The Chris Speed Trio: Chris Speed, Chris Tordini, and Dave King Credit: Courtesy Big Fish Booking In his own projects and his collaborations with others, tenor saxophonist and clarinetist Chris Speed ...

For more than 25 years, reedist Chris Speed has been one of the most fascinating and versatile figures in jazz and improvised music, an individualist who puts ensemble first. He’s occasionally claimed ...

How rare are concerts by The Clarinets, the all-star trio of Anthony Burr, Oscar Noriega and Chris Speed? “I’m guessing it’s been about five years since we played a show,” said Burr, a UC San Diego ...

Everything about this extraordinary album, Jugendstil, is deliberate and attains its own level of perfection. To begin with, there is its name: The word Jugendstil (German for "youth style," akin to ...

Before genre-blurring became a buzzword and boundary-pushing a branding strategy, Yeah NO was already redefining jazz on their own terms—authentic, dynamic, and unapologetically original. Initially ...

Drummer Ben Perowsky, keyboardist John Medeski and saxophonist Chris Speed have released a new album, titled Upstream. Perowsky has recently been drumming in the TONY-winning musical Hadestown on ...

The rapport between the intrepid Brooklyn tenor player and Bad Plus drummer Dave King was a thing of beauty at the recent Sound It Out festival. That duet dynamic turns into a trio attack with the ...

Double-bassist Stephane Furic Leibovici avers that he likes to be gentle with sounds and to listen to the inside of them. He is true to this philosophy on Jugendstil, where he finds solace in the ...