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Live Review

Marshall Allen, Trae Crudup, Black Cherry, and DoYeon Kim At Vision Festival 2026

by Fran Kursztejn
July 2, 2026

Marshall Allen, Trae Cruddup, Hamid Drake, William Parker, DoYeon Kim Abrons Arts Center Vision Festival June 26, 2026 Creative music (in William Parker's words, “so-called jazz") is an old scene in New York City. Ornette Coleman at least nominally birthed the “free jazz" movement in the '60s, and ever since, the genre has planted its tenterhooks into the city's artistic landscape. If there are any major throughlines in that history, there is of course innovation ...

Album Review

Zoe Rahman: Hull Suite Live

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by Neil Duggan
July 2, 2026

Hull Suite Live was written by Zoe Rahman for World Piano Day 2024 and commissioned by the Hull Jazz Festival. Two statues inspired the suite in the coastal city of Hull, “Voyage" and “Migrants Statue." The two works, which stand on the waterfront, were erected to commemorate the city's history of global migration. The suite explores themes of family, migration and the sea. The work is particularly poignant for Rahman, whose family history mirrors these themes of migration.

Live Review

The Bad Plus Brings Its Farewell Tour to New York's Sony Hall

by Andrew Schinder
July 2, 2026

The Bad Plus Farewell Tour Sony Hall New York, NY June 19, 2026 The Bad Plus has spent the better part of the 21st century as one of jazz's most successful crossover acts. The band, formed in Minnesota, broke through in 2003 with These are the Vistas (Columbia Records), featuring founding members Reid Anderson (bass), Dave King (drums), and Ethan Iverson (piano). Both the jazz and overall music communities bestowed quite a bit of attention to the album, ...

Album Review

Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Fitzgerald Live at Falkoner Theatre Copnhagen 1966

Read "Ella Fitzgerald Live at Falkoner Theatre Copnhagen 1966" reviewed by Jack Kenny

by Jack Kenny
July 2, 2026

The night before Ella Fitzgerald's historic concert with Duke Ellington in Stockholm, she played two concerts in Copenhagen. For Ella Fitzgerald, this was like playing at home because she had an apartment in the city. It was one place where she felt relaxed and it shows in the music. It is Fitzgerald at her most at ease. In fact, she sings more at this concert than she did in Stockholm The tape emanates from a Danmarks Radio broadcast, ...

Album Review

Ben Ferrell: Sextet

by Jack Bowers
July 2, 2026

On Sextet, bassist Ben Ferrell's six-member group strives with mixed results to maintain magnetism and diversity in five of his generally low-key compositions, some of which might benefit from an occasional shot of adrenalin. Ferrell apparently knows where he is going, and shares what can be described as a cool journey. There are three detours (Thelonious Monk's “Light Blue," Kenta Nagata's “Dragon Roost Island," Martin O'Donnell's “Never Forget," only one of which--"Never Forget"--appreciably raises the session's overall temperature). ...

Radio & Podcasts

New Music from Jeff Parker, Hayes Greenfield, Ize Trio & More

by Bob Osborne
July 2, 2026

This weeks playlist highlights musical contrast and deep ensemble chemistry. The selection begins with hypnotic grooves, cinematic depths, and global, prayerful textures, before navigating lyrical introspection and evocative writing. The second half features a run of heavy-hitters, including fiery electric fusion live from Montreal, precise chamber-jazz, and intimate hard-bop recorded straight from the bandstand. The music then pushes into avant-garde free-improvisation, dynamic big-band arrangements of archival masterpieces, and a monumental, 24-minute performance captured live at a legendary jazz shrine.

Radio & Podcasts

The Pentland/Bergonzi Quartet, Paul Hecht, Hilary Jeffery, Shunzo Ohno

by Cheryl K.
July 2, 2026

During this week's two-hour program of jazz and improvised music--The Pentland/Bergonzi Quartet; vocalist Eve Cornelious; pianist Paul Hecht; the James McGowan Ensemble; vocalist Hilary Jeffery; the trio Tonnen von Hall; trumpeter Shunzo Ohno; and trombonist Conrad Herwig.Playlist Paul Gonsalves “It's Something You Ought to Know" from Ellingtonia Moods & Blues (RCA Victor/BMG Classics) 4:14 Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra “Sheperd" from Ellington Masterworks (MCG Jazz) 7:49 Rosino Serrano Orquesta Moderna “Concierto Para Piano y Big Band “Escenas de una ...

Radio & Podcasts

Dave Douglas, Sun Ra, Frank Zappa And Much More

by Lawrence Peryer
July 2, 2026

This week's Rotations is a parade of restless inventors. A surf-psych single gives way to modern jazz, a score for a 1960 horror film, and the room-sized synthesizer a pair of tinkerers built in 1970. From there it's Seattle indie pop, New Jersey jangle, two saxophones turned into an orchestra, and a New York shapeshifter, before Sun Ra and Frank Zappa close it all out. An hour of people who build their own instruments, their own sounds, their own labels, ...

Radio & Podcasts

Virginia MacDonald, Andre Bachleda, Ben Wolfe, Milena Granci & more

by Marek J. Śmietański
July 2, 2026

The 127th episode is a regular edition dedicated to jazz releases from May 2026. This month's selection showcases the remarkable diversity of today's scene, bringing together established voices and emerging artists from Europe, North America, Australia and beyond. The programme flows through contemporary jazz, improvised music, ambient textures and genre-crossing projects that expand the language of jazz while remaining true to its core values. Many of these albums are marked by a strong compositional focus, in which personal stories and ...

So You Don't Like Jazz

Iconic Music in Film: Boomer Edition

by Alan Bryson
July 1, 2026

One of the pleasures of looking back at film music from the boomer years is realizing how quickly the walls were coming down. Classical themes turned into jazz-funk hits. Soul records won Oscars. Rock songs became character development. Bluegrass, blues, disco, Latin jazz, and spaghetti-western minimalism all found their way onto the screen, and in the process changed what movie music could do. Before the 1960s, a “serious" film score usually meant orchestral sweep--Max Steiner, Bernard Herrmann, Miklós ...