Music Dissolves Water

BASIC by BASIC This was actually released a week ago, but I'm just learning about it now. Chris Forsyth's BASIC, a trio including Do...

The revered South African jazz musician Abdullah Ibrahim, born as Dollar Brand, died last weekend. Impermanence is swift. Ibrahim wasn't...

Yesterday's New Music Friday included the release of the new album, Demand to Be Taken Alive! , by the Baltimore band, Horse Lords. If t...

A day isn't considered a success here in this pile of bricks up on a hill that I call home unless I fall down at least one musical rabbi...

Okay, okay, okay, I get it. Jazz music isn't popular. To many, it's something that old people enjoy, to others it's easy-listeni...

Legendary jazz musician Sonny Rollins has passed away, age 95. Impermanence is swift. Rollins was the last surviving member of the infamous ...

Where, oh where, are the protest songs of 2026? Don't tell me Rage Against the Machine - they're cool and all, but they were 1990s, ...