Jazz
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What Black to the Future has in refinement, it ever so slightly lacks in the electricity of the group’s past work.
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Classics Week 2021 comes to a close with one of the most adventurous and hypnotic masterpieces in jazz, Alice Coltrane’s Journey in Satchidananda.
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With Alphaville, Imperial Triumphant upholds its blend of extreme metal and jazz without sounding like a novelty. Sorry for not recognizing tracks 8 and 9 as bonus covers. They aren’t labeled on some platforms, but I should’ve expected the unexpected from this band. Normally I don’t take
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While often pretty and groovy, Makaya McCraven’s reimagining of Gil Scott-Heron’s swansong tends to drain the suspense and emotional potency out of its source material.
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Polyhymnia is one of the year’s most versatile and dynamic jazz albums.
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The fourth installment of Matana Roberts’ COIN COIN series is instantly one of the decade’s most compelling jazz projects.
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Ana Frango Elétrico’s authentically vintage fusion of chamber pop, rock, samba, and jazz is a real blast!
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The Comet Is Coming is doing its part to bring jazz into the next decade.
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Though it occasionally suffers from overambition, the jazzy I Also Want to Die in New Orleans is another helping of admirable personal and social commentary from Mark Kozelek.
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Marquis Hill and his band come through with a vibrant blend of dynamic jazz and conscious hip hop on Modern Flows, Vol. 2.
