Two nights of orchestral-soul invention, Amerykahn made
Free jazz is challenging, violent, political, spiritual, joyous, peaceful, and a million other things. It's about shattering forms in order to find a new world of sound somewhere further outside. And once this new world is found, it's time to go looking for a newer one. When, as a college student, ... More >>
K. Leander Williams/tru2blu.pixWadada Leo Smith 70th Birthday Celebration Roulette Friday, December 16 Better than: Hearing one band for the price of three. Last year during a pre-concert interview at the Library Of Congress in Washington D.C., composer-trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith got a laug ... More >>
Using YouTube to beat back critical malaise and bullshit race-baiting arguments
Mastering Dylan, flubbing Darin, and paying tribute to the inimitable Max Roach
Ornette Coleman's triumphant return dominates the humble debut of the 'Voice' jazz critics' poll
Dismantling canons, describing contexts, the new jazz studies come of age.
The revolution of 1969 never came, but the 'Free America' series has now been reissued
Collaging keyboardist meets the challenge of jazz-improv with techno surge protectors
John Abercrombie and Louis Sclavis fill those redolent silences between the phrases
Rowdy Big Boi and fly Andre 3000 divide and conquer the Dirty South book of hiphop rules
Missing Lester Bowie Two Different Ways, the Art Ensemble of Chicago Returns Twice
Why Jazz and Pop Don't Make the Cut
The SEM Orchestra Finds the Old in New Composers
Uri Caine at the Turn of Another Century
Jazz Mainstays Boost The Voltage
Jazz Competes With Its Past, Settles for the Hard Sell
Burns Stays Blind to Jazz Abroad
Bell Meets (Is?) Big Brother
The Avant-Gardes Tireless Trumpeter Goes Out Swinging
Remembrances of Lester Bowie
