Having released his independent debut album Live at the Olde Mill at age nine and establishing himself as a major presence as a prolific jazz pianist throughout his teens, one of the greatest challenges for Matt Savage has been shaking the “child prodigy” tag. Launching his wildly adventurous, invitingly retro cool yet dynamically progressive jazz-rock-funk-soul fusion sextet the Matt Savage Groove Experiment in 2018 – two years after his last solo album Piano Voyages, No. 12

While the first year of the pandemic was stressful and anxiety filled for all of us, it was especially challenging for musicians and artists whose livelihood depends on the opportunity to perform live for audiences at clubs and festival slates and on tour. Amazingly, many artists took advantage of their down time from the stage and road to create unique, in the moment weekly streaming experiences (ranging from informal Facebook Live sessions to more elaborate technologically

As veteran composer-synthesist Meg Bowles boldly ventures from her early 2022 epic album Pilgrimage to explore, on her latest recording, the deep and resonant Voices from the Ethereal Forest, it’s interesting to note that she has capped her three decades of recording with two transcendent releases in a single calendar year – perfectly bookending her auspicious start as a sonically innovative force in ambient-orchestral new age music with her 1993 debut collections Inner Space

Emerging singer-songwriter Paul West’s earthy, down home storytelling skills, sometimes raucous, often heartfelt vocal delivery and powerhouse songs covering all sorts of romantic feelings and world-wise life philosophies are so brilliant, engaging, on fire and on point, we can only spout an old shopworn saying when we first roll through the 13 dynamic tracks of his debut album Eight Palms Ranch: Where’s this dude been hiding from fans of folk country, buoyant rock blues and

Though Curtis Nowosad has been a major force in The Harlem Sessions local arts collective for about a decade and released two previous albums in 2012 (The Skeptic & the Cynic) and 2015 (Dialectics), I first caught the ongoing wave of the socially conscious drummer/composer’s fascinating and visionary artistry in 2019, when I had the opportunity to interview him to write a bio for his epic third self-titled album. The groundbreaking, jazz and blues driven album marked the now

A still active figure specializing in super-galactic, ever-evolving and super inventive free jazz for over five decades, five string double bassist Steve Tintweiss is perhaps still best known for his contributions to the avant-garde music of the late 60’s and early 70s as a sideman and creator of the septet The Purple Why. His legacy also includes the Spacelight Band, which he founded in 1976 and led until 2003. The fifth archive release produced for the INKY DoT MEDIA label,

Though From a Window to a Screen is billed as the debut album by the exquisite and sensual North Carolina based vocalist Kirsten Lambert, in essence it’s an exquisite duo project with longtime friend and creative collaborator Chris Stamey, who wrote and produced the 12 beautiful, soulful and remarkably intimate ballad driven set. Though the ensemble the two gathered for the sessions include jazz greats like guitarists Bill Frisell and Nels Cline (who both add harmonic sparkle

The experience of listening to jazz is so stimulating and engaging on purely sonic and rhythmic levels, so it’s easy to overlook the genre’s powerful history as a tool, and sometimes a joyous, inspiring, bullhorn – for sociopolitical change. Because it’s all about sustainability and the future of our lives and the lives of future generation, no issue is more crucial to address and confront these days than climate change. For all the meaningful policies governments of the worl