Britt Robson has written about jazz for Jazz Times, downbeat, the Washington Post and many other publications over the past 30 years. He currently writes regular jazz features for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis and does the jazz picks and a weekly jazz review for eMusic. His Holy Trinity of Jazz includes Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife Robbie, his son Mingus and his English bulldog Elroy.
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Of the three pillars of funk — James Brown, George Clinton and Sly … more »
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Craig Taborn HAS set a daunting standard with his outings as a leader: 20… more »
Jaimeo Brown’s Transcendence is “essential” music, in t… more »
Sean Nowell has firmly established his credentials as a stolid post-bop s… more »
Any ensemble fronted by piano and vibes is going to garner comparisons to… more »
Ryan Keberle’s third album as a leader is not as different from the… more »
Seven months away from his 80th birthday, the greatest living composer in… more »
Southern Exposure is an evocative musical geography tour writ in bold str… more »
Chris Potter, a titanic saxophonist still searching for the ceiling of hi… more »
Whether he is providing the lone accompaniment to idiosyncratic vocalist … more »
As they age, extreme metal merchants often inject various non-metallic styles into their songs in order to hasten their musical growth. Sometimes, as with Alcest and Jesu, they develop to the point where their original… more »
