In recent years around this same time, Kelly Peterson, the wife of the late, iconic pianist, Oscar Peterson, released live performances from her archives. This is the fifth. Up until
Seldom has a band so radically reformed itself as did The Bad Plus in 2022. The piano trio format was replaced by adding saxophonist Chris Speed and guitarist Ben Monder
The Deer Head Inn, in the unlikely locale of the Delaware Water Gap in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania, is America’s oldest continuously running jazz club, presenting live music since
The semi-annual Exit Zero Jazz Festival, held October 25-27, 2024, in the nation’s oldest ocean resort, Cape May, NJ, featured the usual loyal, enthusiastic jazz audiences and its famed eclectic lineup. The mild
You’ve seen many collaborations between bassist Scott Colley and drummer Brian Blade on these pages, typically backing Danish saxophonist Benjamin Koppel. The two have long collaborated with pianist Edward Simon, going
When the legendary pianist and composer NEA Jazz Master Andrew Hill’s live A Beautiful Day was issued in 2002, he had long left Blue Note in 1969. The intervening years
Beth Lee has one of those voices that one never tires of, a mix of charm, sensuality, and defiance, belting out her original hook-laden songs. You’ve likely heard her before
Although the title indeed suggests dark songs and plenty of melancholy, singer-songwriter Grayson Capps injects his personality into these classic songs on Heartbreak, Misery, and Death, and the listen may
It seems like we were just getting to know the young spiritual jazz force Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few, who are calling it quits after an eight-year run and
Little Big III is pianist/composer Aaron Parks’s sixth album as a leader and his second for Blue Note. Between his groundbreaking 2008 Blue Note debut, Invisible Cinema, Parks has issued a solo
