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Javier Nero

Heartland Radio

By Remy Le Boeuf

Label: SoundSpore Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Heartland Radio; Stop & Go; New Beginnings; Barbara; Golden Handcuffs; Little Song; Walking on Water.

Chien Chien Lu, Ronald Shannon Jackson and Tim Buckley

by Jerome Wilson
February 21, 2024

This show includes folksingers doing jazz, a Sesame Street song, and several up-and-coming younger players. Musicians heard include Chien Chien Lu, Roy Nathanson, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Amanda Gardier, and Tim Buckley.Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Record ...

Caribbean Blue

By Russ Spiegel

Label: RuzzTone Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: The Underdown Groove; E.22nd St; Caribbean Blue; Island Song; Slippery Slope; Inquietude; Retribution Blues; The Streets of Milan; Smooth Move; Coda.

Kemet (The Black Land)

By Javier Nero

Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: The Blues Reincarnated; Time; Reflections on the Dark, Tranquil Water; Discord; Nostalgic Haiku; Just Let Go; Kemet (The Black Land); One Day; Jam #3 (in C# Major).

Russ Spiegel: Caribbean Blue

by Jack Bowers
December 19, 2023

Pleasant music with ample color and variety--that's an apt description of Caribbean Blue, the latest albulm from California-bred, Florida-based guitarist Russ Spiegel, who has surrounded himself with world-class musicians and given them rein to canvass ten of his generally engaging compositions and bring them admirably to life. While everything on offer is respectable, ...

Jack Bowers' Best Jazz Albums Of 2023

by Jack Bowers
December 19, 2023

2023 was another banner year for jazz of all shapes and sizes. It has been a pleasure to review so many splendid big-band albums along with wonderful enterprises by smaller groups, some of which were recording for the first time (hopefully, not the last). If this was a preview of things to come, we look forward ...

Polished not Smooth

by Patrick Burnette
November 17, 2023

We all know “smooth jazz" is a forbidden genre among hard-core jazzbos, but sometimes you run across albums that have no interest in pandering to the listener, but also don't display any rough edges or dirty elbows. Call it “polished," “refined," “plush," or “mellow"--but don't file it next to Kenny G--or Albert Ayler, for that matter.

Veronica Swift: Veronica Swift

by Mike Jurkovic
September 13, 2023

Leave it to the irascibly spirited and octane-charged Veronica Swift to release the party record of the year! From the pure joy scatting of the blast-off opener “I Am What I Am" (from Broadway's grand musical La Cage aux Folles) to the rabble rousing, mad-cap Joan Jett jam with The Ramones finale “Don't Rain On My ...

Horace Silver, Javier Nero & David Whitman

by Joe Dimino
September 10, 2023

We begin the 819th Episode of Neon Jazz with accomplished drummer David Whitman and music off his 2023 album Ode to Joe. The project was in honor of his mentor Joe Morello and we hear with the legendary Dave Brubeck Quartet. We also hear from a number of up and coming jazz musicians like Javier Nero, ...