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Anni Piper: Men Are Like Potato Chips
by Ron Kalb
Anni Piper's June 2026 release Men Are Like Potato Chips, on Sugar Daddy Records, carries a camp, risqué swagger and a sultry persona that may initially register as pure provocation. Yet, as author-activist Angela Davis noted in her study of early blues women, sexual candor has long served as a means for performers to assert narrative ...
Linda May Han Oh & Melissa Aldana: Beneath Lifted Skies
by Andrew Schinder
Bassist Linda May Han Oh and tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana, two modern jazz powerhouses, have recorded one of 2026's most delightful jazz surprises, the duet album Beneath Lifted Skies (Biophilia Records, 2026). Oh and Aldana are two of the music's strongest contemporary players, potent in both overall skill as well as sound, and that intensity serves them ...
Jeff Colella Putter Smith: Between Friends
by Pierre Giroux
Jeff Colella and Putter Smith are like peas in a pod, having made music together long enough to know that trust is more valuable than show. Between Friends is built on that trust from the opening notes, and neither musician ever seems to be trying to impress the other. Instead, they listen with uncommon patience, letting ...
Mike Jones: Mike Jones With Strings
by Pierre Giroux
There is something refreshingly honest about a drummerless trio. Without the cushion of cymbals and snare to drive the pulse, every note matters a little more. This format dates back to the Nat King Cole Trio in the 1930s and to the Oscar Peterson-celebrated groups of the 1950s, in which the guitar and bass took responsibility ...
King Crimson: 2014 NYC
by Glenn Astarita
For a band that reinvents itself every decade or so, King Crimson has always treated New York as something closer to a proving ground than a tour stop. The city runs through the group's history, from the 1969 Fillmore East debut through the Larks' era sendoff at Central Park in 1974, six nights at the Savoy ...
Christian Parker: American Cosmic Revival Vol. 2: Miles From Nowhere
by Doug Collette
Cover bands abound within contemporary music circles, both on stage and in the studio. But a chosen artist's interpretation of the songs and music of another rarely matches (and never exceeds) the authenticity of spirit displayed by Christian Parker and those kindred spirits with whom he has been collaborating in recent years on the esteemed canon of ...
Insufficient Funs: Chunk
by Ian Patterson
Back for even more fun, Irish stalwarts Matthew Jacobson and Sam Comerford follow up their EP Insufficient Funs (Self Produced, 2016) with their debut album, Chunk. Insufficient Funs gigs have been intermittent in the intervening decade. Still, drummer Jacobson and saxophonist Comerford have kept their collaborative fires burning in both Ingo Hipp's AERIE and Chris Guilfoyle's ...
Charles Downs: Inner
by Don Ball
It has been a long time coming for Charles Downs' debut recording as a leader. He began his career in the 1970s playing as Rashid Bakr with the likes of Cecil Taylor, Jemeel Moondoc, William Parker and others before reverting to his birth name in the new century. Since then, he has performed as part of ...
Marco Pasinetti: SIPHONOFORO
by Marco Iacoboni
Prima della musica bisogna parlare del significato nominale di questo album e collettivo omonimo, Siphonoforo. Il Siphonoforo è un invertebrato marino o meglio una colonia di zooidi specializzati ognuno ad una funzione vitale. Tradotto in musica è un quartetto senza un basso ordinario a darne la struttura, ma è sorretto dall'ascolto reciproco ...
Nick Mazzarella: Siena Sessions
by Troy Dostert
With a fruitful partnership extending back to 2016, Chicago mainstay Nick Mazzarella has played in a variety of contexts with bassist Silvia Bolognesi and drummer Cristiano Calcagnile, but they chose Italy for their first recorded encounter. Mazzarella's tart alto saxophone seems particularly energized by the change of scenery, and his obvious chemistry with his superb partners ...
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