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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First off, the band is phenomenal and deserves its own roll call. On bass… more »
Jon Irabagon is a relentlessly original, genre-defying saxophonist and co… more »
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Meshell Ndegeocello paying tribute to the late Nina Simone makes perfect … more »
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Connoisseurs of bold, long-form jazz improvisation are gifted this first-… more »
This third installment of Harris Eisenstadt’s Canada Day recordings… more »
This first record made by Cuban-born drummer Dafnis Prieto since he recei… more »
Jerry Douglas, the world’s most renowned and in-demand dobro player… more »
Bill Frisell has always been a guitarist of unflappable grace and homespu… more »
Three years after Volume 1, another lightning bolt: Road Shows Volume 2, … more »
This seems like an answer to a prayer from Sonny Rollins fans: The notori… more »
Preferring the inspiration of a live audience, Sonny Rollins in twilight … more »
The noted jazz critic Gary Giddins — an articulate defender of Roll… more »
For those who complained about Sonny Rollins’s often-mediocre sidem… more »
This glorious oasis during the most creatively fallow period in Sonny Rol… more »
Sonny Rollins will never be strictly background music, but this is one of… more »
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