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Listening to Jon Hassell in a Disjointed Age

Some music slides into your life politely. Other sounds arrive like mysterious artifacts—half-remembered dreams, or transmissions from a place you’ve never been but somehow recognize. Jon Hassell’s work belongs squarely in the latter camp: uncanny, enveloping, and oddly intimate, like the voice of a friend whispering in a language you don’t know. Hassell wasn’t just a trumpeter, or even merely a composer. He was a cartographer of phantom geographies. His self-coined concept of Fourth World music—"a unified primitive/futuristic sound"—wasn't a […]

todayMay 10, 2025 11 2

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Edgar Froese: The Sonic Visionary Who Dreamed in Tangerine

When speaking of trailblazers in electronic music, the name Edgar Froese rings with a resonant, otherworldly clarity. As the founder of Tangerine Dream, Froese didn't just contribute to the genre—he helped invent a new language of sound. His work pushed the boundaries of what music could be, treating synthesizers not just as instruments, but as vessels for cosmic storytelling. Born in 1944 in Tilsit, East Prussia, Froese studied painting and sculpture before pivoting to music. That visual artist's sensibility never […]

todayMay 9, 2025 9 2

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Cool, Crooked, and Full of Ghosts: Chet Baker Still Haunts Us

Let’s get this out of the way first:Giovanni doesn’t like Chet Baker. He says Chet’s trumpet playing sounds like it’s apologizing for existing, and that his singing is “what a ghost would croon after breaking up with another ghost.” And you know what? He’s not wrong—but that’s exactly why we love him. Beautiful Wreckage in a Tuxedo Chet Baker wasn’t just a jazz musician—he was the human version of a sigh.He floated instead of swung. He crooned instead of belted. […]

todayMay 8, 2025 60 2 2

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Cosmic Feedback Loops and Inner Astronauts: A Love Letter to Ash Ra Tempel

There are bands you put on while doing the dishes.There are bands you put on while driving at night.And then there’s Ash Ra Tempel—the band you put on when you want your soul to detach from your body, cruise past Saturn, and politely ignore time as a concept. Founded in 1970 by guitarist Manuel Göttsching, drummer Klaus Schulze, and bassist Hartmut Enke, Ash Ra Tempel was Germany’s answer to the question: What if music wasn’t music, but instead a guided […]

todayMay 8, 2025 17 2 2

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Avant-Garde Jazz

The Curious Case of Ethan Iverson: Jazz’s Bookish Trickster

Let’s talk about Ethan Iverson—a pianist who looks like he might shush you in a library but actually wants to blow your mind with a Monk tune, a snarky tweet, and a five-paragraph essay on Stravinsky’s posture. He’s not your average jazz cat. He’s not even your average jazz dog, if that’s a thing. Iverson is the kind of guy who can play like a bebop demon, write like a music critic on mushrooms (the philosophical kind), and still make […]

todayMay 7, 2025 21 2

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Shabaka Hutchings: Shaking the Foundations, Rewriting the Future of Jazz

For jazz fans paying attention over the past decade, the name Shabaka Hutchings has become impossible to ignore. The British-Barbadian saxophonist and bandleader isn’t just part of the conversation—he’s leading it. Whether it’s through the swaggering horns of Sons of Kemet, the Afrofuturist psychedelia of The Comet Is Coming, or the spiritually charged depth of Shabaka and the Ancestors, Hutchings has positioned himself at the nexus of innovation, tradition, and raw urgency. A Sound Rooted in Diaspora From the very […]

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Mary Halvorson: The Sonic Origamist of Jazz Guitar

Mary Halvorson doesn’t play the guitar so much as coax it into alternate dimensions. Her sound lives at the crossroads of jazz, avant-garde, and dream logic—a place where notes bend like clock hands in a Dali painting and melodies unravel just as you think you’ve caught them. She's like a musical origamist, folding harmony into improbable forms, sometimes with elegance, sometimes with delicious awkwardness. And somehow, it always lands. Listening to Halvorson feels like eavesdropping on a conversation between a […]

todayMay 5, 2025 39 3

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Herbie Hancock and the Infinite Funkiverse

Herbie Hancock didn’t just play music. He hacked into the mainframe of sound itself and rewired the whole interface to groove harder, glitch weirder, and swing smarter. If jazz were a video game, Herbie would be the cheat code that unlocks secret levels in five different genres at once — plus an intergalactic bonus round. Let’s begin in the early ‘60s, when Herbie showed up on the jazz scene like a precocious time traveler with bebop in one hand and […]

todayMay 4, 2025 16

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Gerry Mulligan: The Baritone Buddha of Cool

Some jazz cats blast through the air like lightning bolts — fierce, fiery, untamed. But then there’s Gerry Mulligan, who’s more like a mischievous breeze whistling through the alleyways of sound. He didn’t just play the baritone sax; he romanced it, coiled his long limbs around it like a dance partner, and whispered secrets into its brass heart that still echo in smoky corners of old clubs and restless record grooves. Gerry Mulligan looked like a lanky professor who’d wandered […]

todayMay 3, 2025 13 2

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