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Whether the enforced solitude of the coronavirus pandemic compelled a desire for oral communication, encouraged artists sans collaborators to sit down with the written word or simply gave everybody plenty of time in which to try out new stuff, coming out of the back end there has been a profusion of vocal or spoken word jazz from William Parker...

'Where your attention is, that becomes lively' is just one of the quotes or aphorisms which David Lynch tends to fall back upon whenever he is asked to explain the nature of ideas or creativity or in his own inimitable helium-winged Midwestern way, the consuming happenstance of 'catching the big fish'. Lynch with his longtime collaborative partner Chrystabell are...

Allen Lowe's short bio says that the veteran saxophonist and guitarist 'spans the history of jazz in his music in a way that few have'. While sharing bebop idioms and offering an especially gritty take on the avant-garde, some of his earliest records incorporated not only roots music in the form of nascent jazz and blues but tango theatrics...