Harish Raghavan

After arriving in New York in 2007, bassist Harish Raghavan has begun to make a name for himself among the rising stars of his generation. Raghavan has played/toured with Kurt Elling, Taylor Eigsti, Vijay Iyer, Ambrose Akinmusire, Eric Harland, Mark Turner, Aaron Parks, Greg Osby, Billy Childs, Benny Green, Geoffry Keezer, Terrell Stafford, Mike Moreno, Rodney Green, Logan Richardson, Fabian Almazan, Justin Brown, Dayna Stephens, Julian Lage, Gerald Clayton, Marcus Gilmore, Walter Smith III, among others. Raghavan grew up in Northbrook, Illinois, just north of Chicago. At age eight he began studying Western and Indian percussion, and later switched to the double bass at seventeen

Letters From Afar

By Alex Hitchcock

Label: New Soil
Released: 2025
Track listing: 1. Yellow Greens; 2. Wishbone; 3. Eo; 4. Invisible Beasts; 5. Bright White Light; 6. Banshees; 7. 41; 8. Rio (Live At Bimhuis)

Conceptions

By Geoffrey Dean

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2025
Track listing: Came and Went; Phoenix Rising; Amidst a Dream; Conflagration; Road to Somewhere; Song for Hannah; Spiral; Prism; Arrival; What May Come.

Charles Lloyd and Branford Marsalis at The Blue Note Jazz Festival

by Paul Reynolds
July 3, 2025

Charles Lloyd Big Sky Quartet and the Branford Marsalis Quartet Town Hall The Blue Note Jazz Festival New York City June 28, 2025 Both Charles Lloyd and Branford Marsalis are saxophonists who lead classic quartets and share a similar position slightly left of center within the jazz world--comfortable with hopping ...

Sasha Berliner: Khan Younis

by Carl Medsker
May 19, 2025

Fant?me (Outside In Music, 2025) is vibraphonist Sasha Berliner's third release as a leader, and it is excellent from start to finish, due to its diversity of moods, energy, instrumentation, arrangements and well-written compositions. This is an ensemble effort, with everyone contributing to bringing Berliner's ideas to life. The core band consists of Taylor Eigsti (piano), ...

Geoffrey Dean: Conceptions

by Jack Bowers
May 18, 2025

Conceptions, the second album by pianist Geoffrey Dean's able quartet, is a neatly drawn recording whose ten original compositions were written by members of the group: five by Dean, three by trumpeter Justin Copeland, and a pair by drummer Eric Binder. The concept behind the album was to showcase a diversity of genres ...

Big Ears Festival 2025

by Mark Sullivan
April 8, 2025

Big Ears Festival Knoxville, TN March 27-30, 2025 This year's festival again featured several spotlighted events (but none of them required special ticketing, as was tried last year). “Across the Horizon" was a series of concerts combining Americana and ambient music, curated by Bob Holmes and the band SUSS. “Age ...

Benjamin Lackner Quintet al Doubletime Jazz & Kultur Club di Hameln

by Mario Calvitti
February 28, 2025

Benjamin Lackner Quintet Doubletime Jazz & Kultur Club Hameln, Germania 26 gennaio 2025 In occasione della pubblicazione del nuovo lavoro su etichetta ECM, Spindrift, il quintetto del pianista berlinese Benjamin Lackner ha intrapreso un tour promozionale europeo in Gennaio, toccando otto citt�� in Germania e le capitali di Spagna, ...

Plot Armor

By Taylor Eigsti

Label: GroundUP Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Let You Bee; Bucket of F's (feat. Ben Wendel); Look Around You (feat. Becca Stevens); Plot Armor; Light Dream (feat. Terence Blanchard); Fire Within (feat. Lisa Fischer); The Rumor; Actually; Beyond The Blue (feat. Gretchen Parlato); 201918; Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered; Bad Sport Lobby.

Quintet Music

By Travis Reuter

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Same Song; #13 F34; Interlude 1; #8 D@z; Fast Louis; Interlude 1; #9 Low/High 1; Interlude 1; #15; Carrico Real.