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JazzTimesScenesThe Good Bye of The Bad Plus: Reid Anderson, Dave King Plot Next Moves W ith their September 20 date at Tulsa’s LowDown, The Bad Plus truly began their march to finality, with a several-night last stand at The …

JazzTimesScenesThe Outpouring: Tenor Saxophonist-Composer Kevin Sun’s New Two-Volume Enterprise T he titles of tenor saxophonist Kevin Sun’s two new quartet releases, Kevin Sun I. and Kevin Sun II., seem to suggest he is making …

JazzTimesScenesVox: The Return of Our Monthly Vocal Jazz Column T he human voice has a million divergent roots, all growing wildly and wonderfully. Christopher Loudon knew that. The Toronto-based writer understood that so intimately …

JazzTimesScenesVox: The Return of Our Monthly Vocal Jazz Column T he human voice has a million divergent roots, all growing wildly and wonderfully. Christopher Loudon knew that. The Toronto-based writer understood that so intimately …

JazzTimesScenesBook Review: Music Sets You Free T here is, in reality, a virtual me. This virtual me will not age, and will continue to play the piano for years, decades, centuries. …

JazzTimesScenesTouring the Japanese Jazz-Cumbia-Afrobeat-Folk Interiors of Your Mind with Minyo Crusaders I f you were to take the art of min’yō at face value, you would focus on its happy histories of Japanese folk singing, its …

JazzTimesScenesThe Big Tree that Moved: A Celebration of the Life and Music of Sonny Rollins, Cathedral of Saint John the Divine O n September 19 the jazz community and members of the public gathered at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York to …

JazzTimesScenesThe Powerhouse: Drummer-Composer Cindy Blackman Santana Finds Clarity with Coherence E ven if you’d never heard Cindy Blackman Santana play one note or compose one track, as she’s done, prodigiously and voluminously, on leader albums …

JazzTimesScenesThe Thrak-Attack Post-Jazz of Stick Men: Inventive String Sounds from Tony Levin and Markus Reuter N either bassist Tony Levin nor guitarist Markus Reuter needs me to credit their jazz chops beyond their more populist day jobs with the likes …

JazzTimesScenesSkylar Tang, Miranda Agnew Play 24th Annual Festival of New Trumpet Music (FONT) T he Dave Douglas–founded FONT (Festival of New Trumpet) Music is spread across several New York venues through September 20, including Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, …
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