Soul Shadows by Joe Sample
If you heard “The Texas Two Step” from his previous release The Pecan Tree and hoped that Joe Sample would do an entire recording of music like that, you’re in luck. Sample has released a solo piano recording called Soul…
Celebrating 30 Years Online!
Celebrating 30 Years Online!
John Hilderbrand
Longtime contemporary jazz fan and founder of ContemporaryJazz.com.
Harmony & Abyss by Matthew Shipp
While listening to Harmony and Abyss, the latest release by Matthew Shipp, the word futuristic keeps coming to mind. So if it’s “future” music, then when do we reach that future? I’m thinking we’re there now. Shipp takes a step…
Incognito – Adventures In Black Sunshine
Incognito comes full circle with Adventures in Black Sunshine, the new recording out now on Rice In the mid to late 90s, leader Bluey steered the band away from the jazzier sounds that were its trademark into dance/pop/funk tunes. The…
ECM’s Rarum Series
Today marks the release of new CDs in the ECM :rarum (or “Selected Recordings”) series. The series allows the artists that have been on the famed label select what they think are their best efforts, then explain why in the…
Goodbye To 2003
Happy New Year! I wish you the best in 2004. Looking back on 2003 in modern jazz, one phrase sums is up: Trumpeters Gone Wild! It’s the year that Nicholas Payton went fusion with Sonic Trance Roy Hargrove presents Hard…