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'Nobody Broke Your Heart' Is the Truest, Most Comprehensive Elliott Smith Biography to Date
JAMIE FISHER DRAWS ON 140-PLUS INTERVIEWS AND RARE ARCHIVAL MATERIAL TO GET PAST THE TRAGIC-GENIUS MYTH AND SHOW THE PERSON BEHIND IT Jamie Fisher went looking for a comprehensive account of Elliott Smith and came up short. A researcher for The New York Times Magazine for a decade and running, she set out to get past the shorthand that has followed him since his violent, still-contested death in 2003: gifted, depressed, addicted, suicidal.
In and Around New York, Jazz Clubs Come Out of the Sky
T he Knicks’ championship run gave New York a rare civic lift. For Spike Wilner, it also helped sink a Saturday night. Wilner is the pianist and club operator behind Smalls and Mezzrow, two Greenwich Village jazz rooms that helped shape the city’s post-’90s small-club culture. In March, he added a third: Jazzcultural, a new music room and café on Restaurant Row. But during one Knicks game, the action outside Smalls took over the block.
Why Music Journalist Hank Shteamer Fell For Robert Pollard's Music: "He's Almost Teaching You How To Be A GBV Fan"
Courtesy of Hank Shteamer. Across his decades-long career as a music journalist, editor, and podcaster, Hank Shteamer has wielded many strengths — chief among them that he a) shows up (which as they say, is 80% of success), and b) truly does his homework. A Brooklynite via Kansas City, Shteamer attends and covers a dizzying array of gigs any given week in NYC and beyond, across rock, metal, jazz, and experimental music.
Roy Ayers & Ubiquity’s ‘He’s Coming’ Joins The Verve Vault Series
Cover: Courtesy of Verve Records Released on Polydor in 1972, He’s Coming captures vibraphonist Roy Ayers at a creative apex, as Ubiquity’s sound settled into the blend of jazz improvisation, funk rhythm, soul harmony, and spiritual import that would define his work throughout the decade. Emerging at the start of the 1970s, the album reflects Ayers’s deepening move toward a groove-centered musical language rooted in soul-jazz and early jazz-funk.
‘Laughin To Keep From Cryin’ Receives Verve Acoustic Sounds Series Vinyl Reissue
Cover: Courtesy of Verve Records Recorded and released in 1958, just over a year before his death, Laughin’ to Keep from Cryin’ captures saxophonist Lester Young in one of his final studio sessions. Though his tone had softened, Young’s phrasing remains fluid and expressive, favoring subtlety over force.
‘Big Band Bossa Nova’ by Stan Getz Gets Acoustic Sounds Reissue
Cover: Courtesy of Verve Records Released in 1962 on Verve, Big Band Bossa Nova continued Stan Getz’s early-1960s engagement with Brazilian music in a large-ensemble format. Produced by Creed Taylor and arranged and conducted by Gary McFarland, the album places Getz’s tenor saxophone within orchestrated settings that combine brass and woodwind writing with the rhythmic qualities of samba and bossa nova.
'Big Band Bossa Nova' by Stan Getz Gets Acoustic Sounds Reissue
2 days ago The name Gabreille Cavassa has been spoken in jazz circles for a few years now, since she made her way to New Orleans. In the jazz world it was seen as inevitable that she would one day be a true force in the scene. That deep belief in Cavassa was only reinforced in 2023 when she was recruited to …
‘Ascension’ By John Coltrane Gets The Verve Vault Treatment
Cover: Courtesy of Verve Records Ascension, released in 1966 on Impulse! Records, stands as one of John Coltrane’s most radical and influential works. Subtitled “Edition I & II” to reflect the two complete takes recorded at the session, the piece is a nearly 40-minute large-ensemble performance marking Coltrane’s decisive embrace of the avant-garde.
Cal Tjader’s ‘The Prophet’ Joins The Verve Vault Series
Cover: Courtesy of Verve Records The Prophet, recorded in September 1967 and released on Verve in 1968, documents vibraphonist Cal Tjader in one of the final projects of his Verve period. The title will soon join the Verve Vault series, when it gets reissued on vinyl. Produced by Esmond Edwards and arranged and conducted by Don Sebesky, the album places Tjader within a richly orchestrated studio setting shaped by late-1960s jazz and Latin-inflected textures.
John Coltrane’s ‘Impressions’ Joins Verve Acoustic Sounds Series
Cover: Courtesy of Verve Records Recorded between 1961 and 1963 and released on Impulse! Records in July 1963, Impressions documents John Coltrane’s classic quartet with pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison, and drummer Elvin Jones. Those sessions will once again get a release via the Verve Acoustic Sounds Series later this year.
‘Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Cole Porter Song Book’ Gets Verve Acoustic Sounds Reissue
Cover: Courtesy of Verve Records Released in 1956 as the inaugural album on the newly established Verve label, Ella Fitzgerald’s Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book signaled the beginning of her now-historic Song Book series and marked a major turning point in her recording career. Produced by Norman Granz and recorded across two sessions in February and March of 1956, the album paired Fitzgerald with arranger and conductor Buddy Bregman and a full studio orchestra.
Marcos Valle ‘Samba ’68’ Joins The Verve Vault Series
Cover: Courtesy of Verve Records Samba ’68, released on Verve in 1968, introduced Brazilian singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Marcos Valle to a wider international audience. Verve Records will soon pay tribute to the record’s incredibly legacy by reissuing it on vinyl as part of the Verve Vault series. Already established in Brazil through songs such as “Samba de Verão” (“Summer Samba”), Valle worked with producers Bob Morgan and Ray Gilbert on Samba ’68.
Marcos Valle 'Samba '68' Joins The Verve Vault Series
4 hours ago Can a generation of graduates frustrated by their economic prospects change American labor politics? This is an age of mutinies. For more than a decade in America, they’ve come so thick and fast that they trip over one another: the Tea Party, Occupy, Black Lives Matter, the Resistance, the …
‘Listen to Art Farmer and the Orchestra’ Gets Verve Vault Treatment
Cover: Courtesy of Verve Records Listen to Art Farmer and the Orchestra, recorded in 1962 and released the following year on Mercury, stands as one of trumpeter/flugelhornist Art Farmer’s most ambitious statements as a leader. You’ll be able to hear it very soon on audiophile vinyl courtesy of the Verve Vault series. The album places Farmer at the forefront of a large ensemble arranged and conducted by Oliver Nelson, whose writing gives the project a striking blend of sophistication and swing.
'Listen to Art Farmer and the Orchestra' Gets Verve Vault Treatment
'Listen to Art Farmer and the Orchestra' Gets Verve Vault Treatment The album places Farmer at the forefront of a large ensemble arranged and conducted by Oliver Nelson. Listen to Art Farmer and the Orchestra, recorded …
McCoy Tyner's 'Inception' Gets Verve Acoustic Sounds Treatment
Cover: Courtesy of Verve Records Recorded for Impulse! Records in January of 1962 at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio, Inception marked pianist McCoy Tyner’s debut as a leader. This session features a cohesive trio with bassist Art Davis and drummer Elvin Jones—both colleagues from John Coltrane’s groups—whose familiarity lends the session its focused clarity.
McCoy Tyner ‘Inception’ Verve Acoustic Sounds Series
6 hours ago The humor of De La Soul has always been one of its calling cards. When DJ Maseo tells the Tiny Desk crowd, "Ladies and gentlemen, we're a new group called De La Soul," he means it as a joke. But, in so many ways, one of the most influential groups in hip-hop is new: the duties have been reassessed, …
A Conversation with GBV Drummer Kevin March: "Being In Guided by Voices Is Literally The Greatest Thing In The World"
Kevin March is best known as the drummer for Guided by Voices over the past decade, a role he has held across three distinct periods in the band’s history: the 2002–2004 farewell era, the 2010s reunion of the “so-called classic lineup,” and the current configuration formed in 2016. A 1991 graduate of Berklee College of Music, March joined the Dambuilders shortly after graduation, recording and touring during the band’s major-label run.
Art Blakey's '’S Make It' Is Getting A Verve Vault Reissue
Cover: Courtesy of Verve Records ’S Make It, recorded in 1964 and released the following year on Limelight, captures drummer Art Blakey leading a transitional edition of his Jazz Messengers. At the time, Blakey was navigating the departure of several key members and searching for a new configuration, resulting in a distinctive short-lived lineup within the band’s long history.
Cannonball Adderley's 'Cannonball’s Sharpshooters' Joins Verve Vault
Cover: Courtesy of Verve Records Cannonball’s Sharpshooters, originally released in 1958, documents alto saxophonist Julian “Cannonball” Adderley leading a quintet featuring cornetist Nat Adderley, pianist Junior Mance, bassist Sam Jones, and drummer Jimmy Cobb.
Stan Getz's ‘Jazz Samba Encore’ Gets Verve Acoustic Sounds Series Reissue
Cover: Courtesy of Verve Records Recorded in February and March of 1963 and released later that year on Verve, Jazz Samba Encore reunited Stan Getz with Brazilian musicians Luiz Bonfá and Maria Toledo for a lyrically focused follow-up to the landmark Jazz Samba of 1962. The album will soon join Verve’s Acoustic Sounds Series on vinyl. It’s due to be released later this year.
Astrud Gilberto's ‘The Shadow of Your Smile’ Joins Verve's Acoustic Sounds Series
Cover: Courtesy of Verve Records Released on Verve in 1965, The Shadow of Your Smile captures Astrud Gilberto in the early ascent of her recording career, refining the understated vocal style that had made her an international figure just a year earlier.
Gábor Szabó's 'Spellbinder' Joins Verve Vault Series
Cover: Courtesy of Verve Records Spellbinder, originally released in 1966 on Impulse! Records, introduced Hungarian guitarist Gábor Szabó to a wider American audience with a set that blends modal jazz, Eastern European folk influences, and 1960s pop textures. The album is set to be reissued on all-analog 180-gram vinyl on March 13, 2026, as part of the Verve Vault Series.
'Elevation' By Pharoah Sanders Joins The Verve Vault Series
Cover: Courtesy of Verve Records Elevation, originally released in 1974 on Impulse! Records, finds tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders expanding his spiritual jazz vision on an album that balances ecstatic expression with focused ensemble interplay. The album will be reissued on 180-gram all-analog vinyl on March 13, 2026, as part of the Verve Vault Series.
Muere Bob Weir, renombrado guitarrista y miembro fundador de Grateful Dead, a los 78 años
Trending on Billboard Bob Weir, guitarrista y pionero del género jam band que cofundó The Grateful Dead y continuó su legado en el siglo XXI con Furthur, Dead & Company y otros proyectos, falleció de problemas pulmonares preexistentes tras una lucha con un cáncer. La muerte de Weir fue confirmada el sábado (10 de enero) en un comunicado publicado en sus cuentas oficiales de redes sociales. Tenía 78 años.
Bob Weir, Renowned Guitarist and Founding Member of the Grateful Dead, Dies at 78 Original
Trending on Billboard Bob Weir, guitarist and jam-band pioneer who co-founded The Grateful Dead and continued their legacy in the 21st century with Furthur, Dead & Company and more, died due to underlying lung issues after fighting cancer. Weir’s death was confirmed Saturday (Jan. 10) by a statement published on his official social media accounts. He was 78. Explore See latest videos, charts and news “It is with profound sadness that we share the passing of Bobby Weir.
'Plus One' by Oscar Peterson Trio And Clark Terry Gets Verve Acoustic Sounds Reissue
Cover: Courtesy of Verve Records Recorded on August 17 and 18, 1964, in New York and released on Verve that same year, Plus One joins the Oscar Peterson Trio with the singular voice of trumpeter and flugelhornist Clark Terry. At this point, Peterson’s trio with Ray Brown (bass) and Ed Thigpen (drums) had already established itself as one of the most impeccably unified ensembles in jazz.
Oscar Peterson Trio's 'Affinity' Gets Verve Acoustic Sounds Series Release
Cover: Courtesy of Verve Records Recorded in late September 1962 in Chicago and released on Verve the same year, the Norman Granz-produced Affinity captures the Oscar Peterson Trio at a moment of deep cohesion and fluency. The lineup — Peterson on piano, Ray Brown on bass, and Ed Thigpen on drums — had been performing together for several years and had developed a rare, conversational balance.
'Stan Getz & The Oscar Peterson Trio' Gets Verve Vault Release
Cover: Courtesy of Verve Records Stan Getz and the Oscar Peterson Trio, originally released in 1958 on Verve Records, documents a rare meeting between two contrasting jazz greats: the cool-toned tenor saxophonist Stan Getz and the hard-driving Oscar Peterson Trio. The album will be reissued on all-analog 180-gram vinyl in February 2026, as part of the Verve Vault Series.
'Stan Getz & The Oscar Peterson Trio' Gets Verve Vault Release
1 hour ago Taylor Swift is entering her auntie era. The superstar embraced the role last night, as she cheered on fiancé Travis Kelce at his NFL game alongside his family members. At one point during the evening, Swift was captured in a fan video carrying one of Kelce’s little nieces inside the tight end’s …
Dinah Washington's 'What A Diff'rence A Day Makes' Comes To Vinyl
What a Diff’rence a Day Makes, originally released in 1959 on Mercury Records, marked a turning point in the career of vocalist Dinah Washington — earning her a Grammy Award and bringing her rich, blues-informed style into the world of lush orchestral pop. The album will be reissued on 180-gram all-analog vinyl on January 9, 2026 — part of the Verve Vault Series.
‘The Purple People Eater’: The Story Of Sheb Wooley’s Novelty Hit
In 1958, Sheb Wooley unleashed “The Purple People Eater” from his imagination into the airwaves. The creature has “one long horn, one big eye.” He’s “pigeon-toed, undergrowed.” But when the narrator frets, “Looks like a purple people eater to me!” It begs the questions: To what other purple people eaters can he compare him? Does Wooley’s clarification that he eats purple people – that he’s not necessarily purple himself – mean we’re all off the hook?
‘The Purple People Eater’: The Story Of Sheb Wooley’s Novelty Hit
Did Astronomers Photograph UFOs Orbiting Earth in the 1950s? For generations, UFO enthusiasts have longed for claims of aliens visiting Earth to be seriously investigated by scientists. Now they are getting their wish. This month prominent peer-reviewed journals have published two papers that link apparent flashes of light seen by a telescope 70 years ago to …
Why Militarie Gun's Ian Shelton Is Obsessed With Guided By Voices
The songs are about drinking and taking drugs and womanizing — that kind of shit. The songs are about sin, basically, and being out there in the absence of everything — the energy of the universe or god or whatever. There are some positive songs on the record that offer a glimmer of hope. I don’t want anyone to worry I’m going to commit suicide; I’m fine.
Archie Shepp's 'Four for Trane' Joins The Verve Vault Series
Four for Trane, originally released in 1964 on Impulse! Records, was saxophonist Archie Shepp’s first major studio statement and remains one of his most influential albums. The record will be reissued on all-analog 180-gram vinyl in December, as part of the Verve Vault Series.
Max Roach's 'Percussion Bitter Sweet' Gets Verve Vault Reissue
Percussion Bitter Sweet, originally released in 1961 on Mercury Records, is one of Max Roach’s most politically charged and musically expansive recordings. The album is set to be reissued on all-analog 180-gram vinyl in December, as part of the Verve Vault Series. Recorded over two days in September 1960 at Universal Studios in Chicago, Percussion Bitter Sweet reflects Roach’s deepening engagement with themes of social justice and Pan-African identity.
Inside John Lennon & Yoko Ono’s ‘Power To The People’ Boxed Set: NYC Listening Party Recap
THESE INDUSTRY EVENTS ARE THE SOMETHING OF THE WORLD — BUT THIS WAS A GOOD ONE “The Statue of Liberty said, ‘Come!’” —John Lennon, “New York City,” 1972 It was sobering to stroll through the halls of the Brooklyn Museum last spring for Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64: Eyes of the Storm, which captured the Beatles’ culture-exploding first U.S. visit with unprecedented intimacy.
'Jimmy & Wes (The Dynamic Duo)' Reissued As Part Of Verve Vault
Jimmy & Wes (The Dynamic Duo), originally released in 1966 on Verve Records, captures the only full-length studio collaboration between Hammond B3 organist Jimmy Smith and guitarist Wes Montgomery. The album will be reissued on all-analog 180-gram vinyl on November 14, 2025, as part of the newly launched Verve Vault Series. Produced by Creed Taylor and arranged by Oliver Nelson, Jimmy & Wes brought together two of jazz’s most distinctive voices in an expansive big band setting.
Stan Getz's Ambitious 'Focus' Joins Verve Vault Series
Focus, originally released in 1961 on Verve Records, stands as a singular entry in saxophonist Stan Getz’s discography — a chamber jazz suite composed and arranged by Eddie Sauter, with Getz as its sole improviser. The album will be reissued on all-analog 180-gram vinyl on November 14, 2025, as part of the Verve Vault Series. Recorded in July 1961 at Webster Hall in New York City, Focus pairs Getz’s expressive tenor saxophone with a string orchestra conducted by Hershy Kay.
'Jimmy & Wes (The Dynamic Duo)' Reissued As Part Of Verve Vault
It’s a good time for fans of metafiction and mysteries. Several books have come out in the past year alone that play with the murder mystery format …
Stan Getz's Ambitious 'Focus' Joins Verve Vault Series
These new solar panels generate power from indoor light The indoor solar panels will be able to power small devices like remotes and smoke detectors, replacing the need for batteries. In your home, you probably have a handful of gadgets that rely on batteries: remotes, smoke detectors, wireless keyboards. But instead of having to replace those batteries …
Verve Vault Launches With Dizzy Gillespie And Antonio Carlos Jobim Titles
Verve Label Group and UMe have just announced Verve Vault, a new audiophile vinyl reissue series highlighting iconic jazz albums as well as overlooked gems from Verve’s vast catalog. The series will feature two releases per month, with the first titles launching on October 10. First up: Sonny Side Up, originally released in 1959 on Verve Records. It’s the only studio collaboration between trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and tenor saxophonists Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt.
Mother's Day Playlist: Listen To Songs About Moms By Jay-Z, Taylor Swift, 2Pac, The Spice Girls & More
(L-R) Afeni Shakur, mother of 2Pac, Jay-Z, and Voletta Wallace, mother of Notorious B.I.G. Photo: KMazur/WireImage for New York Post This Mother's Day, consider the vast dimensions and implications of motherhood via these often divergent songs from across the decades. |GRAMMYs/May 11, 2025 - 01:14 pm Motherhood — and having a mother — aren't one-dimensional concepts, and anyone born of a woman knows that.
Unassuming Gems By Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges, Roland Kirk Shine Via Acoustic Sounds
NEITHER ‘SIDE BY SIDE’ NOR ‘NOW PLEASE DON’T YOU CRY, BEAUTIFUL EDITH’ REINVENTED THE WHEEL — AND THEY NEVER NEEDED TO Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges may co-headline Side by Side, their portraits aligned in parallel on the cover. But for most of that 1959 album’s runtime, the titanic pianist, composer, and bandleader and his longtime alto saxophone foil aren’t together at all.
Elemental Music Offers More Live, Unheard Bill Evans & Art Pepper: Pristine-Sounding Records For Completists
PURCHASE THESE IF ART PEPPER’S SUNSET YEARS COMPEL YOU — AND IF NO AMOUNT OF BILL EVANS IS ENOUGH Zev Feldman’s devotion to Bill Evans borders on evangelism — and the flock is growing. While prepping 2023’s Treasures: Solo, Trio & Orchestra Recordings, the Resonance Records co-founder dropped into Crooked Beat Records in Alexandria, Virginia, only to learn the shop had pre-ordered 30 copies — an eye-popping tally for a niche archival set.
Nancy Harrow, Jaki Byard, Memphis Slim: Candid Records’ Reissue Campaign Does Justice To Its Original Run
IT’S FASCINATING THAT THIS LABEL EXISTED AT ALL — AND WE’RE REAPING THE BENEFITS IN 2025 Some of the most glorious moments in music history owe to a glitch in the mainframe — those fleeting, thrilling ruptures where the real shit breaks through. Case in point: Cadence Records, and its short-lived but seismic sister label, Candid Records.
Stanley Cowell, Charles Rouse, Charles Tolliver’s Music Inc.: Strata-East’s Reissued Triage Displays The Label’s Range
AFTER A PHAROAH SANDERS RECORD STORE DAY REISSUE, THERE’S SO MUCH MORE TO THE STRATA-EAST CATALOG If my previous Tracking Angle review — on the new Pharoah Sanders Izipho Zam reissue — framed Strata-East within so-called spiritual jazz, this trio of new vinyl pressings should shake loose any such pigeonholing.
Laura Jane Grace & Paris Campbell Grace Are Not Staying Sane
“Who said we’re staying sane? That’s an assumption.” Laura Jane Grace and Paris Campbell Grace burst out laughing on the back porch of their Chicago abode, enveloped in roiling plumes of spliff smoke. It’s a moment of calm — however botanically induced — before chaos descends and they hit the road for a long stretch of spring and summer dates as Laura Jane Grace and the Mississippi Medicals.
With An RSD Reissue Of Pharoah Sanders’ ‘Izipho Zam (My Gifts),’ Strata-East’s New Morning Is Looking Bright
DIVE DEEPER INTO SPIRITUAL JAZZ WITH A RIVETING, LESS-HERALDED SANDERS OFFERING FROM 1973 Roiled by political uncertainty and contention over race and identity, the late 2010s and early 2020s witnessed a resurgence of what’s now commonly called spiritual jazz. And close to the end of his life, with his final statement to the world, Pharoah Sanders found himself at the center of its discourse.
One to One: John & Yoko Captures the Couple at an Inflection Point
Despite critical enthusiasm, John Lennon’s “New York City” is decidedly not one of his most iconic tunes. It’s conspicuously absent from best-of collections like Shaved Fish, Power to the People, and Gimme Some Truth: The Ultimate Mixes; on the blue John Lennon Anthology box I’ve had since childhood, it only appears in a 55-second snippet. Yet this barreling, Chuck Berry-channeling goof on the Liverpudlian’s new home base has always been among my very favorite Lennon songs.
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