J ust because we’re deep in autumn’s serenade for John Coltrane’s 100th birthday doesn’t mean we can’t break off some love ...

John Zorn’s Flatlands at Solar Myth, John Zorn conducting. L-R: Simon Hanes, Zorn, Ches Smith, Matt Hollenberg. Photo by the author. f you had to credit/blame any one person for twisting the jazz ...

hen writing about this year’s centenary celebrations of Miles Davis and John Coltrane, it’s been fascinating to see how their respective work has been revisited and redefined for the 21st century. One ...

arly on in this memoir-of-sorts from Al Schackman (via A.G. Dunewood Publishing Co.), the venerable guitarist (93 this October) mentions that he has perfect pitch and a photographic memory. Both serve ...

rom 1969 through the late ’90s, listeners to jazz radio in England, Germany, Denmark, Holland and other European countries heard one of the most seductive sounds ever to come out of their speakers: ...

eanie Bryson, a jazz singer whose languid, confidential purr, minimalist phrasing and gauzy mood-setting marked her as a stylistic daughter of Shirley Horn and Peggy Lee, has died at 68. She had been ...

ere are A.D. Amorosi’s monthly picks, coming to you the last Tuesday of the month. Ralph Alessi, A Sun That Never Sets (ECM Records) In his move from quartet to quintet and the fortification of an ...

The Sound of Philadelphia got a little quieter this week as Dexter Wansel, the jazz fusion keyboardist, singer and composer behind the hit album Life on Mars — a space-soul classic that turns 50 this ...

In his 2004 memoir, Chronicles, Volume One, Bob Dylan writes about his early days in New York’s Greenwich Village, when the 21-year-old would eagerly seek out musicians, writers and artists, anyone ...

Honora, the new solo album from Flea, feels like a thinker relearning how to speak. Not metaphorically — literally. Breath becomes language. And what Flea offers here is not fluency, but vulnerability ...

Within the dreaded currency of American history, and a moment where midterm elections may by “handled” by the right, it is important — perhaps even comforting — to note that once upon a time, John ...

In his 100th year, it’s best to start with Miles Davis’s second quintet in the midst of its most transitory, physically and psychologically liberating moments — an instantaneous improvisation that, ...