Krakauer's Ancestral Groove: Checkpoint

Clarinetist David Krakauer has been exploring his Eastern European Jewish background through music for the past quarter century. He's managed to touch on his roots in varied ways during that time, tapping into Jewish history with some help from the Kronos Quartet on The Dreams And Prayers Of Isaac T... [ read more ]

Krakauer's Ancestral Groove: Checkpoint

Clarinetist David Krakauer has been exploring his Eastern European Jewish background through music for the past quarter century. He's managed to touch on his roots in varied ways during that time, tapping into Jewish history with some help from the Kronos Quartet on The Dreams And Prayers Of Isaac T... [ read more ]

Daniel Freedman: Imagine That

Few can match drummer m: Daniel Freedman when it comes to pan-stylistic jazz presentations that cut across cultural lines. This lifelong New Yorker has found a way to bridge sonic worlds, erase boundary lines, and merge various musical languages in masterful fashion in his own work and i... [ read more ]

Daniel Freedman: Imagine That

Few can match drummer m: Daniel Freedman when it comes to pan-stylistic jazz presentations that cut across cultural lines. This lifelong New Yorker has found a way to bridge sonic worlds, erase boundary lines, and merge various musical languages in masterful fashion in his own work and i... [ read more ]

Pram Trio: Saga Thirteen

To the casual observer, a perambulator--pram, for short--is simply what it appears to be: a baby carriage. But to the pram's inhabitant(s), it's something else entirely. To those wee babies, the carriage is, in fact, a world in motion and a home away from home that serves as a vehicle for travel to... [ read more ]

Pram Trio: Saga Thirteen

To the casual observer, a perambulator--pram, for short--is simply what it appears to be: a baby carriage. But to the pram's inhabitant(s), it's something else entirely. To those wee babies, the carriage is, in fact, a world in motion and a home away from home that serves as a vehicle for travel to... [ read more ]

Sari Kessler: Do Right

In just under five minutes--the running time for producer/percussionist m: James Shipp's album-opening arrangement of "Walk On By"--Sari Kessler successfully makes the case that jazz singing is her real mA(C)tier. That particular truth may not have materialized until recent times, as Kessl... [ read more ]