I feel that jazz is not so much a style as a process of making music.
-Bill Evans
Between 1987 and 2000, before a combo of rheumatoid arthritis and rotator cuff surgeries on both shoulders made pianistic expression complicated, Donald Brown recorded 14 … Read More “Donald Brown: An Underrecognized Mind”
Performing with others, for in-the-flesh listeners in real time, requires one to think like an architect, and like a psychologist too. That, at least, is … Read More “Lawrence Sieberth Creates His Own European Quartet”
At 8:01 p.m. sharp on September 30 at Brooklyn’s Roulette Intermedia, Sylvie Courvoisier launched her first COVID-era public concert for six masked, socially distanced witnesses … Read More “Sylvie Courvoisier Is a Serious Player”
One night in L.A. a few years ago, John Beasley found himself occupying the “second keyboard” chair alongside Herbie Hancock, an artist who had always … Read More “John Beasley Reflects on Miles, Herbie, and (of Course) Monk”
