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The Best Jazz Albums Of 2013: #25-21
Welcome to the Burning Ambulance end-of-year countdown. Here’s how this is gonna work: Two lists will be published simultaneously—one covering the 25 best jazz albums of 2013, and one covering the 25...
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John Escreet
Photo from here English keyboardist John Escreet has a lot of ideas, and the talent to channel them to tape (OK, more likely hard drive). None of his albums—there have been six to date—feels like a...
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Interview: Walter Smith III
Tenor saxophonist Walter Smith III‘s third studio album, and fourth overall release as a leader, comes out this week. It’s called Still Casual, in a nod to his 2005 debut, Casually Introducing…. That...
View ArticleThe Year In Jazz: 2017
Jazz had a really good year in 2017. From a creative standpoint, every year is a good year for jazz: there are always talented musicians making great records, far too many to put on a single year-end...
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Joe Sanders
by Phil Freeman Joe Sanders is a bassist who’s been quietly making a name for himself over the last 15 years or so. He can be heard on albums by trumpeters Ambrose Akinmusire, Theo Croker, and...
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BA Podcast 12: Logan Richardson
The latest episode of the Burning Ambulance podcast features an interview with saxophonist Logan Richardson. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Richardson has recorded with people like Ambrose Akinmusire,...
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Marion Rampal
Marion Rampal is a French vocalist and songwriter; her first album, Own Virago, was released in 2009. Two years later, she collaborated with pianist Perrine Mansuy on the album Vertigo Songs, for which...
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South African pianist Nduduzo Makhathini (a guest on the BA podcast in 2019) seems from the outside to be at the center of a group of up-and-coming musicians from his country. He produces their albums,...
View ArticleEric Revis
Bassist Eric Revis is a fascinating figure who clearly sees jazz as a boundary-less realm where anything is possible. On the one hand, he’s been a member of saxophonist Branford Marsalis‘s quartet...
View ArticleBA Podcast 59: Ambrose Akinmusire
Support Burning Ambulance on Patreon Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter Episode 59 of the Burning Ambulance podcast features an interview with trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire. Links to listen:...
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