Huntertones returned to the old-school way of recording for its latest album, Transmission. All six bandmates were in one ...

The Marcus Belgrave Story, bassist Endea Owens discusses a difficult chapter in her life during which she questioned whether ...

Pat Senatore, a well-regarded bassist and club owner, died Sept. 8 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 91. He grew up in the ...

The pairing of Terence Blanchard and Ravi Coltrane was billed as “The Miles/Coltrane Legacy,” a tour celebrating the twin centennials of 2026, focusing on the sounds and spirit they produced together ...

It’s always important to give space, take space and then create together,” Nils Petter Molvær says. “That’s the essence of a ...

American tenori di forza are a thing. Tenor saxophonists, that is. Sal Nistico, Sam Butera, Don Menza, Frank Tiberi, Jerry ...

Jazz duets often nod to the delicate side of things by leaning towards the reflective or sentimental, but with the volume cranked this fetching record’s “Mine Are Blues” conjures the hard-swinging ...

Recent efforts like Sunny Five’s Candid remind just how valuable a team player David Torn is. Dude invariably delivers motifs that enhance an ensemble’s direction, even if they shift the design scheme ...

No mere repertory exercise, this — perhaps even less so than drummer Terri Lyne Carrington’s inspired 2013 update of Ellington/Roach/Mingus’ Money Jungle. Always in touch with her social conscience, ...

When a band from Austin, Texas, drops music into the offices of DownBeat, there are expectations. The band Atlas Maior, hailing from that acclaimed music city, blows those expectations away. No Texas ...

Good Trouble finds Matt Wilson as boisterous and hard-swinging as ever. Resourceful, too: This critic had never heard a contrafact of “Feed The Fire,” Geri Allen’s signature tune, before Wilson’s ...

There are few things on planet Earth more beautiful than the voice of Lizz Wright. Her alto demands your ears. Her tone and phrasing melt your soul. So, what could be more perfect than an assembly of ...