I feel that jazz is not so much a style as a process of making music.
-Bill Evans
Trombonist Nathaniel Cross is among those inventive London-based musicians for whom jazz is a laboratory to meld unique British sensibilities with what began as an … Read More “Nathaniel Cross Praises the Polyglot”
Wadada Leo Smith does not play jazz. In fact, if you ask him, he’ll tell you that he doesn’t know how. It’s an apparent paradox … Read More “Wadada Leo Smith on Eight Freedom Decades”
Georgia Anne Muldrow laughs easily when she speaks. The charm of her laughter does not come from anything silly, although she can be downright funny … Read More “Georgia Anne Muldrow Blazes her Own Trail”
For her entire career, trumpeter, singer, and composer Sarah Wilson has been wrestling with apparently separate pursuits: trumpet vs. voice; living and working in New … Read More “Sarah Wilson: Parallel Paths Converge”
