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Jazz Journalists Association Announces 2021 Jazz Awards Winners Ron Carter and Terry Gross, have won Lifetime Achievement Awards in the 2021 Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards.by BWW News Desk Master musician and educator Ron Carter, often credited as jazz's most recorded bassist, and author Kevin Whitehead, long-running jazz critic on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, have won Lifetime Achievement Awards in the 2021 Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards, announced today. As trending in the greater jazz community, creative women earned significant recognition: Composer-orchestra leader ...

Released late last year, the debut of Cosmic Vibrations featuring the acclaimed jazz vocalist Dwight Trible on "Pathways & Passages" is an experience not to miss. The band assembled for the first time in August, 2017 in Los Angeles . Performing to appreciative audiences, the hypnotic combination of woodwinds, strings, percussion and one very remarkable voice is one of the finest spiritual jazz bands to arrive on the scene.    Afer a remarkable opener, "Nature's Vision", a genre defying song of world music taken to a completely different level,  a cover of "Blue Skies"is presented. It's un...

An announcer at WBGO for more than a decade, as well as a fixture at SiriusXM, Eulis Cathey died on April 27. His colleague, friend and fellow Buffalo native Sheila Anderson remembers him fondly.

Best Comic of the Week: SWORD #5 – In the aftermath of the King in Black event, it’s time to resurrect the people who died fighting Knull on Krakoa.  Magneto has requested that Fabian Cortez be bumped up the queue, but largely, it seems, in order to humiliate him in front of the Quiet Council.  Cortez has never been an interesting or likeable character until Al Ewing got his hands on him, so I enjoyed this issue.  I also like the way Ewing is building on events that have happened in his Guardians of the Galaxy run (Snarkwar), and is quietly taking over his own corner of the Marvel Univ...

New Music Reviews (4/5) KEXP Each week, Music Director Don Yates (joined this week by DJ Abbie) shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases for KEXP's rotation. These reviews help our DJs decide on what they want to play. See what we added this week below (and on our Charts page), including new releases from serpentwithfeet, DEACON (Secretly Canadian) The excellent second album from this Baltimore-bred, LA-based artist (aka Josiah Wise) brings a more optimistic perspective to his expansive R&B/gospel-influenced sound, forsaking the dark, sometimes stormy textures and tor...