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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 […]

todayMay 8, 2025 37 1 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 […]

todayMay 8, 2025 11 2 2

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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 […]

todayMay 7, 2025 8 2

Avant-Garde Jazz

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 […]

todayMay 6, 2025 6

Avant-Garde Jazz

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 […]

todayMay 5, 2025 8 3

Jazz

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 […]

todayMay 4, 2025 6

General

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 […]

todayMay 3, 2025 7 2

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A Quirky Dive Into the World of Biosphere

Imagine you’re floating in space, sipping glacial air through a bendy straw, while the echoes of your thoughts swirl gently around you in surround sound. That, my friend, is the sound of Biosphere — ambient music’s frosty Norwegian wizard and full-time soundscape sculptor. 🧊 Who Is Biosphere? Born Geir Jenssen, Biosphere is a Norwegian electronic artist who creates music that sounds like Icelandic weather had an existential crisis and turned […]

todayMay 2, 2025 14 5

Ambient

Static, Seafoam, and Austrian Sorcery: The Beautiful Noise of Fennesz

Hey you. Yes, you, reading this with one hand while the other scrolls TikTok or cradles a lukewarm oat latte. Do you sometimes wish your music sounded like a broken radio trying to tell you a secret from the future? Do you long for guitar solos that dissolve into shimmering clouds instead of toxic masculinity? If so, congratulations: you might be ready for Fennesz. Christian Fennesz (pronounced like you’re trying […]

todayMay 1, 2025 7

Jazz

John Coltrane: The Sonic Astronaut Who Took Jazz to the Moon (and Brought It Back in 5/4 Time)

Once upon a bebop in time, before Spotify algorithms and lo-fi hip hop study beats, there came a man so cosmically talented, he made saxophones cry, blush, and experience existential dread. His name? John William Coltrane. His mission? To bend the very fabric of jazz, time, and possibly space itself until even Einstein would scratch his head and go, “Wait, is this 11/8?” Coltrane wasn’t just a musician. No, my […]

todayApril 30, 2025 11

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