Features
The jazz press noted the death of pianist Frank Kimbrough, who succumbed to an apparent heart attack at 64 on December 30, 2020, but gave …
Great individualists in jazz often constitute a School of One—musicians with such personal and idiosyncratic identities that they hover in a liminal state, anchored …
For better or worse, Brian Jackson’s name will be forever tied to his symbiotic collaboration with Gil Scott-Heron. Mostly for better, because the …
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At first glance, Randy Klein and Alex Skolnick appear to be odd partners. Pianist/keyboardist Klein has a deep R&B and musical-theater …
Khan Jamal, a vibraphonist and percussionist whose music found a rapprochement between avant-garde experimentalism and fusion groove, died January 10 at Chestnut Hill Hospital …
It could be argued that the most underrecognized person in jazz recording and performance is not the producer, the live sound engineer, or the recording …
When the world shut down last year, so did Alicia Olatuja. The St. Louis, Missouri-bred vocalist sat in her New Jersey apartment one day …
Reviews
Wayne Shorter and Esperanza Spalding’s …(Iphigenia) in Washington
Wayne Shorter and Esperanza Spalding’s opera …(Iphigenia) begins with a woman dropping dead. Even in opera’s greatest tragedies the bodies don’t usually …
