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Folk-Rockers Dawes Release Oh Brother, Their Next Best Story
Artist Features

Folk-Rockers Dawes Release Oh Brother, Their Next Best Story

The folk-rock outfit’s frontman Taylor Goldsmith wrote their debut at 23. Now, with the release of their ninth full-length, Oh Brother, he shares his many insights into how he’s grown as a songwriter, and what that says about him as an artist and an individual.

Guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel’s Unearthed Set at an NYC Jazz Landmark
Artist Features

Kurt Rosenwinkel’s Unearthed Set at an NYC Jazz Landmark

The influential jazz guitarist’s new release, The Next Step Band (Live at Smalls, 1996), captures a performance at NYC’s Smalls at a time when the venue was emerging as a local creative hotbed. He’s also publishing a career-spanning book of compositions, and together, the works demonstrate a jazz-guitar genius in search of musical and existential truth.

Make Moves Like Metheny
Jazz

Make Moves Like Metheny

You don't have to want to play like a jazz legend to practice like one.

PAKT Venture to the Far Edge of Improv
Guitarists

PAKT Venture to the Far Edge of Improv

The free-playing supergroup returns with a full-length that explores the outer reaches of composition. Guitarists Tim Motzer and Alex Skolnick mull over the mysteries of their music.

Grant Green's Bebop Blues
Lessons

Grant Green's Bebop Blues

Dip a toe in the jazz-blues pool with these simple chord subs.

Sampling and the Common Ground Between Hip-Hop and Jazz
The Root of It All

Sampling and the Common Ground Between Hip-Hop and Jazz

The use of samples by hip-hop producers is part of a much longer tradition that goes back to the roots of jazz.