This isn’t just a label history—it’s a pressure map of postwar jazz, where heat, hustle, and happenstance collide. Artist, poet, and writer Tad Richards packs a lot of story into twenty-five chapters, covering highlights and not-so-highlights in his examination of Prestige Records. The captivating story of the label’s founder, Bob Weinstock, isn’t framed as mythology, […]
Fernando Perdomo continues with a dazzling selection of releases for 2026. He recently released his ‘Canyon Trilogy from the forthcoming Perdomo/Kravitz album. This highly anticipated project features songs written by Perdomo with drums, percussion, and soundscapes by Andy Kravitz. Also, Perdomo released a brilliant and unanticipated cover of “Days We Left Behind”. The song was […]
Some albums hit you on beat one. ‘Niebla’ rolls in like fog. NYC-based, Puerto Rican-born guitarist/composer/visual artist Gabriel Vicéns built a world here, not just a record. He fuses Afro–Puerto Rican bomba and plena with New York School experimentalism a la Morton Feldman and John Cage, free jazz, and Cuban changüí. The result is boundary-pushing […]
This isn’t a live album. It’s what happens after the songs outgrow their original shapes. When the road pushes them forward, the studio simply documents the mutation. Across Transmutations, Balthazar Aguirre (guitar/production), Johanna Mercuriana (bass), and Santiago Lizcano (drums) operate less like a trio and more like a single, evolving pulse, with Vanessa Muñoz, their […]
Some singers interpret the Great American Songbook, while others restore it—grain, patina, and all. Recorded at the Appel Room, “Live at Jazz at Lincoln Center” finds Catherine Russell doing the latter in real time, backed by a band that treats history as a living language rather than a museum artifact. This isn’t nostalgia; it’s transmission. […]
Principle isn’t just a title, it’s a thesis. Dennis Atlas builds this record from the inside out: instinct vs. intention, control vs. surrender. The songs were born in hotel rooms, finished in studios, and sharpened by a cast that only appears when the music demands it—not before. The result? A solo album that plays like a band statement […]
Some reissues polish history, and then there are reissues that remind you that the future already happened. Vámonos pa’l monteis the latter. Rereleased by Craft Recordings on high-quality, heavy vinyl—and marking the first such rerelease of an Eddie Palmieri album, it was originally cut in 1971, but still argues that tomorrow. This remastered all-analog edition […]
By the time Home By Dawn arrived in 1984, J.D. Souther had already cemented his reputation as one of the architects of the Southern California songwriting sound. Produced by David Malloy, the album threads together country, rock, and roots influences with a Nashville session polish. Souther even handles drums on the record, while elite players—including […]
In this exclusive interview, guitarist Alex Wintz discusses the making of his new album Collage, recorded live in a single day at Octaven Studios. Wintz opens up about the personal life changes that shaped the music, his evolving approach to guitar, and the balance between composition and spontaneity. He also details collaborations with Victor Gould, […]
Singer Solitaire Miles has impressive jazz credentials forged by many nights in the most prestigious jazz clubs in Chicago and New York. It is in New Work in the mid ’90s, while working with trumpeter Doc Cheatham that she leaned even more toward swing. Given Miles’ musical education, her Susie Blue persona may come as […]
