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Jean Toussaint At Dock Street Jazz Club
Jean ToussaintDock Street Jazz Club Belfast, N. IrelandNovember 28, 2025 A filthy night in Belfast. Relentless rain. The real wet stuff, as they say here. The sort of Sunday night where it would take a damned good reason to venture out. Jean Toussaint was reason enough. It is not every day, after all, that one of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers comes to town. In the warmth of The American Bar, in Belfast's old docks quarter, a ......
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Doug Collette's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025
In no order but that which they come to mind to play again... Vijay Iyer Defiant Life ECM Records BEATrio BEATrio Thirty Tigers Fred Hersch The Surrounding Green ECM Records Miguel Zenon Vanguardia Subterránea: Live at The Village Vanguard Miel Music Dino Saluzzi El Viejo Caminante ECM Records ...
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New Jazz Haiku
two bricks from Trane's Dix Hills holds the blues basic blues of woman of man whipping wild car chase bass drums sax breaks script dancers scatter bing bang boom hip and full of head space starburst arpeggios run wild eighty eights pelo's fajitas spice the air down near Mezzrow's where the dancers stir modal dialogue ...
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Neil Duggan's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025
Looking back at 2025, here are some of the year's finest releases, mostly from Europe, encompassing both jazz and music where jazz ventures into other genres Emil BrandqvistPoems For Travellers Skip Records Gabriel LatchinThe Man I Love Alys Jazz Sultan StevensonEl Roi Edition Records ......
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Billy Hart Quartet Birthday Bash
Billy Hart Quartet Multidirectional Album Release & Hart's 85th Birthday Celebration Smoke Jazz & Supper Club November, 30, 2025 Hello, my name is Chris DeRosa, and this is what I heard... The show took place at the legendary New York City venue Smoke Jazz & Supper Club. This venue is not only a hub for some of the finest live jazz performances today, but it also supports the jazz community through ......
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Amaury Faye: A French Jazz Composer Returns To The Source
Amaury Faye was a child in Toulouse when he began his unlikely love affair with American jazz. A piano teacher exposed him to ragtime which led to Art Tatum, which led him to Ahmad Jamal and the great jazz trios. He released trio recordings in 2016, 2017, and 2018 and a solo album, Buran (L'Esprit du Piano, 2019) followed by Arise (Suite) (Hypnote Records, 2023). In her review of Amaury Faye: Arise (Suite), Jane Kozhevnikova wrote: “In Arise, ......
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Konstantin Rega's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025
Even as the world seems to spin faster and faster, jazz has got your back. With albums responding to the current musical dialogue as well as those looking back to the past, 2025 offered a wonderful assortment of delicious earworms. It was a year of tasteful tunes, imaginative expressionistic freestyling, and generous arrangements of time-favoured oldies. Italia Till Bronner earMUSIC Oh Snap ...
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Nigel Price Organ Trio At Magy's Farm
Nigel Price Organ Trio Magy's Farm Dromara, N. IrelandNovember 29, 2025 You probably have to go back to the Duke Ellington Orchestra in the '50s to find a harder-touring jazz outfit than the Nigel Price Organ Trio. Between the beginning of April and the end of June 1950 Ellington led his musicians through 74 gigs in 77 days on a European tour. Talk about logistical headaches. Ellington might have smiled wryly at the notion of a ......
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Stefon Harris & Blackout / Theo Croker at Miner Auditorium
Stefon Harris & Blackout/Theo Croker Miner Auditorium Terence Blanchard's UpSwing Series San Francisco, CA November 29, 2025 The UpSwing series, curated by Terence Blanchard at SFJAZZ, acts as a key indicator of the health of American improvised music. It is more than just a showcase; it functions as a laboratory. By bringing together established masters and emerging talent innovators in the expansive Miner Auditorium, the series fosters a dialogue essential for the genre's future. ......
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Concerto for Cootie. The Life and Times of Cootie Williams
Cootie. The Life and Times of Cootie Williams Steven C. Bowie 443 Pages ISBN: #9781496859440 University Press of Mississippi 2025 Benny Goodman, who had employed Harry James and Ziggy Elman in his nonpareil 1937 trumpet section, preferred trumpeter Cootie Williams to them, admiring his “unlimited power." Williams had come up with Chick Webb and Fletcher Henderson. When he left Duke Ellington to join Goodman, it was big news, both for Ellington and for ......
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A Waltz for Ludwig
There are rare sacred moments when music stops being sound and becomes light. A perfect note hangs in the air, silence breathes, and for the space of a heartbeat, the veil thins--revealing a place where music lives, along with pure thought, beyond time, space and language. There is only harmonic resonance: the silent conversation between souls who listen deeper than time. Sometimes the opening swings wider, and the Blue Note Portal opens. Ludwig van Beethoven's Journal Entry--A Letter ......
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Dan McClenaghan's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025
The albums on this Best of the Year list were picked on the run, as the months unfolded. Sometimes, second-guessing comes into play at the time of compilation. Not this time. All of these recordings are worthy of being called the Best of 2025. Andrew HillA Beautiful Day, Revisited Palmetto Records Iro HaarlaUnder the Firmament Willa Silva Records ...
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John Santos at Miner Auditorium
John Santos Sextet Miner Auditorium John Santos 70th Birthday ConcertSan Francisco, CA November 28, 2025 A warm, familial feeling filled the Miner Auditorium this Thanksgiving weekend, creating a noticeable shift from its usual formal reverence. When John Santos stepped onto the stage--tall, slim, and dressed in a crisp white suit and pork-pie hat--the sold-out audience welcomed him not just as a performer, but as a familiar relative. However, the superficial excitement of the birthday ......
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Lara Somogyi: Finding Her Muse in the Desert
When one is making a pilgrimage to Joshua Tree in California--even by Zoom call--you must be careful about protecting your eyes from the blinding sunlight and keep your cap on to cover your brain. Listening to the music of Lara Somogyi from her album désert (Mercury KX 2025), one's brain is constantly heated by thoughts of striking it rich musically, thoughts that do not fade much with the late afternoon sun going down over the horizon. You may need some ......
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Mike Jurkovic's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025
Many things besides the demise of democracy got in the way of listening to everything, but these are the discs still in heavy rotation. Vijay Iyer Thereupon Pi Recordings Gonzalo RubalcabaFirst Meeting: Live at Dizzy's Club 5Passion Records Sylvie CourvoisierBone Bells Pyroclastic Records ...
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Orlando Molina At Scott's Jazz Club
Orlando Molina Scott's Jazz Club Belfast, N. Ireland October 28, 2025 One of the great things about Scott's Jazz Club is that musicians are often invited back. You get to see the first steps and evolution of a band or a leader new to the scene. You experience the growth and development of established acts, and you witness the different skins that many hard-gigging musicians inhabit. Venezuelan Chilean guitarist Orlando Molina first played the Ballyhackamore venue ......
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Best of the Best: Jazz From Detroit
Best of the Best: Jazz From DetroitMagic Circle Productions LLC2025 The history of jazz music is told in hundreds of cities from coast to coast in America. From the cradle in New Orleans and the Mississippi River delta, the great migration of Black Americans northward spread the sounds that we know as the blues and jazz across the country. Millions headed to northern urban centers to escape the ravages of segregation and racial discrimination experienced ......
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Introducing Trombonist/Vocalist Hailey Brinnel
After being discharged from the Army in 1945, Pete Rugolo became the primary arranger for the Stan Kenton Band and is credited with keeping that band alive in an era when big band music was beginning to fade. In 1955, Rugolo created an album combining the vocal group, The Four Freshmen, with an all-star trombone quintet selected from various Kenton ensembles. Four Freshmen and Five Trombones (Capitol Records) was “the first trombone record I remember really loving," said ......
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C. Michael Bailey's Holiday Bundle 2025
Holiday music in the twenty-first century embraces both the old and new with equal creative consideration. Without a new recording of Handel's Messiah, we must rely on the inevitable evolution of the Christmas Canon. Cincinnati Contemporary Jazz Orchestra The Nutcracker Remix Self Produced 2025 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker has been a holiday staple since 1892. The ballet has a long history of jazz adaptations, beginning with Les Brown and His Band of ......
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Jack Kenny's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025
A year is an arbitrary time. The list is chronological by how they came to me. The albums that still stand out are Bone Bells (Pyroclastic Records) by Sylvie Courvoisier and Mary Halvorson and the sheer professional expertise of Jed Levy Faces and Places (Self Produced). Both albums, in their different ways, exude creativity and joy. The vintage albums from Gerry Mulligan, Paul Bley and Art Pepper are unalloyed pleasure. The special releases from Zev Feldman are an ......
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