Artemis: Artemis (Blue Note)
Blue Note Records has long had a predilection for herding its star players of the day into a studio and seeing what emerges. The resultant … Read More “Artemis: Artemis (Blue Note)”
Reviews
Art Hirahara: Balance Point (Posi-Tone)
Throughout his now five-album catalog for Posi-Tone, pianist Art Hirahara has often filtered his music through the emotional touchstones of his life, creating what amounts … Read More “Art Hirahara: Balance Point (Posi-Tone)”
Live Review: 2019 Montreal Jazz Festival, Weekend 1
One way to define a music festival: the sum of its memorable moments. There were plenty of those moments to savor during the first four … Read More “Live Review: 2019 Montreal Jazz Festival, Weekend 1”
Melissa Aldana: Visions (Motéma)
Chilean tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana invokes the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo as the inspiration for Visions, which was originally commissioned as a suite, with its … Read More “Melissa Aldana: Visions (Motéma)”
Melissa Aldana: Back Home
Melissa Aldana is going to be an influential tenor saxophonist in jazz for decades to come. At 24 she won the 2013 Thelonious Monk International … Read More “Melissa Aldana: Back Home”
Melissa Aldana: Free Fall
Chilean-born tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana moved to the States at 18, and since graduating from Berklee in 2009 has been making an impact on the … Read More “Melissa Aldana: Free Fall”