As homecomings go, this one was a rip-snorter! Bill Laurance – who started his career as Snarky Puppy’s keyboardist but has over the last six years garnered more renown arguably as a solo artist – told an anecdote he had shared [...]
Over the last decade, Norway has become a reliable source of great, modern jazz music. Like their North Sea natural gas, Norway’s jazz culture – supported nobly, one might add, by their government – seems to have limitless reserves of [...]
Matthew Stevens should fall off his bike more often. It’s not that I’m wishing any harm should come to the Canadian guitarist, who recently celebrated becoming a US citizen, but rather it’s a comment on the quality of his playing [...]
Can we ever truly know ourselves and the universe around us? The Danish physicist Niels Bohr – father of quantum physics – was said to believe that any true understanding of space and time was impossible. The trio Nova, based [...]
Swedish guitarist Pål Nyberg is a standard-bearer for straight-no-chaser jazz guitar, a player who combines composed melody and improvisation so well that you don’t notice where one ends and the other begins. Marketed as ‘cool jazz’ in the press release [...]
