The following is jazz journalist Morgan Enos’ interview with trumpeter, composer and bandleader Marquis Hill. Hill’s new album, Composers Collective: Beyond the Jukebox, was released 30 August. It features Hill’s core quintet: vibraphonist Joel Ross; pianist Michael King; bassist Junius [...]
Ulysses Owens Jr. is a drummer, educator and producer. As a bandleader, he has performed internationally and recorded albums with big bands and smaller ensembles. His most recent album, “A New Beat”, features his Generation Y quintet and is modelled [...]
The following is a review of revered bassist Dave Holland’s debut as a leader at Smoke Jazz Club in New York City. His “New Quartet” featured alto saxophonist Jaleel Shaw, pianist Kris Davis, and drummer Nasheet Waits. “They’re all musicians [...]
Lisa Buck is an artist manager, an artistic director and a key figure in the dynamic jazz community in Calgary, Canada. She started the successful house-concert series “BuckingJam Palace” where world-class jazz musicians quietly appear in Calgary one night a [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and trumpeter, composer, arranger, and vocalist Danny Jonokuchi. His new big band album, A Decade, was released 23 August via Bandstand Presents. Varying track by track, A Decade’s big band [...]
Cuban-American pianist/composer Fabian Almazan found his musical roots as a child in Havana. Cuba was where he first became involved in the classical piano tradition. As a performer, he has developed a personal voice through the electric manipulation of the [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and trombonist Michael Dease. His new album, Grove’s Groove – a tribute to Roy Hargrove – is out 23 August via Le Coq Records. The nine-song collection features Dease on baritone sax instead of trumpet, [...]
“Mothers In Jazz” reached its hundredth interview in early July. The 100th was with Dee Dee Bridgewater, the 99th was with Norma Winstone, and the 98th was with the creator of the series, Nicky Schrire. The series returns from a [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and pianist Bill Charlap, whose new trio album And Then Again, with bassist Peter Washington and drummer Kenny Washington, was recorded at New York’s Village Vanguard and released 16 August [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and drummer and composer Jonathan Barber. His new album with Vision Ahead, In Motion, released 2 August, features tenor saxophonist Matt Knoegel, guitarist Andrew Renfroe, pianist Taber Gable, and bassist [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and guitarist and composer Miles Okazaki. His new album, Miniature America, released July 19 via Cygnus Recordings, features vibraphonist Patricia Brennan, pianist Matt Mitchell, alto saxophonist Caroline Davis, tenor saxophonist/flautist [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and saxophonist, composer and educator Jeff Coffin, currently in Dave Matthews Band, formerly of Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. His new album, Only the Horizon, was released 19 July via [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and saxophonist/composer Christine Jensen. Her third large ensemble release, Harbour, was released 28 June. This interview was conducted in person at the Montreal International Jazz Festival in early July. Links [...]
Morgan Enos spent the weekend at Montreal’s 44th International Jazz Festival, taking in an eclectic and exciting mix of music from a star-studded line-up. The Festival ran from 27 June – 6 July 2024. Read on for his take on [...]
Over the course of a multifaceted career spanning four decades, Grammy and Tony Award-winning Jazz giant Dee Dee Bridgewater has ascended to the upper echelon of vocalists, putting her unique spin on standards, as well as taking intrepid leaps of [...]
In the latest of our series where musicians consider their idols or formative influences, pianist Phil Merriman (*) picks music by Kenny Wheeler that has left its mark on him: Phil Merriman writes: My first window into Kenny Wheeler’s music [...]
The following is an interview with alto saxophonist Sarah Hanahan, conducted by jazz journalist Morgan Enos. Her debut album, Among Giants, was released 21 June via Blue Engine Records. The album features pianist Marc Cary, bassist Nat Reeves, and drummer [...]
Norma Winstone is a British vocalist and lyricist whose work spans more than fifty years. Her collaborators on stage and on recordings have included Kenny Wheeler, John Taylor, Nikki Iles, Fred Hersch and, more recently, Kit Downes and Glauco Venier. [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and Korean-born, New York-based composer, arranger and conductor Jihye Lee. On 31 May, Lee followed up her acclaimed 2021 debut with Infinite Connections: a new large ensemble album released via [...]
Nicky Schrire is a British-South African vocalist and songwriter, and the founder of the “Mothers In Jazz” (*) series as published on LondonJazz News/ UK Jazz News. She thought it was about time she answered her own questions and shared [...]
Camila Meza is a Chilean guitarist and vocalist. She has recorded and performed with musicians including Fabian Almazan, Kendrick Scott and Shai Maestro. A graduate of The New School of Music in New York City, Camila combines elements of jazz, [...]
Pianist Liam Noble has a new improvising project with synthesizers…working with dancer Maya Takeda (link to video below) which he describes as “work in progress”. For this article in UKJN’s “10 Tracks…” series he dives into the world of synths. [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and pianist/composer/arranger Roger Kellaway. His new album, Roger Kellaway Live at Mezzrow, arrived 17 May 2024 via Cellar Music Group in collaboration with the SmallsLIVE Foundation. It captures a performance [...]
