Colin Hancock isn’t just a musician; he’s a time traveler with a cornet and a clipboard. On A Texas-Sized Band, his Austin-based Joymakers expand to a ten-piece powerhouse, digging deep into the “territory band” sounds of the 1920s and ’30s. Hancock, hot on the heels of his collaboration with Catherine Russell last year (Colin Hancock’s Jazz Hounds […]
There’s a difference between an album that collects sounds and one that moves through them. Wavelength is the latter—fluid, searching, and quietly ambitious. Shane Sato doesn’t just blend jazz, indie R&B, and soul; he treats them like currents in the same body of water, shifting tempo and temperature without breaking the surface tension. Wavelength finds […]
Preston Frazier: Welcome back to the Slang of Ages.com. We have a very special guest here: Bobby Broom, to discuss his trio’s new album, Notes of Thanks. The album is already out. You can find it on Bandcamp or through Bobby’s website at Bobby Broom Official Website. I think the last time we had you […]
There’s something quietly disarming about Willingness. Paul Kahn doesn’t posture as a late-career revelation—he leans into lived-in truths, letting the songs breathe with the ease of someone who’s done the long walk. With Catherine Russell steering the session, the record feels less like a comeback and more like a gathering of stories, of players, of time itself. The Grammy-nominated Kahn […]
There’s a difference between tribute and testimony. Plenty revisit the canon. Bobby Broom rewrites his relationship to it. Notes of Thanks isn’t about playing Sonny Rollins—it’s about tracing the imprint Rollins left behind, one line at a time. Broom has been on a quiet run: Jamalot Live (2024), the poised Keyed Up (2022), plus production […]
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. […]
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