The cupboard is full this week with some sparkling new releases. Two very important women in today’s jazz world have new albums – Canadian saxophonist Anna Webber and Italian bassist Silvia Bolognesi – that are very impressive. The highly innovative saxophonist composer Steve Lehman hooked up with the Orchestre National Continue Reading
September 21, 2023 #1326
New York’s Daniel Carter is one of those rare birds who plays saxophone but also trumpet. Two different embouchures but one great musician. He’s a mainstay at the 577 Records label, and he’s a mainstay of the New York avant garde scene. He has two recent releases out now — Continue Reading
September 14, 2023 #1325
New York alto saxophonist and composer Caroline Davis’ latest recording is one of the terrific new releases in this September 14, 2023 edition of OMJ. “Captivity” is her first social justice album with a focus on creating reflection, interrogation and amplification of the essential conversation around incarceration, the prison industrial Continue Reading