“Maybe the best that can be said of jazz in the ’70s is that it didn’t just survive. It established its own precedents and raised important questions about an art that was finally pushed beyond its golden age.”
December 11, 2019
“What seems to be about to happen is what LeRoi Jones called Unity Music in 1966. It will include the entire range of black music, maybe in one long performance, but pivoting on the drums.”
September 3, 2019
In 1995, the “American Splendor” maestro took a memory trip along 52nd Street with guitar great Bill DeArango
August 8, 2018
With his E-Collective, the trumpeter makes the political personal
April 24, 2018
The excellent sixth volume of the Miles Davis Bootleg Series shows we haven't had too much of the legendary jazz musician
April 19, 2018
The republication of Val Wilmer’s “As Serious as Your Life” from 1977 resonates today
March 15, 2018