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…