The following is jazz journalist Morgan Enos’s interview with pianist and composer Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol. His new album, 7 Shades of Melancholia, featuring trumpeter Ingrid Jensen, soprano saxophonist Lihi Haruvi-Means, bassist James Heazlewood-Dale, and George Lernis on drums and gong, [...]
Vocalist/pianist Champian Fulton and saxophonist/clarinetist Klas Lindquist are releasing their debut album as a duo, At Home, on 2 May via Turtle Bay Records. Links to the label’s and artists’ websites can be found at the end of this article. [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and pianist Spike Wilner, who co-owns and operates the indispensable NYC clubs Smalls and Mezzrow. Wilner’s new album, The Children and the Warlock – a tribute to his late mentor, [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and alto saxophonist, composer, and author Jim Snidero. His new album, Bird Feathers, a tribute to Charlie Parker, features bassist Peter Washington and drummer Joe Farnsworth, and was released 21 [...]
The following is jazz journalist Morgan Enos’s interview with saxophonist, arranger, and composer Pureum Jin, baritone saxophonist Lauren Sevian, and saxophonist, flautist, clarinetist, composer, arranger, and educator Erena Terakubo. They are three fourths of The Empress, an all-female saxophone quartet, [...]
The following is jazz journalist Morgan Enos’s interview with pianist, composer, arranger, and educator Caili O’Doherty. Her new album, Bluer Than Blue, out 7 March via Outside In Music, celebrates the legacy of pianist, composer, and arranger Lil Hardin Armstrong. [...]
The following is jazz journalist Morgan Enos’s interview with two-time Grammy-winning Louis Armstrong historian, author, and archivist Ricky Riccardi. His latest book, Stomp Off, Let’s Go: The Early Years of Louis Armstrong – the third in a trilogy about the [...]
Morgan Enos writes: “Apologies for this one-off Tuesday publication — instead of the column’s titular Monday. But my interview with saxophonist and educator Alexa Tarantino needed to be lined up with Tarantino’s touring schedule….” Last year, longtime Jazz at Lincoln [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and pianist, composer, and vocalist Rachel Eckroth, along with drummer, percussionist, and composer John Hadfield. The duo’s debut album, Speaking in Tongues, will be released 28 February via Adhyâropa Records. [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and drummer, composer, and educator Douglas Marriner. Marriner appeared as Johnny Cash’s drummer, W.S. Holland, in the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, which was released in the UK on [...]
