Morgan Enos, who writes the regular Mondays with Morgan column for us, grew up in Southern California. Here is his personal tribute to Brian Wilson: Professionally writing about jazz over the past five or six years has been a clinic [...]
The following is an interview with arranger and bandleader Mark Masters. His ensemble’s new albums, Sam Rivers 100 and Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance!, pay homage to two singular tenor saxophonists and composers: Sam Rivers and Billy Harper. Links to Masters’ [...]
The following is an interview with Russian-born, New York-based jazz vocalist, bandleader, songwriter, and educator Svetlana. Her new EP, Reel to Remix: Night at the Movies Reimagined – a reimagining of her 2019 album Night at the Movies – was [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and pianist, composer, arranger, educator, and lecturer Eric Scott Reed. His new album, Out Late, featuring trumpeter Nicholas Payton, tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander, bassist Peter Washington, and drummer Joe Farnsworth, [...]
The following is jazz journalist Morgan Enos’ review of the U.S. premiere of Carla Bley’s Escalator Over the Hill, at the New School in New York City, on May 2. Despite the event being more than a half-century in the [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and pianist/composer Shai Maestro. His new album, Solo: Miniatures & Tales, was released 2 May via naïve records. Links to stream the album and to Maestro’s website can be found [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and Israel-born, New York-based guitarist/composer Gilad Hekselman. His new album with bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Marcus Gilmore, Downhill From Here, was released 25 April via La Reserve Records. Links [...]
The following is jazz journalist Morgan Enos’s interview with pianist and electronicist Vijay Iyer and trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith. Their second duo album, Defiant Life, was released 21 March via ECM Records. Links to purchase the album, and [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and jazz pianist, organist, composer, and arranger Larry Goldings. His new album, I Will, featuring bassist Karl McComas-Reichl and drummer Christian Euman, was released 14 February via Sam First Records. [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and saxophonist Matthew Muñeses with harpist Riza Printup. Their new album, Pag-Ibig Ko Vol. 1, will be released 4 April via Irabbagast Records. Links to both artists’ websites can be [...]
