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Bobby Zankel: The Soul of Jazz - Past, Present,...

Saxophonist Bobby Zankel has participated in the cutting edge of jazz performance, composition, and leadership since the 1970s. He studied and worked with Cecil Taylor for 45 years...
SFJAZZ Collective: Remembering Miles

The SFJAZZ Collective has been operating since 2004. In the beginning, it may have seemed to some as just another all-star collection of musicians who strut their stuff for a while, then go about...
Joe La Barbera: Experiencing Bill Evans

In his own unassuming way, Bill Evans changed the face of jazz piano trio forever. He made the piano a lyrical, expressive voice for the most subtle and deep emotions, and he transformed...
Ralph Towner: The Accidental Guitarist

Ralph Towner is a rather atypical figure in the vast world of jazz guitar. His instruments of choice are the classical guitar, which when he started, in the '60s, was played almost exclusively by...
Wadada Leo Smith At Firehouse 12

It is rare to experience the arc of a prolific artist's work while they are still active, and in the case of Wadada Leo Smith, to witness it at the simultaneous height of creative power and reflective composure...

Reviews

Daily album reviews—from independent to major label releases.

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Articles

Interviews, columns, concert reviews, and more.

Shorty Rogers: Short Stops

Eri Yamamoto: The Poet’s Touch

David Finck: The Bass, Scatting Offenses, and the Back Hoe

What I'm Listening to Now: Caroline Davis

Ike Quebec: Blue & Sentimental - 1962

Jazzahead! 2017

Track of the Day

Discover new jazz! Download or stream a free tune every day.

Angiolo Tarocchi
Unwired

Christos Anestopoulos
Friselland

Aaron Shragge
Temptation

Cristina Morrison
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Studio Senakwami Presents: The Gustavo Casenave Quartet Featuring John Patitucci on June 9 at The Appel Room

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Event Cuban Drummer Francisco Mela Returns To New York's Cornelia Street Café To Lead The Crash + One

Recording Vintage David S. Ware Trio Album To Be Released June 23 On AUM Fidelity

Event The Göz/Kurtág Jr./Lukács Trio & Lukas Ligeti at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) on May 20, 2017 at 7:30 pm

Performance / Tour Studio Senakwami Presents: The Gustavo Casenave Quartet Featuring John Patitucci on June 9 at The Appel Room

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Story of the Day

It’s often said that good music is the music you think is good, but I don’t buy that. Sure, we all have leanings, from artists to genres, even periods, too, but good music exists as a superset, not a subset
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It’s often said that good music is the music you think is good, but I don’t buy that. Sure, we all have leanings, from artists to genres, even periods, too, but good music exists as a superset, not a subset. Otherwise, how could new genres rise to existence? Too often, people confuse “It’s not for me” for “It’s not good,” letting genre preference or peer acceptance set the bounds on their definition of “good.” Genres facilitate discussions, but classification negatively influences progress and feeds biases, thus, it imposes limitations. Listening: honestly, intently, receptively; good music can only reveal itself then. Its incorporeal, living in the now, to be heard and felt and gone, never to be touched, transferring its full value when auditory input creates new connections between brain and gut. For this, the music must communicate something primal, entirely human; this can only occur if those interfaces between musician and instrument, instruments and results (i.e. music) can successfully capture, process, and render individuality, from musician to listener, so that what is shared is honest self-expression. Technology should introduce new schemes to express one’s humanity in new musical ways—as electricity did to the guitar— not eliminate the human factor, or reduce self-expression to adept clicking on specialized software, or the order in which one pushes a button. Sad to see how much of today’s music is synthetic. Empty. Proof that too many aren’t really listening. But, then again, how many “music lovers” only listen to music in their cars or while walking to work or cleaning the house or… People who listen, really, will argue about what and who’s the best, even on what qualifies as good, but there’s one universal criterion all will give: musicianship. When it’s there and felt, good musicianship doesn't need to be defined among listeners willing to hear. Hence why, when asked what I listen to, genres are useless; I usually reply with, “I listen to good music.”
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