JazzMatters: Best New Jazz and Creative Music – March 2022
JazzMatters is a new monthly round-up of the best new jazz and creative music. March 2022 features Cécile McLorin Salvant, Melissa Aldana, and Ryan Keberle.
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Guitarist Matthew Stevens Ties Threads Together for the Singular ‘Pittsburgh’
Dynamic jazz guitarist Matthew Stevens’ new album comes after a bad accident, but its history proves it to be more than just a lucky break.
Walter Smith III and Matthew Stevens Make New Jazz So Easy to Love on ‘In Common 2’
Two of the top players in modern jazz make the second in a sequence of quintet recordings that presents jazz as unusually easy to love even as it maintains modern complexity.
Dave Douglas Pays Tribute to Jazz Legend Dizzy Gillespie on ‘Dizzy Atmosphere’
Jazz trumpeter and composer Dave Douglas has constructed a tribute to Dizzy Gillespie that gives his young band as much voice as possible, with two reinterpretations of Dizzy classics and seven originals.