Today I saw an even-slicker-than-usual Wynton Marsalis hawking iPods, laying out lines of boppish exactitude for the conspicuous consumption of moneyed hipsters. It’s the 21st century, baby. Even in jazz, surface is all. Blood and guts are so 1979.
Oliver Lake might disagree.
Ben Goldberg has amassed a discography that varies greatly in scope and sound with each project. From duo sessions to larger concepts inspired by literature … Read More “Ben Goldberg: Everything Happens to Be (BAG)”
Florida-born, Philadelphia-dwelling Khan Jamal has too often found favor and fame as part of someone else’s show: Byard Lancaster’s Cosmic Forces in the late ’60s, … Read More “Khan Jamal: Infinity (Jazz Room)”
What consistently stands out in Julian Lage’s guitar playing is his bursting-at-the-seams sense of energy. Music practically springboards from the Santa Rosa, California, native’s fingers, … Read More “Julian Lage: Squint (Blue Note)”
Bassist/composer/renaissance man William Parker is having a landmark 2021. Earlier this year, a 10-disc box set, The Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World … Read More “William Parker: Painters Winter / Mayan Space Station (AUM Fidelity)”
