1) What is your opinion regarding the present jazz scene in Goa? CD: If there is a jazz scene in India it has to be right here in Goa. No ...

Wednesday, June 12, 2013 @CriticalJazz/ The whole interview   Catching Up With Tony Adamo The Miles Of Blu Interview! Part 1&2   htt...

Returning from other countries and seeing the thirst for jazz music in foreign cultures helps inspire Koven musically.  He frequently ...

Ghosh's music instantly commands attention and however much you hear of this album, you want to hear more. That is something special...

Zakir Hussain and John McLaughlin bring back the memories of Shakti, the fusion band of 70s with Remembering  Shakti  tour again West and So...

I listen to Bollywood music and I absolutely love it, says John McLaughlin, a renowned English guitarist and composer from the band, Remembe...

Gurtu himself recounts the story behind it. "As a young musician, I had applied to the Berkeley College of Music in Boston, Massachuset...

"After the partition, swing musicians ended up in parts of Pakistani Punjab. Prohibition in Bombay led to hotels losing business. That...

In describing  Songs of Mirth and Melancholy , the recent album of piano and saxophone duets he recorded with longtime bandmate Branford Mar...

Who inspires your jazz music?  It all started with Chris Botti, which is funny because jazz musicians consider him pop. As time passed, I gr...

NBC New York (blog) VI: "I said the other day, if we’re going to use what’s now being called “the J word” -- there’s kind of a movemen...

PC: Our motto of “Standing up for real jazz” acknowledges the fact that there’s something wrong with that brand or word “jazz.” Jazz can me...

Jazz singer Mary Stallings isn't nearly as well-known as she should be. Despite being a stunningly talented female vocalist with nearl...

HÉLOÏSE DIVILLY. L’événement jazzistique de cette fin d’année est à coup sûr la venue, pour quelques concerts exceptionnels, de cette mus...

The world-renowned jazz guitar player Rudy Linka was born in Prague but moved to Sweden at a young age. After half a decade there he left fo...

Mainak Nag Chowdhury the bass guitarist of Kolkata-based music band Kendraka speaks to Tithi Sarkar about the band, the music and their up...

Talking about the selection of songs, Kalra said, “I love jazz so I sang mostly up-tempo songs. I had selected them from Great American So...

CONVERSATIONS/ William Parker / Rogueart / 2011 / 247 pages with a CD Review by Steve Dalachinsky Not since John Zorn’s  Arcana  project...

 Hancock himself has been practicing “improvising in a classical way” himself, something he says takes a lot of work. “But if it’s not hard,...

"The bass clarinet is a strange instrument. It's capable of sounding like a barnyard animal run amuck," he said. So he decide...