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Radio & Podcasts

Helen Sung, Le Boeuf Brothers, The Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, Carolyn Lee Jones and more

by Benjamin Boddie
June 18, 2026

Today's Music--Right Now! Fantastic music by Helen Sung Big Band, Le Boeuf Brothers, The Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, Carolyn Lee Jones, Reid Hoyson Project, Tristan Cappel, Lou Marini And The Italian Groovers, Anthony Caceres, Fuller Sound, Tumbao Bravo With Paul Vornhagen, Billy Childs, Ted Chubb, Chris Aschman, Gergana Velinova, New Jazz Underground, Erica Von Kleist, Emmet Cohen, Andrea Miller, Bria Skonberg, Mike Bruzzese, Ray Obiedo, Javier Nero Jazz Orchestra, Arturo Sandoval, Eve Cornelious, Virginia MacDonald, Bobby Broom, Gabriel Espinosa, Catherine ...

Album Review

Robyn Spangler: Robyn Spangler

Read "Robyn Spangler" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
June 18, 2026

Award-winning vocal stylist, songwriter, and actress Robyn Spangler is a fourth-generation performer whose deep musical roots trace back to an Indiana childhood of circus musicians, military band players, and a mother who sang in big bands. After taking piano lessons from former Steve Miller Band keyboardist Jim Peterman and fronting professional cover bands at age 17, Spangler moved to Los Angeles to study theater and music. She quickly built a diverse bi-coastal career working both behind the scenes and in ...

Radio & Podcasts

Collin Walcott, Yussef Kamaal, Max Roach, Bobby Previte And More.

by Lawrence Peryer
June 18, 2026

This episode of Rotations uses jazz as a spine but refuses to stay on it. We start with Collin Walcott's sitar-laced ECM reverie and Max Roach's 1968 post-bop intensity, move on to Bobby Previte's long-awaited return to small band writing and Randy Weston's luminous live performance at Montreux. Then it's the Belgian absurdism of Flat Earth Society and the crystalline drift of Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore closing things out. Nearly sixty years of music in an hour, held together ...

Radio & Podcasts

New Releases From Ize Trio, Daniel Pinilla, Alabaster DePlume, James McGowan And More

by Bob Osborne
June 18, 2026

This selection traverses the expansive landscape of contemporary jazz, balancing avant-garde exploration with the foundational weight of archival mastery. The journey begins with the celestial textures of the Ize Trio setting a sophisticated tone that flows through the poetic, boundary-pushing stylings of Alabaster DePlume and the intricate improvisations of Marta Warelis. While the playlist highlights the genre's current evolution through labels like Relative Pitch, it is grounded by essential historical recordings, notably the Kenny Barron Trio's live performance in Brecon. ...

Radio & Podcasts

Eva Novoa, Matt Slocum, New Jazz Underground, 8 Octopi

by Cheryl K.
June 18, 2026

During this week's two-hour program of jazz and improvised music--pianists Julia Hülsmann and Eva Novoa; two selections from saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist/composer Caleb Wheeler Curtis; drummer Matt Slocum; the Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio; New Jazz Underground; the Brazilian duo of musicians Antônio Carlos Marques Pinto and José Carlos Figueiredo; Chicago Soul Jazz Collective; and 8 Octopi.Playlist Charlie Haden-Paul Motian feat. Geri Allen “Sandino" from Etudes (Soul Note) 4:47 Shuteen Erdenebaatar “Summer Haze" from Rising Sun (Motéma Music) 3:08 ...

Interview

Ellen Pieroni: Balancing Act for a Life in Music

by R.J. DeLuke
June 17, 2026

By day, a mild-mannered music teacher in the Buffalo public school system in western New York state--the city known for its brutal snowstorms and the NFL's Bills--Ellen Pieroni is, by night, ready to pour out streams of jazz-inflected, funk-infused solos from any given bandstand. From that vantage point, she's fierce and fun. Her band, the Encyclopedia of Soul, is gaining fans and growing a reputation known for delivering moving and memorable live experiences. Pieroni is a lifelong resident ...

Profile

In From the Beginning: New Orleans Music History with Deacon John Moore

by Thomas Cole
June 17, 2026

Well, you know, growing up I was the golden boy of the family, because I could sing. I recall my mother singing arias from operas to herself while doing housework and playing classical and popular music on the piano in our home while taking care of the kids--13 of us all together. Her background was classical piano and church music too. She was the salutatorian at Xavier University. Aside from classical music and opera, my mother liked popular ...

Album Review

Nduduzo Makhathini: The Myth We Choose

Read "The Myth We Choose" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
June 17, 2026

With the spirit winds and the sounds of Ladysmith Black Mambazo at his back, pianist/composer/shaman/philosopher Nduduzo Makhathini embarks, throughout the whole of The Myth We Choose, with an inspired, ancestral magic. Chanting, speaking, conjuring. Elegant but never stand-offish, it is the joyful music of a resilient, triumphant, spiritual people. It is the music of a people equidistant to Heaven and Earth. The Myth We Choose is certainly that and never, ever hard to listen to, absorb, and manifest. ...

Album Review

Mark Turner: Patternmaster

Read "Patternmaster" reviewed by Sue Yang

by Sue Yang
June 17, 2026

Mark Turner has never been a saxophonist of easy declarations. His tenor rarely shouts for attention; instead, it moves through the music like a thought searching for its most exact shape. On Patternmaster, the follow-up to Return From The Stars (ECM Records, 2022), that familiar restraint remains, but the quartet sounds more road-tested, more physically alert. This is still Turner's cool, high-wire music, but the wire now trembles with a little more heat. The album title helps frame ...

Radio & Podcasts

Flea, Dave Douglas and Sonny Rollins (RIP)

by Jerome Wilson
June 17, 2026

This program pays belated tribute to the late Sonny Rollins. It also includes music from Dave Douglas, Olivia Murphy, and Flea.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 Roxy Coss “Ely, MN" from Disparate Parts (Outside In) 1:15 Dave Douglas “Agnus Dei" from Secular Psalms (Greenleaf Music) 8:38 Host Speaks 13:21 Sonny Rollins “Moritat" from Saxophone Colossus (Prestige) 15:08 Adam Larson ...