Reviews

Brad Barrett/Joe Morris/Tyshawn Sorey: Cowboy Transfiguration (Fundacja Sluchaj)

Free improvisation reaches its apex when performers evoke the feeling of a composition. The music isn’t written in advance, but the players communicate in a … Read More

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Live Review: Big Ears 2018

You know you’re at the Big Ears Festival when Nathan Bowles, banjo and bones player for the old-time string band the Black Twig Pickers, enthusiastically … Read More

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Tyshawn Sorey: Verisimilitude (Pi)

Let no one think that Tyshawn Sorey’s use of a piano-bass-drums trio on Verisimilitude, his sixth album (and one of his strongest), brings it closer … Read More

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Tyshawn Sorey: Alloy

In addition to being a drummer able to handle the jagged musical terrain of Vijay Iyer, Steve Coleman and Steve Lehman, Tyshawn Sorey continues to … Read More

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Tyshawn Sorey: Oblique – I

Mike Shanley reviews drummer Tyshawn Sorey’s latest, ‘Oblique – I’

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Kris Davis/Ingrid Laubrock/Tyshawn Sorey: Paradoxical Frog

While the commanding drummer Tyshawn Sorey has been known for his mathematical and muscular intensity in settings with Steve Coleman, Fieldwork, Steve Lehman and other … Read More

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Moers Jazz Festival

Josef Woodard reviews adventurous festival in Germany

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Brad Barrett/Joe Morris/Tyshawn Sorey: Cowboy Transfiguration (Fundacja Sluchaj)

Live Review: Big Ears 2018

Tyshawn Sorey: Verisimilitude (Pi)

Tyshawn Sorey: Alloy

Tyshawn Sorey: Oblique – I

Kris Davis/Ingrid Laubrock/Tyshawn Sorey: Paradoxical Frog

Moers Jazz Festival

10 Best Jazz Albums of the 1970s: Critics’ Picks

The Day Louis Armstrong Lost His Color: A Short Story

Speakin’ My Piece with Dekel Bor

The Changing Nature of Protest in Jazz