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Charlie Kohlhase and His Explorers Club Celebrate 'A SECOND LIFE'
by Blair Ingenthron - March 31, 2024 At the ready on alto, tenor and baritone saxophones, the venerated Boston-based improviser and composer Charlie Kohlhase ascends the proverbial podium to lead his Explorers Club on the new Mandorla Music release A Second Life....
Hilario Durán and His Latin Jazz Big Band Presents 'Cry Me A River'
by Michael Major - July 06, 2023 Hilario Durán brings the full scope of his artistry, the depth of knowledge of musical genres in the perfect storm of big artistry on Cry Me A River. The nine works on this recording are born of Durán’s Afro-Caribbean cultural topography but are also informed by his gifts for bending tradition and i...
John Vanderslice Announces New Album & Shares Lead Single 'Crystals 26'
by Michael Major - February 15, 2023 John Vanderslice has announced his new album CRYSTALS 3.0, and shared it’s lead single “Crystals 26.” The culmination of a span of ecstatic experimentation with harsh noise and hard drugs, curious samples and cascading sequencers—it is both a new pinnacle for Vanderslice and the manifestation of a r...
The Mingus Big Band Announces NYC Midnight Theatre Residency
by Michael Major - October 11, 2022 The band celebrates the music of legendary composer and virtuoso bassist Charles Mingus, now in his centennial year. Founded in 1991 by the late Sue Mingus, the group features new arrangements of Mingus compositions that encourage deep explorations and ideations of his music, as well as individual a...
The Brazen Youth Share '1TL2DU4 (Feat. girlpuppy)'
by Michael Major - August 18, 2022 The Brazen Youth share their new single “1TL2DU4 (Feat. girlpuppy)”, the latest song from their forthcoming full-length album Eagle, Idaho. The song is paired with a music video made with their friends Jenny and Josh of SNXKFilms. The full-length LP continues upon the path the Lyme, CT trio set for ...
High Pulp Announce Fall West Coast Tour Dates
by Michael Major - August 15, 2022 Experimental Seattle jazz act High Pulp are announcing new fall West Coast tour dates, following the April release of their ANTI- Records debut album ’Pursuit of Ends.’ High Pulp are also sharing a new video for the album track “You’ve Got To Pull It Up From The Ground,” that features GRAMMY® nomina...
The Brazen Youth Share New Single Feat. Alix Page From Upcoming Album
by Michael Major - July 07, 2022 The fourteen track full-length LP continues upon the path the Lyme, CT trio set for themselves with this past October’s Changing EP. The record was born out of shared experience as three friends confronted a beloved parent’s sudden passing. With the album’s announcement, the band shares single “If T...
High Pulp Share 'Kamishinjo' Feat. Jacob Mann
by Michael Major - March 22, 2022 Seattle Jazz collective High Pulp are sharing “Kamishinjo” today, a new track featuring Jacob Mann on keyboards. Later this week High Pulp will begin a run of West coast tour dates that will reach Portland, Seattle, Phoenix, Los Angeles in more. Then in April the band will hit the road with Jared Ma...
Drom Announces NYC Summer Jazz Series in July & August
by Sarah Jae Leiber - June 22, 2021 Drom keeps the flame of live music burning, and celebrates the end of our collective lockdown by going big....
Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series Acoustic Sounds Celebrates Impulse! Records 60th Anniversary
by Sarah Jae Leiber - April 26, 2021 The Impulse! 60 series will kick off on May 14 with two of the four releases that launched the label known as The House That Trane Built, in 1961: Ray Charles’ singular and long-out-of-print Genius + Soul = Jazz and Gil Evans Orchestra’s superb Out of the Cool. Charles’ album will also be made avail...
Multi-Instrumentalist Howard Johnson Dies at 79
by Stephi Wild - January 12, 2021 Howard Johnson, veteran jazz musician, tuba innovator and founding member of the Saturday Night Live band, died at home in New York on Jan. 11, 2021, following a long illness, according to his longtime partner, Nancy Olewine. ... |