Best Jazz Of 2014: 20-16
Our week-long countdown of the best jazz releases of the year continues with #s 20-16. Let’s go! 20. Wadada Leo Smith, Red Hill (Buy It) and The Great Lakes Suites (Buy It) Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith...
View ArticleBest Jazz Of 2015: 20-16
This is the second part of our five-part journey through the best jazz albums of 2015. Click here to read Part 1. 20. Henry Threadgill Zooid, In For A Penny, In For A Pound Amazon This double CD...
View ArticleBest Jazz Of 2015: 10-6
All this week, we’re counting down the 25 best jazz albums of 2015. Here’s Part 1. Here’s Part 2. Here’s Part 3. We’re just about to kick off the top 10, so let’s go! 10. Christian Scott Atunde Adjuah,...
View ArticleTyshawn Sorey
Composer, percussionist, and pianist Tyshawn Sorey has been exploring the outer reaches of what it means to be a “jazz” musician for most of his career. Since his first album as a leader, 2007’s...
View ArticleBA Podcast 3: Myra Melford
Burning Ambulance has launched a podcast series, which will feature interviews with artists from the realms of jazz, modern composition, metal, noise, and whatever else interests us—much like the site...
View ArticleGreg Ward
In the latest Burning Ambulance podcast, bassist Melvin Gibbs and I discuss a wide variety of subjects related to his 40-year career in New York and around the world. One of the things we talk about...
View ArticleRoots Magic
Photo: Eleonora Cerri Roots Magic is an Italian quartet: Alberto Popolla on clarinet and bass clarinet, Errico DeFabritiis on alto and baritone saxes, Gianfranco Tedeschi on bass, and Fabrizio Spera on...
View ArticleBA Podcast 64: Pi Recordings
Support Burning Ambulance on Patreon • Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter Episode 63 of the Burning Ambulance Podcast features an interview with Seth Rosner and Yulun Wang of Pi Recordings....
View ArticleBA Podcast 80: Rufus Reid
I put the Burning Ambulance Podcast on pause at the end of 2022, for a variety of reasons (I moved across the country, I wrote a book — In the Brewing Luminous: The Life & Music of Cecil Taylor,...
View ArticleBA Podcast 84: Amina Claudine Myers
The 2024 “season” of the Burning Ambulance podcast continues… Our first episode of the year featured a conversation with pianist Ethan Iverson, the second was an encounter with bassist Rufus Reid, the...
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