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Ramiro Zayas: FAMILIA feat. Basel Jazz Orchestra
by Kyle Simpler
Sometimes our friends and associates form some of the strongest bonds, sometimes closer than actual relatives. In this light, the concept of a familial bond is not solely limited to blood relationships. Argentine pianist and composer Ramiro Zayas is fully aware of this, and on Familia, he approaches the musician ensemble as an extended family. Written for and recorded with the Basel Jazz Orchestra, the album builds on this idea. This is a musical community shaped by collaboration, mentorship, influence, ...
Continue ReadingTim Motzer & Markus Reuter: Sound of the Sun
by Geno Thackara
It stands to reason that if the sun has an actual sound, it would be a very slow and subtle one. This would be right in the wheelhouse for Tim Motzer and Markus Reuter--well, one wheelhouse among several, since their experimental ambition can also get plenty wild . This ambient meditation from their first duo album evokes an exceedingly chilly winter sun--a patient sleeper from two soundscape guitarists of striking expressiveness and exceptional patience. ...
Continue ReadingChristopher Hoffman: REX
by Don Ball
Musicians have been inspired by the visual arts for centuries, from Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition in 1874, depicting the works of the artist Viktor Hartmann, to Myra Melford's 2025 release Splash (Intakt Records, 2025), a homage to the visual artist Cy Twombly. The question always arises: Does the listener have to know the artwork and artist being referenced to engage with or understand the music? Not really. The magic of Mussorgsky's music survives and thrives even as Hartmann's ...
Continue ReadingTuva Halse: Reconnection
by Daniel Mège
Reconnection is one of the projects (and second quintet album) of violinist and composer Tuva Halse. Tuva who? OK, you are not in Norway (that is your right). The entire Norwegian music scene, from jazz to folk, rap and contemporary music, even Eurovision, knows Tuva Halse. She stopped critics in their tracks in a duo with Joshua Redman last summer, which they described as historic. Three years after graduation at the prestigious jazzlinja at the Norwegian University of ...
Continue ReadingMichael Hallsworth: Escaping The Hypocrisy Trap
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, we're putting The Tonearm's needle on author and behavioral scientist Michael Hallsworth. Michael has spent the last two decades applying behavioral science to real-world problems at the Behavioural Insights Team. He's held positions at Princeton, Columbia, Imperial College London, and the University of Pennsylvania. Michael's book, The Hypocrisy Trap, takes on something we all recognize instantly but rarely understand: why we're so quick to spot hypocrisy in others yet are blind to it in ourselves. ...
Continue ReadingKeren Ann: We Are Artists Because Of The Process
by Leo Sidran
Keren Ann was born in Israel, spent her early years in the Netherlands, and later moved to France. The daughter of a Russian-Jewish father and a Dutch--Javanese mother, she grew up multilingual and deeply aware that identity, language, and place are always in motion. She began writing songs as a teenager and, by her mid-twenties, was already making her living as a professional songwriter--thanks in part to an unexpected collaboration with the legendary French singer Henri Salvador, for ...
Continue ReadingTonolo Donatiello Chevillon Rossy 4th "Play Carla Bley" at Milestone Jazz Club, Piacenza, Italy
by Danilo Codazzi
A collection of photos “ Play Carla Bley" from the Tonolo / Donatiello / Chevillon / Rossy 4th, concert at Milestone jazz club in Piacenza, Italy, on January 24, 2026 featuring Pietro Tonolo, Walter Donatiello, Bruno Chevillonand Jorge Rossy. ...
Continue ReadingMark Guiliana at Stadtgarten
by Matty Bannond
Mark Guiliana Stadtgarten Cologne, Germany January 22, 2026 Moderation is abundant in January. But on this frosty Thursday evening, dizzied by the sugary scent of fructose-heavy mocktails and alcohol-free pilsner, an above-capacity crowd treated themselves to an unguarded night at the Stadtgarten. Their host, Mark Guiliana, served up a potent brew of fizzy percussion and smooth-noted melodies. It was a one-man show, despite Guiliana's claims to the contrary. In a short speech toward ...
Continue ReadingDave Douglas: Four Freedoms
by Glenn Astarita
Inspired by Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1941 “Four Freedoms" speech--articulating freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear--trumpeter Dave Douglas frames Four Freedoms as both political echo and musical proposition. Although the quartet is geographically dispersed--Marta Warelis, Nick Dunston and Joey Baron residing in Europe, Douglas based in New York--the album sounds anything but remote. Distance, instead, sharpens focus. What emerges is a newly formed working band whose cohesion rests on shared vocabulary and ...
Continue ReadingMarilyn Mazur's Shamania: The Birds Are Early Out
by Ian Patterson
A modern tribe of female voices--ten in all--that thrives on exploring the rhythms of body, voice and instruments. Shamania, founded in 2015 by drummer, percussionist and composer Marilyn Mazur, brought together kindred spirits from Denmark, Norway and Sweden. From the album Rerooting (CYH Records, 2022), “The Birds Are Early Out" captures the fearless exploratory spirit of a unique ensemble.Vocalist Josefin Cronholm, alto saxophonist--vocalist Sissel Vera Pettersen, trumpeter Hildegunn Øiseth--who doubles on goat horn--tenor-soprano saxophonist Lotte Anker, trombonist Lis ...
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