The longer jazz exists, the more it broadens and splinters into new directions—a situation that in recent decades has not only made it harder to define but also to determine its high-water marks. That’s one of the reasons I admire the wide net cast by Chris Anderson, who runs the Jazz Art Record Collective, a […]
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Sonny Sharrock’s brilliant 1991 album Ask the Ages gets reissued
Listen to the guitarist’s coruscating swing for today’s 12 O’Clock Track.
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12 O’Clock Track: “Promises Kept,” masterful modern jazz from Sonny Sharrock
The opening track from one of the greatest jazz records of all time, by guitarist Sonny Sharrock
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Blast (and I mean blast!!!) from the past
Okka Disk uncovers a valuable slice of Chicago’s free-jazz past.