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Radio & Podcasts

Ruthie Foster, Gretchen Parlato, Alden Hellmuth, Brothers/Nevala/Aucoin, Enoch Smith Jr., Brittany Anjou & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
September 7, 2026

This broadcast includes new music from Ruthie Foster, Gretchen Parlato, Alden Hellmuth, Michael Brothers / Andy Nevala/Tim Aucoin, Enoch Smith, Jr. plus a single from Bi Tyrant & Brittany Anjou, with birthday shoutouts to Dinah Washington, Alice Coltrane, Vicki Burns, Mimi Fox, Imani Rouselle, Linda May Han Oh, Patricia Brennan, Honorable Men Mark Winkler, Michael Dease 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 ...

Album Review

Austin Di Pietro: Live at Mackenzie Hall Jazz

Read "Live at Mackenzie Hall Jazz" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
September 7, 2026

Trumpeter and composer Austin Di Pietro, whose musical enterprises span the border between Canada and the U.S., leads a hard-working quintet in a concert recorded in July 2025 Live at Mackenzie Hall in Windsor, Ontario, a few stones' throw across the border from Detroit. Di Pietro wrote four of the album's seven numbers, while tenor saxophonist Ryan Bills contributed the rapid-fire “Hangtet" to complement the standard “If I Had You" and Marcus Belgrave's charming finale, “All My Love." ...

Radio & Podcasts

Michael Jackson: Photographer, musician, and jazz journalist

by Mike Jones
September 7, 2026

This week Mike Jones sits down with Michael Jackson: photographer, musician, author, and the guy with his finger on the pulse of every jazz event in Chicago. From playing lead alto in a London big band to graduate school at the School of the Art Institute, from iconic Downbeat shoots to late nights at the Green Mill, Michael has done a bit of everything, and he still never stops. They dig into his 32 years in Chicago, tracking ...

Radio & Podcasts

Luis Vicente, Martin Kuchen, Ayumi Tanaka & Mali Obomsawin

by Maurice Hogue
September 7, 2026

Europe's still Europe on maps so far, and that's where this episode of One Man's Jazz is centered and sampling new albums by Portugal's free--blowing trumpeter Luis Vicente & his 4tet (Spirits Moving) and guitarist Marcelo Dos Reis; saxophonist Martin Kuchen's Angles 4 from Sweden; the Scottish duo of saxophonist Zack Moir & bassist Roberto Cassani's Anaglyph; more from Dave Holland's box set, Freedom Call; and trios aplenty led by pianists Gisela Horat and Malcolm Braff from Switzerland, Italian bassist ...

The Blue Note Portal

The Beatles—Future Perfect, Part 8

by Blue Note Portal
September 6, 2026

Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 Lifting the Veil The second night at the Teatro Municipal Baltazar Dias began the way the first had ended--with the sense that the room itself was listening. Three hundred people filled the horseshoe of red velvet boxes, close enough that George could see individual faces catching the light ...

Album Review

Rahul Mukerji: Mridhangit

Read "Mridhangit" reviewed by Geno Thackara

by Geno Thackara
September 6, 2026

As the great (if fictitious) detective Dirk Gently said, what we are dealing with here is the fundamental interconnectedness of all things. The sinuous scales of Indian and Eastern music, the fluid melodicism of jazz, the mathematical precision of prog-rock and the wailing and pounding of heavy metal: when all are approached with the same focus and deep thought, it becomes perfectly natural to hear how they come from the same roots. Rahul Mukerji's catalogue is one where ...

Album Review

Steve Rawlins: Word on the Street

Read "Word on the Street" reviewed by Don Ball

by Don Ball
September 6, 2026

Steve Rawlins has been known as more of a behind-the-scenes kind of guy than a band's frontman for the past few decades, but that may be changing with his release Word on the Street. Rawlins is accredited for his work as an arranger and musical director for artists such as Smokey Robinson, Bette Midler, and Chaka Khan, as well as for television programs such as The Merv Griffin Show, The John Davidson Show, and Academy Award and Emmy Award ceremonies. ...

In Pictures

Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2026

by Gabriele Guala
September 6, 2026

A collection of photos from Jazzfestival Saalfelden in Saalfelden, Austria, from August 20, 2026 to August 23, 2026, featuring Yvonne Moriel, Darius Jones, Chris Speed, Eve Risser, Christoph Cech, Rob Mazurek and many others. Special thanks to Selina Hörl! ...

Album Review

Lars Fredrik Frøislie: Gamle Mester

Read "Gamle Mester" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
September 6, 2026

Lars Fredrik Frøislie has spent the better part of two decades as the keyboard architect behind Wobbler, the Norwegian outfit that rebuilt 1970s symphonic prog from the inside out using vintage gear and a period-accurate ear. He has also logged time in White Willow and appeared on more than thirty other recordings since 2003, alongside a parallel career scoring music for television and film. His first solo outing, 2023's Fire Fortellinge on Karisma Records, established him as a bandleader rather ...

Radio & Podcasts

Jon Batiste, Greg Chako, Ulysses Owens Jr., Faye Carol & Matt White

by Joe Dimino
September 6, 2026

In memory of the incomparable Dolly Parton, who we lost at the age of 80 on August 25, 2026, we open this edition of Neon Jazz by celebrating an artist whose music, generosity, and humanity reached far beyond the stage. Matt White carries that spirit forward with his 2026 album Dolly, offering a beautiful interpretation of the timeless classic “Jolene." From one icon to another, we then turn toward the genius of Thelonious Monk, reimagined through the remarkable vision of ...