Freedom To Spend, a sub-label of the Brooklyn-based music institution RVNG Intl., is to reissue Ernest Hood’s privately-pressed 1975 album, Neighborhoods. The calming LP hears Hood — a Portland-based jazz musician whose zither work can be heard on Flora Purim’s album Butterfly…
Guitarist and songwriter Ryley Walker has compiled the forthcoming ninth volume of Tompkins Square’s Imaginational…
Digital platform Música Macondo have announced the first release on their newly founded record label:…
Chicago-based vocalist and songwriter Jamila Woods made an appearance on the Song Exploder podcast this week,…
It’s fair to say that Moon Hooch are crushing it in 2019. The Brooklyn-based trio have released a succession of stellar tracks, including one in collaboration with Tonio Sagan, grandson of the late Carl Sagan (who chaired the NASA committee behind the…
Fifty years ago, The Beatles were in the throes of recording Abbey Road. Overcoming the tension…
The GRAMMY award-winning pianist and songwriter Dr. John passed away yesterday, aged 77. A Rock…
Yesterday, David Brewis of the Sunderland-based outfit Field Music surprised fans with the release of…
Intriguing, dedicated, elusive, resolute, scholarly, unpredictable, uncompromising. The accounts that have attempted to chronicle the storied life of trumpeter Dizzy Reece have painted the picture of an artist who is all of the aforementioned things. Yet not a one has been…
Nestled between countries in Europe, Asia and Africa, Greece is positioned at the crossroads of…
English traditional music is often associated with Romantic imaginaries of ‘green and pleasant lands’ and…
The traditional and popular music of Cuba is amongst the most widely known and enjoyed…
Ahead of his ‘Black Notes from the Deep’ performance with Courtney Pine and Omar at Band on the Wall, we caught up with bassist Vidal Montgomery to discuss his technique, and to get some tips for new musicians. Thumbnail photo:…
Ahead of his ‘Black Notes from the Deep’ performance with Courtney Pine and Omar at…
Ahead of his ‘Black Notes from the Deep’ performance with Courtney Pine and Omar at…
Ahead of his ‘Black Notes from the Deep’ performance with Courtney Pine at Band on…
