Jazz Articles

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Album Review

Caleb Wheeler Curtis and Jason Moran: Incantation

Read "Incantation" reviewed by Jack Kenny

by Jack Kenny
October 19, 2026

The lineage of high-powered jazz duos runs from Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines's “Weather Bird" to Jason Moran and Caleb Wheeler Curtis. Where the earlier performance was a contest between two masters, the style here is conversational and exploratory. Across its 12 tracks, Incantation moves fluidly between free improvisation, original compositions, and affectionate engagements with jazz heritage. Curtis's soprano saxophone can turn sinuously lyrical, while the stritch--the straight alto saxophone associated with Rahsaan Roland Kirk--offers a darker, reedier, ...

Miles Ahead: A Jazz Road Trip

Part 14: The Jazz Cruise Coda

by Billie Eidson
October 19, 2026

Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 A drive from Oregon to Florida, to experience music and living across the USA, and ultimately join a jazz cruise. AKA, a listening practice, unfolding in real time--written on the road, in the spaces between cities and notes. Day Twenty-Two ...

In Pictures

The Monterey Jazz Festival 2026 Did Not Disappoint

by Ronald Davis
October 19, 2026

A collection of photos from the Monterey Jazz Festival in Monterey CA from September 25, 2026 to September 27, 2026 featuring Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Ron Carter, Melissa Aldana, Veronica Leahy, Emmanuel Michael, Christone Kingfish" Ingram, David Sánchez, Shemekia Copeland, David Virelles, Dezron Douglas, Ravi Coltrane, Elé Howell, Brian Blade, Linda May Han Oh, Sylvia Cuenca, Next Generation Jazz Orchestra, Rufus Reid, Cecile McLorin Salvant, Kyle Poole, Joey Alexander, Reuben Rogers, Ron Blake, Gerald Clayton, Gregory Hutchinson, Emmanuel Michael, ...

Album Review

Jason Kao Hwang / Human Rites Trio: Second Life

Read "Second Life" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
October 19, 2026

Violinist and composer Jason Kao Hwang has spent much of his career moving between jazz, contemporary composition, and free improvisation, often blurring the distinctions between them. His Human Rites Trio with bassist Ken Filiano and drummer/percussionist Andrew Drury first recorded together on Human Rites Trio (True Sound Recordings, 2020), though the three have worked together in other settings over the years. Their follow-up, Second Life, contains four extended Hwang compositions that leave plenty of room for improvisation while still giving ...

Radio & Podcasts

Stevie Wonder, Vanisha Gould, Sarah Pillow, Amy London, Julieta Eugenio, Marianne Solivan, Jocelyn Gould & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
October 19, 2026

This broadcast includes new music from Angela O'Neill, Stevie Wonder, Sarah Pillow, Amy London, Julieta Eugenio, Marianne Solivan, Jocelyn Gould, Vanisha Gould, with birthday shoutouts to Lee Wiley, Pam Fleming, Violeta Parra}, Roxana Ahmed, Emma Larsson, Amy Cervini and Honorable Men Thelonious Monk and Johnny O'Neal, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear--see them live, buy their music so they can continue to comfort, distract, provoke and remind the world that A Woman's Plac is in ...

Album Review

Rob Dixon: Naptown Soul

Read "Naptown Soul" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
October 19, 2026

Saxophonist Rob Dixon, who has called Naptown (aka Indianapolis) home for most of his adult life, salutes the city's enviable jazz heritage on Naptown Soul, leading a splendid quartet through its paces on four of his original compositions (one of which opens the album and three of which close it), a pair by Indy legend Wes Montgomery and two others. Guitarist Dave Stryker and organist Sam Fribush are in the starting lineup (with drummer Richard Sleepy" Floyd), and ...

Radio & Podcasts

Todd Robbins, Part 1: The Night Dick Wellstood Played for One Person

by Mike Jones
October 19, 2026

In Part 1 of a two-part conversation, the magician, sideshow artist, and ragtime pianist, Todd Robbins, tells Mike Jones how a string of happy accidents built a career that now runs six nights a week at Speakeasy Magick in New York, a show he says he put together on the fly, “just like a jazz solo." He learned the Maple Leaf Rag by slowing down a Scott Joplin piano roll and watching where the keys went. From there he went ...

Radio & Podcasts

Camila Nebbia/Exhaust, Michael Moss & Trio Imagination

by Maurice Hogue
October 19, 2026

Trio 3 received much praise in its 35 years of creating great music, but when saxophonist Oliver Lake decided to retire from performing due to health reasons, bassist Reggie Workman & drummer Andrew Cyrille needed to find a third member. They had asked pianist David Virelles to join them at one point, magic happened, and so the two masters decided to make it permanent. The debut of the new Trio Imagination on their new Creative Inspiration is filled with brilliant ...

Radio & Podcasts

The Effect, HII Trio, DarWin, Tal Wilkenfeld, Terry Lynn Carrington, Anika Nilles

by Len Davis
October 19, 2026

Today's programme brings you excellent new music from Sweden, led by guitarist Carl Mörner Ringström, more from Brazil's HII Trio featuring Igor Willcox and a Japanese fusion run with Polypus, Ryosuke Kojima, and the latest from T-Square. Guitarist and producer Darwin teams up with Simon Phillips, followed by New York fusion outfit FORQ with their latest offering. We then turn the spotlight on the ladies of fusion, beginning with bassist Tal Wilkenfeld, remembering the late German guitarist Susan Weinert, and ...

Book Review

Energy Center: A History Of Studio Rivbea

by John Sharpe
October 18, 2026

Energy Center: A History Of Studio Rivbea Ed Hazell 324 Pages ISBN: 978-5-415-02882-5 NoBusiness Records 2026 Multi-instrumentalist Sam Rivers helped reshape New York's jazz landscape not only through his music but by creating Studio Rivbea, an independent space for rehearsal, education and performance that gave adventurous musicians room to develop and play on their own terms. In Energy Center, Ed Hazell chronicles the pioneering Lower East Side venue, from its founding in 1973 ...