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Album Review

Emilio Solla and La Inestable de Brooklyn: Handmade

Read "Handmade" reviewed by Joshua Weiner

by Joshua Weiner
July 15, 2026

As the power of artificial intelligence (AI) grows exponentially, it has begun to permeate even the highest expressions of our humanity. AI-generated art of many kinds--literary, visual, and musical--appears on screens large and small daily. Handmade, a gorgeous double album by New York-based Argentinian pianist and composer Emilio Solla, featuring his nonet Inestable de Brooklyn, seeks to build a bridge across this uncanny valley." Handmade is an apologia of the tactile," says GRAMMY-nominated Solla. “We are moving further away from ...

Album Review

Linus Eppinger & Sam Braysher: A Sinner Kissed an Angel

Read "A Sinner Kissed an Angel" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
July 15, 2026

Once past its rather curious title, there is much to admire and applaud on the debut recording by electric guitarist Linus Eppinger and alto saxophonist Sam Braysher's quartet, not the least of which is the group's tendency to swing at any tempo and in every format and to do so with a mininum of bombast or pretension. Based on the result alone, it is hard to believe that the foursome had been together as a working group for ...

Radio & Podcasts

Willy Rodriguez, Mark Turner, and Emma Rawicz

by Jerome Wilson
July 15, 2026

The featured musicians in this episode include Willy Rodriguez, Mark Turner, Chris Connor, and Emma Rawicz. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Chris Connor “Trouble is a Man" from This is Chris (Bethlehem) 00:58 Tiziana Bacchetta “Born to be Blue" from Parole Confuse (Philology) 3:50 Kelly Green “Milestones / Here and There" from Eat Your Greens (Self-Produced) 9:10 Host ...

Album Review

Leigh Pilzer: Keep Holding On

Read "Keep Holding On" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
July 15, 2026

Baritone saxophonist Leigh Pilzer is a member of A-list orchestras like the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, The DIVA Jazz Orchestra, and the National Symphony Orchestra, among others. She is also an exciting improviser and bandleader in her own right. Her third release as a leader, the captivating Keep Holding On, is with her organ trio and features guest brass players on five tracks. It consists entirely of original material, most composed by Pilzer herself, and is firmly rooted in the ...

Radio & Podcasts

James Brandon Lewis Quartet "Testify"+ Lakecia Benjamin with Sean Jones, Zaccai Curtis and Bria Skonberg

by Hobart Taylor
July 15, 2026

We also feature exciting large ensemble music from the Schapiro 17 and the New England Jazz Collaborative. Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Zaccai Curtis “Joust" from Sonoluminescence Vol. 1 (TRR Collective) 00:06 Zela Margossian “Free Kicks" from Remedy(Ropeadope) 8:12 Parisa Karimi Molan /Tehrani Drom “Sari Galin" from Unveiled (Lulaworld) 16:08 Host Speaks 19:56 Richard Spaven “Tilt" from Light of Day (Edition) 21:52 Lakecia Benjamin “My Only (ft. Sean Jones)" from We Dream (Artwork) 26:41 Nils Petter Molvær “Berlin-orbit 4 ...

Radio & Podcasts

Martin Ludlow: Reclaiming LA's Jazz Legacy

by Stephen Braunginn
July 15, 2026

On the newest episode of Strictly Jazz Sounds, Martin Ludlow, President and CEO of Bridge Street, Inc. is my guest. We attempt to answer the question, “Is Los Angeles ready to take its place among the world's great jazz festival cities?" We discuss the vision behind the inaugural LA Jazz Festival, LA's jazz history, the legacy of Central Avenue and the Dunbar Hotel, how the festival hopes to inspire the next generation of musicians and what it will take for ...

Interview

Tamara Lukasheva: The Dangerous Beauty of Silence, Slowness and Modern Jazz

by John March
July 14, 2026

Tamara Lukasheva is one of those artists whose work becomes more difficult to categorize the longer you spend listening to it. A vocalist, composer, and improviser originally from Ukraine and now based in Europe, she moves fluidly between jazz, contemporary composition, improvisation, experimental vocal practice, and forms that do not comfortably belong to any one category. What makes her work especially compelling is the feeling that composition, sound, language, structure, and improvisation are all unfolding simultaneously rather than behaving like ...

Journey into Jazz

Love Supreme Festival 2026: A Personal Perspective

by Andy Crowther
July 14, 2026

The South Downs in East Sussex is a beautiful part of the UK. Glynde Place, the location for the Love Supreme Jazz Festival, is in the sweet spot between the bustling seaside city of Brighton and Hove, and the dramatic ridges of the Downs. Rolling countryside, flint-stone buildings, and Glyndebourne House--famous around the world for its own opera festival--are just minutes away. Love Supreme has been running since 2013, with a line-up focused on major soul music acts and the ...

Album Review

Dylan Jones: Statue

by Andrew Hunter
July 14, 2026

Like so many talented young musicians in London, Dylan Jones spent some time developing his skills with Tomorrow's Warriors, a talent development organization without which we might never have heard Courtney Pine, Steve Williamson, Yazz Ahmed, Nubya Garcia, Soweto Kinch... The London scene would be very different without them. Jones played in Ezra Collective with other Tomorrow's Warriors alumni. Then he fell in with Mark Kavuma, a fellow trumpeter and another notable nurturer of young talent. Statue is ...

Album Review

Arnold Ludvig Quintet: Live at Maggies ’18

Read "Live at Maggies ’18" reviewed by Joshua Weiner

by Joshua Weiner
July 14, 2026

Should anyone doubt that jazz is alive and well in all corners of the globe, Live at Maggies '18, an enjoyable live album by the quintet led by fretless electric bassist Arnold Ludvig will prove the point. Ludvig hails from the Faroe Islands archipelago, an autonomous territory of Denmark located between Norway, Iceland, and Scotland. Born in 1968, he began playing bass at the age of 12 and composing at the age of 23. After studying jazz in Reykjavik and ...