Fully Altered Artists

The album is out today! Featuring Donny McCaslin, Ingrid Jensen, Bruce Barth and Victor Lewis. Buy/listen here: https://orcd.co/civildisobedience This was an eight year long process from conception all the way to post-production. Released on Blue Frog Recordings, whose our focus is on small, limited-edition, audiophile-grade recordings that are the result of a fully analog tape mastering process, where no effort was spared in the entire production. Look out for a featured article in the June issue of Downbeat Magazine! Mark Corroto of All About Jazz says: “Civil Disobedience: Blue Note in the Progressive Sixties is both a tribute and a reclamation, a love letter to the music. The ensemble balances fidelity to the original material with a fresh, contemporary sensibility."

The title track off my debut album “In Search Of…” has been out for two weeks today and I’m so so excited that the full album will be dropping in two weeks on May 29th!!! You can check out the first two singles now and find the link to preorder the CD and presave the album in my bio 🖤❤️ @88keezer @iranoelcoleman @curtisnowosad @lesiagm @perrykchua @coryweeds @cellarlive @fullyaltered

Poland’s paradigm-shifting Jazztopad Festival returns to New York City for its tenth edition, June 17–21, 2026, marking a milestone for one of Europe’s most forward-thinking jazz festivals and its longest-running international satellite. LINEUP INCLUDES: Tomasz Dąbrowski NYC Quartet feat. Marta Sanchez, Luke Stewart, and Kweku Sumbry (World Premiere) SUTARinova with special guest Shahzad Ismaily (Premiere) DoYeon Kim with John Hebert, Satoshi Takeishi, and special guest Matylda Gerber, (World Premiere) House Concert at Maqam Studio Presented by the Narodowe Forum Muzyki in partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute New York and Instytut Adama Mickiewiczaudio, Rizzoli Bookstore, and Closeup (Lower East Side) Presented by the Narodowe Forum Muzyki in partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute New York and Instytut Adama Mickiewicza #jazztopad #jazz #jazzpoland

‘Creta’ is out today! ❣️ This song was written between the greek island Crete and Astoria, Brooklyn. A story about tangled love. Go stream the full song, tell us what you think 🎧 link in bio.

Check out the new video, link in bio! As someone who has been interested in progressive community action most of my adult life, my musical project Civil Disobedience has been an incredibly satisfying medium to bring together these two important aspects of my life by paying homage to profound timeless works from some of our greatest Black American jazz legends. With the help of the documentarian Austin Kruczek and my bandmates Donny McCaslin, Ingrid Jensen, Bruce Bath and Victor Lewis, I am excited to share his trailer for a mini-documentary about the historical and current significance of this music. A special thanks to Midnight Blue, Rhythmic Arts Center, Vito Dieterle & Nicholas Young for generously donating their spaces to make this documentary possible. Be on the look out for a NYC screening event in June to watch the full film. Enjoy!

The media landscape is forever changed. Legacy outlets like the NY Times and Rolling Stone often read like celebrity news tabloids because they’re in the business of clicks. I’ve spent years thinking about the media shifts and if what I offer PR clients is worth it. To some extent I believe it is, or was; it might still be. But there have to be other concrete elements in the marketing mix to achieve visibility and some fort of general awareness. The decision on what to spend on after a record is finished is not as cut-and-dry as it once was. This one is amply previewed but the real meat is behind a paywall. I put a lot of time and thought into this and I hope you will subscribe for $5 a month (at least temporarily) to read what I have to say on this topic. I have 20 years of accumulated knowledge and experience. This is Part 1 of at least a three-part series.

CDs for In Search Of… are here!!! In love with the beautiful album and single cover artwork by my bestie @lesiagm (taken on an absolutely freezing day in January by Lake Ontario), the design by @perrykchua , and very grateful to my dear friend @deasejazz for writing some truly kind and thoughtful liner notes. CDs are available to preorder on Bandcamp and the link to presave the album is also now live in my bio 💕

“In Search Of…” is out TODAY on all streaming platforms!!! Check it out - full album drops a month from today 🩷 🎹- @88keezer 🎻- Ira Coleman 🥁- @curtisnowosad 📸 - @lesiagm @cellarlive @fullyaltered @la__reserve @coryweeds

Very excited to announce my album release show at Joe’s Pub on July 3rd. We’ll be celebrating the release of my new album “Who’s Around?” coming out June 26th on @anzicrecords . It’s going to be a big celebration of music with tons of guests. I would love to see you all there! I’ll share more about it soon, but meanwhile - ticket link is in my bio and story. Much love♥️ Tal Photo by @dyllllannn 📸

Run! Do not walk to listen to this first single by the incredibly talented multi-instrumentalist (guitarist and double bassist) Tal Mashiach, “Titu” featuring his longtime collaborator Anat Cohen and his core band of Gadi Lehavi on piano, Panagiotis Andreou on double bass and Ofri Nehemiah on drums. His second Anzic Records album. “Who’s Around?l will be released June 26. A lot of the time I try to find a narrative for people, but with this record, the narrative is plain old, beautiful music. If you can listen to this record and tell me this is not beautiful joyous heart-led music, I don’t know what to say to you. The release show in New York is scheduled for July 3 at Joe’s Pub at 7:00 PM. . . Tal says “’Titu’ is inspired by my backpacking trip to Brazil and features the amazing Anat Cohen, with whom I share a deep love for Brazilian music. Anat and I have been making music together for over a decade, and she is truly one of my favorite musicians. The song also features my friends, the incredible Gadi Lehavi on piano, Panagiotis Andreou on bass, and Ofri Nehemya on drums..”

it’s full moon first of the month and my full album I WISH YOU WOULD is out on all platforms! 💦🍑❤️‍🔥 my fresh blues album is my baby and it is full of love and lust and freedom and lock-down. I need to feel something with this one. I hope you consume it insatiably. I hope it gets you through breakups and break-outs, lows and highs! Give it a listen, put it on a playlist, wiggle and shake til all hell breaks loose. ⛓️‍💥 YOU WISH YOU HAD my band 🔥 @sullivanfortnerjr on piano!! @tonyscherr on bass!! & kenny wollesen on drums. thank you @jazzguymatt for having vision and shepherding us cats 🐈‍⬛ and @la__reserve for being my darling label 💖 live video from the studio shot by DREAMBOI @forest.erwin at @vibromonk . thank you @luthersallison for playing sullivan 🎹 HUM @caitlincwyman and @maryperrino for coloring it. I WISH YOU WOULD listen and transcribe and fornicate your way into hot blues summer!

Long Play Festival started last night at Roulette and Pioneer Works. Over five nights this year, the longest edition yet, plus two full daytime days of programming on Saturday and Sunday May 2-3, 70+ concerts will unfold from David Longstreth to Shoko Nagai & Satoshi Takeishi. From Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer-winning Anthracite Fields to the Billy Hart Quartet. 70+ concerts across Middle Brooklyn. My joint number one picks are Jeff Lederer, Mary LaRose & The Wildebeest Quintet playing unheard music by Eric Dolphy; Satoshi Takeishi & Shoko Nagai’s Vortex; John Hollenbeck’s GEORGE, Billy Hart Quartet with Nicole Glover and Amina Claudine Myers, whose solo album “Solace of the Mind” from 2025 on Red Hook Records was second or third favorite record of that year. This festival, the spiritual inheritor to the Bang on a Can Marathon, previously held every June at World Financial Center, was initially planned for 2020, but mother nature had other plans. Officially launched in 2022, with truly expert programming by David Lang, Michael Gordon, Julia Wolfe and Sruly Lazaros, Long Play has established itself as a staple of the early spring, centered around the three Bang on a Can composers. They all have B-I-G E-A-R-S (all due respect to that other Springtime confad I happen to contract for). If you want to come, use the code ‘LPSide’ for 20% off tickets at checkout: /e/long-play-festival-2026-tickets-1979786361301 If I could see everything I want to see, I would be at all these: - Amina Claudine Myers - Billy Hart Quartet - BlankFor.ms, Jason Moran, Marcus Gilmore - Colleen - David Longstreth - David Murray, Dezron Douglas, Nasheet Waits - Florent Ghys - GEORGE - John Luther Adams - Julia Wolfe - Marty Ehrlich - Matmos - Miles Okazaki - Sam Prekop - Sarah Davachi - Secret Chiefs 3 - Shelley Burgon - Shoko Nagai and Satoshi Takeishi - Sylvie Courvoisier and Wadada Leo Smith - Kris Davis Trio - Trevor Dunn - Wildebeest with Jeff Lederer and Mary LaRose – There’s a Yearnin’