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Article: Building a Jazz Library

CTI Records: Ten Tasty Albums With No Added Sugar (Almost)

by Chris May
September 17, 2020

Few jazz producers divide opinion as much as Creed Taylor. He is a hero to many and a villain to as many more. His fans love him for his high production values. His detractors accuse him of dumbing jazz down with excessively sweetened orchestrations and other sales-oriented compromises. Nowhere is the dispute more heated than over ...

Article: Album Review

Carl Fischer: Maynard Ferguson Spirit Medley

Read "Maynard Ferguson Spirit Medley" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
August 22, 2022

With respect to Charlie Parker, it is an inarguable fact that trumpet great Maynard Ferguson, who passed away on August 23, 2006, inspired more trumpet players across all musical genres than any other modern instrumentalist. One of those players who spent significant time as an outstanding featured performer with and acolyte of Ferguson is Carl Fischer. ...

Article: Interview

Mark de Clive-Lowe: Celebrating Pharoah Sanders

by Chris May
August 15, 2022

It is a curious thing, but among the present day champions of Pharoah Sanders' fundamentally acoustic music are two early adopters of post-production heavy, digitally-enabled, high-tech mutoid jazz: bassist and producer Bill Laswell and keyboardist and broken-beat pioneer Mark de Clive-Lowe, whose Freedom: Celebrating The Music Of Pharoah Sanders (Soul Bank) was released in July 2022. ...

Article: Catching Up With

Nate Smith: A Drummer's Life

by Mark Robbins
August 8, 2022

Nate Smith can't sit down! After headlining with two of his bands at the 2022 Newport Jazz Festival, The Fearless Flyers and Nate Smith + Kinfolk he is off to New York for a one week run at the Blue Note followed by Los Angeles, Europe and then back to the United States where he is ...

Article: Live Review

Pori Jazz 2022

by Rob Garratt
August 3, 2022

Pori Jazz 2022 Kirjurinluoto Concert Park Pori, Finland July 14-16, 2022 If this year's 55th annual Pori Jazz festival had a “moment," it was when Immanuel Wilkins invited Shabaka Hutchings to the stage as a surprise guest for a dazzling 14-minute duet that capped the former's spellbinding set, ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Six of the Best

by Jerome Wilson
August 2, 2022

Here are some thoughts on six recent quality jazz releases of varying types. Malcolm Earle Smith Vocal Intent Self Produced 2022 British musician Malcom Earle Smith is a trombonist by trade but on this album, he confines himself to vocals with pleasing results. His light, swinging voice ...

Article: Album Review

Charles Lloyd: Trios: Chapel

Read "Trios: Chapel" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
July 30, 2022

Blue Note Records has a history of boasting strong stables of players. In the 1950s and 60s, we could look to Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, trumpeter Lee Morgan, pianist Herbie Hancock, saxophonist Wayne Shorter--and if ever there was an incomplete list compiled, that one is it. Time rolls on. Twenty years (or thereabouts) into ...

Article: Rediscovery

Herbie Hancock: Thrust

by Mick Raubenheimer
July 29, 2022

Haters can hate, but that molten decade sprung between the mid-Sixties and mid-Seventies was a smorgasbord of innovation and adventure in music. While the heady spirit of freedom—and hyper-stimuli of psychedelics—didn't exactly wreak genius upon the average human mind (whose imaginative reach crested at tie-dye shirts, living in tepees, and emancipating body hair), original artists went ...

Article: Live Review

Jazz At Juan-Les-Pins Festival 2022

by Martin McFie
July 27, 2022

Pinède Gould Jazz à Juan Festival Juan les Pins, South of France July 6-19 2022 Juan-les-Pins is an elegant beach town near Antibes, in the South of France. The stage is set on the Mediterranean sea shore, surrounded by pine trees and sandy beaches. There is no backdrop, so the ...

Article: Interview

Phil Freeman Talks Jazz in the 21st Century

by Tyran Grillo
July 26, 2022

If music journalism had an award for honesty, it would belong firmly on the shelf of Phil Freeman alongside his latest book, Ugly Beauty. And if I had a choice about the design of said award, I might opt for a gold-plated boxing glove to symbolize the gut punches his words deliver. Not because his approach ...