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Interview: Nicolas Jaar
by Phil Freeman New York-born, Chilean-raised 21-year-old Nicolas Jaar has ascended rapidly within the world of electronic music. After releasing two 12″ singles, “Time for Us” and “Russian Dolls,” and...
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Wynton Marsalis
Black Codes (From The Underground) (Columbia) by Phil Freeman Buy it from Amazon Has Wynton Marsalis‘s music become audible again? For years, it was impossible to hear it over all the rhetoric that...
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Jason Parker Quartet
Five Leaves Left: A Tribute to Nick Drake (oneworkingmusician.com) by Phil Freeman Buy it here I’ve never heard a whole Nick Drake song. I remember Volkswagen using his song “Pink Moon” in a commercial...
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James Farm
James Farm (Nonesuch) Buy it from Amazon by Phil Freeman I was really bummed out when Blue Note Records dropped pianist Aaron Parks after only one album—2008′s Invisible Cinema. I interviewed Parks for...
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Tim Hagans
The Moon Is Waiting (Palmetto) by Phil Freeman Buy it from Amazon I’ve been a fan of trumpeter Tim Hagans for over a decade. His album Animation/Imagination, made in collaboration with producer Bob...
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A List Of 50 Jazz Albums
by Phil Freeman Apparently April 30 is International Jazz Day. So as a way of subverting the canon-building exercises that are sure to go on across the jazz internet today, I’ve come up with a list of...
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Jerome Sabbagh
Plugged In (Bee Jazz) Buy it from Amazon by Phil Freeman French saxophonist Jerome Sabbagh has been fascinating me for a couple of years now. In November 2010, I reviewed I Will Follow You, a CD he did...
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The 50 Greatest Saxophonists…EVER!!!: 50-41
Welcome to the official Burning Ambulance countdown of the 50 Greatest Saxophonists Ever. The list was determined by means we shall not disclose, though a number of jazz critics and musicians offered...
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What’s The Big Idea?: Rez Abbasi
Many jazz albums are just collections of tunes, and that’s fine. But others are more conceptually unified than that—they may represent the exploration of a musician’s compositional theories, attempts...
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Miles Davis Live In 1971
Photo: Anthony Barboza Here’s some amazing video of Miles Davis live in Oslo on November 9, 1971. This is a band that was never documented in the recording studio—Gary Bartz on soprano and alto sax;...
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Eric Revis
by Phil Freeman Bassist Eric Revis‘s second album for the Portuguese Clean Feed label, City of Asylum, was recently released. It’s a follow-up of sorts to Parallax, an album featuring saxophonist Ken...
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Bob Reynolds
Saxophonist Bob Reynolds‘ second studio album and fifth full-length overall, Somewhere in Between, comes out tomorrow. He’s previously released 2003′s Live at the Jazz Corner, 2006′s Can’t Wait for...
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Interview And Gallery: Gaetano Pezzella
Gaetano Pezzella (on Flickr, on Tumblr) is a photographer from Rome, Italy. Pezzella’s work involves a vast amount of travel; from the places he visits, he includes fragments of children at play,...
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Jazz For Hippies: The Charles Lloyd Quartet In 1968
Between 1998 and 2003, I interviewed the late saxophonist David S. Ware several times. He had made his debut on Columbia in 1998 with Go See The World, and I visited him and his group in the studio...
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Miles Davis In 1970
Is it weird that 1970 has become the most documented year of Miles Davis’s life? At the time, that wasn’t the case at all. He only released two albums that year—Bitches Brew, recorded the previous...
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by Phil Freeman Considering the size of his discography and his prominence in the world of jazz, I haven’t really spent very much time at all listening to Keith Jarrett. I reviewed one of his solo...
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Joe Sanders
by Phil Freeman Joe Sanders is a bassist who’s been quietly making a name for himself over the last 15 years or so. He can be heard on albums by trumpeters Ambrose Akinmusire, Theo Croker, and...
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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 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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MND FLO
MND FLO (pronounced “mind flow”) are a quartet of Berklee students—pianist Sharik Hasan, vibraphonist Simon Moullier, bassist Alexander L.J. Tóth and drummer Anthony A. Tóth (yes, they’re brothers)....
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