Voted “new star” by Downbeat in 1965, the emergence of the Charles Lloyd Quartet took jazz by storm in 1966, expanding musical horizons with a challenging eclectic amalgam of modal and free jazz with Eastern textures and Spanish soul. Dream Weaver also introduced Keith Jarrett and Jack DeJohn...
Over 6K music fans have voted on the 100+ Greatest Jazz Musicians, Ranked. Current Top 3: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Louis Armstrong
The plot, in which breakout star Iko Uwais fights his way up a tower block packed with punchy criminals and back down again, is as basic as they come – but it's all in service of some of the century's most purely, joyfully bruising beat-'em-up setpieces, which play out in extende...
Iceland's greatest musical export has penned a catalog so tied to her unmatchable accented English and visionary beat-driven arrangements, it's easy to forget what a tremendous writer she is. Yet there's a reason cutting-edge jazz instrumentalists —Jason Moran, Robert Glasper, Dave Douglas, ...
–Jazz Monroe Listen: Big Thief, “Vampire Empire” 43. Jessica Pratt: “Life Is” (2024) Jessica Pratt is a sorceress of time whose records induce an uneasily pleasurable feeling of dissociation and drift. “Life Is,” the scene-setting opener from her 2024 album Here in the Pitch, ...
" "In tube top and shorts that Vice called 'pull-me-down; she's got kind of a native vibe' before that was so cool"), there's a ringtone-ready keyboard riff, and the shuffling beat feels like an invitation to do a goofball dance in place. All that and a great saxophone break-...
Us3 created a unique sound by placing contemporary rap rhymes on top of samples of classic jazz from the Blue Note record label. "Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)" is built on a Herbie Hancock sample from "Cantaloupe Island." The fusion didn't always work well, but this time it did, and the ...
“Portishead’s 1994 debut is a masterwork of downbeat and desperation” stated Philip Sherburne in 2017 forPitchfork. “They invented their own kind of virtuosity, one that encompassed musicianship, technology, and aura.” So how do you explain this odd duck of a group, outta nowhere, bumping...
Not just another “greatest jazz albums” list of favourite recordings and biggest sellers but a fully annotated look at the albums that actually changed jazz and changed lives The list featured below was originally published in the August 2006 issue of Jazzwise magazine and quickly established ...
Over 6K music fans have voted on the 100+ Greatest Jazz Musicians, Ranked. Current Top 3: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Louis Armstrong