Anthony Cox

Born: October 24, 1954

Contemporary Residents

By Paul Scea

Label: Accurate Records
Released: 2025

Murmuration

By Murmuration

Label: Mahakala Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Thieving Magpies; Blackout; Mississippi Flyway; Out Of Here; Oceanic Blues; Dream State; Murmuration; Warbling Universes; Peripheral Wonder.

Myra Melford Splash, Thomas Heberer's Remedy & Ra Bishop

by Maurice Hogue
March 31, 2025

It's early in the year to be thinking “best-of" albums, but I'm definitely noting these for December: pianist Myra Melford's Splash Trio with bassist Michael Formanek and drummer Ches Smith and Remedy, the trio of Thomas Heberer trumpet, Joe Fonda bass & Joe Hertenstein drums. These are two recordings that present the kind of free expression ...

Mahakala Music: Murmuration

by Fran Kursztejn
March 28, 2025

"Birds from the east coast meet birds from the midwest," reads Mahakala Music's description for saxophonist Dave Sewelson's newest release. Sewelson himself is a bicoastal phenomenon: born in Oakland, then traipsing into the New York scene circa 1977. Like his frequent bandleader collaborator William Parker, he acts as a magnetic center to attract a variety of ...

Interview with Joe Lovano

by Mark Felton
February 6, 1996

This interview was first published at All About Jazz in 1996. All About Jazz: The author of the liner notes of your latest release Quartets suggests that the current trend in jazz is towards a dialogue between the avant-garde and the tradition. How do you interpret that? Joe Lovano: Well, I don't ...

Sparrows are Badasses

January 17, 2024

Album: New Past
By JC Sanford
Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 6:11

New Past

By JC Sanford

Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Sparrows are Badasses; Avocado; Choro de Familiaris; followfellowflow; Evidence; Tones of Tamuras; Toy Tune; Some Moments are Eternal.

JC Sanford with Anthony Cox and Michael Cain: New Past

by Troy Dostert
October 19, 2023

Although he has shown himself to be adept in crafting big-band releases such as Views from the Inside (Whirlwind, 2014), trombonist JC Sanford usually works in a pared-down setting, such as his quartet release Keratoconus (Shifting Paradigm, 2019) or, more recently, the two volumes of his trio-based Imminent Standards (Shifting Paradigm, 2021 and 2022). Here he ...

Meet Terri Lyne Carrington

by Craig Jolley
July 19, 2021

From the 1995-2003 archive: This article first appeared at All About Jazz in March 2002. Drummer/composer Terri Lyne Carrington found her voice early. Unlike other child prodigies, she was not transfixed by her early success and has continued to grow musically. Besides her brilliance as a drummer she is now established as a bandleader ...