Huntertones returned to the old-school way of recording for its latest album, Transmission. All six bandmates were in one ...

American tenori di forza are a thing. Tenor saxophonists, that is. Sal Nistico, Sam Butera, Don Menza, Frank Tiberi, Jerry ...

The Marcus Belgrave Story, bassist Endea Owens discusses a difficult chapter in her life during which she questioned whether ...

Pat Senatore, a well-regarded bassist and club owner, died Sept. 8 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 91. He grew up in the ...

It’s always important to give space, take space and then create together,” Nils Petter Molvær says. “That’s the essence of a ...

The pairing of Terence Blanchard and Ravi Coltrane was billed as “The Miles/Coltrane Legacy,” a tour celebrating the twin centennials of 2026, focusing on the sounds and spirit they produced together ...

Ran Blake, the master auteur of film noir in notes and tones, offers the latest instantiation of his sui generis improvised dreamscapes on Night Harbor, thanks to one-time student Jared Sims, who ...

Good Trouble finds Matt Wilson as boisterous and hard-swinging as ever. Resourceful, too: This critic had never heard a contrafact of “Feed The Fire,” Geri Allen’s signature tune, before Wilson’s ...

Jazz duets often nod to the delicate side of things by leaning towards the reflective or sentimental, but with the volume cranked this fetching record’s “Mine Are Blues” conjures the hard-swinging ...

Recent efforts like Sunny Five’s Candid remind just how valuable a team player David Torn is. Dude invariably delivers motifs that enhance an ensemble’s direction, even if they shift the design scheme ...

Just when you thought pandemic-related albums were becoming downers, Renee Rosnes offers the perfect elixir with Kinds Of Love. It’s not that she skirts the troubling aspects of the past ...

There are few things on planet Earth more beautiful than the voice of Lizz Wright. Her alto demands your ears. Her tone and phrasing melt your soul. So, what could be more perfect than an assembly of ...