The Jazz StandardThelonious Monk’s landmark 1959 concert at Town Hall lives again through Jason Moran.
Jazz: Tooting Other People’s HornsThe jazz event of the fall is Dave Douglas’s Festival of New Trumpet Music, which he first organized six years ago and co-curates with fellow ho […]
The New York Canon: JazzFor the last 40 years, jazz in New York has had a hard time measuring up to its storied past. But even in the absence of a big scene, the music […]
Trane Has Left the StationA new breed of saxophonists discovers an alternative to Coltrane’s brilliant but domineering ways.
Elegy for Fort GreeneThe late-nineties Brooklyn
scene is a fading memory, but
Robert Glasper can still
summon its powerful spirit.
Playing FavoritesWe asked five music obsessives to pick a recent album they can’t stop listening to.
Ornette Still Hears the FutureSound Grammar, his first new recording in ten years, documents a live performance in Ludwigshafen, Germany, last year, and it doesn’t sound like […]
Thelonious Comes AliveThe best jazz recordings this year were long-lost performances
from some very familiar names.
