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Huntress
Huntress is a relatively young band, having been around for just over five years. Vocalist Jill Janus, then going by the name Penelope Tuesdae, hired the Los Angeles-based band Professor to perform at...
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Bill MacKay
Guitarist Bill MacKay is about to release Altamira, his third album with his band Darts & Arrows. The current incarnation of the group features keyboardist Ben Boye, bassist Kyle Hernandez, and...
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For Example
The now-defunct jazz blog Destination: Out has the exclusive license to sell music from the German label FMP (Free Music Production) on Bandcamp. They’ve done a great job of curating the catalog, too,...
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It’s A Man’s World
Earlier this year, the Los Angeles-based independent publisher Feral House released an expanded edition of their 2003 book It’s A Man’s World: Men’s Adventure Magazines, The Postwar Pulps. (Get it from...
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Sacred Goat
Sacred Goat are a metal band from Bogota, Colombia, who’ve been at it since 2010; their debut album, Sinful Self, was released earlier this month. (Buy it from CDBaby.) Their music is a fast, ferocious...
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Frank Rosaly
Percussionist Frank Rosaly is a busy guy. He’s just released his second solo album, and is featured on the latest discs from the Rempis Percussion Quartet and cornet player Josh Berman‘s trio. Malo,...
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The Thing
Scandinavian power-jazz trio The Thing—saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love—are back with Shake!, their first studio album since 2013’s Boot! That...
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Simulacrum
John Zorn‘s latest group, Simulacrum, has come out of the gate fast and hard. They’ve released three albums so far this year—a self-titled debut in March, The True Discoveries of Witches and Demons in...
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Mette Henriette
Norwegian saxophonist and composer Mette Henriette Martedatter Rølvåg‘s debut album as a leader is a self-titled two-CD set, Mette Henriette, on ECM. (Get it from Amazon.) She’s also a member of the...
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Tristan Perich
Composer Tristan Perich has released four CDs this year through the Physical Editions imprint. Each comes in a cardboard sleeve about the size of a DVD case, accompanied by a foldout poster of its...
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Sunn O)))
The new Sunn O))) album, Kannon (get it from Amazon), comes on the heels of two major collaborations—Soused, with vocalist and sonic explorer Scott Walker, and Terrestrials, with the...
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Shareef Clayton
Trumpeter Shareef Clayton has performed with Macy Gray, Melody Gardot, and Bobby Sanabria; he also played on Sanabria’s 2012 album Multiverse, which was nominated for a Grammy. Originally from Miami,...
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Joe Farrell
Noted jazz producer Don Schlitten liked to start record labels. In the 1950s, he launched Signal, which put out a few hard bop titles before being sold to Savoy, and in 1972, he co-founded the...
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Blackstar
The new (and, it seems, final) David Bowie album, Blackstar (get it from Amazon), is superficially less of a conventional rock record than its predecessor, 2013’s impressive The Next Day (reviewed...
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Jeremy Pelt
Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt is on a regular schedule at this point: Every January, he puts out an album, like clockwork, and for the last five years, each one has been very different from the one before. In...
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Interview: Tommy Victor
The latest Prong album, X – No Absolutes, will be released February 5 on Steamhammer/SPV. (Pre-order it from Amazon.) This is the band’s third album since returning from a self-imposed hiatus; like its...
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Interview: Freddie Hendrix
Photo: Anastas Tarpanov Freddie Hendrix is a veteran trumpeter who’s making his debut as a leader 20 years after emerging onto the East Coast scene. Strongly influenced by Freddie Hubbard and Woody...
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John Raymond
Trumpeter John Raymond, whose last album, the excellent Foreign Territory , came out less than a year ago (read an interview here), has a new disc, Real Feels, coming out February 12. (Pre-order it...
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Javon Jackson
Saxophonist Javon Jackson has had one of those careers that’s impressive as hell when you look closely, though he’s remained almost entirely under the radar of everyone but hardcore jazz fans. He got...
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Logan Richardson
Alto saxophonist Logan Richardson‘s third album, Shift, comes out this week on Blue Note. (Get it from Amazon.) It’s his debut for the label, following 2007’s Cerebral Flow, on Fresh Sound New Talent,...
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