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Cecil Taylor In 1983
Some fantastic video of Cecil Taylor from 1983 was recently uploaded to YouTube. The two lengthy performances come from European TV, and were posted by André Martinez Reed, one of the two...
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Kamasi Washington
After spending more than a half decade writing about music, it’s getting easier and easier to see which way the wind is blowing. The habits and tics of creative people aren’t hard to miss. Even more so...
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Interview: Freddie Hendrix
Photo: Anastas Tarpanov Freddie Hendrix is a veteran trumpeter who’s making his debut as a leader 20 years after emerging onto the East Coast scene. Strongly influenced by Freddie Hubbard and Woody...
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Interview: Lisa Hilton
Pianist Lisa Hilton is one of the most relentlessly productive artists in jazz, but the critical class seems wholly ignorant of her work; her name never seems to pop up in discussions of who’s...
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Interview: Christian Scott
Christian Scott is one of a handful of musicians who can genuinely be said to be moving jazz forward. A New Orleans-born trumpeter (and nephew of saxophonist Donald Harrison), he’s made eight studio...
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Chris Potter
by Phil Freeman On its face, saxophonist Chris Potter’s The Dreamer is the Dream, his third album for ECM, is his most straightforward and middle-of-the-road. (Get it from Amazon.) Unlike 2013’s The...
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Dave Liebman/Joe Lovano
by Phil Freeman Saxophonist Dave Liebman might be best known for his tenure with Miles Davis, which lasted from 1972 to 1974. He first played on Davis’s alienating, futuristic On the Corner; his is the...
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BA Podcast 11: Azar Lawrence
The latest episode of the Burning Ambulance podcast features an interview with saxophonist Azar Lawrence. Based in Los Angeles, Lawrence worked with McCoy Tyner on some of the pianist’s best 1970s...
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McCoy Tyner In The ’70s: Part 1
by Phil Freeman Pianist McCoy Tyner is one of the most important musicians in modern jazz. He first popped up on some folks’ radar as a member of the Jazztet, a group co-led by flugelhornist Art Farmer...
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McCoy Tyner In The ’70s: Part 2
by Phil Freeman This week, we’re exploring the 19 albums McCoy Tyner released between 1970 and 1979, all but two of them on the Milestone label. Here’s Part 1 of our rundown, in case you missed it....
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McCoy Tyner In The ’70s: Part 3
by Phil Freeman All this week, we’re looking at the 19 albums pianist McCoy Tyner recorded between 1970 and 1979. Here are Part 1 and Part 2. On August 31 and September 1, 1974, Tyner and his road...
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McCoy Tyner In The ’70s: Part 4
by Phil Freeman All this week, we’re reviewing every album pianist McCoy Tyner recorded between 1970 and 1979. (There were 19 of them.) Here’s Part 1 of our overview; here’s Part 2; and here’s Part 3....
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McCoy Tyner In The ’70s: Part 5
by Phil Freeman This is the final installment of our series looking at every album McCoy Tyner recorded between 1970 and 1979. In case you need to catch up, here’s Part 1; here’s Part 2; here’s Part 3;...
View ArticleJapanese Jazz
Photo: the Tohru Aizawa Quartet When most Westerners think about Japan and jazz, they think of it in terms of a vast audience. Japanese people still buy records and CDs; they listen reverently in tiny...
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BA Podcast 14: Billy Cobham
Episode 14 of the Burning Ambulance podcast features an interview with drummer Billy Cobham, an absolute jazz legend. He first came to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when he worked with...
View ArticleGordon Beck
Gordon Beck was a British jazz pianist and composer who began working professionally in 1960, launched his first group under his own name five years later, and worked more or less consistently until...
View ArticleJoe Henderson 1963-1981, Part 1
Back in March, we published a five-day journey through pianist McCoy Tyner‘s 1970s output, most of it on the Milestone label. That series proved interesting and popular enough that we’re following it...
View ArticleJoe Henderson 1963-1981, Part 2
We’re back with the second day of our exploration of saxophonist Joe Henderson‘s catalog. (Click here for Part 1.) In 1967, Henderson left Blue Note after five years and five albums as a leader, and...
View ArticleOlli Hirvonen
Photo by Luke Marantz Finnish guitarist Olli Hirvonen, perhaps best known for his work in Brian Krock‘s bands liddle and Big Heart Machine, will release his latest solo album, Displace, on August 30....
View ArticleFree Jazz In Japan
L-R: Akira Sakata, Masahiko Satoh, Masahiko Togashi This post was made available to Patreon supporters one week ago. To see upcoming stories in advance of publication, become a supporter today! The...
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