The nonprofit Music in Exile brought six musicians from Australia, Senegal, and Burkina Faso to a studio on Hydra. The resulting album cuts a direct path between West African folk traditions and sharp, present-tense jazz.
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The nonprofit Music in Exile brought six musicians from Australia, Senegal, and Burkina Faso to a studio on Hydra. The resulting album cuts a direct path between West African folk traditions and sharp, present-tense jazz.
The pianist’s fifth album as leader applies episodic composition to a close-knit quintet, prioritizing equilibrium over virtuosity.
The Bird and the Bee singer gathers decades-old songs from a forgotten theater piece, reimagining them with jazz arrangements and bringing them to the stage for the first time.
The lawsuit, filed after Chuck Redd pulled out of a Christmas concert following the name change to include Donald Trump, was thrown out for lack of a signed contract.
The saxophonist, who died at 95, built a catalogue that reshaped jazz improvisation not through grand statements, but through relentless, in-the-moment invention.
The saxophonist who never stopped pushing beyond his own legend leaves behind a career that traced the full arc of jazz, from bebop to his own uncompromising future.
The saxophonist behind *Saxophone Colossus* and a string of essential live and studio dates died at his home in Woodstock. He was 95.
The trumpeter, born 100 years ago, treated every new sound as a necessity, never a betrayal. His records still refuse to age quietly.
In the first edition of This Week’s Four, our new weekly series that selects four artists from submissions to ROMBO’s Instagram Open Call, LA singer-songwriter O Warwick leads with his debut single. “Lonely Creek” drifts through forest memory and self-recognition with a voice that is both grounded and luminous.
Alive with Ghosts Today traces the story of the abolitionist uprising through an ensemble that pairs Bill Frisell’s guitar with violin, clarinet, and trombone.
