A Tribe Called Quest Sparked Hip-Hop’s Love Affair With Jazz on ‘Low End Theory’ “On many levels I don’t see hip-hop and jazz as different styles of music and The Low End Theory demonstrates why.” By Ron Hart
Herbie Hancock Brings New Music and Today’s Jazz Vanguard to Brooklyn Herbie Hancock, undisputed jazz royalty, still jubilantly messes with the gentry in pursuit of new sounds. By Justin Joffe
Fuck the Jazz Police: Celebration & Reclamation at Montréal Jazz Fest “First of all, I’m from jazz, I’m from the ghetto, I’m black,” Terrace Martin tells me. “The jazz police can suck my dick.” By Justin Joffe