8 captures a group of musicians led by "The Man with the Horn ... the studio recordings contained in Seven Steps to Heaven (Columbia, 1963), the last Davis album to contain standards. Abandoning songs ...

Seldom has a band so radically reformed itself as did The Bad Plus in 2022.  The piano trio format was replaced by adding saxophonist Chris Speed and ...

But fear and terror coexist here with the flickering moments of bliss. The 51-second “Swallowed Alive” is a blast of shrieking and din, with Elverum’s kid Agathe speaking the only lyrics (“You get ...