Staff Benda Bilili
Read the backstory on these guys, and you'll think they're superheroes. Paraplegic street musicians who tool around the streets of Kinshasa in the Democratic...
Sam Sadigursky
It would be wrong to call Words Project III Miniatures a "poetry-jazz" record. To many folks, that description evokes a '50s movie cliché of...
Tom Waits
Waits has had quite an odyssey, from Troubador doorman to protégé of Frank Zappa manager Herb Cohen (who sponsored the recordings released as two...
Tommy Alverson
A Tommy Alverson live performance with his band at a smoky dancehall is something to see as well as to hear. Alverson's die-hard fans...
The Shortest Distance
The Shortest Distance is an alias for activist Ramsey Sprague, an early driving force behind the 1919 Hemphill radical arts/educational collective. Folks might not...
The Crash That Took Me
Huge, shimmering, occasionally fuzzy guitars. Pounding, splashing drums and syrupy atmospherics. Slinky, androgynous vocals that slowly transmit Beatles-esque melodies with lyrics about transmutation, self-reflection,...
Breaking Light
Breaking Light is yet another performing alias of Burleson-based guitarist Kavin Allenson (who usually goes by "Kavin." with the period). Aside from performing solo...
Jhon Kahsen Quartet
Everyone knows Johnny Case as that guy who's played straight-ahead piano jazz at Sardines Ristorante Italiano every night for nearly 30 years. Folks even...
Erik Deutsch
The Colorado jam band scene and the Brooklyn avant-garde would seem to be as mutually exclusive as oil and water, but this disc proves...
Jon Irabagon
As the new millennium approaches the end of its first decade and folks who habitually worry about such things ponder the death of jazz...
