Brian Eaton Mines Emotional Depths With Genre-bending 'Like A Root Out Of Dry Ground'

June 27, 2025

Multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer Brian Eaton has released his most personal and sonically adventurous album to date, Like a Root out of Dry Ground. The album is now available through his own Eatin�� Records imprint and can be found on all major digital platforms. This genre-defying instrumental work showcases Eaton's unique creativity and has truly taken ...

Wen'��pt

Wen'ípt (Songs) is an Indigenous led contemporary jazz combo that highlights Indigenous artistry through jazz. Wen'ípt showcases the largely forgotten, but significant, contributions to the art form by native peoples through performance of indigenous works from multiple eras, story telling, and by simply taking up space on the scene. Wen'ípt seeks to honor and carry on a long standing tradition of indigenous peoples in jazz, from Charlie Parker (Choctaw), to Jim Pepper (Kaw/Mvskoke), and even contemporary artists such as Julia Keefe (Nimiipuu), Delbert Anderson (Navajo), and Mali Obomsawin (Abenaki).

Michael Waldrop: Native Son

by Bill Milkowski
May 21, 2025

Following two successful big band projects--the swinging and swaggering Time Within Itself and Origin Suite--drummer-composer-bandleader Michael Waldrop has brought things down to a more intimate level on Native Son. In some ways a return to his first album as a leader, 2002's Triangularity, a sterling piano trio outing which he reissued in 2019, Native ...

Brian Eaton��s 'Trail of Contrition' Brings Jazz Fusion to New Frontiers

January 9, 2025

Portland-based multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer Brian Eaton has unveiled his sixth studio album, Trail of Contrition, available now on Eatin�� Records. This vibrant jazz fusion project stands at the crossroads of diverse American musical traditions, blending elements of jazz, country, bluegrass, folk, rock, rhythm and blues, gospel, and Americana into an adventurous, genre-bending sonic journey. The ...

Outlaw UK Folk Singer Beans On Toast And Jeshua Marshall, Of Larry And His Flask, Embark On Co-headline US Tour, September 26 - October 20, 2024

September 26, 2024

Outlaw UK folk singer Beans on Toast and American roots rocker Jeshua Marshall (of Larry and His Flask acclaim) have announced a 4-week coast-to-coast co-headlining trek that sees them on the road from September 26 to October 20. Building on a successful handful of U.S. shows last fall, the like-minded cohorts will play twenty shows in ...

Brian Eaton's New Single Covers Pat Metheny Group��s 'Travels'

June 7, 2024

Brian Eaton��snew 2-track single, Travels, features a cover of the title track from the Pat Metheny Group��s Grammy-winning live album Travels as a tribute to the late Lyle Mays. The musician/producer��s new single, which is out now on Eatin�� Records, also includes the track ��Detour Ahead,�� Eaton��s version of the timeless jazz standard as the B-side ...

Portland Jazz Sensation Shelly Rudolph Teams Up With Charlie Hunter For New Single 'I Love Love'

June 1, 2024

Listen to ��I Love LOVE�� Portland, Oregon-based singer-songwriter Shelly Rudolph is set to captivate audiences again with her latest single, “I Love LOVE." This soulful and funky song celebrates the universal power of love. Teaming up with renowned jazz-soul artist Charlie Hunter, trumpeter Cyrus Naibipoor, and drummer Reinhardt Wolfgang Melz, Rudolph delivers a track that promises ...

Los Angeles-Based Jazz Singer Maria Schafer Announces USA West Coast Tour

October 4, 2023

Evocative jazz songstress and composer Maria Schafer is excited to announce her next tour of the West Coast of the USA in October 2023 spanning jazz clubs, radio stations, and performing arts centers in CA, OR, and WA. On the timing of the tour, Maria shares that this tour will “be a sneak peek of my ...

Far Out!

by Michael Ambrosino
March 10, 2023

Inside, outside and all around this genre, exists a remarkable array of music that all flows back to the unique source and sensibility known as jazz. This episode features Jim Snidero, Buster Williams, Nicholas Payton, Rebecca Nash, Kendrick Scott, Diego Rivera, Jane Bunnett & Maqueque, Joe Locke, Vince Mendoza, Nguyên Lê, Theo Croker and Lisa Marie ...

Instrumental Bass Guitar & Vibraphone Duo Cliffwalker 'Casually Skirts Past Math Rock, Jazz, And Minimalist Classical Like Ships In The Night' With 'Calm Sea' Video, Streaming Now

October 6, 2022

“A breath of fresh air and a deeply nostalgic look into the 1960’s aesthetic,” says music discovery website Fecking Bahamas about the “Calm Sea” music video by Portland, Oregon-based “crime jazz” duo, CLIFFWALKER. “Comparisons to espionage composers like John Barry or Lalo Schifrin... The duo casually skirts past math rock, jazz, and minimalist classical like ships ...