Now more than 40 years into her jazz career, “hard-edged” pianist Marilyn Crispell has learned to value lyricism on her latest album, Trio Tapestry.

Today we present another Top Ten, this one by regular Sweeps Week reviewer Andrey Henkin. 1. Angles 11, Tell them it’s the sound of freedom … Read More "Top Ten Releases of 2025, Henkin Edition"

The guitar great would've turned 62 today (November 8)

Charles Lloyd is always moving forward — writing new songs, creating new bands and trying new concepts. And sometimes that headlong momentum tumbles him right … Read More "Charles Lloyd’s Elegiac Subj...

The Tedeschi Trucks Band, among the most durable inheritors of the Allman Brothers Band’s potent blend of Southern rock, blues, R&B, soul and unrestrained, jazz-influenced … Read More "The Tedeschi Tr...

Researcher Lara Pellegrinelli and students at The New School compiled data from more than 200 jazz education programs for the 2021-22 academic year. The study, … Read More "Mapping the Jazz Faculty…

Here are Andrey Henkin’s monthly picks, coming to you the last Wednesday of the month. George Coleman, With Strings (HighNote Records) Almost exactly 73 years … Read More "Sweeps Week: Top August Jazz...

Source: JazzTimes. Guitarist Julian Lage came through Leeds, United Kingdom, near where I live, on November 23, 2024. This was Lage’s long-awaited solo acoustic tour, the one he never got around to 15 years ago when his stone masterpiece World’s Fair came out (co-produced by fellow six-stringer Matt Munisteri). I couldn’t resist grilling Julian a little bit backstage about John Zorn’s acoustic guitar music, which he’s been quietly documenting for the Tzadik label in duos with Gyan Riley (Terry Riley’s son, pronounced ghee-Yahn), as well as trios with Riley and the great Bill Frisell.

Much about the nature of the second Trump presidency could be grasped throughout 2025 in its imperious conduct toward The Kennedy Center. There have been … Read More "Things Fall Apart: Purging Jazz a...

It’s difficult to say whether bassist, composer and arranger Christian McBride is the most well-liked music personality, jazz or otherwise, in recent memory. That would … Read More "Cruises, Cold Chic...

When Jacob Garchik isn’t busy with the intricacy of guitarist Mary Halvorson’s Amaryllis ensemble or crafting pared-to-the-bone arrangements for the Kronos Quartet, the trombonist-composer is … Read M...

"The Case of the Three Sided Dream" goes inside the multi-instrumentalist's brilliance

Three guys walk into a bar — or a virtual recording studio — and create rattling, calamitous rhythms, slippery edits and freewheeling, squealing, cracking guitar … Read More "Mike Watt, Brandon Seabro...

The best thing about speaking with guitarist-sampler Nate Mercereau and percussionist Carlos Niño — two friends and producers who share the new Openness Trio recording … Read More "A New Language: Ca...

Three guys walk into a bar — or a virtual recording studio — and create rattling, calamitous rhythms, slippery edits and freewheeling, squealing, cracking guitar … Read More "Mike Watt, Brandon Seabro...

I don’t plan one step ahead,” says guitarist and composer Mary Halvorson, chilling between tour dates in her New York home. “I don’t do a … Read More "On About Ghosts, Mary Halvorson Features Sinewy R...

On a Sunday afternoon in June, 21st-century saxophone colossus Joshua Redman and his new quartet’s lyrical pianist Paul Cornish are getting ready for an evening’s … Read More "Hive Mind: Saxophonist J...

'Round Midnight with Dexter Gordon gets about as close as any movie can to understanding the essential life force of jazz.