The Chosen One

Joshua Redman’s second Blue Note album, Words Fall Short  is a collection of original compositions that serves as the introduction of his new quartet featuring pianist Paul Cornish, bassist Philip Norris, and…

  Four-time GRAMMY-winning, NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington and GRAMMY-nominated vocalist Christie Dashiell present We Insist 2025!, a bold reimagining of the seminal 1961 album We Insist! Max Roach’s…

Mary Halvorson is one of a (small) handful of guitarists who has defined that instrument’s contemporary voice in the last decade or so. I’d personally add Miles Okazaki, Liberty Ellman…

  If you were to create a list of sacred instruments, Alice Coltrane’s harp would be pretty near the top. That harp, the one she recorded her classic Impulse! recording…

  Another fine signing to Blue Note’s increasingly exciting roster, trumpet player Brandon Woody lands on the label with a joyful, spiritually charged debut boasting a talented young band with…

  James Brandon Lewis is a tenor for the times, and then some. Undoubtedly one of the most important voices in contemporary jazz he’s stunning in both the volume of…

 Now in to their second decade the band Snowpoet occupy a fairly unique position in modern music.  The press release for the album takes several stabs at describing them and…

Few living jazz artists have made such a consistent contribution to the music over the last five decades as David Murray. At eighty years old he still, in some ways,…

  Here’s one of those debut albums that feels like a statement for the times. Spanish born trumpet and flugelhorn player Milena Casado and composer has been mentored by the…

  Following up their acclaimed debut (Arctic Riff 2020) the ECM dream-team combo of US tenor veteran Joe Lovano and the polish Marcin Wasilewski trio return for a studio set…

Rising trumpet star Poppy Daniels is always in-demand as a session musician on the busy UK scene, appearing with artists such as Nix Northwest, Blue Lab Beats and Komodo Horns.…

There’s something exiting about enduring groups whose members are prolific, busy and far-ranging in their individual activities but return on a regular, if occasional basis to a beloved project. That’s…