Fronted by its founding member, primary arranger and pianist Scott Bradlee, Postmodern Jukebox is a collective of rotating musicians and collaborators, who specialize in re-working and re-arranging modern popular music into genres popular in the […]
Category: jazz
New Video: Robert Glasper and Bilal Team Up for a Modern and Soulful Re-Intrepretation of Miles Davis
Robert Glasper is a renowned, Grammy Award-winning pianist, composer and producer, who has developed a long-held reputation for relentless experimentation and iconoclastic genre mashing — his jazz trio, The Robert Glasper Trio featuring Glasper (piano), […]
Live Concert Footage: Soul Rebels Brass Band at Brooklyn Bowl 2/26/16
I was at Brooklyn Bowl last night to catch Soul Rebels Brass Band for an amazing night of brass band funk and hip-hop as they’re about to finish a three night stop that featured Big […]
New Video: The Darkly Surreal and Playful Visuals for Marco Benevento’s “Dropkick”
Over the past (almost) six years or so, Marco Benevento has developed a reputation as an critically acclaimed jazz/jazz fusion/free jazz/experimental jazz/post-rock and jam band pianist and composer, who has collaborated with an impressive and […]
New Video: New Orleans Jazz Greats Team Up in New Quaret, Nolatet
Renowned vibraphonist Mike Dillon, pianist Brian Haas, bassist James Singleton and drummer Johnny Vidacovich have all collaborated together over the years in a variety of iterations and projects. In fact, Vidacovich and Singleton have […]
Live Footage: Jonathan Scales Fourchestra at Asheville Goombay Festival 9/12/15
Currently comprised of composer and bandleader Jonathan Scales (steel drum), Cody Wright (bass) and their newest member, Chaisaray Schenck (drums), the  Asheville, NC-based jazz fusion trio Jonathan Scales Fourchestra have become JOVM mainstays since I serendipitously stumbled upon the band when […]
New Video: Multinational Jazz Band KUHN Fu and Their Trippy and Expansive Sound
Comprised of German-born, Dutch-based guitarist and composer Christian Kuhn; Israeli-born, Dutch-based bass clarinetist Ziv Taubenfeld; Serbian-born, Dutch-based drummer Lav Kovac; and Turkish-born, Dutch-based bassist Esat Ekincioglu, KUHN FU is a Groningen, The Netherlands-based psychedelic jazz band […]
Live Footage: CMJ 2015/BRIC Jazz Fest: Nate Smith and Kinfolk
Over the course of its 35 years of existence, the CMJ Music Marathon has developed a long-held reputation for being one of the world’s most renowned platforms for the introduction of new, independent artists — […]
Throwback: John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme
Since this site’s inception, it has been an annual tradition that I write something on John Coltrane‘s A Love Supreme, an album that is arguably not only one of the most beautiful albums ever written […]
New Audio: Introducing Belgian Quintet STUFF. and Their Funky, Hip-Hop Take on Jazz Fusion
STUFF. is a Belgian-based quintet who have received attention across their native Belgium and the European Union for a sound that possesses elements of hip-hop, jazz, jazz fusion and funk. And as a result of […]
