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Konami dropped a trailer for a brand new upcoming action-adventure game that takes the Roaring Twenties into a new twist. Showcased in both Playstation’s State of Play and Konami’s Press Start Livestream, Rhapsody In Scarlet is set within the jazz-filled streets of 1920s New York, where our main pro...

Japanese fingerstyle guitar virtuoso Kent Nishimura covered Steely Dan's "Peg" as a warm acoustic jazz instrumental. subscribe to the Laughing Squid Newsletter The post Fingerstyle Guitarist Covers Steely Dan’s ‘Peg’ as a Warm Acoustic Jazz Instrumental was originally published on Laughing Squid.

On Sundays I try to at least quickly note some of my favorite listening from the week prior — things I would later regret having not written about in more depth, so better to share here briefly than not at all. ▰ Apparently the Fire and Water Quintet, led by jazz pianist Myra Melford, originated as ...

Photos by Stacie Joy The annual Charlie Parker Jazz Festival takes place this afternoon in Tompkins Square Park. Although EVG applied for press credentials for backstage access, as we have in previous years, organizers declined our request, saying they had reached capacity. Given the festival’s loca...

The Charlie Parker Jazz Festival returns to Tompkins Square Park on Sunday afternoon for its annual free concert. This year's program is headlined by saxophonist Ravi Coltrane, the son of jazz legends John and Alice Coltrane — and an accomplished bandleader and collaborator in his own right. The aft...

Ulysses Owens Jr. & Generation Y partnered with Musora to perform jazz covers of classic 1990s grunge songs from their latest album, "Kind of Grunge". subscribe to the Laughing Squid Newsletter The post Jazz Band Reimagines Classic 1990s Grunge Songs was originally published on Laughing Squid.

On Sundays I try to at least quickly note some of my favorite listening from the week prior — things I would later regret having not written about in more depth, so better to share here briefly than not at all. ▰ I covered the Ambrose Akimusire episode of Bridges, the Jazz at Lincoln Center collabor...

Multimedia artist Jazz Grant joined London’s Nicer Tuesdays stage in July hot off the heels of her group show Are We Really Here? The collagist draws upon her dual heritage and the vast potential of physical materials – and Jazz takes our audience through her career, from the origin of her interest ...

Longtime Lower East Side neighbors Matthew Shipp and William Parker — pianist and bassist, respectively — are revisiting the first album they recorded together. Zo, the duo's 1993 debut, is being reissued in November by longtime indie label ESP-Disk'. It also marks the album's first-ever vinyl relea...

At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished reading. Knowing I’ll revisit my social media posts serves, I’ve found, as a positive and mellowing ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks intended to gain compliance from combative individuals. -CBS News - - -We in the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Department have received a lot of constructi...

“Long live Hyrule jazz!” The Z Suites is “a modern jazz reinterpretation of the music from The Legend of Zelda”.

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens by Dr. Ethan Hein Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens Read on Substack Last week I was at the International Society for Music Education conference, which is by a wide margin the biggest academic conference I have ever been to. I presented about te...

I was only able to catch the tail end, but Jose-Miguel Yamal, alongside Thomas Helton and Sam Knight, did an awesome tribute celebrating the 50th anniversary of Ryo Fukui’s Scenery at Echoes in Houston. Jose-Miguel is the pianist who played on my senior recital, and Ryo Fukui is the pianist I discov...

On Sunday, I published Side One of my album on Bandcamp. The name of the album is also “Side One.” It is instrumental music with roots in Soundtrack, hip-hop, funk, jazz, 19th Century Romantic classical, ambient, electronic, and art rock. You might wonder if those divergent genres belong together, b...

Big Bike Orchestra performed the White Stripes song "Seven Nation Army" while riding their bespoke bicycle built for six. subscribe to the Laughing Squid Newsletter The post Jazz Band Plays ‘Seven Nation Army’ While Riding Their Bicycle Built for Six was originally published on Laughing Squid.

For some reason, when I put on music in the summer, I don’t want something that is too demanding, but I do want something that is good. This often draws me to soul jazz playlist, particularly the mid- to late-1960s offerings of Blue Note (and when I feel a bit more polished, CTI).  Yesterday, for… R...

Gary Phillips has had a long career as a crime writer since he first emerged in the 1990s with the Ivan Monk novels, which have been reprinted in new editions in 2024, and are today acclaimed as some of the great crime novels of the era. Since then he’s gone on to write other series […]

"Like a Top" finds Michellar diving towards a ballad-ish soft pop with jazz inclinations, proving yet again that she can do anything.

Even before I posted this one, I started getting suggestions for songs in 5/4, and a few in 10/4. I’m sorry if I didn’t mention your favorite, this isn’t meant to be exhaustive, it’s just some representative examples that I find interesting or personally significant. Take Five by Dr. Ethan Hein The ...

On Sundays I try to at least quickly note some of my favorite listening from the week prior — things I would later regret having not written about in more depth, so better to share here briefly than not at all. ▰ There’s upstream, and then there’s up upstream. As you find your curiosity pulling you ...

Last Thursday, I went to check out Evergreen Coffee ShopFrom where we live it is about a 30 minute walkI really wanted to try their lunch but decided to go early since the weather has turned blazing and humid and try their morning set insteadI love the interiorLarge windows, lots of plants inside an...

This ↑ is what happens when Joe Dart breaks the sound barrier playing “Dean Town”. (And not when i drop my phone on a 2,000-year-old theatre’s stone steps trying to put it in my pocket — my back pocket.) Vulfpeck’s concert at the Jazz à Vienne festival was the best non-jazz …

Jazz returns to Albert's Garden this (Sunday) afternoon with a free performance by Just (JAZZ!) Friends.Singer Marie Teichman, a familiar presence at the East Village community garden, will be joined by guitarist Finn Summerell for a set of jazz standards and popular songs from earlier decades. The ...

"Like a Top" finds Michellar diving towards a ballad-ish soft pop with jazz inclinations, proving yet again that she can do anything.

This new visual language is inspired by the “rhythm and spontaneity of jazz” – type, image and colour dance across a new digital world for the venue.

Once again, RAYE shined last night at Montreux Jazz Festival. She was the star of the opening of the 60th anniversary of the festival, and had carte blanche to organise the evening.

Rebecca Solnit: What Is the United States of America Now? “The United States of America is a truck that has driven into a ditch. The United States of America is a program that has been hacked.” But also: “It is the country that gave the world jazz…”

"Like a Top" finds Michellar diving towards a ballad-ish soft pop with jazz inclinations, proving yet again that she can do anything.

I was browsing jazz music on bandcamp and discovered Storyville records. I thought they had an interesting catalogue so I became curious about their origin story. One thing led to another and...

"Like a Top" finds Michellar diving towards a ballad-ish soft pop with jazz inclinations, proving yet again that she can do anything.

Hot summer soundtrack

An EV resident shared details about a Father's Day memorial and art sale taking place on Sunday at 106 Avenue B between Sixth Street and Seventh Street.From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Nancy Jagelka will host a memorial table honoring her father, grandfather, as well as great-uncle, jazz guitarist Chuck Wayn...

"Like a Top" finds Michellar diving towards a ballad-ish soft pop with jazz inclinations, proving yet again that she can do anything.

One of my favourite jazz albums to listen to is The Poll Winners because of its amazing sound engineering. It can even make ordinary audio gear come alive. I was astounded to learn that it was released in 1957. Somehow I have this impression that music before 1960 usually sounds muffled – it is so.....

"Like a Top" finds Michellar diving towards a ballad-ish soft pop with jazz inclinations, proving yet again that she can do anything.

At July’s event in London, expect talks from a motion design studio, an illustrator of beautiful rural scenes and an ex-Tottenham goalie-turned-photographer!

Someone hold my beer, ‘cause I can’t hold my tongue But I can hold one hell of a grudge –Grudge by Carter Faith Grudges are as American as jazz and comic books. Often they lead to the feuds and beefs that fuel the plotlines of so many crime novels and movies. Still, sometimes those grudges […]

Louis Armstrong's feats of creativity reshaped American jazz—and found a way to say what needed saying through his music, writes Joe Nocera.

On Sundays I try to at least quickly note some of my favorite listening from the week prior — things I would later regret having not written about in more depth, so better to share here briefly than not at all. ▰ The Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, a jazz foursome, posted a full video recording of a […]

This week, we went to Jakarta for Eid al-Adha and Java Jazz 2026. Java Jazz is one of Indonesia’s prominent music festivals since 2005, also one of the largest jazz festivals in Asia, even though I would say it has been… debatable, considering there have been non-jazz performers taking center stage....

Sonny Rollins, who died this week, was the embodiment of the genre itself.

Roughly a year ago (actually closer to thirteen months), a chair arrived at the house: an Eames Lounge Chair, that classic piece of midcentury furniture, beloved of tweedy intellectuals and pretentious jazz aficionados everywhere. I had wanted one for years but couldn’t rationalize buying the thing,...

What happens when you go skinny-dipping in a Carinthian stream with jazz legend Don Cherry, or watch Friedrich Gulda attack an amplified clavichord with a knife and fork? This personal reflection looks back on a golden era of musical rebellion in 1970s Austria and offers some insights into the world...

Unbelievably beautiful.

I’ve started listening to jazz ever since I randomly discovered The Köln Concert. Months later I’m still enamoured with jazz, particularly with piano trios. I don’t seem to enjoy vocals or wind...

Through the years, Timeless Afternoon has gone through many lineup changes, naturally leading to new turns introduced in their sound. This is reflected by the album...

Nachdem der US-amerikanische Jazzgitarrist und sein Quartett für das Konzert in Berlin im Gretchen sehr gut Karten verkauft hatten, wurde das Konzert in die größere Huxleys Neue Welt verlegt, eine unserer favorisierten Venues. Der Musiker wurde bisher für sieben Grammies nominiert und galt schon frü...