ARTEMIS—the jazz supergroup comprised of pianist and musical director Renee Rosnes, clarinetist Anat Cohen, tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana, trumpeter Ingrid Jensen, bassist Noriko Ueda, drummer Allison Miller, and featured vocalist Cécile McLorinSalvant—has announced their debut album ARTEMIS, which will be released September 11 on Blue Note Records and is available…
PLEASE EMAIL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES NOW and TELL THEM YOU SUPPORT NITO!!! Congress will be voting THIS MONTH, so we need your help NOW. Ask your legislators to support the RESTART Act, introduced by Senators Young and Bennet, in the Senate, and Representatives Golden and Kelly,…
The long wait for a new The Greyboy Allstars album is over after seven years. Today, the band released Como De Allstars, their first LP since 2013’s Inland Emperor. Formed in the mid-1990s, GBA features guitarist Elgin Park, multi-instrumentalist Karl Denson, keyboardist Robert Walter, bassist Chris Stillwell and drummer Aaron…
via New York Times Since the dawn of the suffrage movement, innumerable queer women — many of them artists — have played a key role in the battle for women’s rights. From suffrage songs to today’s pop hits, how do…
AMERICAN PATCHWORK QUARTET (APQ) is on a mission to reclaim the immigrant soul of American Roots Music. Grammy-nominated vocalist Falu Shah, Grammy-winning guitarist/vocalist Clay Ross, 3x Grammy-winning drummer Clarence Penn, and highly acclaimed bassist Yasushi Nakamura showcase the dynamic diversity of contemporary culture by reimagining timeless…
Twisted Pine Release “Don’t Come Over Tonight,” Reveal Upcoming New Album. “Don’t Come Over Tonight” is one piece of Right Now, out August 14, the third release from Twisted Pine, their follow up to 2018’s Dreams. On Right Now, the band—Parks, along with flautist Anh Phung,…
via Celebrity Access Representatives from 14 of the leading independent music talent agencies have joined together in a coalition to advocate for the success and well-being of its members, the artists they represent and by extension, the music ecosystem. The…
In the first video of his new “Quarantets” series, Sunny Jain gives the title track of his latest album Wild Wild East a new twist with performers from around the world, recording from their own homes. Watch The Video Sunny…
Taking an adventurous new direction, Harold López-Nussa fuses reggaeton and latin jazz with Cuban superstar Randy Malcom of Gente de Zona in his new single JazzTón. “The apparent go-to Cuban jazz pianist[‘s]…latest track ‘JazzTón’ is a super-charged shot of Latin…
“The result is not fusion but coexistence, an interweaving of musical/linguistic threads from Chinese and American heritage in which strands harmonize without losing identity.” Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn is available everywhere now on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Read The Review…