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Radio & Podcasts

Music from Rich Willey, Paul Hecht, La Boeuf Brothers And More

by Bob Osborne
July 9, 2026

The conventional meets the experimental with a mix of new releases including three new ones from Ivo Perelman and some archive UK jazz from a band that never got around to releasing an album in its lifetime. A spicy mix of straight ahead jazz together with the best in current improvisation. Playlist Rich Willey “Hip, Slick & Cool" from Laid Back Volume One (Boptism) 00:00 Paul Hecht “My Chromatic Romance" from Pyrography II (ears&eyes) 09:15 Le Boeuf Brothers ...

Radio & Podcasts

Sonnymoon for Two Bastards (Part 1)

by Patrick Burnette
July 9, 2026

The great Sonny Rollins left this dimension on May 25, 2026, and the boys find it only fitting to devote two episodes to the jazz colossus. This first installment looks at four albums from the magical 1950s, when every album Sonny released was an event and even John Coltrane was just an up and coming challenger.Playlist Discussion of Sonny Rollins' album Tenor Madness! (Prestige Records) 7:55 Discussion of Sonny Rollins' album Volume 2 (Blue Note) 30:27 Discussion of ...

Radio & Podcasts

Alden Hellmuth, Ambrose Akinmusire & Mary Halvorson And Much More

by Lawrence Peryer
July 9, 2026

This hour of Rotations keeps landing on people who built something durable and then disappeared from view before the credit caught up: Julius Eastman, memorialized on Wild Up's fifth anthology volume; Francis Bebey, still ahead of his contemporaries decades after wiring a thumb piano through a drum machine; Amara Touré, whose entire known output fits on one Analog Africa disc. Around them sit artists making the same case in real time, Alden Hellmuth, Diles que no me maten, and the ...

Album Review

Ardeshir: Introducing Ardeshir

Read "Introducing Ardeshir" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
July 9, 2026

For more than 35 years, starting in the mid-1950s, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers set the gold standard for small-group hard bop jazz in the U.S. and around the world, a benchmark at which Canadian tenor saxophonist Ardeshir Pourkeramati's charismatic quintet/quartet takes dead aim on the leader's superlative debut recording, Introducing Ardeshir. This is hard bop the way it should be played, with an abundance of energy and enthusiasm bolstered by resourceful solos and razor-sharp group interplay--on ...

Live Review

Ron Carter Foursight Quartet at the 47th Annual Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland

by C. Andrew Hovan
July 8, 2026

Ron Carter Foursight Quartet Hanna Theater 47th Annual Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland Cleveland, OH June 27, 2026 At 89, bassist Ron Carter remains one of jazz's towering figures, and his appearance at the reimagined Tri-C JazzFest stood out as one of the festival's few presentations by a universally recognized mainstream jazz artist. Making his first local appearance in years, Carter brought his Foursight Quartet--formed in 2019--to the intimate Hanna Theatre for an early afternoon performance ...

Play This!

The Breaks: Inheritance Powder

by Ludovico Granvassu
July 8, 2026

Built around the irresistible pull of deep-pocket grooves, the classic Hammond-guitar-drums lineup is as seductive for the listener as it is for the player. But the lure of deep-pocket grooves can be dangerous for the unwary musician: lock in too tightly, and finding a way out gets awkward. The Breaks--the new project of veterans Robert Walter, Eddie Roberts and Stanton Moore--lives up to its name. These three “escape artists of the funk pocket" know exactly where the breaks ...

Album Review

Steve Swallow: Winter Songs

Read "Winter Songs" reviewed by Kevin Poindexter

by Kevin Poindexter
July 8, 2026

While it is true that much of the modern jazz landscape thrives on the burning fire of the avant-garde, albums like Steve Swallow's Winter Songs operate on an entirely different frequency. This is a classic ECM Records slow burner--an album that does not flash like lightning, but instead radiates a calm, late-night glow. It evokes the quiet stillness of sitting by a fireplace after the rest of the house has gone to sleep, where the music demands a deep couch, a ...

Album Review

Jeff Rupert Quartet: Sea Spell

Read "Sea Spell" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
July 8, 2026

John Coltrane, commenting on the remarkably silken tones generated by fellow tenor saxophonist Stan Getz, is said to have remarked, “We'd all sound that way if we could." Although Florida-based tenor Jeff Rupert is no Getz clone, the sound he produces on his latest album, Sea Spell, comes so close to mirroring Getz that the impression is downright astonishing, not to mention absolutely gorgeous. The kinship to Getz is most conspicuous in the upper register, which Rupert controls ...

Radio & Podcasts

Aubrey Johnson, Chris Potter, Don Ellis, and Others

by Jerome Wilson
July 8, 2026

This episode features recent music by Aubrey Johnson and Chris Potter alongside more off-the-beaten-path fare by Don Ellis and Mulatu Astatke.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 Mavis Pan “Black Sky" from Rising (Self-Produced) 1:02 Jenny Menna “Beautiful Love" from The River is Moving (Self-Produced) 7:13 Host Speaks 12:50 Simon Willson “Long Distances" from Feel Love (Endectomorph Music) 14:12 Alchemy ...

Album Review

Michael William Gilbert: Wheel Within the Wheel

Read "Wheel Within the Wheel" reviewed by Sue Yang

by Sue Yang
July 8, 2026

A circle is never only a circle in Michael William Gilbert's Wheel Within the Wheel. It is a ritual form, a listening mechanism, a rotating architecture of memory and pulse. Across six compact pieces, Gilbert turns repetition into inquiry: not the mechanical recurrence of an unchanged object, but the gradual revelation of difference within return. The album's title provides more than a visual metaphor. Wheel Within the Wheel is built from nested cycles: loops inside loops, pulses inside ...