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Hiromi-Sonic Wonder, Lyle Workman, Djabe, Pelle Holmberg, Josh Meader, Metrik System
by Len Davis
Hiromi-Sonic Wonder, featuring Hadrien Feraud, Gene Coyl and Adam O'Farril, MamoGi with Mohini Dey, Djabe, with Tour Of Waterfalls, Swedish guitarist Pelle Holmberg, and Lyle Workman with his latest single. Jazz with with Swedish pianist Fabienne Ambuehl, Australian band The Exhibits featuring James Muller, Sydney guitarist Josh Meader, and New Zealand guitarist Callum Allardice with Elementa. Progressive rock from Spanish Band T Punch!, Slovenian group Moonlight Sky and Japanese band Naniwa Express. We finish with Athana featuring Alf Terje Hana ...
Continue ReadingJazz Riffs Amidst the Rubble: How Ukraine's Artists Keep Jazz Alive in Wartime
by Cheptoo Kositany
In bomb shelters, makeshift clubs, and even occasionally on the front lines, Ukrainian jazz artists are keeping the flame of the music alive. The story of jazz in Ukraine is long and winding, stretching back to the Soviet era. In the 1920s and '30s, jazz seeped into the Soviet Union, brought by records, radio broadcasts, and visiting musicians. Despite the ideological disapproval of the Communist Party, which viewed jazz as decadent Western music, it found a dedicated audience, ...
Continue ReadingSteve Knight: For Years Gone
by Kyle Simpler
Chicago-based jazz man Steve Knight started playing guitar when he was 12 years old, and as he puts it, traded his skateboard for an inexpensive guitar, which “was quite righteous-sounding playing 'Smoke on the Water.'" He has come a long way since then, and For Years Gone offers plenty of evidence to prove this. Knight's self-produced 2022 debut Persistence (Self Produced) struck a chord with jazz guitar fans, and his sophomore release shows him developing his ...
Continue ReadingLaurent Coulondre at the 2025 Jazz Factory Festival
by Nenad Georgievski
Laurent Coulondre Bitola Theatre Jazz Factory Festival Bitola, Macedonia April 17, 2025 The 2025 edition of the Jazz Factory Festival in Bitola opened not with a bang, but with a delicate touch--courtesy of French pianist Laurent Coulondre, who took to the stage alone and filled the concert hall with a sound that felt at once expansive and deeply personal. It was a solo recital that unfolded like a letter written in music--tender, expressive, and ...
Continue ReadingDiego Figueiredo: I Love Samba
by Jack Bowers
One upside to Brazilian-born guitarist Diego Figueiredo's latest album, I Love Samba, is that the title says it all. In case you are unfamiliar with Figueiredo, you should know that he not only loves samba, he also plays samba--quite well--and has entertained audiences in more than sixty countries around the world doing exactly that. And while he is only in his mid-forties, I Love Samba brings the number of CDs Figueiredo has under his belt as leader of his own ...
Continue ReadingBrad Mehldau Trio Groovin' High at SFJAZZ
by Roy Strassman
Brad Mehldau Trio SFJAZZ Center San Francisco, CA April 3, 2025 SFJAZZ Center honored the Bay Area's jazz fans with the Brad Mehldau-Christian McBride-Marcus Gilmore trio, in town for a four-night run from April 3-6, 2025. Opening night was a real treat for the ear, eye, and soul. Casually dressed, the players took the stage, exuding a quiet confidence characteristic of master musicians. The set opened with Mehldau's catchy “26," which swung and ...
Continue ReadingJanette Mason: ReWired
by Neil Duggan
Rewired is an acoustic trio album from the highly versatile pianist Janette Mason. She has proved to be a standout performer across jazz, pop and rock genres, having worked with Oasis, Robert Wyatt, Seal and Pulp. She is accompanied by her equally adaptable long-time collaborators: bassist Tom Mason (Lizz Wright, Jamie Cullum) and drummer Eric Ford (Partikel, Ronnie Laws). Together they cover songs from the 1940s to the present day. Mason arranged and co-produced the songs, which all ...
Continue ReadingDavid Murray, Hillai Govreen, Simón Willson, Naïssam Jalal & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
Up and coming artists, and legends playing with up and coming artists, on this intergenerational playlist!Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Wet Enough!? & Camilla George “Funk 4" Dancing People Don't Dry (Komos) 0:16 Host talks 4:41 Simón Willson “Bet" Bet: Live at Ornithology (Endectomorph) 7:03 Hillai Govreen “Abraxas" Every Other Now (Fresh Sound/New Talent) 12:44 Host talks 18:25 David Murray Quartet feat. Ekep Nkwelle “Birdly Serenade" Birdly ...
Continue ReadingPitch, Rhythm and Consciousness, Fini Bearman, Gerald Clayton, Shamek Farra
by Cheryl K.
During this week's two-hour program of Jazz and improvised music, new releases from the improvisational ensemble Pitch, Rhythm and Consciousness; saxophonists David Murray and Kamasi Washington; singer-songwriter Fini Bearman; pianist Gerald Clayton; guitarist Roman Pilon; and from the first batch of resurrected releases from Strata-East, First Impressions by saxophonist Shamek Farrah. Playlist Joe Henderson “Canyon Lady" from Canyon Lady (Milestone) 10:10 Phil Bancroft “Testimony Part 5" from Testimony (Myriad Streams) 7:05 Steve Holt's Jazz Impact Quintet “The Lion's ...
Continue ReadingJaki Byard: Blues For Smoke
by Fran Kursztejn
If Jaki Byard is most commonly categorized as a proud progenitor of the 'new jazz,' as his seminal work with Eric Dolphy on Outward Bound and Charles Mingus on Black Saint and the Sinner Lady would suggest, then a record like Blues for Smoke may throw listeners for a loop. Byard's notoriously difficult to pin down--a student both of Chopin and Fats Waller, romanticism and ragtime, always billed as a 'respectable,' austere and forward-thinking performer. All true enough, ...
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