Dancing About Architecture with Jacqui Dankworth
Jacqui Dankworth, the singer from a family of "UK jazz royalty," joins us to mark her new collection of vocal interpretations, 'Windmills.'
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Expanding the knowledge base on exciting musicians, artists, and thinkers—emerging and established—through The Tonearm's insightful coverage.
Mauricio Moquillaza is Building a Platform for Peru's Sonic Experimentalists
The Peruvian musician discusses nurturing Lima's experimental arts community while exploring the creative tensions between control and spontaneity on his debut album of modular synthesizer compositions.
Death Doula Weaves Magic Between Heavy and Light
Mysticism meets muscular rhythms on Death Doula's mesmerizing debut 'Love Spells,' where romance and social commentary intertwine with supernatural force.
Needle Drops
A Glaswegian songwriter bids farewell through sound, ambient artists welcome autumn's embrace, and the Greyboy Allstars dig into their vault in this week's selection of essential new releases.
Dancing About Architecture with Hiruy Tirfe
The Philadelphia saxophonist joins us hot on the heels of taking First Place at the 2024 DC JazzPrix Festival
Dancing About Architecture with Jon Gold
Pianist and Bay Area native Jon Gold joins us to mark his new recordings with Brazil's top players on the album 'Guanabara Eyes'.
Needle Drops
A weekly exploration of essential new music, featuring immigrant stories, ECM piano meditations, and a thirteen-minute psych-rock opus from the heartland.
'The Jazz Omnibus' is Tomorrow's Jazz History, Written Today
From almost 90 contributors and 600 pages emerges 'The Jazz Omnibus,' the most ambitious collection of contemporary jazz journalism and photography assembled this century—rescuing essential perspectives from digital obscurity while documenting how we write about the music today.
Dancing About Architecture with Caitlin Magee 凱琳
The acclaimed Australian-Taiwanese vocalist joins us to mark the latest release from her innovative jazz collective ZY THE WAY 中庸.
Needle Drops
The Tonearm's editors recommend under-the-radar new releases to zoom out of your speakers. Today's most intriguing albums reveal the global scope of contemporary music, from mountain-inspired ambient works to revolutionary jazz interpretations.
Dancing About Architecture with Dylan Jack
The percussionist, composer, educator, and organizer join us in advance of the release of the Dylan Jack Quartet's latest, WInter Panes.
Wayne Horvitz and the 'One Essential Arc'
Exploring the Seattle composer's unique vision of music as a continuous spectrum, where the boundaries between improvisation and composition disappear.