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Radio & Podcasts

Pat Metheny, Tiwayo, Trish Clowes, Kiri Ra!, Catherine Russell, Clément Janinet

by Ludovico Granvassu
June 27, 2026

A cross-generational and cross-genre journey from raw soul and classic jazz storytelling to contemporary experimentation, tracing unexpected connections across today's global jazz landscape. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Tiwayo “Up For Soul" Outsider (Record Kicks) 0:16 Host talks 4:21 Catherine Russell “Everybody Loves My Baby" Live at Jazz at Lincoln Center (Dot Time) 5:49 Host talks 8:49 Trish Clowes “For the Darklings" Try Me (Stoney ...

Live Review

Bob Dylan at the Rady Shell

by Hobart Taylor
June 27, 2026

Bob DylanRady Shell San Diego, CA June 21, 2026 Like a hoodoo echo emerging from the depths of a bottomless cave, the voice, a rumbling baritone, rambled through the scattered brambles of his poetry. Obscured by low light, and a black hoodie's cowl, Bob Dylan was barricaded behind his keyboard and bolstered by the pulsing heart of his sound, bassist Tony Garnier. Framed by guitarists Julian Lage and Bob Britt, and driven by the precision ...

Radio & Podcasts

Ora Cogan: Hard Hearted Is How You Survive

by Lawrence Peryer
June 27, 2026

Today, we're putting The Tonearm's needle on singer and songwriter Ora Cogan. Ora Cogan's music pulls from folk, country, psychedelia, and gothic rock. She holds all of it without flinching, as heard on the fantastic album Hard Hearted Woman, her latest release on Sacred Bones. Ora has worked as a photojournalist and human rights advocate, and those experiences feed directly into how she thinks about art, resistance, and what the music is actually for. We get ...

Big Band in the Sky

Alan Greenspan, 1926–2026: The Reedman Who Conducted the Economy

by Kofi Adjepong-Boateng
June 26, 2026

He kept the clarinet. Sixty years after he last played for money, the central banker still had the instrument from his dance-band days; when a television crew trooped in, he turned it over in his hands but would not play it, remembering too well how it was supposed to sound. Alan Greenspan, who died on 22 June 2026 aged 100, chaired the Federal Reserve for nearly nineteen years and was canonised as “the Maestro," a pun before it ...

Album Review

James Brandon Lewis Quartet: Omni

Read "Omni" reviewed by Kevin Poindexter

by Kevin Poindexter
June 26, 2026

James Brandon Lewis is on a remarkable run. Deface the Currency (Impulse!, 2026), his second collaborative album with the Messthetics, placed him at the cutting edge of the fiery fusion of punk and jazz. While that record proved he could invoke the power and fury of 60s Detroit band MC5's rock-and-roll testimonial Are You Ready to TESTIFY! (Sanctuary Records, 2007), on Omni, he is invoking a different kind of testimonial, one grounded in his upbringing as the son of a ...

Album Review

Joe Lovano: Paramount Quartet

Read "Paramount Quartet" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
June 26, 2026

Saxophonist Joe Lovano built a formidable recorded legacy on Blue Note Records, beginning with 1990s Landmarks, running through 1999's 57th Street Themes and 2013's Soundprints --among many other albums on the famed label. But a side outlet for his artistry emerged on ECM Records, beginning with his side man slot on drummer Paul Motian's Psalm (1982). Though he boasts dozens of other side man appearances on ECM Records, he did not release an album under his own name for the ...

Radio & Podcasts

Max Johnson 3

by Daniel Peck
June 26, 2026

Described as “an intrepid composer, architect of sound and beast of the bass..." composer, bassist, and improviser Max Johnson is one of the most prolific music makers in the jazz, bluegrass, improvised music, and contemporary classical worlds. Max has released 20 albums, and performed over three thousand concerts internationally with artists like Anthony Braxton, Geri Allen and Mary Halvorson. This performance features Neta Raanan on tenor saxophone, and Eliza Salem on drums performing selections from their 2024 album ...

Album Review

Alden Hellmuth: Tether

by Jack Kenny
June 26, 2026

Where will new musicians gain their experience? Alden Hellmuth, a saxophonist, composer, and improviser based in New York City, offers one compelling answer: by forging her own path. A graduate of the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz, she was awarded the 2025 German Jazz Prize for Debut Album of the Year and has appeared internationally at major venues and festivals, including the NYC Winter Jazz Festival, the Hollywood Bowl, the Blue Note Jazz Festival, and International Jazz Day ...

Radio & Podcasts

Ilaria Capalbo, Steven Bernstein, The Breaks, Levi Harvey & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
June 26, 2026

Seven projects, seven lessons in creative transformation--from reimagined genres, traditions and freshly taped recording sessions to the spontaneous reinvention that unfolds whenever musicians meet in the moment.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 The Breaks feat. Robert Walter, Eddie Roberts, Stanton Moore “Snowballers" The Breaks (Color Red) 0:16 Host talks 4:00 Levi Harvey Trio “Unset" Bloom (Sunset) 5:07 Host talks 9:21 Ilaria Capalbo “Little Tiger" The Brightest Sun (Bluenord) ...

Live Review

Louis Hayes at Jazz Alley

by Paul Rauch
June 26, 2026

Louis HayesJazz Alley Seattle WA June 23, 2026 At eighty-nine years old, the fact that drummer Louis Hayes is still touring as a bandleader is remarkable in itself. The fact that he is still playing so well, and playing with great energy is downright inspiring. With the sun burning bright, and the city of Seattle alit with international visitors gathering for the World Cup of soccer, the importance of gathering to see Hayes or ...