JazzMatters: The Best New Jazz of April and May 2023
Our jazz columnist chooses the best new jazz albums of the past two months while reflecting on the passing of Ahmad Jamal and highlighting Walter Smith III.
Rickie Lee Jones
Pirate Rickie Lee Jones Plunders Great American Songbook for ‘Pieces of Treasure’
Rickie Lee Jones is a pirate who plunders the treasures of the Great American Songbook for all of its riches. The music is as timeless as she is.
Rickie Lee Jones’ ‘Pirates’ Is Much More Than a Breakup Album
On 1981’s Pirates, Rickie Lee Jones resisted the easy musical path in favor of one as meandering and complicated as her own life.