In a Blue Mood

Karl Berger- Jason Kao Hwang Conjure True Sound Recordings This is a recording of two major artists of the modern 'free' jazz worl...

Jason Stein Quartet Lucille! Delmark Records Very welcome is this new release from Stein, one of the few bass clarinet specialists. As...

Congratulations to Don Cherry for his selection in the DownBeat Critics Poll to the magazine's Hall of Fame. Cherry, with his pocket tru...

Joseph Daley The Tuba Trio Chronicles Joda Music Joseph Daley dedicates " The Tuba Trio Chronicles " to the memory of his go...

While no longer resident in Chicago, alto saxophonist and composer, Dave McDonnell, is a product of the fertile Windy City music scene (ja...

Matt Lavelle is a reed and brass player who has studied with Ornette Coleman while John Pietaro is a percussionist and the two have collab...

Keefe Jackson’s Likely So is a seven person all-reed group led by the Chicago saxophonist and bass clarinetist. The international group in...

It was in September 1971 when inmates rebelled at New York State’s Attica Prison to protest the inhumane conditions. A few days later when...

Chicago cornetist and composer Rob Mazurek brings seven compositions to a new recording by his Pulsar Quartet, Stellar Pulsations  (Delm...

David S. Ware passed away at the age of 62. I never had the pleasure to see him perform but have purchased a number of the recordings. He wa...

Fast Citizens is a Chicago based cutting edge sextet originally under the nominal leadership of Keefe Jackson that has a rotating leader...

Among the Universal reissues celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Impulse Records is For Losers/ Kwanza by Archie Shepp. Among those inspire...

Among the recent reissues of classic Impulse releases as part of the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Impulse, there has been a CD con...

Albert Ayler’s music was controversial during his life and today, four decades after his death. One of the ‘free’ jazz patriarchs of the six...

Saxophonist Odean Pope may be best known for his tenure with the late Max Roach, but was also part of the legendary cooperative group Cataly...

The website Destination-Out ( http://destination-out.com ) has continued its important series of digital reissues of out-of-print vinyl albu...

The late alto saxophonist, Noah Howard passed away in early September leaving behind a considerable musical legacy. Born in New Orleans, he ...

The reissue on CD by Delmark of “ The New York Contemporary Five ” under Archie Shepp’s name is welcome for fans of early examples of “free ...

Trumpeter, slide-trumpeter, arranger and composer, Steven Bernstein, is most famous for his band Sex Mob, with the Millennial Territory Orch...

The drummer, best known for his time playing with John Coltrane passed away this past Wednesday, August 12, of a heart attack at the age of ...