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Keith Jarrett In The 70s
by Phil Freeman Considering the size of his discography and his prominence in the world of jazz, I haven’t really spent very much time at all listening to Keith Jarrett. I reviewed one of his solo...
View ArticleInterview: Jamie Saft
by Brad Cohan It’s summertime in bucolic and peaceful Kerhonkson, New York, and Jamie Saft—the intrepid piano and electric keyboards titan and John Zorn and Bad Brains collaborator—is deep in his...
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McCoy Tyner In The ’70s: Part 1
by Phil Freeman Pianist McCoy Tyner is one of the most important musicians in modern jazz. He first popped up on some folks’ radar as a member of the Jazztet, a group co-led by flugelhornist Art Farmer...
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McCoy Tyner In The ’70s: Part 4
by Phil Freeman All this week, we’re reviewing every album pianist McCoy Tyner recorded between 1970 and 1979. (There were 19 of them.) Here’s Part 1 of our overview; here’s Part 2; and here’s Part 3....
View ArticleOrnette the Composer
by Phil Freeman Ornette Coleman is obviously best known as a jazz musician. His 1959-61 quartet broke jazz wide open on albums like The Shape of Jazz to Come, This is Our Music, and Change of the...
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BA Podcast 15: Dave Burrell
Episode 15 of the Burning Ambulance podcast features an interview with avant-garde jazz pianist Dave Burrell, who is being honored at the 2018 Vision Festival at Roulette in Brooklyn and who performed...
View ArticleNduduzo Makhathini
Nduduzo Makhathini is a South African pianist, vocalist, and bandleader who seems to be at the forefront of a group of young musicians from that country. This new South African jazz has a strong...
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Motorpsycho
The Norwegian rock band Motorpsycho have been a global rock institution since the 1990s, releasing somewhere around two dozen studio albums, collaborations with artists like Ståle Storløkken and Jaga...
View ArticleJoe Henderson 1963-1981, Part 4
This is the fourth installment of our week-long journey through saxophonist Joe Henderson‘s catalog, beginning on Blue Note and moving through an extended tenure with Milestone, plus a few one-off...
View ArticlePhilip Bailey
Earth, Wind & Fire vocalist Philip Bailey possesses one of the most stunning instruments in pop music history. His incomparable falsetto, showcased on songs like “Fantasy” and “Keep Your Head to...
View ArticleFree Jazz In Japan
L-R: Akira Sakata, Masahiko Satoh, Masahiko Togashi This post was made available to Patreon supporters one week ago. To see upcoming stories in advance of publication, become a supporter today! The...
View ArticleFred Anderson
This post was made available to Patreon supporters one week ago. To see upcoming stories in advance of publication, become a supporter today! I met Fred Anderson once. I was in Chicago to profile the...
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BA Podcast 49: Peter Brotzmann
It’s true: After a three-month hiatus, the Burning Ambulance podcast is back, with an interview with legendary saxophonist Peter Brötzmann! Peter Brötzmann first emerged onto the global scene in the...
View ArticleMythic Sunship
Danish quartet Mythic Sunship — guitarists Kasper Stougaard Andersen and Emil Thorenfeldt, bassist Rasmus ‘Cleaver’ Christensen and drummer Frederik Denning — have released four studio albums to date,...
View ArticleBrotzmann Roundup
The indefatigable Peter Brötzmann has been a favored subject of this site since its inception. Many of his albums have been discussed here over the past ten years, and he was the subject of episode 49...
View ArticleNdabo Zulu
South African pianist Nduduzo Makhathini (a guest on the BA podcast in 2019) seems from the outside to be at the center of a group of up-and-coming musicians from his country. He produces their albums,...
View ArticleEric Revis
Bassist Eric Revis is a fascinating figure who clearly sees jazz as a boundary-less realm where anything is possible. On the one hand, he’s been a member of saxophonist Branford Marsalis‘s quartet...
View ArticleBA Podcast 62: Muriel Grossmann
Support Burning Ambulance on Patreon • Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter Episode 61 of the Burning Ambulance Podcast features an interview with saxophonist Muriel Grossmann. Links to listen:...
View ArticleBheki Mseleku
Pianist Bheki Mseleku was a crucial figure in South African jazz, even if his name doesn’t ring out like that of Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba, Abdullah Ibrahim, or Chris McGregor. Born in Durban in...
View ArticleSirone
Bassist Norris Jones, better known as Sirone, was born in Atlanta in 1940; he died in Berlin in 2009. Though he never became a mainstream figure, within the world of avant-garde jazz from the 1960s...
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