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The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and drummer Rodrigo Recabarren, pianist Yago Vazquez, and bassist Pablo Menares. Recabarren and Menares hail from Argentina, Vazquez from Spain. Their new album, Familia, was released 23 February via Greenleaf [...]
Separate from his regular Mondays with Morgan column, jazz journalist Morgan Enos reached out to two NYC jazz veterans – saxophonist Vincent Herring and drummer Joe Farnsworth – to discuss their roles in the swinging legacy of Smoke Jazz Club, [...]
This week’s edition of Mondays with Morgan is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and Adam Deitch, a venerated drummer who plays in the long-running psychedelic funk band Lettuce, as well as Break Science and the Adam Deitch Quartet. [...]
Gretchen Parlato and Lionel Loueke(Kings Place Hall One. 11 July 2024. Review by Tom Step) International jazz icons Gretchen Parlato and Lionel Loueke played their first show in London since the release of their duo album ‘Lean In’ in May [...]
Kenny Barron, Immanuel Wilkins, Steve Nelson, Kiyoshi Kitagawa, Johnathan Blake – Beyond This Place(Artwork Records/ [PIAS]. Album review by Len Weinreich) Last year, reviewing his previous album release, I described jazz master Kenny Barron as a revered pianist with formidable [...]
The death of Jim Rotondi, trumpeter and faculty member at the University of Graz, at the age of just 61 has been announced by his wife Julie on Facebook: “Dear all, this is with immense sadness that I have to [...]
Zev Feldman’s Jazz Detective record label keeps cracking cold cases, and with some great results. This time it’s a slice of classic Sun Ra recorded in 1976 and ’77 at Joe Segal’s Jazz Showcase in Chicago. At this point in [...]
What a great little club: fabulous sound and a wonderfully attentive listening audience. Zig Zag is in Friedenau, a residential area about 5km south-west of Berlin’s other top club, the A-Trane which is just by the Ku-Damm and much more [...]
