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From emerging talents to today's brightest stars, we interview musicians from around the globe.
Enrico Rava: The Secret Corners of a Master
by Marco Iacoboni
Meeting Enrico Rava means stepping into a world of stories, musicians and memories spanning decades of jazz history. We met on the occasion of the release of Corners, the ECM album he recorded with his band, Fearless Five, and a very special guest, Joe Lovano. With so many anecdotes, encounters and digressions to draw on, the challenge was not finding topics to discuss, but deciding where to begin and what to leave out. We settled onto a sofa. ...
Continue Reading...Fred Lipsius: The Blood, Sweat & Tears Sax Voice Still Resounds
by R.J. DeLuke
There's an alto saxophone sound that a huge percentage of the Baby Boom generation heard and enjoyed in the 1960s and into the 1970s, even though many may not have been jazz fans. And younger folks who appreciate great music and understand the value of sounds generated in that era have also heard the clean, quicksilver saxophone approach on hit records that emanated from one man. The resounding horn is that of Fred Lipsius and the band was ...
Continue Reading...David Six: Making Music Out Of This World
by Daniel Mège
In 2026, Austrian pianist and composer David Six released the last volume of his trilogy Dance With The Ghosts III (Sessionwork Records, 2026), a good opportunity to discover this musician who defies classification. From jazz to classical, contemporary, Indian and Middle Eastern music; from improvisation to composition and from music to dance and light; from the geometry of Platonic solids to the lives of soils, trees and volcanoes, from his family to refugee camps, from human rights to the duties ...
Continue Reading...Scott Kinsey: Thought Distortions and the Art of the Left Turn
by Mike Jacobs
Keyboardist Scott Kinsey's multi-decade musical odyssey reads a bit like a novella in spots: The Berklee student who landed the keyboard chair in fusion stalwarts Tribal Tech before graduating, cementing the band's definitive lineup while exerting a major influence on its musical direction. The ardent admirer of Weather Report founder Joe Zawinul who went from fan to friend and mentee, and eventually became one of the most dedicated interpreters of Zawinul's musical legacy. The ...
Continue Reading...Bill Bruford And Pete Roth: A One-Of-A-Kind Juxtaposition
by Mike Jacobs
When a drumming legend in the rock or jazz community retires, it's fairly big news. Such was the case in 2009 when Bill Bruford announced he was hanging up his sticks. Much celebrated for his integral and stylized drum contributions to progressive rock bands such as Yes, King Crimson, U.K., and Genesis, as well as for leading his own jazz/rock and jazz ensembles, Bruford and Earthworks, Bruford seemed to have brought an impressive 41-year career to something of ...
Continue Reading...Miles Okazaki's Monkathon: The Complete Thelonious Monk–Live
by Keith Flint
Guitarist Miles Okazaki, originally from Port Townsend, Washington, has become an integral figure in New York's creative music scene. Over the course of his career, he has toured and recorded with such artists as Kenny Barron, John Zorn, Steve Coleman, Miguel Zenón, Henry Threadgill, Patricia Brennan, Dan Weiss, Matt Mitchell, Mary Halvorson, and Darcy James Argue. His current projects include the trio Trickster and a large-scale ensemble, which released Boomtown (Pi Recordings) in June.On October 10, 2026, filmmaker ...
Continue Reading...Boney James: A Simple Man And A Lifetime Study
by Sherry Rubel
Thirty-five years and twenty albums into his career, saxophonist Boney James is still thinking about melody, sound and how to get better at his instrument. On A Simple Man (Concord Jazz, 2026), he draws on the R&B and soul music that shaped him while continuing to explore the jazz vocabulary that has long been part of his musical life. In this conversation, James discusses the labels that have followed him throughout his career, the singers and saxophonists who ...
Continue Reading...A Language of His Own: Bill Frisell on Dave Holland
by Ludovico Granvassu
As part of our Celebration of Dave Holland, we invited Bill Frisell to share a few thoughts about a musician who has been an important part of his musical world for decades. Bill had rather a lot to say, and it seemed a shame to stop at a few thoughts. So, rather than squeezing Bill's reflections into the format of the other contributions to this tribute, we decided to let the conversation unfold. All About Jazz: ...
Continue Reading...Without a Net, and with Love, Uncle Miles
by Emily Steinhilber
When I called Vince Wilburn Jr. to talk about Miles Davis at 100 (read our own tribute), he answered from the Chicago house where he grew up--the same house where Davis used to telephone his mother and ask her to lower the receiver toward the basement so he could listen to his teenage nephew rehearse. More than forty years later, that telephone became the spine of our conversation about family memory, musical inheritance, grief, and Davis' insistence that the musicians ...
Continue Reading...Kelly Green: Taking Care of the Music
by R.J. DeLuke
Singer/pianist Kelly Green works in a field that can be difficult to negotiate: jazz. In the United States, its popularity doesn't reach that of pop music in all its forms or rock music. But it is always there as a thriving art form. For the keepers of the flame at all levels of talent, it takes dedication and determination to put together a career. Green has those qualities in abundance. She's enjoying a strong ...
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