The Selected Ballads

I was saddened to hear of the passing of Masabumi Kikuchi this week. Seeing him on piano at the Village Vanguard with Paul Motian truly expa...

I've been checking out drummer Jeff Cosgrove's new trio record of improvised pieces and standards, Conversations With Owls . The mos...

After mostly ignoring the genre for years, I’ve recently, and I suppose belatedly, been getting into fusion. For decades now, fusion has bee...

Henry Kaiser-Melvin Gibbs-Weasel Walter at The Stone World-class guitarist and Antarctic diver, associate of the Grateful Dead and Wern...

Here are The Selected Ballads' choices for the Best Live Shows of 2014, loosely categorized and presented in chronological order: Bes...

I attended the first of two nights of new quintet works by Henry Threadgill at Roulette. Each of the two nights was to feature a short piece...

The Guardian has the best piece I've seen so far on the legacy of Ian McLagan, the Faces and Small Faces keyboardist who died today at ...