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Adam O'Farrill: Elephant
by Angelo Leonardi
Dopo quattro album di altissimo livello col pianoless quartet, Adam O'Farrill giunge al capolavoro con un nuovo organico comprendente la pianista Yvonne Rogers, il contrabbassista Walter Stinson e il batterista Russell Holzman. Il progetto è stato presentato in anteprima alla Jazz Gallery di New York il 10 e 11 settembre 2024 e l'incisione è ...
Ben Wendel: Assembling The Mallet Avengers
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, The Tonearm's needle drops on saxophonist and composer Ben Wendel.Ben is a Grammy-nominated saxophonist, composer, and co-founder of Kneebody, with a discography that covers post-bop, chamber jazz, and electronic music. He's worked with Bill Frisell, Tigran Hamasyan, Terence Blanchard and yes, Prince.His album BaRcoDe (Edition Records, 2026) is built around a ...
Andrés Coll: Ride to Heaven
by Artur Moral
Some instruments can come across as far removed from the jazz orbit--especially when we think of them as vehicles for a soloist's showcase. Yet a number of resolute experimenters have worked hard to prove otherwise, with commendable skill. Among others, such is the case with Dorothy Ashby on harp, Julius Watkins on French horn and Garvin ...
Big Ears 2026
by Mark Sullivan
Big Ears Festival Knoxville, TN March 26-29, 2026 Another year, another jam-packed festival lineup. The Spotlight presentations included SUSS Presents Across the Horizon, an ambient country experience; films and performances related to Ethiopia's musical legacy; and David Byrne's Who is the Sky? Polish pianist/composer Hania Rani offered an ambient concert and the ...
Ben Wendel: BaRcoDe
by Neil Duggan
BaRcoDe marks the formation of a new ensemble and the debut album from tenor saxophonist Ben Wendel. An electroacoustic project for saxophone and mallets, it brings together a stellar cast of contemporary vibraphonists and percussionists in Joel Ross, Simon Moullier, Patricia Brennan and Juan Diego Villalobos. A two-time Grammy nominee and co-founder of Kneebody, ...
Patricia Brennan: Star Light, Star Bright
by David Bixler
What if the patterns you see in the night sky weren't just constellations, but a musical score? Vibraphonist Patricia Brennan, an avid astronomer, has looked to the stars as the blueprint for her ambitious 2025 recording, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic Records, 2025). To bring this cosmic vision down to earth, Brennan enlisted a ten-piece ...
Carolyn Trowbridge: Found Memories
by Jerome Wilson
There has been a notable increase in the number of prominent vibraphone players in the creative music world as 2026 unfolds. People like Joel Ross, Patricia Brennan, Sasha Berliner, and Simon Moullier have all been making names for themselves the past few years. Another one to pay attention to is Carolyn Trowbridge out of Austin, Texas. ...
2025 Year in Review by the Numbers: The Magnificent Seven and the Pluralism of Taste
by Marek J. Śmietański
My Journey From Sports Analytics to Counting Jazz I've always had a soft spot for statistics and rankings--especially those that try to say something more than just “what people like." This is probably a result of my rigorous mathematical-informatics education and the scientific research I conducted over a dozen years ago on classification and ranking methods ...
Yuhan Su: OVER the MOONs
by Vincenzo Roggero
Originaria di Taiwan, da sedici anni residente a New York, Yuhan Su confessa nelle brevi note di copertina di correre su due binari culturali distinti, di sognare in due lingue, di usare due distinte forme di logica, di avere due differenti standard di gusto per il cibo... Quinto album da leader, OVER the MOONs cerca di ...
Winter Wine & Song
by Kristen Lee Sergeant
These days, and especially in January, it seems like we're saturated in conversations about the question: “to drink, or not to drink?" The topic is nearly always about alcohol --a broad genus with many varied species from moonshine to Château d'Yquem. It's like talking about the entirety of foodstuffs as “calories" and failing to distinguish between ...
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