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Hugues Kieffer: Marseille, Five Continents, One Jazz

by Silvia Papa
July 1, 2026

In its 26 years of existence, the festival Marseille Jazz Five Continents has evolved from an event aimed primarily at local audiences--offering Marseille residents the chance to hear some of the biggest names in jazz live--to a boundary-crossing festival that embraces the full richness and diversity of contemporary jazz. Today, it offers an immersive experience spanning classical, free, soul, African, Sub-Saharan, Caribbean, Latin, electronic, and other emerging musical languages. Its evolution mirrors that of the city that hosts it: multicultural, ...

Album Review

Steve Swallow: Winter Songs

Read "Winter Songs" reviewed by Jack Kenny

by Jack Kenny
July 1, 2026

To create his first new music since the death of his partner, Carla Bley, Steve Swallow gathered a circle of close friends and longtime collaborators: saxophonist Chris Cheek, trumpeter Mike Rodriguez, drummer Adam Nussbaum, guitarist Steve Cardenas, and pianist Gil Goldstein. The result, Winter Songs-- Swallow's first outing as a leader in over a decade was recorded at Sear Sound studio in New York during September 2024. About the music, Swallow wrote: “I was there when this music ...

Album Review

Sara Serpa & Matt Mitchell: End of Something

Read "End of Something" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright

by Katchie Cartwright
July 1, 2026

Recorded in 2023, Sara Serpa and Matt Mitchell's End of Something launched in 2025, splashing down late in the year, landing softly on select best-of-year lists. It had been a slow process, Serpa reported. There was a feeling “that it was OK to wait and take time, to come back to it a few months later and do some work over it and come back again." The ripples continue to radiate in 2026. The sound is uncommonly stark ...

Radio & Podcasts

Get hip to Anggie Obin + James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Jeff Parker IVtet and Gretchen Parlato

by Hobart Taylor
July 1, 2026

From Panama, outstanding flautist Anggie Obin, Jeff Parker and the ETA IVTet, Sullivan Forntner and Ada Bird Wolfe.Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Ada Bird Wolfe “Green and Gold" Jamieson Trotter (piano), Katisse Buckingham (flute), Scott Mayo (bass clarinet), John Tegmeyer (clarinet), Dan Lutz (bass), Peter Buck (drums) from Murmuration (Self Produced) 00:08 James Brandon Lewis Quartet “Spirit of the Living God" from Omni (Intakt) 06:01 Host Speaks 16:32 Bria Skonberg “If You Go Away" from Indigo (Cellar) 18:14 Sullivan ...

Radio & Podcasts

Ben Wolfe, David Janeway, and Ben Wendel

by Jerome Wilson
July 1, 2026

This episode features new music from Ben Wolfe, David Janeway and Ben Wendel as well as older work from Conrad Herwig, Carmen McRae and the late Abdullah Ibrahim (aka Dollar Brand).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 Raoul Bjorkenheim and Krakatau “Foot Talk" from Ritual (Cuneiform) 1:01 Ray Russell Quartet “Can I Have My Paper-Back Back" from The Complete Spontaneous ...

Radio & Podcasts

New Jazz Underground, Open Thread, Kalia Vandever, Micah Thomas, Immanuel Wilkins

by Ludovico Granvassu
July 1, 2026

A playlist about musical kinship: artists supporting, inspiring, and challenging one another as they bring their distinct voices to a web of interconnected projects.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 New Jazz Underground “Oney Ones One" Hoodies (Artwork) 0:16 Host talks 4:06 Open Thread feat. Peggy Lee, Julien Wilson, Theo Carbo, Dylan van der Schyff) “From the Deck" Waiting Music (Earshift) 5:48 Kalia Vandever “Hubbard Road" Mana (International Anthem) ...

Live Review

Beat at Uber Eats Music Hall

by Maciej Stasiowski
July 1, 2026

Beat: Performing the Music of 80s King Crimson Featuring Adrian Belew, Steve Vai, Tony Levin and Danny Carey Uber Eats Music Hall Berlin, Germany June 15, 2026 How do you form a supergroup if half your dream team is already in the band? While the codename for the touring incarnation of the 1980s King Crimson line-up, Beat, seems like a piece of fan fiction from the depths of ...

Album Review

Gjerstad Schlippenbach Narvesen: Seven Tracks

Read "Seven Tracks" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
July 1, 2026

No messages. No allusions. Just pure music. Seven Tracks arrives stripped of extraneous signposts, its cuts identified only by duration and its content left to speak entirely for itself. Happily the utilitarian approach does not extend to the volatile freeform exchanges between veterans Norwegian reedman Frode Gjerstad and German pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach, and Gjerstad's younger countryman drummer Dag Magnus Narvesen. Pianist and drummer form a cohesive unit responsible for three albums in tandem. Drummer and reed player likewise have ...

Interview

Sun Chung of Red Hook Records: Listening at the Threshold

by Tyran Grillo
June 30, 2026

Sun Chung's Red Hook Records has, in just five years, become one of the most quietly consequential imprints in contemporary creative music. Its significance lies not in volume, market saturation, or stylistic branding, but in something rarer: a producer's ear turned into an aesthetic world. At a time when recorded music is often treated as content, detached from process and material presence, Chung has built a label around the opposite premise. A Red Hook album asks to be heard as ...

Live Review

Ethno Port 2026

by Martin Longley
June 30, 2026

Zamek Cultural Centre Poznań, Poland June 11-14, 2026 Ethno Port is one of the outstanding global-folkloric festivals around the world, and your scribe attempts to impress this upon the media scene with each passing year. It transpires in the Zamek cultural centre, which had its construction completed (as the Imperial Castle) in 1910. It was internally bastardised in 1939, as an intended residence for Adolf Hitler, but it seems like he never quite made it to ...