murray suddenly finds himself a teacher...
“60 Years,” a compilation marking the 60th anniversary of his Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra,...
Ron was an American jazz trumpeter, cornetist, and composer. A beautiful, beautiful spirit on...
Aidan Levy’s invaluable new biography of Sonny Rollins, Saxophone Colossus: The Life And Music...
Kamasi Washington is the avant-garde, who, along with a group of collaborators, is setting...
By 1964, ideas in jazz once considered fringe or avant-garde were entering the mainstream....
Singer-songwriter nonpareil Gordon Lightfoot has died at the age of 84. According to his publicist, he...
One of the many magical moments from the documentary “Omar Sosa’s 88 Well-Tuned Drums” comes...
Most jazz fans know Thad Jones for his work with the famous Thad Jones/Mel...
Ahmad Jamal was known for his laid-back style and for his influence on, among...
For most jazz performers, a song is part of a performance. For Ahmad Jamal,...
American freelance record producer, Soul artist Verna Gillis has always had a desire to...
My aunt and uncle had a few crucial LPs and tapes, including Quincy Jones’s...
The summer of 2022 was a brave and remarkable period for Simon Emmerson, who...
Jim Gordon, a top drummer for Eric Clapton, George Harrison and countless others who...
In this excerpt from Brad Mehldau’s memoir, Formation: Building a Persona Canon, Part 1, the...
Dizzy, Miles and the Duke – Hitchhiking to the Festival Harald Dayot discovered his...
Wayne Shorter’s passing has brought an era to a close. Like you, I marked...