October 31, 2012
Download a free 5-song sampler from our 2012 releases.
October 15, 2012
As the tenth Festival of New Trumpet Music drew to a close I found myself sitting back enjoying the challenging new piece Tom Harrell wrote for the festival. Tom put a lot of work into the suite. He and the band, with Mark Turner, Ugonna Okegwa, and Adam Cruz dug into it with relish. It was such a pleasure to witness the birth of a new music so ambitious, heartfelt, and totally 'lived.' On reflection I realized it was a feeling I was blessed to have many times during this year's events.
October 12, 2012
You can't deny the power of raw talent in music, but it is possible there is an even greater strength in the human capacity for ...
October 11, 2012
October 9, 2012
Dave Douglas' Be Still (on the trumpeter's own Greenleaf Music label) is his most sheer-gorgeous album since the 1998 Charms of the Night Sky and one of the best-sounding new recordings that I've heard by anybody in quite a while. And it's available on LP as well as CD (more about which, later).
October 4, 2012
September 26, 2012
What values does a jazz education offer beyond the music itself?
September 24, 2012
September 20, 2012
September 19, 2012
Dave Douglas and Donny McCaslin each say down with Grammy.com for an interview after the Detroit Jazz Festival earlier this summer. Each are celebrating new albums this month: Dave's "Be Still" is available now (at Greenleaf and iTunes, and Donny's "Casting For Gravity"hits October 2nd (preorder at Greenleaf and iTunes)
