Posted in February, 2017

Driftwood

  I’ve always said the primary purpose of making music is to evoke an emotional response. Often, that emotion– whether it be love, melancholy, joy or even anger– is a … Read more

Troy Roberts

All nine of these lengthy excursions into the vibrant heart of contemporary jazz clearly evidence the optimistic zing of creativity the new players are riffing madly on. Taut and free … Read more

Emmet Cohen

Cohen’s got himself a real sweet disc happening here as he ventures to celebrate the peaceful transition of groove, instinct, insight, and grace from one elder statesman, Jimmy Cobb, to … Read more

Return to Forever

Along with bands that helped define fusion music—Mahavishnu Orchestra, Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters, Larry Coryell’s Seventh House, Weather Report in the late ’70s and ’80s—Return to Forever helped bridge the divide … Read more

Sxip Shirey

Sxip Shirey is awesome. There’s no other way to put it. He’s worked with (and is a founding member of) the Luminescent Orchestrii. He tours the world composing for and … Read more

Art Pepper

Laurie Pepper, the wife of the late alto saxophonist, Art Pepper, continues to mine the rich vault of material recorded between the 1977- 1982, the last years of the jazz … Read more