Releasing an entire album under the moniker Chet Baker Big Band is a bit of
a misnomer, as only the first four sides actually incorporate an 11-person configuration. The remaining tracks from the long-player feature a slightly smaller nonet configuration. ...
On his ECM debut, 2016's Into the Silence, Avishai Cohen was toiling with the death
of his father and understandably, the album was deeply ruminative and introspective. With his sophomore ECM outing, 2017's equally nuanced Cross My Palm with Silver, ...
Starlicker is a trio composed of cornet player Rob Mazurek (Chicago Underground Duo/Trio/Quartet and Exploding
Star Orchestra, among others), vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz (also of Exploding Star Orchestra), and drummer John Herndon (Tortoise). The music these three men produce is jazz ...
In 2015, Jah Wobble's six-disc Redux retrospective revealed just how deep and wide the bassist's
musical reach extends, encompassing everything from post-punk and dub to free jazz and fusion, new age, folk, ambient, neo-classical, spoken word, and pop. Everything Is ...
Guitar in the Space Age! finds guitarist Bill Frisell going back in time to the
guitar music of the country, surf, blues, and early rock & roll of the late 1950s through the mid-'60s: the music that initially inspired him. ...
For trumpeter Ralph Alessi's third ECM date, 2019's vividly realized Imaginary Friends, he's reunited his
This Against That ensemble with longtime friend and associate saxophonist Ravi Coltrane. The two like-minded artists initially met while students at the California Institute of ...
Trumpeter Jack Walrath may be best known for his stint with Charles Mingus, but his
solo career has had more in common with Frank Zappa's satiric jazz-rock period. (Album titles like I Am the Walrath and Revenge of the Fat ...
The recorded debut, and sole studio recording, of the Miles Davis Dream Team -- with
alto saxophonist Cannonball Adderley added to the in-place quintet of John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones -- done a year before ...