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The Wee Trio with Fabian Almazán: Climb
by Geno Thackara
Despite any connotations, the spirit of The Wee Trio is a pretty big one--big energy, wide imagination, and on 2016's Wee +3 (Bionic Records), the larger-than-life sound they make with good friends sitting in to make something more than the mere parts. ...
Continue ReadingMafalda Minnozzi: Riofonic
by Katchie Cartwright
Singer Mafalda Minnozzi, who already had a solid recording career in Italy, went to Rio for a date in the late 1990s, stayed for a year, then decided to make it her home. Like many musical immigrants to that great city, she went to feel the salt air, to drink in the natural beauty and learn more about the sounds that had captivated her spirit. In her words, she was looking for something “that was not only what is written ...
Continue ReadingNew Releases, Record Store Day Specials, And Ivo Perelman On Leo Records
by Bob Osborne
This show includes many new releases and lots of those are self produced demonstrating the healthy state of independent music production in the industry. There is some classic jazz meets rock from over 20 years ago plus three outstanding live albums from Resonance Records for Record Store Day 2025. In addition with the planned release of a massive collection of the work of Ivo Perelman on Leo Records I begin a month long exploration of his work.Playlist Show ...
Continue ReadingSarah Hennies, Richard Valitutto: SOVT
by John Eyles
Composer and percussionist Sarah Hennies was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1979. She started playing drums when she was nine years old; in her teens she played drums with local college punk rock bands. She attended the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign before receiving a Master's degree from University of California, San Diego. After graduating from UC San Diego in 2003, she moved to Austin, Texas, and began collaborating with guitarist Aaron Rusell in the group Weird Weeds. ...
Continue ReadingCrate Digging in the East Village + RSD Releases
by David Brown
This week's episode highlights some enlightening archival live recordings from Kenny Dorham, Freddie Hubbard, and Charles Mingus, recently issued on Record Store Day. The program also features finds uncovered during a recent crate-digging trip to New York's East Village, including selections by Wayne Horvitz, Dorothy Donegan, Terry Gibbs, Jimmy Giuffre, and Joanne Brackeen. The show opens with newly unearthed 45s from the Joe Newman Octet, Don Elliott, and Charlie Ventura and His Orchestra, followed by a new track from Alex ...
Continue ReadingJuan Carmona: Laberinto De Luz
by Thierry De Clemensat
Juan Carmona celebrates 40 years of a remarkable career in 2025, marking the occasion with the release of his album, Laberinto De Luz. For those who have yet to discover this exceptional flamenco guitarist, his universe seamlessly blends jazz and world music. While his primary influences stem from Andalusia, the spirit of the entire Mediterranean is intricately woven into his compositions. His works and arrangements are widely recognized for their outstanding quality by professionals across the industry. This ...
Continue ReadingBilly Mohler's Euro-American Quartet at Pinocchio Jazz in Florence
by Annamaria Lucchetti
A collection of photos from the Billy Mohler's Euro-American Quartet concert at Pinocchio Jazz in Florence on April 5, 2025 featuring Francesco Bigoni, Hermon Mehari and Jeff Ballard. ...
Continue ReadingJazzkaar Interviews: Kristjan Randalu
by Martin Longley
The Estonian pianist Kristjan Randalu gave one of the best performances at the 2021 Jazzkaar festival in Tallinn. It was the premiere of a work-sequence for the New Wind Orchestra, and it blew the audience on a wayward journey. Once again, Randalu will be delivering a premiere piece for Jazzkaar, opening up this year's 36th edition with his “Marginaalid ja Dividendid" (Margins And Dividends). Your scribe and this keysman ended up with a most unusual interview setting: Longley ...
Continue ReadingArt Pepper: Geneva 1980
by Jack Kenny
"Do not go gentle into the good night," Dylan Thomas wrote that; Art Pepper did it. He did not go gentle. He raged with his horn across continents: Asia, Europe, the Americas. There was gentleness too at times. He raged against his own wasted times. It all fuelled his playing and he was able to deliver powerful and emotionally-charged performances. Art Pepper with his dissolute, angelic face with Laurie Pepper as his Boswell collecting, remembering, recording, preserving. According ...
Continue ReadingAntonio Carlos Jobim et al: Focus On Bossa Nova
by Arnaldo DeSouteiro
This is a trip into the world of bossa nova. Or the worlds of bossa nova. For the style that made Brazilian music so respected and famous all over the world has some subdivisions that coexist among its universe. Bossa nova ranges from the cool/introspective/airy sounds patented by Joao Gilberto in the late Fifties, to a strong/vigorous/hard-bop influenced samba-jazz that reigned in the mid-Sixties. But both streams are equally sophisticated in harmonic terms, mixing beautiful melodies with captivating grooves. So, ...
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