Melissa Aldana and Lage Lund Evoke Wayne Shorter on New LP
The power of Echoes of the Inner Prophet is how Lage Lund understands and crafts textures and sonorities for Melissa Aldana’s melodic ideas and saxophone style.
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The 20 Best Jazz Albums of 2022
Jazz, born of the creative brilliance of Black American culture and now wonderfully global, is passionately alive in 2022. These are the year’s best jazz albums.
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.
Artemis Is the Latest Jazz Supergroup
A Blue Note supergroup happens to be made up of women, exclusively. Artemis is an inconsistent outing, but it dazzles just often enough.
The Best Jazz of 2019
Our jazz critics create four quartets of great creative music, demonstrating four trends that keep "jazz" relevant in a new century.
Jazz Tenor Saxophonist Melissa Aldana Lives Up to the Hype with ‘Visions’
Tenor saxophone phenom Melissa Aldana makes her most mature, cooperative recording to date with Visions, evoking the great outside-in Blue Note records of the 1960s.