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Radio & Podcasts

Patricia Brennan, Sylvie Courvoisier, Janek van Laak, Jeff Parker and more

by Lawrence Peryer
June 11, 2026

This hour or Rotations opens with the Oscillating Revenge of the Background Instruments, a/k/a ORBI, making their case to have the supporting players take the leads. They do it with a chamber ensemble take on a classic rock epic. From there, the episode is loaded with music from The Tonearm podcast alumni, including new work from vibraphonist Patricia Brennan and pianist Sylvie Courvoisier, drummer/composer Janek van Laak, and a new track from Jeff Parker's ETA IVTet. Sprinkled throughout you'll hear ...

Interview

Ron Carter: Sweet Notes: The Gospel According To An Upright Man

by Ian Patterson
June 10, 2026

There is just no slowing down for bassist Ron Carter. At least, not that you would know. Writing, arranging, recording, gigging, teaching, media commitments--it is all in a day's work for the indefatigable 89-year-old NEA Jazz Master. Since 1959, when he arrived in New York from his native Detroit, Ron Carter has enjoyed an unparalleled career. Over 2.500 recordings with a who's who of jazz greats, singer-songwriters, opera and pop artists, rockers and rappers has earned him the distinction of ...

History of Jazz

The Only Radio Station in the World With a Real Bar: Philly Jazz, The Click, and Other Postwar Ephemera

by Richard J Salvucci
June 10, 2026

If you don't know the name Frank Palumbo, you are not a Philadelphian. If you never went to Palumbo's or to the CR Club, you are not a Philadelphian of a certain age. And if you remember the Click, much less went there, you've reached a stage in life when you look in the mirror and see your parents. Because for a few glorious moments in the late 1940s, Philadelphia was one of the jazz radio beacons in the country. ...

Live Review

Three Icons Celebrate Miles Davis Centennial at Smoke Jazz Club

by Andrew Schinder
June 10, 2026

Eddie Henderson, Gary Bartz, and Billy Hart Smoke Jazz and Supper Club Miles Davis 100th Celebration New York, NY May 29, 2026 In late May 2026, the music community was in the throes of Miles Davis centennial mania. Music labels released fancy, often expensive re-packages of Davis' music. Davis' autobiography was given a flashy re-release. Anyone who has ever picked up a trumpet participated in a tribute concert--or so it seemed. Countless journalists--music and otherwise--published features, tributes, ...

Album Review

Oiseau Murmure: Oiseau Murmure

Read "Oiseau Murmure" reviewed by Andrew Hunter

by Andrew Hunter
June 10, 2026

Oiseau Murmure, the name of the band and the record, means, literally, whispering birds. It also describes birds in murmuration--the beautiful, elastic clouds in which birds whisper at dusk. How fitting for such a beautiful work as this. Ouisea Murmure is a trio consisting of three very accomplished, very experienced musicians, taking some time away from their many individual projects to create something 'fragile and free,' composed in the moment. Nicolas Naudet plays clarinets, sometimes quite ...

Album Review

Olivia Murphy: Fateful Birds & Fledgling Stories

Read "Fateful Birds & Fledgling Stories" reviewed by Jerome Wilson

by Jerome Wilson
June 10, 2026

Olivia Murphy is a young composer and bandleader who has been establishing herself as a distinctive voice on the British jazz scene, leading a large ensemble that mostly performs her own compositions. She makes her orchestral recording debut on this album, which applies her musical ideas to themes of transformation and community derived from mythical portraits of birds. One of the most notable features of Murphy's writing is that she often does not separate her orchestra into individual ...

Album Review

Joe Syrian Motor City Jazz Octet: A Blue Time

Read "A Blue Time" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
June 10, 2026

Drummer Joe Syrian's spit-shined Motor City Jazz Octet keeps driving emphatically forward on its second recording, A Blue Time, using an impressive arsenal to scurry through a generally agreeable lineup of more or less familiar themes that have been given fresh coats of paint by seven astute and talented arrangers. Even with the various harmonic and rhythmic changes, many of which were inspired by Syrian, the music remains lucid and accessible, thanks to the clever charts and spirited ...

Radio & Podcasts

Immanuel Wilkens all the way live + Candice Hoyes and Psoas

by Hobart Taylor
June 10, 2026

Music from Immanuel Wilkens Quartet , Live at the Village Vanguard, Vol.3. From France, Plume, From Denmark, Carsten Dahl both with drummer Gregory Hutchinson and both groups celebrate Coltrane. Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Sarah Sharp “The Nearness 0f You" from Deja Vu (Spaceflight) 00:10 Will Lyle “Eridania" from The All Seeing Eye (Self-Produced) 02:37 Kris Tiner/Cathlene Pineda “Wheeler Song" from Sung (Orenda) 09:11 Host Speaks 13:08 Immanuel Wilkins Quartet “Charanam" from Immanuel Wilkins Quartet: Live at the Village ...

Radio & Podcasts

Paul Silbergleit, Charles Lloyd, Fred Hersch and Others

by Jerome Wilson
June 10, 2026

The eclectic mix of musicians heard on this episode include Paul Silbergleit, Charles Lloyd, Wild Bill Davis, Geof Bradfield, and Fred Hersch. 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 Ernst Bier-Mack Goldsbury Group “Watch for G. V." from Artesia Sunrise (Konnex) 1:02 Geof Bradfield “Mrs. Parker of K. C." from Colossal Abundance (Calligram) 9:41 Host Speaks 14:08 Dave Holland “The ...

Album Review

Richard Bliwas with Daniel Carter: Insomnia

Read "Insomnia" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
June 10, 2026

There is something very, very Bitches Brew (Columbia Records, 1970) about Insomnia, an ear-catching mind-bending excursion through the virtuosity, imagination, and humanness of pianist/drummer/synthesist Richard Bliwas and elder empath, saxophonist and free jazz mentor, Daniel Carter. Maybe the alluring title opener, or “Ottawa WaWa," and the most lucid “You Went Into A Mesmerizing Trance," are really a newly discovered suite of lost sessions from those August 1969 gatherings at Columbia Records' Studio B at 49 East 52nd Street in ...