New Jazz this week with Alexander Hawkins, Kullhammar/Aalberg/Zetterberg,...
Huge week of new releases. I mean, I just drowned in it. Plenty here for all kinds of jazz fans, and the only thing I’m going to mention before starting right in is that both Clean Feed Records and...
View ArticleWatch Kullhammar, Zetterberg & Holgersson Perform ‘A Love Supreme’
Today’s Jazz Picks video is a live performance of John Coltrane’s seminal recording A Love Supreme. Performed by the trio Kullhammar, Zetterberg & Holgersson, whose Basement Sessions Vol.2 was...
View ArticleNew Jazz this week with Ferenc Nemeth, Javier Vercher, Danilo Perez, Rufus...
Well, the Pick of the Week was a toss-up pretty much. You can’t go wrong with either album, and that’s a good sign of a healthy week in new Jazz. Several albums this week present some terrifically...
View ArticleNew Jazz this week with Chris Parker, David Krakauer, Shawn Maxwell, Free...
Nice run of new releases this week. For the most part, the sounds stay close to Jazz center, but this week is signified by the varied concepts that fueled the inspiration of each musician going into...
View ArticleMusic & Animation: Lesley Barnes & the Kit Downes Quintet
Today’s video is the Kit Downes Quintet song “Outlawed” performed live and set to the wondrous animation of the Lesley Barnes film “Herzog and the Monsters.” A version of the song “Outlawed” appears on...
View ArticleWatch Mark Guiliana and Brad Mehldau’s Mehliana Project
Arriving soon is a new album by Mehliana, a collaboration between pianist Brad Mehldau and drummer Mark Guiliana… Both names should be familiar to anyone who reads the Jazz Picks column with any...
View ArticleThe Living Room Recordings: Benjamin Koppel & Jean-Michel Pilc
Saxophonist Benjamin Koppel‘s Living Room Recordings is a series of collaborations with musicians in, as the title suggests, his Copenhagen living room. This video features a duo performance with...
View ArticleNew Jazz this week with Thomas Savy, Rudy Royston, Vardan Ovsepian & more!
Nice mix of new jazz releases this week, with many of them treading near something familiar, but often deviating just enough to differentiate themselves from the crowd. A good week for careful, and...
View ArticleKen Vandermark & Resonance Ensemble live
Today’s video is from Ken Vandermark’s Resonance Ensemble, a thrilling large ensemble project that deftly balances avant-garde ferocity and unpredictability with a thought and care to melodic...
View ArticleLive: Diego Barber Quartet –“Piru”
Today’s jazz video comes courtesy of Diego Barber, whose use of classical guitar in a jazz quartet results in music that is both stunning in its expansiveness and beautiful in its details. His debut...
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