Thanatos and Eros, that timeless couple, never dance closer than when in New Orleans, where every breeze carries scents of mortality and carnality. [...]

Last year, the producers of the New Mexico Jazz Festival—Outpost Productions, The Lensic; and the Santa Fe Jazz Foundation—told us it was the [...]

It didn’t take long for guitarist Lewis Winn to realize that Somebody wanted him to swing.First, he ran across an old guitar-playing buddy, [...]

Albuquerque trumpeter Justin Ray misses his car. It’s the price he pays for living in Brooklyn, N.Y., a spawning ground for young musicians.Ray’s [...]

The musical approaches of pianist Edward Simon and altoist David Binney seem, on the surface, fairly disparate. Binney favors fire, speed and dynamism. [...]

Local folk duo Charmed—Bambi Jackson (guitar, keyboard, vocals) and Alicia Ultan (viola, guitar, vocals)—regularly take on love and death; and with a turn [...]

Brash, punkish energy, hooks that could snag a whale and sheer invigorating exuberance mark the debut recording of the Neil Cowley Trio (with [...]

Good drummers keep time and move things forward. Great drummers also sculpt sonic space, expanding and contracting it, shaping it to the musical [...]

Vocalist Hillary Smith has so much on her plate right now she’s just going to have to get herself a bigger one.She’s performing [...]

Trumpeter, composer and educator Ralph Alessi doesn’t have a problem winging it. Look, his recent—and exuberant—recording (Between the Lines Records) with his quintet, [...]