Live At The Montreux Jazz Festival & Rathausplatz Bern” by Sohrab Saadat, released in 2025 on DooBeeDoo Records. Explore the ...

Back in the late sixties, when rock musicians started to explore more complex things, the music became at the same time more interesting and, well, complicated at the same time. It was the advent of ...

Platforms such as Suno, Boomy, or Udio allow for the generation of relatively intricate jazz or rock compositions ... that a description defines as a “fusion of Japanese progressive jazz.” Its fake ...

Japanese-American musician Mei Semones on her debut album 'Animaru' and her rare, effortless blend of the two languages in her songwriting.

Mei Semones bridges two cultures through her music, blending Japanese and English lyrics into a sound that’s entirely her own. “I’ve always been bilingual — since I was a baby — so it ...

Mei Semones, The FADER's newest GEN F star, talks her debut album Animaru, singing in Japanese, and her bossa nova and jazz influences.

Essential Early 60s Jazz Albums Kind of Blue — Miles Davis Legendary trumpeter Miles Davis released Kind of Blue in August 1959, leading into the era of 60s improvisational jazz.

The 21st century has been a time of flux and redefinition for jazz, thanks to a generation of players who’ve mixed a love of bebop and swing with equally deep feelings for hip-hop, reggae, funk ...

5. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis, ‘The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis’ In a post- Nels Cline world, it’s not so uncommon to find a guitarist equally versed in jazz and punk rock.

This is the Norwegian quartet’s sixth album. The other members are Nikolai Hængsle (bassist in punk-edged fusion outfit Elephant9; who also plays keyboards here), Kenneth Kapstad (drummer in hard rock ...

One of the most celebrated jazz records of all time, “Kind of Blue” by Miles Davis is a cornerstone for any jazz collection. The album’s modal improvisation and iconic lineup of artists ...

This new album, though, has a lot more guitar, and it’s much more melancholic. […] I got tired of happy themes, haha. So, I returned to a more somber theme. I think it’s a bit more mature.