Jazz
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Compiled & Written by Austen Up there’s the mission statement of Tzadik Records, the label founded by saxophonist, composer, and Downtown musician extraordinaire John Zorn. 2015 marks its 20th anniversary, so we thought it’d be fitting and fun to round up our favorite releases up til now. The
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Aurora by Alchimia Some pretty moody free jazz coming from Seattle three-piece Alchimia, via Kraków label Instant Classic.
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Famed bass virtuoso Thundercat comes through with a star-studded mini album with The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam.
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Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment’s long-awaited Surf capitalizes on very little of its full potential.
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Running just short of three hours in length, this new Kamasi Washington album lives up to its name.
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The latest installment of Matana Roberts’ Coin Coin series shifts the narrative down a drone-laden, cluttered pathway.
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Zs’ latest album shows the band taking a more stripped back approach to their hypnotically repetitive approach to experimental rock, jazz, and drone.
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Hypercolor by Hypercolor <a href=”http://hypercolorband.bandcamp.com/album/hypercolor”>Hypercolor by Hypercolor</a> Hypercolor is a NYC trio making its self-titled debut on “downtown” figurehead John Zorn’s Tzadik imprint later this month. Unsurprisingly, the threesome comprised of guitarist Eyal Maoz, bassist James Ilgenfritz,
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To close out CLASSICS WEEK 2014, we’re diving into one of jazz flute’s biggest touchstones: Roland Kirk’s I Talk with the Spirits.
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For this latest installment of CLASSICS WEEK 2014, Anthony Fantano takes on a quintessential jazz rap album: A Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory.
