"Staying in the Game starts off with the 24-minute explosion 'Sunday Afternoon' with Fred Anderson weaving in and around the active rhythm section of Harrison Bankhead and Tim Daisy. The energy starts slow and builds to the fire Fred Anderson is known...

Eugene Chadbourne (12-string banjo, banjo, vocals), Warren Smith (drums, tympani, marimba, percussion, vibes)

"Eugene Chadbourne is like a banjo-slinging 21st-century incarnation of Mark Twain. He underlines the absurdity of the war on drugs...

"To save you a short trip to Google, “parrhesia” means “to speak everything” and, by extension, “to speak freely,” “to speak boldly,” or “boldness.” Without getting bogged down in intellectual scaffolding, what Stephen Haynes, Joe Morris, and Warren...

Great trio jazz from a great jazz trio: Kidd Jordan-sax, Harrison Bankhead-bass, cello, Warren Smith-drums, vibes, percussion.

"Kidd Jordan returns with his unique brand of fire-blues-free-jazz. When you hear his staccato phrases circling...

I have seen these guys a couple of times and have always enjoyed them. They play a wild, powerful form of power-trio out-rock. These guys are jazz-trained, but rock-ready. If your taste runs towards tight and a bit brutal, this, their second album...

"Brian Settles brings his buttery, powerful sax tone to his Engine Studios debut recording, along with a longstanding playing relationship with the musicians who make up his group Central Union. The listener hears mindful improvisation from those years...

Trio Caveat: James Ilgenfritz-bass, Chris Welcome-guitar, Jonathan Moritz-tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone.
Josh Sinton-baritone saxophone, bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet.

"I'm always looking to drag the genre of jazz music out of its.

"There is jazz music outside of New York and Chicago, and it can be sophisticated and engaging. Such is the case with Imaginary Perspective by Triptet, hailing from the moist and wooded epicenter of grunge: Seattle. By discarding traditional ideas...