By Stephanie Jones, Downbeat During the past decade, vocalist Aubrey Johnson has explored different chambers of her artistry and performed with an array of musicians, including singers Bobby McFerrin and … Read More
By Stephanie Jones, Downbeat On a chilly January night in New York City, drummer-composer Antonio Sánchez plays a full-body phrase. He hangs back in the measures before repeating it—a provocation. … Read More
By Stephanie Jones, Downbeat Inside Bronx Music House, standing lamps bloom like roses. Percussion instruments hang like ivy on the walls. A stone’s throw from Yankee Stadium, the apartment and … Read More
By Stephanie Jones, Hot House Few artists challenge perceived limits of their own medium as earnestly as Thana Alexa. The Queens-based vocalist and composer of Croatian lineage creates expanding blankets … Read More
By Stephanie Jones, Downbeat Peer groups serve as vital incubators for artistic development, but equally critical are intergenerational relationships among artists. They provide new perspectives, as well as a means … Read More
by Stephanie Jones, Hot House Listeners have come to love Richie Goods as an artist who’s gathered sound and sense from an expansive lineage, and created a heavy vibration all … Read More
Brent Birckhead Ginny’s Supper Club/August 23rd Stephanie Jones, Hot House In Brent Birckhead’s music, listeners find past, present and future expression. Baltimore born and raised, the alto saxophonist and multi-woodwind … Read More
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Stephanie Jones, Downbeat Harpist and composer Brandee Younger often faces a curiously inexhaustible question: What kind of music do you play? And she’s given it a lot of thought: “I … Read More
