Close to the Edit With Crying Laughing
Christian Best and Jen Kirby of Crying Laughing talk through the making of ‘Talking,’ from Moondog’s melodic percussion to the Baltimore scene that delivered the rest of the band.
Jazz
Mark Isham’s Harnessed Noise
On ‘At the Carousel Club,’ Mark Isham turns a wall of vintage synthesizers, Nels Cline, and a string quartet loose, all while keeping the editor in his head at bay.
Photographing from the Inside — Don Schlitten's Quarter Century in Jazz
Producer, art director, and label owner, Don Schlitten photographed jazz from a 1957 Monk set at the Five Spot through the Newport festivals of the sixties, and 'Love and Understanding' brings out the photographs that stayed inside jazz circles for decades.
Azar Lawrence Is the Lineage
Half a century after the Prestige trilogy, the tenor saxophonist marks 'Turn the Music Up' with an account of Horace Tapscott's Los Angeles, McCoy Tyner's touch, Pharoah Sanders's generosity, and a practice routine he hasn't altered since he was a teenager.
The Whole of Me — Terri Lyne Carrington Beyond the Drum Kit
The NEA Jazz Master and four-time Grammy winner talks through a dance album about deportation and prison abolition, the Buddhist line she lives by, and the years she has gone without proper time to practice drums.
Katsumasa Kusunose Photographs the Vanishing World of Japan's Jazz Kissa
The Japanese writer and photographer has visited roughly four hundred jazz kissa over fifty years; his book 'Jazz Kissa' is a record of what remains, assembled from dim rooms, Altec A7 speakers, and the silences between tracks.
Steven Bernstein, No Permission Required
The New York trumpeter, composer, and bandleader behind Sexmob and the Millennial Territory Orchestra returns with a pair of linked albums, 'ResoNation Trio' and 'Ultra Resonance,' and talks trumpet trios, dub reinvention, Levon Helm's Rambles, and the downtown scene that formed him.
Cento Threeo — Always Halfway There
Don Cento of the Austin trio Cento Threeo discusses the band's debut album 'Halfway to Mellowtown' and its jazz and Americana roots, the Ahmad Jamal influence, and a creative process built on long friendships rather than deliberate genre strategy.
Scrimshire's Light in the Woodside
Founder of Albert's Favourites and Wah Wah 45s veteran Adam Scrimshire talks through 'Bring Our Light to Every Corner,' his new album built on four years of looking for personal peace, the grimness of the UK political moment, and the music community he named for his granddad's cassettes.
Inside Alden Hellmuth's Tethered Galaxy
Saxophonist and composer Alden Hellmuth discusses growing up in Hartford's Jackie McLean tradition, her mentorship under Herbie Hancock, and the double-bass lineup behind her new album, 'Tether.'
Dave Douglas — The Sacred and the Unfinished
On 'Transcend,' his second record with the GIFTS quintet, Dave Douglas reflects on Ellington's Sacred Concerts, the slab paintings of Jack Whitten, and the moment Booker Little broke the dam for a generation of trumpeter-composers.
Ethan Helm's Geography of Loops
Inspired by the geological scale of Japan and the productive accidents of a standard looping pedal, Ethan Helm's 'Dreamscapes' extends a jazz improviser's instincts into the territory of self-reliance.