Anna Hogberg
Anna Högberg is not fucking around. Had the Swedish alto saxophonist been around 40 years ago, her no-nonsense demeanor and fierce commitment to her art might have made her the model for a character in...
View ArticleNdabo Zulu
South African pianist Nduduzo Makhathini (a guest on the BA podcast in 2019) seems from the outside to be at the center of a group of up-and-coming musicians from his country. He produces their albums,...
View ArticleJeff Cosgrove
Drummer Jeff Cosgrove isn’t that well known yet, but he’s built an impressive catalog of recordings over the last decade. His first album as a leader, 2011’s For the Love of Sarah, was a collection of...
View ArticleThe Tone World: Part 4
Bassist William Parker has a fairly epic box out this week. Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World is a 10CD set, with each disc featuring a different ensemble, many of which do not...
View ArticleGarden of Jewels
While for most musicians, the pandemic and the ensuing lockdowns of 2020 have had a devastating effect on their activities, it must be a particularly frustrating state of affairs for the jazz and...
View ArticleSana Nagano
Smashing Humans is the debut album by Brooklyn-based violinist Sana Nagano, and also the name of the ensemble she has assembled to perform it. In addition to Nagano’s violin, the group consists of...
View ArticleBA Podcast 68: Andrew Cyrille
Episode 68 of the Burning Ambulance podcast features an interview with drummer Andrew Cyrille. Andrew Cyrille is the last man standing from the first wave of free jazz drummers. He and Milford Graves,...
View ArticleWinter & Spring
Discussed in this essay: William Parker Trio, Painter’s Spring (Thirsty Ear, 2000); William Parker Trio, Painters Winter (AUM Fidelity, 2021); Other Dimensions in Music, Live at the Sunset (Marge,...
View ArticleZoh Amba
I’ve been thinking about up-and-coming free jazz saxophonist Zoh Amba’s music for a while. I first heard her last year, at the same time everyone else did — she appeared on five albums in 2022 (of...
View ArticleCharles Gayle
Saxophonist Charles Gayle died last week at 84. He was born February 28, 1939 in Buffalo, New York and lived and worked there until the early 1970s. He didn’t like to talk about his early life, but...
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