The recent celebration of Martin Luther King Day had me ruminating about freedom. I don’t normally think about freedom in music unless it is a patriotic song or freedom is used in the lyrics. After ...

Every American has seen the iconic images of the Civil Rights movement and read the stories of the courage of activists facing down the racists of the former Confederacy. But there’s a reason the ...

There is an experience of abundant warmth that I encounter. This feeling is one of being emotionally complete, of being right where I belong at that moment, of being “at one” with my world. I ...

There’s a moment in George Michael’s music video for “Freedom! ’90” where director David Fincher’s camera zooms in on a leather jacket hanging in a closet. It’s the piece Michael sported proudly three ...

Albums by artists who are best known for their work outside jazz are best approached with caution. Keyboard player Mark de Clive-Lowe's Freedom: Celebrating The Music Of Pharoah Sanders is one such.