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Article: Album Review

James Brandon Lewis: An Unruly Manifesto

Read "An Unruly Manifesto" reviewed by Phillip Woolever

by Phillip Woolever
March 5, 2019

James Brandon Lewis has been climbing the current jazz pantheon for a good while now. This deserving project should elevate the 36-year old tenor saxophonist from Buffalo even higher in the ranks. Backed by the usual collaborators in his touring trio (drummer Warren Trae Crudup III, bassist Luke Stewart) and a pair of familiar ...

Article: Live Review

Documenting Jazz 2019

by Ian Patterson
February 28, 2019

Documenting Jazz Conservatory of Music and Drama TU Dublin Dublin, Ireland January 17-19, 2019 Jazz music, which has pretty much always meant different things to different people, has been comprehensively documented since its arrival in the first decades of the twentieth century. The most obvious form of ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

February Birthdays and Snooky @100

by Marc Cohn
February 22, 2019

It's the monthly jazz birthdays edition of Gift and Messages, direct from our turntables and CD players in mid-city Baton Rouge to you! We salute the late trumpeter Snooky Young on his 100th birthday with one of the rare recordings under his own name, the out-of-print Horn of Plenty. Great listening, along with tenor birthday madness ...

Article: Live Review

Wayne Shorter Celebration With Herbie Hancock and Terence Blanchard at SFJAZZ Center

by Harry S. Pariser
January 18, 2019

Wayne Shorter Trio and GuestsSFJAZZ Center San Francisco, CA January 3, 2019 Wayne Shorter could not be there but his trio made it. When illness prevented Shorter from making a four-night stand at SFJAZZ, organizers turned the dates into a celebration of his music. There are few better choices ...

Album

Heaven & Earth

By Kamasi Washington

Label: Young Turks
Released: 2018
Track listing: CD 1 (Earth): Fists Of Fury; Can You Hear Him; Hub-Tones; Connections; Tiffakonkae; The Invincible Youth; Testify; One of One. CD 2 (Heaven): The Space Travelers Lullaby; Vi Lua Vi Sol; Street Fighter Mas; Song For The Fallen; Journey; The Psalmnist; Show Us The Way; Will You Sing. CD 3 (The Choice) The Secret Of Jinsinson; Will You Love Me Tomorrow; My Family; Agents Of Multiverse; Ooh Child.

Article: Interview

Kris Funn: Bass Player, Story Teller

by R.J. DeLuke
November 27, 2018

Kris Funn didn't start out on bass but, coming from a musical family, there was little chance he wouldn't at least test the water and see what music was all about. In time, the bass reached out and grabbed him. He's since had a career that has had him playing his immense bass skills ...

Article: Live Review

Kamasi Washington at the Ogden Theatre

by Geoff Anderson
November 6, 2018

Kamasi Washington Ogden Theatre Denver, CO October 26, 2018 Kamasi Washington is an ambitious guy. His first major label album was a 3-CD release running 173 minutes, The Epic (Brainfeeder, 2015). He followed that up with a mere 6-song release, but most recently came out with yet another 3-CD set Heaven ...

Article: Album Review

Throttle Elevator Music: Retrospective

Read "Retrospective" reviewed by Luca Muchetti

by Luca Muchetti
November 5, 2018

Una delle figure più dirompenti (e popolari) del jazz del nostro tempo, Kamasi Washington, ed Erik Jekabson, Thomas McCree, Ava Mendoza, Gregory Howe e Matt Montgomery sono i protagonisti di Retrospective, album che--sebbene uscito nel 2017--poggia le sue radici a cavallo del tempo di due sessioni: la prima tenutasi nel 2011, la seconda nel 2016, entrambe ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Playing Changes by Nate Chinen

by Joe Dimino
October 29, 2018

This week we look at a great new book, “Playing Changes" by Nate Chinen. The show begins with a cut by Arthur Blythe, “Jitterbug Waltz" and moves right on into a more recent cut from Kamasi Washington off his CD The Epic. The program goes on highlighting artists featured in each chapter of this groundbreaking book ...

Article: In Pictures

Headliners and Rising Stars at the 2018 Montreal International Jazz Festival

by Dave Kaufman
August 26, 2018

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4This year marked one of the best and most well-balanced indoor (paid indoor events) and (free) outdoor lineups at the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal (FIJM). The strength of the lineup stretched across genres and also maintained a consistency over the course of ...