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Rez Abbasi: When Everything Else Fades, Sound Remains
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, the Spotlight shines on guitarist and composer Rez Abbasi.Rez's new album with his Acoustic Quintet, Sound Remains (Whirlwind Recordings), puts steel-string acoustic guitar at the center of a deeply personal meditation on presence and impermanence. The album adds master percussionist Hasan Bakr to Rez's long-standing quartet with Bill Ware, Stephan Crump, and Eric McPherson, creating what Rez calls music where “often the only thing that remains is sound."The 2021 Guggenheim Fellow has spent decades finding ...
Continue ReadingAlexia Gardner, Nel Begley, Fergus McCreadie, And More
by Colin Muirhead
Featuring music by acts performing in North East England soon and showcasing new releases, with tracks by Dean Stockdale, Alexia Gardner, Nel Begley, Fergus McCreadie, the Strictly Smokin' Big Band, and more. Playlist Dean Stockdale “Blues Etude" from Celebrating Oscar (Self Released) 00:00 Milne Glendinning Band “Am I Missing Something?" from You Me Him (Self Released) 09:10 Alexia Gardner “ Everything Must Change" from A Little Closer: Live at the Birds Eye Jazz Club (Self Released) 13:25 Chris ...
Continue ReadingIvan Farmakovsky 4tet at the Garda Jazz Festival 2025
by Danilo Codazzi
A collection of photos from the Ivan Farmakovsky 4tet concert at Garda Jazz Festival 2025 in Dro, on August 3, 2025 featuring Ivan Farmakovsky, Federico Califano, Francesco Tino and Michael Harding. ...
Continue ReadingBen Sidran at 82: Still auditioning for the role of myself
by Leo Sidran
Every year on his birthday, my dad Ben Sidran and I sit down for a conversation. It started when he turned 76, and we've done it ever since--capturing an ongoing record of where his head and heart are at that particular moment. Over the years we've talked about music, memory, politics, travel, the craft of performing, and the art of living. These annual conversations have become a kind of time-lapse portrait: the same two people returning to the ...
Continue ReadingKinga Glyk at the Garda Jazz Festival 2025
by Danilo Codazzi
A collection of photos from the Kinga Glyk 5th concert at Palacongressi in Riva del Garda on August 2, 2025 featuring Kinga Glyk, Rodney Barreto, Pierre Lapprand, Jan Uvira and Arek Grygo. ...
Continue ReadingJazz em Agosto 2025
by Stefano Merighi
Jazz em Agosto Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, Portugal August 1-10, 2025 Despite the “onda de calor" which hit it, Lisbon remains as peaceful as ever in its saturnine routine--even though invasive tourism in the Baixa neighborhood has already changed its appearance, and not for the better. August, however, is also the jazz month in the Portuguese capital--a time for exploratory, avant-garde sounds, leaning heavily toward electronics at the newly renovated Gulbenkian Foundation--with architecture by ...
Continue ReadingBremer / McCoy: Kosmos
by Neil Duggan
It may seem unlikely, but two Danish musicians--one living on a farm commune, the other in a fast-paced urban environment, have amassed over 600,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. The two former schoolmates, bassist Jonathan Bremer and pianist/tape delay specialist Morten McCoy, formed Bremer/McCoy in 2012, initially to play dub music, but their sound has since evolved into something unclassifiable that crafts dreamy soundscapes combining Nordic folk with jazz and electronica. Mentioning electronica infers that delays, echoes, reverbs and ...
Continue ReadingNaturally 7 at Miner Auditorium
by Steven Roby
Naturally 7 Miner Auditorium San Francisco, CAAugust 10, 2025 Seven voices filled Miner Auditorium with the weight and punch of a full band--no guitars, no drum kit, no horns in sight. It was a packed house, and from the opening moments, the crowd responded to each reveal with whoops and standing applause. One woman punctuated multiple song intros with an emphatic “Yes! Yes!"--a fair summary of the room's mood all night. Naturally 7 ...
Continue ReadingJon Irabagon / PlainsPeak: Someone to Someone
by Jack Kenny
Jon Irabagon is a musician whose complexity is both exhilarating and daunting. His restless energy, deep self-reflection, remarkable achievements and sharp intellect combine to create a figure who constantly provokes questions--about music, originality and the very nature of artistic expression. In 2011, Irabagon undertook a bold experiment: With Mostly Other People Do The Killing, he recorded Blue (Hot Cup, 2014), a note-for-note recreation of Miles Davis's iconic Kind of Blue (Columbia Records, 1959). This endeavor recalls Gus Van ...
Continue ReadingRodrigo Amado / Chris Corsano: The Healing
by Troy Dostert
Among recent partnerships in free improvisation, the saxophone/drum tandem of Rodrigo Amado and Chris Corsano has been one of the most dynamic and incendiary. They have joined forces in one form or another since the early 2010s; the recording which first put them on the map was their effort with Joe McPhee and Kent Kessler, the widely-celebrated This Is Our Language (Not Two Records). They continued this fruitful project with equally stirring results on A History of Nothing (Trost, 2018) ...
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