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Brazil Music Club at Winter Jazzfest 2026
by Katchie Cartwright
Hamilton de Holanda Trio, Flávio Silva, Jamile & Vinicius Gomes Brazil Music Club at Winter JazzFest Nublu 151 January 8, 2026 Nublu, which sits on the corner of Avenue C and 10th Street on the Lower East Side of New York City, was overflowing for Brazil Music Club night at the 2026 Winter Jazzfest, with fans in the aisles, on the steps, and up on the catwalk. The early evening performance on Thursday, January 8, presented ...
Continue ReadingMarek Śmietański's Favorite Polish Jazz Albums Of 2025
by Marek J. Śmietański
As part of Year in Review series, I've already highlighted my favorite albums of 2025 (you can view the list here). While I included artists from around the world, intentionally leaving out my own Poland. And yet Polish jazz has a remarkably strong and distinctive identity. It emerged from a deep craving for freedom and a dialogue with the West, serving for decades as a subtle form of artistic resistance. After many years of searching for its own voice, it ...
Continue ReadingJoe Magnarelli: Decidedly so
by Pierre Giroux
Joe Magnarelli's Decidedly So strongly reaffirms the enduring virtues of straight-ahead jazz, recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's Studio in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, where these qualities have long been valued. Brought to life in March 2025 before a small but attentive audience, the session benefits from a rare blend of relaxed confidence and deliberate swing that can only come from musicians who know exactly who they are and what they cherish. Joined by trombonist Steve Davis and a top-tier rhythm section ...
Continue ReadingBillie Davies: 2455 (Music for the Future)
by Max Kutner
2455: Music for the Future features the telekinetic duo of drummer/percussionist Billie Davies and trumpeter Branden James Lewis presenting a series of dreamlike improvisations united under Davies' concept of No Boundaries, Music for the 24th Century. Davies' vision and designs allow the music to shape-shift and wander at whim between dub, ambient, free jazz, musique concrète, and more. By allowing for fluid stylistic ambiguity and employing a bevy of processed sounds in their arsenal--extensive synth layering and loops, for example--the ...
Continue ReadingEnd Of Month Keyboard Special featuring Lonnie Liston Smith, Jackie Davis, Herbie Hancock, The Outernet, and Others
by David W. Daniels
This is our end of the month keyboard special, featuring jazz and jazz fusion musicians who specialize in keyboards of all types (piano, Fender Rhodes, organ, clavinet, and synthesizer primarily). This month we're including music from Nina Simone, Don Patterson, Doug Carn, Herbie Hancock, Kandance Springs, and others. As an added bonus, we are closing the show with a composition by a fusion band to the north of the Atlanta, GA metro area (The 4 Korners). While they are led ...
Continue ReadingThe Getdown, Amy Gadiaga, FonvilleXFribush, Mario Canonge & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
Enjoy a playlist featuring some of the artists who traveled to New York to reshape the city's soundscape during the Winter JazzFest.Happy Listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Amy Gadiaga “Petite" All Black Everything (Jazz re:freshed) 0:16 Host talks 6:03 Corey Fonville, Sam Fribush, Morgan Burrs “I Couldn't Love You More" I Couldn't Love You More 8:54 The Getdown “Spirit of Five" The Getdown (Artwork) 16:18 Host talks 20:26 ...
Continue ReadingAl Jarreau, The Baylor Project, Abbey Lincoln, Tyreek McDole and More
by Jua Howard
Hey Music Family! I hope the new year is treating you well. It's time for another episode of the “First Instrument Jazz Show." !'ve got more timeless music including from Al Jarreau, The Baylor Project, Tyreek McDole, Abbey Lincoln, Umoja Jazz Ensemble, Laurin Talese and many more. Come get lost in the music with me! Playlist Intro 00:00 The Baylor Project feat. Jamison Ross “Only Believe" from Generations (Be a Light) 2:36 John Clay feat. Ruby Pucillo “Alice ...
Continue ReadingMark Lettieri: Expanding Boundaries
by Mike Jacobs
In the years since Mark Lettieri first sat down with All About Jazz, much has changed--and, in a sense, much has not. At the time of that (2020 interview), Lettieri had a budding solo career, but was still primarily known as being part of Snarky Puppy's (SP) formidable six-string triumvirate (along with fellow guitarists Bob Lanzetti and Chris McQueen). Today, he's still very active in SP--and the Vulfpeck-adjacent Fearless Flyers--but Lettieri's profile as a solo artist has seemingly ...
Continue ReadingBévort 3: A Cup of Joe
by Ian Patterson
Tributes to jazz's most celebrated figures often take the form of interpretations of their work. Not so with Danish saxophonist and composer Pernille Bévort, who raises her cup to tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson on eight original tunes. Henderson's So Near So Far: Musings for Miles (Verve Records, 1993) is one of Bévort's touchstone album picks, and while the Dane is no Henderson clone, she shares some of his stylistic traits. Chief among these are Bévort's rhythmic agility and an inventive ...
Continue ReadingJon Herington: Kernel Of Truth
by Mike Jacobs
From Jon Herington's Pulse and Cadence (ESC, 2008)--[which is itself a re-release of Herington's Japan-only solo debut, The Complete Rhyming Dictionary (Glass House, 1993)]--"Kernel of Truth" features the future Steely Dan touring guitarist with stalwarts Peter Erskine, Jim Beard, Victor Bailey and Arto Tuncboyaciyan in what may be one of the most interlocking arrangements ever. ...
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