Celebrating 30 Years Online!
Celebrating 30 Years Online!
Contemporary jazz has always been about making something new from the old. In the case of Straight08, a new project from keyboardist Sam Barsh, trumpeter Keyon Harrold, and drummer Mark Guiliana, that means replacing the traditional bass role with 808-inspired…
Today is Kenny G’s 70th birthday and I’ve been listening to his music and thinking about Mr. Kenneth Gorelick. A few months ago, user WD-40Drinker posed this on the r/Jazz subreddit: “I’m not too far into the jazz world, in…
When I started listening to contemporary jazz, I kept reading about the “jazz police” and “jazz purists”. The self-appointed “authorities” on what jazz was. It was annoying that there was these “gatekeepers” that deemed what I was listening to was…
Nearly thirty years ago, on May 27, 1997, Knitting Factory Works released The Sign of the Four, a fearless free-improvisation recording featuring Paul Wertico, Pat Metheny, Derek Bailey, and Gregg Bendian. Now, Grammy-winning drummer, and longtime former Pat Metheny Group…
The Crusaders, down to just original members Joe Sample and Wilton Felder, released their penultimate recording Healing the Wounds in April 1991. It hit the top of the Billboard Top Contemporary Jazz Albums chart on June 22, 1991. The album…