Podcast The Jazz Session With Jason Crane

Guitarist Nico Soffiato’s new album is Just Add Water (nBn Records, 2011). In this interview,...

Bassist Ben Allison delivers an original and exciting take on tunes by everyone from Samuel...

Fred Hersch is back with another solo piano recording, Alone At The Vanguard (Palmetto, 2011)....

Accordion player Rob Curto takes us on a tour of Brazilian choro music. In this...

Bassist Alexis Cuadrado has just released an ambitious nonet album, Noneto Iberico (bjurecords, 2011), inspired...

Saxophonist Sarah Manning brings her personal approach to the sound of the saxophone to her...

Drummer Scott McLemore and the ASA Trio just released a new album of the music...

Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra uses instruments from around the world to put a unique...

Nicholas Urie’s new album, My Garden (Red Piano Records, 2011), features his settings of the...

The Jazz Session started four years ago today with episode #1 — an interview with...

Saxophonist Ralph Bowen returns with Power Play (Posi-Tone, 2011), his third CD in as many...

Music writer and musician Hank Shteamer talks about Mosaic’s new Henry Threadgill boxed set, The...

Saxophonist Jerome Sabbagh teams with guitarist Ben Monder and drummer Daniel Humair on I Will...

Trombonist Brian Drye leads a band of first-call New York players on the album Bizingas...

Portuguese saxophonist Rodrigo Amado’s new album, Searching For Adam (Not Two, 2010), features Taylor Ho...

Trombonist Ray Anderson teams up with longtime friend Marty Ehrlich for the new live record,...

Saxophonist David Binney is one of the most prolific composers on the jazz scene today....

Bassist Robert Hurst has been a first-call musician since his early days with Wynton and...

Pianist Lynne Arriale’s new CD, Convergence (Motema, 2011), is her second album to feature a...

Gerald Cleaver’s new album, Be It As I See It (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2011),...