Jazz
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Avant-garde jazz outfit Onyx Collective continues to embody the highs and lows of NYC with Lower East Suite Part Three, their most polished and straightforward set of tracks yet.
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By adhering so much to its grand formula, Heaven and Earth comes off as even more cumbersome than The Epic.
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As a Mother’s Day surprise, André 3000 made his return to music with two songs that pay tribute to the life of his parents. Surprisingly, neither song features a rap verse. “Me&My (To Bury Your Parents)” is a heartfelt ballad that finds André singing and reminiscing about
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Death in Haiti is the most intriguing and affecting field recording project I’ve heard in some time.
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Your Queen Is a Reptile should go down as one of the most exhilarating and revolutionary jazz records of 2018.
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Last week, saxophonist extraordinaire Kamasi Washington released a 6-track EP titled Harmony of Difference. The opening composition, which you can hear above, has the ambition and energy I’ve loved about the man’s past work (especially The Epic), but it’s offered in a more bite-sized serving than usual.
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Unbeknownst to me, trumpeter/producer Christian Scott has been having quite a prolific 2017, set to finish out a trilogy of albums with next month’s The Emancipation Procrastination. I was lukewarm on the new-agey Diaspora, but am digging the fusion of vintage jazz and modern hip hop production on
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I missed Benjamin Clementine’s latest single while on vacation, but good thing I went back for it because this is some of the London singer-songwriter’s most potent, visceral work yet. “God Save the Jungle” isn’t at all la-di-da like some of the stuff on Benjamin’s (still
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Denzel Curry and BADBADNOTGOOD each embark upon one of their most ambitious musical undertakings by reinventing banger-of-the-decade contender “Ultimate” with live instrumentation. I’m more surprised by the trippy video than I am the fact they pull it off. Feels like I dropped acid…or edited a thatistheplan video. Denzel
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Though Drunk brings a heaping helping of Thundercat’s spectacular bass playing and sense of humor, the album is also rife with filler and underwritten jazz motifs.
