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Edwin Corne: Spruce and Maple
by Frank Housh
Guitarist Edwin Corne 's Spruce And Maple features the American Songbook peppered with eastern harmonies, befitting an Australian-Chinese musician raised in Shanghai and based in New York City. Corne's jazz guitar trio recording continues an ensemble tradition that began with Jim Hall and continued through Barney Kessel, Joe Pass, and Pat Metheny. It is alive and well in Spruce And Maple. Corne is joined by fellow Juilliard graduates Luke Sellick (bass) and Charles Goold (drums) who achieve a rich, woody sound throughout. Corne ...
Continue ReadingMozart in the Void: Air from Other Planets
by Blue Note Portal
The candle on the bedside table had long since gone out. The room was cold, the kind of Austrian winter chill that seeps into the bone and settles there, yet Maria Anna “Nannerl" Mozart was numb to it. It had been nearly a week since the tragic news had arrived from Vienna. A week since her world had turned gray. “Wolfgang." Now, his name itself was like a jagged stone in her throat, impossible to swallow, impossible to ...
Continue ReadingCannonball Adderley, Baltimore Jazz Collective, Joel Ross & Paul Litteral
by Joe Dimino
Blowing in from Hollywood with a horn, a vision, and plenty of soul, the 944th Episode of Neon Jazz kicks off with the Paul Litteral Band, drawing from his 2025 album The Litteral Truth. From there, we take a timeless turn into jazz history with Cannonball Adderley, spinning a classic gem from his 1961 LP African Waltz. As the hour unfolds, we spotlight a deep bench of modern masters and creative voices, including James Fernando, Scott Routenberg, Ricky Alexander, and ...
Continue ReadingPaul Marinaro: Mood Ellington
by Pierre Giroux
Paul Marinaro's Mood Ellington is an ambitious, carefully crafted double CD that regards Duke Ellington's vocal repertoire not as a fixed monument but as a living collection of work capable of endless renewal. Instead of relying on a single arranging perspective, Marinaro commissioned thirteen renowned composers, allowing Ellington's songs to be explored through multiple aesthetic lenses while remaining anchored in a consistent emotional core. Like his concept for the album's arrangers, Marinaro sought supporting musicians who would express their own ...
Continue ReadingVincent Peirani: Magnetic Dancing on the Cliff
by Daniel Mège
There exists a mystery to melody. For example, “Left Alone," composed on a cross-country flight by Mal Waldron and Billie Holiday. In a few hours, the melody and the chords were established, an absolute compositional masterpiece, full stop. So much beauty served by implacable writing rigor: giants achieve it. Vincent Peirani achieves it. “Physical Attraction," released on Living Being IV (Time Reflections), ACT Music, 2025), consists of a few notes composed by Peirani and rendered by Emile Parisien, another giant. Five, ...
Continue ReadingCharlotte Hug: In Resonance With Elsewhere
by John Eyles
Born in Zurich, Switzerland, in May 1965. Charlotte Hug gained degrees in classical music, pedagogy and fine arts, and won such awards as “Artist in Residence" in London. By the time she was thirty, Hug had begun recording at various locations in Switzerland, the resulting music being part of her first album, Mauerraum Wandraum (ASM/STV, 1999) on which she played viola and electronics, as well as conceiving, composing and producing it. That album was followed by further solo ...
Continue ReadingMusic from Camila Nebbia, Anais Drago, Ayumi Ishito, Tomeka Reid, Maria Faust & Luise Volkmann
by Jon Greenbaum
More explorations of the boundaries of improvisation and composition from artists around the globe.Playlist Anais Drago “Out Of The Cage" from Relevé (Habitable Records) 00:00 Adam O'Farrill “Sea Triptych, Pt. 2--The Three of Us, Floating" from ELEPHANT (Out Of Our Heads Records) 03:35 Gianluigi Trovesi “C'era una volta un ballo" from Cinque Piccole Storie (Dischi Della Quercia) 08:25 Alan Niblock, John Butcher, Mark Sanders “Faultline" from Tectonic Plates (577 Records) 19:19 Joseph Jarman & Don Moye “Mama Marimba" ...
Continue ReadingMiho Hazama, Simon Jermyn, Dan Rosenboom, Deadeye & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
Large ensembles--approached not as monuments but as flexible, expressive forces shaped by strong compositional voices--are the guiding thread of this segment. From a landmark Sonny Criss reissue with arrangements by Horace Tapscott to Miho Hazama's stunning reimagining of Thad Jones' legacy, Dan Rosenboom's genre-blurring large-ensemble work, and a freshly restored, richly orchestrated album by Carlos Garnett. Along the way--offering contrast without breaking the flow--intensity is reframed through Deadeye's latest album and Simon Jermyn's two recent projects.Happy listening!
Continue ReadingLet Me Be Frank: The Extraordinary Life and Music of Frank Sinatra, Jr.
by Victor L. Schermer
Let Me Be Frank: The Extraordinary Life and Music of Frank Sinatra, Jr.Bruce Klauber and Andrea Kauffman216 Pages ISBN: # 97-1-4968-5865-8 University Press of Mississippi2025 Sid Mark, the legendary Philadelphia broadcaster who for many years hosted the iconic radio show “The Sounds of Sinatra," liked to tell a joke about the Chairman of the Board that inspired instant self-recognition among most men of the time who heard it. “A great musician dies, ...
Continue ReadingBilly Martin + Matt Glassmeyer + Jonathan Goldberger: State Fête
by Glenn Astarita
Billy Martin, the renowned groove master and founding drummer of Medeski Martin & Wood, has spent decades collaborating with boundary--pushing artists including John Lurie in the Lounge Lizards and John Zorn in his Cobra ensembles, all while exploring instrument design, filmmaking, and visual art. His 2026 project, State Fête, unites him with multi-instrumentalist Matt Glassmeyer and guitarist Jonathan Goldberger in a captivating exploration of live-composed soundscapes--think of it as a sonic state fair where the familiar becomes delightfully warped.
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