jazz

Calling all rockers: Ever wanted to get into jazz but just couldn't learn the language? The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' drummer explains how.

I was fascinated with Igor Stravinsky's 1913 The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du Printemps) long before I realized how radical it was in...

Abandoned City, the newest album from German experimental musician Hauschka, is at once restless, exuberant, and wonderfully intimate.

What do we listen with? Ears. Last October, mine were at a show at New York's Town Hall, where Lake Street Dive did just one song and I thought...

Dianne Reeves is the type of artist I wasn’t supposed to be a fan of: a modern-day chanteuse who encapsulated the dignity, virtuosity and....

Wow. The Talkhouse has asked me back to write about another record. Someone must have gotten something out of the piece I did on Keith Jarrett's ...

This is a record I want to like. I've felt this way a lot about King Krule. I like Archy Marshall, the little I know of him via his public presence.

I was listening to Wayne Shorter's new album on the Taconic State Parkway when I heard a woman's voice yell, "Oh my God!" It was intense...