Feminist Jazz Review: A Conversation with Sarah Hughes

I took a bit of a sabbatical from this column to think. I needed to take some time to figure out what I wanted to say, and what it is I wanted to portray as time goes on. There are so many women in the world who play jazz. Many of them have passed away,

Playlist for the Week of February 19, 2018

Quin Kirshner – The Other Side of Time (Astral Spirits, 2017) [vinyl] Rempis/Piet/Daisy – Throw Tomatoes (Astral Spirits, 2017) [cassette] Gibran Andrade Quartet – Puente (self-released, 2017) Sam Weinberg – Liar’s Loosh (Renfusa, 2017) [cassette] Tashi Dorji & Shane Parish – Expecting (MIE, 2016) [vinyl] Muyassar Kurdi & Nicholas Jozwiak – Intersections & Variations (Astral Spirits, 2017) [cassette] William Hooker Trio

Staff

Editor Cisco Bradley – Associate professor of history at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Bradley founded Jazz Right Now in 2013 with the explicit goal of highlighting younger artists while also building an archive for the music. Growing up near Madison, Wisconsin, he only occasionally got to hear creative music before discovering the Chicago scene. He

Review: Miya Masaoka, Zeena Parkins, and Myra Melford – MZM

In tarot, The Three of Cups is often pictured as three women raising their glasses in celebration and signifies forces coming together to focus on a common emotional or creative goal. I pulled this card during a tarot reading that happened to coincide with the final moments of my initial listen of MZM, the wonderful

Playlist for the Week of February 12, 2018

Ava Mendoza – Unnatural Ways (New Atlantis, 2014) [vinyl] SK Kakraba – Songs of Paapieye (Awesome Tapes from Africa, 2015) [vinyl] Gibran Andrade – Enterrado (Dorados Pantanos, 2017) [cassette] Tony Irving & Massimo Magee – The Fog (Astral Spirits, 2017) [cassette]

Interview: Manu Armida (Le Trash Can)

In December and January, I visited Mexico City and had the pleasure of attending an amazing concert at El Quinto Piso, a venue that inhabits the fifth floor of a parking garage. It is one of the most amazing DIY venues I have ever seen and that night it was teeming with a large crowd

Review: Patrick Shiroishi – Tulean Dispatch

What do you think of when you hear the word solitude? Do you think of your lonely moments during difficult times in your life? Does the hauntingly beautiful composition by Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, and Eddie DeLange come to mind (especially Billie Holliday’s 1952 version)? Or do you think of solitude as space, or mood,

Playlist for Week of February 5, 2018

Harris Eisenstadt – Woodblock Prints (No Business, 2010) [vinyl] Bennett/Welcome/Weinberg – self-titled (Renfusa, 2017) [cassette] Paula Shocron, German Lamonega, Pablo Diaz – Tensegridad (Hat Hut, 2017) Harris Eisenstadt – Whatever Will Happen That Will Also Be (No Business, 2017) Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York – Fukushima (Libra, 2017)

Artist Feature: Keir Neuringer

Keir Neuringer is one of the most exciting saxophonists to emerge in recent years and has established himself through the release of a number of records, including his monumental solo recording, Ceremonies Out of the Air, on New Atlantis in 2014. His latest record comes from the collaborative project Irreversible Entanglements, together with Camae Ayewa (known

Op-Ed: A Feminist Urge Is Driving the Shape of Jazz to Come

Written By Hillary Donnell There is something about jazz that embodies the vanguard of a revolution that has yet to come. “The music itself is about manifesting the unknown,” said Esperanza Spading at a panel on Gender and Jazz held at the New School as a part of Winter Jazz Fest held in New York