Mark Dresser

Jazz Consumer Guide: Play Louder, and Pray for Peace

Living legends and budding artistes alike break out, rise up, and move beyond

Life, Death, and Rebirth at the CareFusion and Vision Jazz Festivals

'Basscentric'

Jazz Consumer Guide: A Summer Suite of Harmonic Disorder

Transcending roots and relishing every moment, whether you've got the rhythm section or not

Trio M

Jazz Consumer Guide: Chasing Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, or Something Else Entirely

Skronk On

A down year still yields plenty of power and exhilaration for adventurous jazzheads

Back in the World

Roswell Rudd's triumphant return to braying trombone excellence

No, Not Those Fugees

To get a bead on Satoko Fujii's CDs, first you have to count them

Third Annual Trumpet Smorgasbord Starts With a Salute

Updates, Not Throwbacks

Gypsies and Jews, Afro-Cubans and avant-gardists, led by two smashing piano players

Hello Goodbye

The ultimate jazz outsider confab comes to praise the dead

Outcats Inc.

The cats are really cooking on CIMP out in Redwood, and so is the label owner's wife

Supplement

Jazz

In Search of a Cool-Blue Note

Music

Between Intermissions