Matt Lavelle is one of the bright lights in today's avant-garde jazz scene, his trumpet and bass clarinet exploding with passionate spirit and unwavering intent. His newest CD, Trumpet Rising Bass ...

Bennie Maupin has been standing in the shadows, enhancing the music of such high-profilers as Miles Davis, Andrew Hill and Herbie Hancock, during much of his career. Not before time, he steps up to ...

It would be difficult to overstate the intent behind Mustik Motel — an imprint born in Tampere with a simple ethos: melody, harmony and rhythm as shared language, jazz as common ground, the world as ...