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Anthony Jackson and Yiorgos Fakanas: Interspirits
by Ian Patterson
This article was first published on All About Jazz on May 11, 2010. It may come as a surprise to anyone wading through bass guitar giant Anthony Jackson's discography, which mind-bogglingly totals over three thousand recordings, that he has never recorded a solo album. The legendary bassist--who has played with an astonishing variety of ...
Shuffle Demons: They Are for Real... Really
by Dean Nardi
On the Shuffle Demons' Are You Really Real (Alma Records 2025), the uncategorizable Toronto band knits together traditional jazz, modern funk playfulness, blues, rap and the sensuality of Prince. For an ensemble that has been a going concern for 40 years, they maintain an optimistic, let's-go-for-something-new outlook, reflected in their flamboyant retro clothing that resembles that ...
Zlatko Kaučič: The Discipline of Freedom
by Neri Pollastri
Fresh from the release of the four-CD box set Inklings (Fundacja Sluchaj, 2024) and on the eve of the 15th edition of the Brda Contemporary Music Festival--which he founded and still directs--drummer, percussionist, composer and educator Zlatko Kaučič continues a career spanning over four decades, marked by collaborations with many of Europe's greatest improvisers. A passionate ...
Franck Amsallem: A Jazz Life From New York To Paris
by Frank Housh
Franck Amsallem is a Paris-based pianist, singer, and composer educated in the United States. His debut recording, Out A Day (OMD, 1992) with Gary Peacock and Bill Stewart was recently reissued and remastered (streaming only), and his most recent album The Summer Knows (Un été 42) was released May 10, 2025. The Summer Knows ...
Esperanza Spalding’s Prismid Sanctuary
by Sage Bava
Esperanza Spalding, has long been known for creating music with purpose, work that not only pushes the boundaries of jazz but also responds to deeper cultural and ecological needs. That same spirit now infuses her work with Prismid Sanctuary, the arts and ecology hub she co-directs in Portland, Oregon. Prismid is being rebuilt as ...
Linda May Han Oh: Jazz e innovazione
by Frank Housh
Linda May Han Oh è una delle artiste più innovative ed affermate della scena jazz di oggi, con collaborazioni che vanno da Dave Douglas a Vijay Iyer e Pat Metheny. L'ultimo album, Strange Heavens (Biophilia Records), vede la partecipazione di Ambrose Akinmusire e Tyshawn Sorey, già presenti in Honey from a Winter Stone di Akinmusire.
Gary Bartz Is Nobody's Jazz Musician
by Bridget A. Arnwine
Gary Bartz is nobody's jazz musician. What he has built and created as an artist with a career that spans six decades defies labels, especially ones that have storied racist connotations and otherwise derogatory origins like the word jazz. He is a composer of the finest order and as gifted as the most revered names in ...
Michala Østergaard-Nielsen: The Poetic Vibrations of Drumming
by Dean Nardi
Michala Østergaard-Nielsen is a jazz drummer from Denmark, a country with a rich tradition of women playing drums. Once during a lesson with Gerald Cleaver, she was told you could either play drums upon sound or upon a pattern. “That really opened the doors for me to not think just the technical things, but listen to ...
Linda May Han Oh: Music In The Moment
by Frank Housh
Linda May Han Oh is one of jazz music's most innovative artists. I first encountered her in 2015 when she played The Art of Jazz with the Dave Douglas Quintet at Buffalo's Albright Knox Art Gallery. In the decade following she has released four albums for Biophilia Records and worked with luminaries such as art hirahara, ...
Arturo O’Farrill: The Arts Belong to the People
by Steven Roby
The first thing you notice about Arturo O'Farrill is how completely he turns purpose into sound. Whether he's speaking about water, memory, or the way a room breathes during a concert, the GRAMMY-winning pianist and composer treats music as a living system--one that welcomes humor, fury, and community in equal measure. That sensibility powers his new ...
