Podcast The Jazz Session With Jason Crane

Drummer Kobie Watkins got his start in the world of gospel music in Chicago. He...

Saxophonist Chris Potter’s new album, Ultrahang (ArtistShare, 2009), is an exploration of groove and melody....

Before he began writing about basketball at freedarko.com and in FreeDarko presents The Macrophenomenal Pro...

Saxophonist Eric Alexander has forged a multi-decade career out of one simple concept: “To thine...

Saxophonist Sonny Simmons is the subject of a new documentary now in production called Just...

Drummer and percussionist James Shipp is making music without borders. With his band Nos Novo,...

Cooper-Moore is a musical renaissance man. He’s a pianist who also invents and builds his...

You’d think that helping to invent a new genre of music and being the first...

Drummer Ted Sirota is using his powers for good. On his most recent album, Seize...

Willard Jenkins is a jazz broadcaster and blogger, and a consultant to jazz artists and...

Guitarist Rez Abbasi continues his rhythmic and harmonic explorations on Things To Come (Sunnyside, 2009)....

Infernal Machines (New Amsterdam Records, 2009), the debut CD from composer Darcy James Argue’s Secret...

Sam Rivers is a musical renaissance man. He’s performed in big bands, bop bands, R&B...

Guitarist Dom Minasi’s most recent recording, Dissonance Makes The Heart Grow Fonder (Konnex, 2009), features...

Luis Bonilla blends humor, adventurousness and a passion for his family on his new CD,...

Pianist Eldar came onto the jazz scene as a child prodigy. Now in his early...

Trombonist Wayne Wallace brings a lifetime of jazz, R&B and latin playing together on his...

Paquito D’Rivera is equally at home in the jazz and classical worlds, a fact he...

Harpist Edmar Castaneda combines folkloric music from his native Colombia with jazz and other latin...

On his second album, Escaping Shadows (Concord, 2009), saxophonist Benny Reid continues to explore the...