Vibraphonist, composer, and educator, Nikara Warren, being being the multi-faceted music professional she is, it’s no surprise that free-flowing and more compositionally-liberal styles like hip-hop,…
The term “world music” is both comfortably recognizable and culturally reductive to everything that supposedly falls into the category. When it comes to the music…
Composer, pianist, vocalist, and clever arranger, Rachel Eckroth, reminds listeners on her newest LP, The Garden (Rainy Days Records, 2021), that imagery paired with music – even…
Composer and producer, Oliver Patrice Weder, has released new piece “Rainbow Fish,” into the wild – the first single from forthcoming sophomore album, The Pool Project. Weder…
Who hasn’t at some point or another, decided to “play tourist” for a day or a weekend, in the place they call home? It’s a…
Long Island, NY progressive jazz quartet Flowering Branches, introduced themselves to the world back in March, with a rhythmically vibrant and melodically poised single that…
The music of Freedom, the new album from Cologne, Germany jazz trio Slowfox, wasn’t created around the band’s own unique interpretation of the idea of…
Though Hannah Baiardi’s sophomore release, Straight from the Soul bears a title that implies a sense of directness, of being blunt in its musical personality,…
What better way is there for a band born in late 2020 to identify themselves, than though the wholesome beauty and hopeful promise of something…
So much time over the past year can be described by a perceived feeling of “never-ending”: incessant chaos, incessant uncertainty, incessant loneliness and, most fundamentally,…