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GBH's All Things Considered host Arun Rath speaks to composer, performer and co-chair of the New England Conservatory's Jazz Studies program Ken Schaphorst about his upcoming concert at Cambridge's Regattabar.
PopMatters jazz critic Will Layman rounds up the best new jazz albums of recent vintage, including some thoughts about the US festival season and Warren Wolf.
Kassa Overall isnât being glib when he calls his Shades of Flu series âCOVID-themed.â It was cruel that the pandemic hit America at the same time the Brooklyn-based drummer-producerâs excellent second album, I Think Iâm Good, dropped, forcing him to go to ground when he should have been out riding the crest of a wave. Remixing has provided an outlet during this strange period in the jazz world. By taking apart old records and piecing them back together in audacious new ways, Shades of Flu encapsulates the adaptability of musicians forced to create in their bedrooms...
I can think of no better summation of our shared experience over the last year than "A World Lost," the title of the piece that opens Maria
Maria Schneider (center) whose album Data Lords was one of 2020's most acclaimed jazz albums, performs with her orchestra at the New York City club Jazz Standard, where the group had an 16-year annual Thanksgiving week performance that was interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Gulnara Khamatova / Courtesy of the artist Originally published on January 15, 2021 11:29 am I can think of no better summation of our shared experience over the last year than "A World Lost," the title of the piece that opens Maria Schneider's Data Lords. A slow, foreboding dirge in an oblong time signature, it...