Pianist and composer Wayne Horvitz has two new albums out: a trio recording called The Snowghost Sessions (Songlines), and an orchestral album called Those Who Remain (National Sawdust Tracks). In this interview Horvitz talks about the unusual circumst...

Saxophonist Walter Smith III's new album is called Twio. It features a program of standards played by Smith with bassist Harish Raghavan and drummer Eric Harland. Smith is on a half-dozen albums comin

Pianist Helen Sung's new album is Sung With Words, a collaboration with poet Dana Gioia that features both spoken word and also Gioia's words set to music. In this interview, Sung talks about how they

Vibraphonist, educator and app developer Stefon Harris's new album is Sonic Creed. In this interview, Harris discusses the responsibilities of his generation of musicians; how his album is an expressi

Bassist Adi Meyerson grew up in Israel, discovered jazz in her late teens, got into a conservatory for upright bass a few months after picking up the instrument, and then made her way to the New School in New York. Six years after moving to the US,

This is the first bonus episode for Patreon subscribers! However, I'm releasing this one on the main feed so everyone can hear it and get an idea for what these will sound like. In this episode, write

Vocalist Sara Gazarek has been reinventing herself recently, and she's about to release an album that shows new sides as a performer, writer, arranger, and bandleader. In this interview, Gazarek talks

Dmitri Matheny is a flugelhornist, composer, writer, comic book collector, dog enthusiast and bandleader. In this interview we talk about his road dog; his love for noir and how it led to his latest a

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Darcy James Argue came to Penn State to perform Brooklyn Babylon, so I invited him on my morning show along with two of his collaborators. Here's the interview in its entirety. Does this mean The Jazz