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Anthony Tidd

Anthony Tidd is a Creative Musician, Composer, Producer, Educator and Curator, who over a 30 year career has notably performed with, and produced songs on multi-platinum albums for, many artists including; The Roots, Steve Coleman, Meshell Ndegeocello, David Byrne, Macy Gray, Wayne Krantz, Zap Mama, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Lady Gaga, The Black Eyed Peas, Orrin Evans, Fergie, Jill Scott, Ursula Rucker, and many more. His debut album, Quite Sane – The Child of Troubled Times (2002), which fuses elements of hip-hop and funk with “jazz”, quickly became a modern staple within creative music circles.

Steve Coleman on Dave Holland

by Anthony Tidd
October 1, 2026

Prologue On September 16, 2026, I sat down with groundbreaking saxophonist and composer Steve Coleman at a penthouse apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Coleman was four days shy of his 70th birthday, which itself was just three days before the great John Coltrane's centennial birthday. However, our conversation focused largely on another musician, and a ...

Reflections on the state of the State and other things

by Hobart Taylor
May 22, 2026

New music from Joe Lovano, Kalia Vandever and Nicholas Payton + Anggie Obin, Phillip Golub and Anthony Tidd.Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Anggie Obin “Ballot or the Bullet" from Luz (Self--Produced) 00:12 Host Speaks 10:58 Joe Lovano/Julian Lage/Santi Debriano/Will Calhoun"Fanfare for Unity" from Paramount Quartet (ECM) 11:51 Miggy Augmented Orchestra} “I Will Make a Change" ...

2026 Winter JazzFest Marathons: A Survival Guide

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 6, 2026

For jazz fans who are in New York, when one countdown ends with the Times Square Ball Drop, another one begins--and ends a few days later, when Winter JazzFest officially gets underway with the first downbeat at Le Poisson Rouge. For 22 years, the festival has been the launch pad of the jazz year ...

I Dischi del 2025 secondo Ludovico Granvassu

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 5, 2026

Immortalare la bellezza e la varietà del jazz pubblicato nel 2025 attraverso una “top ten" appare tanto arduo, vano--e alla fine deludente--quanto cercare di fotografare un tramonto sulla costiera amalfitana usando una rudimentale fotocamera digitale e facendo un forellino sul copriobiettivo. Certo, una foto verrà scattata. Potrebbe persino dimostrare che eri lì, in quel momento, quando ...

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden Of Jazzy Delights 2025

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 3, 2026

Capturing the breathtaking beauty, range, and diversity of jazz released in 2025 through a list of “10 best albums" feels as challenging, vain--and ultimately disappointing--as trying to photograph the Grand Canyon at sunset by placing a pinhole in front of a rudimentary digital camera's lens. Sure, a picture will be taken. It might even prove you ...

Big Ears Festival 2025

by Mark Sullivan
April 8, 2025

Big Ears Festival Knoxville, TN March 27-30, 2025 This year's festival again featured several spotlighted events (but none of them required special ticketing, as was tried last year). “Across the Horizon" was a series of concerts combining Americana and ambient music, curated by Bob Holmes and the band SUSS. “Age ...

Walk A Mile In My Shoe

By Orrin Evans

Label: Imani / 88 Keys Productions
Released: 2024
Track listing: Dislocation Blues; Sunday in New York; All That I Am; Blues in the Night; Hymn; Save the Children; Overjoyed; Smoke Gets in Your Eyes; If.

Steve Coleman and Five Elements: PolyTropos / Of Many Turns

by Troy Dostert
December 10, 2024

Perpetually churning rhythms, telepathic detours, unexpected juxtapositions: these are the stock-in-trade of Steve Coleman's Five Elements. And once again the intrepid alto saxophonist's inimitable approach surfaces on PolyTropos / Of Many Turns, a generous, two-disc helping of music that manages to be both intricately complex and fundamentally accessible at the same time. With two live dates ...

2024 Winter JazzFest Marathons: A Survival Guide

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 6, 2024

Twenty years is a remarkable milestone for any activity, let alone one that comes with the wear and tear of a high-profile jazz festival that every year strives to up its own ante, like the Winter JazzFest. From January 11 to 18, 2024, fans, musicians, promoters and other industry people from around the world ...