Scofield’s albums Loud Jazz and Quiet were both genuine expressions of his flexible musical personality. In this program, he performs a retrospective that bridges the difference.
Lafayette Gilchrist Plays The ‘Blues For Freddie Gray’
The jazz pianist’s latest album with his go-go backing band features a powerful song he wrote in tribute to the young Baltimore man who died in 2015 of injuries sustained in police custody.
Fascinating Algorithm: Dan Tepfer’s Player Piano Is His Composing Partner
Tepfer sees jazz as the pursuit of freedom within a framework — a premise that underlies his work with improvisational algorithms and a Yamaha Disklavier. He unpacks the project in this video.
‘Here Come The Girls’… Again
Drummer Stanton Moore — a founding member of the funk band Galactic — has a new release with “Here Come the Girls” on a tribute album to the late songwriting producer Allen Toussaint.