Equally respected in any musical community he is a part of, Alex Skolnick has built up an impressive résumé over the decades. Heavy metal and jazz never seem to have much of a Venn diagram kind of ...

THE most famous riff in rock is the 3 1/2 -chord skull buster that stalks Deep Purple’s 1972 “Smoke on the Water” -- a branding moment in the infancy of heavy metal. And as Deep Purple’s set at last ...

“The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn’t know how other people would take it.

Earlier today, NPR Music published one of my pieces for Take Five, our weekly jazz feature, called Blast Beat Improv: Metallic Free Jazz. I've come to subtitle it "Or How I Stopped Worrying And ...

The members of the Denver jazz/metal/noise trio Giardia live together in a house in Athmar Park, not far from the Seventh Circle Music Collective, the DIY space where they recorded their new album, ...

Bill Laswell, the legendary bassist and producer, is in rough shape these days. He's had a lot of health issues since before the COVID-19 pandemic started, and since he's been effectively unable to ...

His newest creation will be having a full concert performance next week at Nublu in the East Village. In between all of his myriad responsibiilities, Mr. Berger found a few minutes to sit with ...

Well, of course it isn’t, really. They don’t sound alike on their outer layers. And their audiences don’t overlap. From the evidence of hundreds of jazz shows I’ve seen all over the country this past ...

Jazz music, woodworking and the pummeling sounds of thrash metal. To the casual observer, one of these things is not like the other, but to Nick Menza, they had one thing in common: He loved them. The ...

Jazz guitar-style licks decorated a central section of the tune, sandwiched between dark-metal figures in octaves (an Opeth trademark—the octaves are played by Akerfeldt; guitarist Akesson, a lead ...

Something other than music and food will greet New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival attendees this weekend: metal detectors. In a concession to modern-day reality, all fest-goers will have to pass ...

Caustic, ugly, gurgling, putrid filth that wanders a post-apocalyptic landscape — with jazz influences! Excuse Me, Sir, You Have Some Jazz In Your Metal Excuse Me, Sir, You Have Some Jazz In Your ...