“You better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone,” Bob Dylan stated profoundly in 1963. Throughout its unrivaled 65-year history, the Monterey Jazz Festival … Read More “Generations Merge at the 65th Monterey Jazz Festival”
Considering the lineup—stacked with talent—and the musician to whom they were paying their respects—a cult figure, rightly or wrongly—the New York City live tribute to … Read More “Jazz Trailblazers Pay Tribute to Tomasz Stańko at Brooklyn’s Roulette”
It’s difficult to imagine what the stage and the audience would have looked like at Gaillard Center in Charleston, South Carolina, if Rhiannon Giddens’ new … Read More “The Spoleto Festival USA Roars Back”
Ravi Coltrane is a critically acclaimed saxophonist, bandleader, and composer. Over the course of his twenty plus year career, Coltrane has worked as a sideman to … Read More “Ravi Coltrane Quartet at Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz”
For this exclusive four-night run, saxophonist and composer Ravi Coltrane explores the music of his legendary parents John Coltrane and Alice Coltrane. An artist whose career occupies … Read More “Cosmic Music: The Music of John and Alice Coltrane – Ravi Coltrane at SFJAZZ Center”
Ravi Coltrane – Cosmic Music The music of John and Alice Coltrane Grammy nominated saxophonist on tour in support of his latest release Cosmic Music … Read More “Ravi Coltrane at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley in Seattle”
To say that there is a single ECM Records sound is to oversimplify a catalog that now encompasses more than 1,600 albums. One suspects that … Read More “Live Review: ECM 50 in New York”
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”
The musical bond between trumpeter Ralph Alessi and saxophonist Ravi Coltrane is arguably developing into a rapport on par with the highest echelon of trumpet/tenor … Read More “Ralph Alessi: Imaginary Friends (ECM)”
In Switzerland, a snowman effigy called a Böögg is burned and exploded at the stake as a way of marking winter’s end and predicting the fortitude … Read More “Live Review: 2018 Detroit Jazz Festival”
