Sacred Music, Secular Spaces — The Spiritual Jazz of Rico Jones
The saxophonist's debut album 'BloodLines' draws from Indigenous, Hispanic, and African American traditions to create a suite that follows the arc of a hero's journey.
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We Are Floating in Space — Jane Ira Bloom's Jazz Odyssey
Saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom's album 'Songs in Space' brings together her pioneering approach to surround sound jazz, a vision of music in zero gravity, and a belief that silence gives the brain time to process music moving through dimensions.
Sean Imboden Finds Community Beyond the Big Band
The saxophonist and composer left Broadway's steady income to lead a seventeen-piece ensemble in Indianapolis. His latest album, 'Communal Heart,' proves that creative independence can flourish outside traditional industry expectations.
Fragments of Revelation — A Lost Conversation with Matthew Shipp & Ivo Perelman
A technical failure erased the interview, but the spiritual dimensions of 'Armageddon Flower,' Shipp and Perelman's forty-sixth collaboration together, prove more durable than digital memory.
Words That Float — Ingrid Laubrock Discovers Music Inside Koans
The saxophonist and composer transforms Erica Hunt's enigmatic fragments into 'Purposing the Air,' a double album that pairs poetry with four carefully chosen vocal-instrumental duos.
Noah Preminger and the Saxophone as a Vehicle for Life
The Boston-area tenor saxophonist refuses to let jazz orthodoxy dictate his artistic path. His latest album, 'Ballads,' reveals how moving through different musical territories deepens what happens within the song.
Numbers into Notes — Daniel Pelton Reclaims Holocaust Tattoos Through Melody
Calgary saxophonist Daniel Pelton transforms concentration camp tattoos into musical progressions using historical instruments once owned by Holocaust victims, creating a powerful tribute that reclaims dehumanized numbers through artistic expression.
Nicola Miller Lets Nature Write the Music's Score
The saxophonist's debut album 'Living Things' emerges from long walks and patient observation along Nova Scotia's coastline, creating music that breathes with its maritime environment.
Jonathon Grasse and the Enduring Echo of Eric Dolphy
The biography 'Jazz Revolutionary' illuminates the complex world of Eric Dolphy through meticulous research and fresh interviews. Grasse discusses his decade-long quest to understand one of jazz's most enigmatic voices.
Six Musicians, Zero Compromise — Meet Spinifex
'Undrilling the Hole,' the new album from Amsterdam's most uncompromising band, proves that experimental music can be both cerebrally challenging and viscerally thrilling.
Dancing About Architecture with Bennett Wood
Bennett Wood, musician, composer and educator, joins us to mark his debut album as a leader, 'Space in Time'
Dancing About Architecture with Hiruy Tirfe
The Philadelphia saxophonist joins us hot on the heels of taking First Place at the 2024 DC JazzPrix Festival