Origin Records, March 2024 BY ERIC OLSON Despite jazz’s embrace of standards, there’s nothing “standard” about jazz album art. From dim-lit interiors, think Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue to psychedelic desertscapes, Herbie Hancock’s Sextant — the principal role of a...
Marion Meadows photo courtesy of the artist Celebrating Wally Shoup (1944-2024) Influential saxophonist, bandleader, painter and writer Wally Shoup was a leading advocate of free improvisation in both life and music and a mentor by example to scores of musicians...
John Gilbreath photo by Bill Uznay It is an annual irony here within Earshot that once summer finally arrives, our organizational mind is so focused on planning for the coming fall that we almost miss the gorgeous weather. But it’s always an exciting cycle for us...
