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.
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 »
At a time when life feels increasingly unfair for ordinary working folks,… more »
Jure Pukl is a classically trained Slovenian saxophonist and composer who… more »
Our Thing was born of the extraordinary rapport that Israeli guitarist Ro… more »
Within A Song is a testimonial to guitarist John Abercrombie’s long… more »
The big news from Planetary Unknown is that saxophonist David S. Ware is … more »
As a pianist, Orrin Evans features a muscular attack with a meaty tonalit… more »
JD Allen has the most important tool a musician can possess: a unique, un… more »
Believe, the latest effort from The Cookers, is their most enjoyable to d… more »
The numerical title here refers to this being the fifth album by Tom Harr… more »
Let’s not mince words: Accelerando is a source of rippling power an… more »
Primed for summer, Shimmy feels like a soundtrack for a clambake, a serie… more »
Mike Reed’s previous three PP&T outings were purposeful project… more »
Since the passing of Steve Lacy in 2004, no one’s been able to blen… more »
The band that reinvigorated the brass band tradition and popularized it b… more »
Saxophonist Tom Tallitsch leads a quartet that includes organ, guitar and… more »
Eri Yamamoto was headed for a career as a classical pianist until she fel… more »
Kenny Garrett’s first studio recording in six years contains 10 new… more »
Joel Harrison would prefer that the centerpiece to Search be “A Mag… more »
This enjoyably comfortable disc more specifically celebrates John Coltran… more »
Now Esperanza Spalding is making even the Grammys look hip. In her first … more »
I can’t think of a vocalist better equipped to tackle the literary … 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 »
