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The Cookers
Warriors (Jazz Legacy Productions) Cast the First Stone (Plus Loin) by Phil Freeman The Cookers is an all-star band assembled by trumpeter David Weiss (you can read more about him, and the band, in...
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Wynton Marsalis
Black Codes (From The Underground) (Columbia) by Phil Freeman Buy it from Amazon Has Wynton Marsalis‘s music become audible again? For years, it was impossible to hear it over all the rhetoric that...
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Sean Nowell
Stockholm Swingin’ (Posi-Tone) by Phil Freeman Buy it from Amazon This album features Alabama-born, New York-based tenor saxophonist Sean Nowell and his regular drummer, Joe Abba (whose last name is...
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Jeremy Pelt
Soul (HighNote) by Phil Freeman Buy it from Amazon Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt‘s fourth CD with his working band—tenor saxophonist JD Allen, pianist Danny Grissett, bassist Dwayne Burno, and drummer Gerald...
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Freddie Hubbard
The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard/The Body and the Soul (Impulse!) By Phil Freeman Buy it from Amazon Impulse! has prepared another load of twofer reissues of albums from their extensive library. Some...
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A List Of 50 Jazz Albums
by Phil Freeman Apparently April 30 is International Jazz Day. So as a way of subverting the canon-building exercises that are sure to go on across the jazz internet today, I’ve come up with a list of...
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Branford Marsalis Quartet
Four MFs Playin’ Tunes (Marsalis Music) Buy it from Amazon by Phil Freeman Since the dawn of the millennium, Branford Marsalis‘s quartet has been steadily turning out albums that, without ever making...
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The 50 Greatest Saxophonists…EVER!!! 20-11
We’re heading into the home stretch with our countdown of the 50 Greatest Saxophonists…EVER!!! Here are #s 20-11, followed by a bonus list: Rudresh Mahanthappa picks his 5 favorite saxophonists! 20....
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Miles Davis
Live In Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2 (Legacy) by Phil Freeman This second volume of Sony Legacy’s 3CD/1DVD sets of live Miles Davis material documents a band that never made it into the...
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Jeremy Pelt
Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt (who we’ve interviewed before) has made some of the best acoustic jazz records of the 21st Century. The four albums by his long-running quintet featuring tenor saxophonist JD...
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Interview: Tim Warfield
Tim Warfield is a tenor saxophonist who first emerged into the public eye in the early 1990s, as one of the featured players—along with Walter Blanding, James Carter, Herbert Harris and Todd...
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Dayna Stephens: Taking Chances
Saxophonist Dayna Stephens has been busy the last couple of years. His debut album as a leader, The Timeless Now, was released in 2007, and that—plus the usual slew of sideman appearances—was it for...
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The Best Jazz Albums Of 2013: #20-16
This year, Burning Ambulance is publishing two year-end lists, one covering jazz and one covering rock/metal. Here is the second installment of our countdown of the 25 best jazz albums of 2013. (Click...
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Miles Davis In 1970
Is it weird that 1970 has become the most documented year of Miles Davis’s life? At the time, that wasn’t the case at all. He only released two albums that year—Bitches Brew, recorded the previous...
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Jeremy Pelt
Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt has released an album for the HighNote label every January since 2010. The first three—2010’s Men of Honor, 2011’s The Talented Mr. Pelt, and 2012’s Soul (reviewed here)—were made...
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Best Jazz Of 2015: 5-1
All week long, we’ve been counting down the 25 best jazz albums of 2015 (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4), and we’ve finally reached the finish line. Here are the top five. 5. Sonny Rollins, Complete...
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Shareef Clayton
Trumpeter Shareef Clayton has performed with Macy Gray, Melody Gardot, and Bobby Sanabria; he also played on Sanabria’s 2012 album Multiverse, which was nominated for a Grammy. Originally from Miami,...
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Interview: Freddie Hendrix
Photo: Anastas Tarpanov Freddie Hendrix is a veteran trumpeter who’s making his debut as a leader 20 years after emerging onto the East Coast scene. Strongly influenced by Freddie Hubbard and Woody...
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Miroslav Vitous
Despite his unceremonious ousting from Weather Report, a group he helped found alongside saxophonist Wayne Shorter and keyboardist Joe Zawinul, bassist Miroslav Vitous has not shied away from...
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David Weiss & Point Of Departure
L-R: Matt Clohesy, Travis Reuter, Kush Abadey, David Weiss, Ben Eunson, Myron Walden. Photo by Deneka Peniston. Trumpeter David Weiss‘s Point of Departure band will release their fourth album in...
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