Tag: Curtis Stewart

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From avant-garde pioneers like Anthony Braxton and Henry Threadgill to the esoteric works of the pianist Herbie Nichols and the double bassist and oud player Ahmed Abdul-Malik, there are some artists who loom large in the minds of contemporary jazz players and who have proved widely influential yet perhaps still rarely receive their due as composers. Braxton and Threadgill...

In the spring of 1971 the release of What's Going On saw Marvin Gaye switch things up with a song cycle written from the perspective of a Vietnam War veteran, who returns to the United States to find a country in the throes of poverty, racial enmity, drug addiction and environmental degradation. A clarion call for the vulnerable, heartsick...

What lies between water and the shore? Slipping inside the crevice of a dream, taking her title from a Korean term which encompasses everything from idle fantasies to intrepid night terrors, on her sophomore album Lucy Liyou swaps molten piano instrumentals and text-to-speech snippets for a staccato of saliva sounds and a more fulsome embrace of pansori, a genre...