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In January of 2015, guitarist Hans Ottsen settled into The Beanpot Studio in West Orange, New…

At Stadtgarten Köln, Chamber Trio Brings Intense Focus to a Single Note

Nestled in one of Köln’s oldest parks, hidden behind a popular restaurant and sprawling beer garden,…

Mike Watt, Brandon Seabrook and Mike Pride Bake Another Deliciously Melodic and Free Three-Layer Cake

Three guys walk into a bar — or a virtual recording studio — and create rattling,…

New York Jazz Workshop goes to Brazil

We had a fantastic time in Brazil. It was a first for the New York Jazz…

The Distilled Sounds Of Melodic Minor

The melodic minor scale (in its ascending form) is notoriously elusive for intermediate jazz students. It…

Südtirol Jazz Festival 2025: Floating Through Sound

Some jazz festivals are a bit like cults: People either haven’t heard of them or they’re…

Satoko Fujii’s Maze of Music

Freer than free when it comes to the avant-garde music of friction and fracture, yet equally…

My Time with Pat Martino: From Admiration to Friendship and Musical Enlightenment

Life is a beautiful journey, made all the more so by the people we spend our…