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Charles Burnham, Enji, Alessandro Sgobbio, Nicolas Masson & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
A tribute to Sly Stone, courtesy of Steven Bernstein, opens a playlist featuring different strokes by different folks.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra feat. Antony Hegarty “Family Affair" MTO Plays Sly (Royal Potato Family) 0:16 Host talks 5:13 Enji “Zuirmegleh" Sonor (Squama) 6:48 Matthieu Saglio, Camille Saglio “Miba" Al Alba (ACT) 10:10 Host talks 14:42 Nicolas Masson Quartet “Subversive Dreamers" Renaissance (ECM) 15:50 ...
Continue ReadingIrène Schweizer, Gato Barbieri, Anita Donndorff & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
Unearthed gems, old souls, and soulful organ jazz in this playlist.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Brian Charette “Why'd You Have To Go and Lie To Me Boy" You Don't Know Jack! (Cellar Live) 0:16 Host talks 5:24 Kresten Osgood, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Michael Blake “The World Awakes" Hammond Rens (ILK) 7:40 Daniele Cordisco, Ron Carter “Tangerine" Bitter Head (Nuccia) 19:48 Host talks 25:28 Anita Donndorff “Thirsty Soul" ...
Continue ReadingChapter Sixteen: Ghosts of Ipanema
by Alan Bryson
Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 The year was 1973. Five years had passed since the Kumpania tour had, against all odds, blazed a trail across the American Northeast, five years since Lenny Kramer's Rolling Stone feature had catapulted the Django Phralipen Brotherhood from an underground sensation to ...
Continue ReadingA Conversation with Quentin Walston on His Jazz Pedagogy Text: How to Teach Jazz and Improvisation
by Kurt Ellenberger
Quentin Walston, a distinguished jazz pianist and educator based in the Washington, D.C. area, has crafted an exceptional contribution to jazz pedagogy with his new text, How to Teach Jazz & Improvisation (This is Jazz, 2025). This concise yet effective 80-page text fills a gap in the jazz education landscape, offering an accessible, hands-on guide tailored specifically for young musicians and educators of private lessons and leading middle or high school jazz bands. Walston's work is helpful for those who ...
Continue ReadingOrquestra Jazz de Matosinhos: Boreal
by Dan Bilawsky
Portugal's Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos and Spanish saxophonist Perico Sambeat are no strangers. The two first collaborated on a concert back in 2007. Then they joined forces in 2021 to explore Ornette Coleman's work. Now, continuing to develop their relationship, they bring Iberian ideals and modernity to the fore on Boreal. Sambeat is in the spotlight throughout this magical set--he composed and arranged all eight pieces on the program, acts as musical director, is a primary soloist ...
Continue ReadingGreg Murphy: Snap Happy
by Jack Bowers
A powerful and perceptive reading of Bronislau Kaper's “On Green Dolphin Street" sets the compass on Snap Happy, a splendid recording by pianist Greg Murphy's trio (and sometimes quartet) which is the New York-based artist's eighth album as leader of his own groups. To begin where the rubber meets the road, Murphy is a marvelous pianist, undergirding his superb technique with an abundance of sharp and creative digressions that should gladden almost any listener. Yet even while ...
Continue ReadingBenny Benack III, Sumi Tonooka, Tessa Souter, Jane Ira Bloom, The Hot Toddies Jazz Band, Victoria Cardona, The Beveled Edges & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast includes new releases from The Beveled Edges, Benny Benack III, Sumi Tonooka, Tessa Souter, Jane Ira Bloom, The Hot Toddies Jazz Band and Victoria Cardona, with birthday shoutouts to Joan Whitney (Candy, Far Away Places), Gillian Margot, Sasha Berliner, Lauren Kinhan and Lisa Rich, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear--see them live, buy their music so they can continue to comfort, distract, provoke and remind the world that A Woman's Place is in ...
Continue ReadingPaloma Dineli Chesky: Memory
by Richard J Salvucci
Sometimes a listener fixes on a particular version of a tune, especially on first hearing. The result can be good or simply limiting. Someone may never quite escape first exposure; it influences all subsequent experience. Some perhaps learned “Corcovado" when Miles Davis did it on Quiet Nights (Columbia, 1963). It may have been an odd choice for a first exposure to Davis, but it did happen in the early 1960s. Paloma Dineli Chesky sings “Corcovado" much ...
Continue ReadingOversáez, Roscoe Mitchell, Marco Eneidi & Gulliver
by Maurice Hogue
Featured music in this episode begins with German pianist Sandro Sáez and his trio Oversáez. What an exciting and original trio! Their ablum Abstract Emotions is filled with mystery, unexpected twists and turns, power and subtlety. Definitely worth checking out. Then you might want to listen to One Head Four People, featuring the enduring master,Roscoe Mitchell, playing bass saxophone, or Wheat Fields Of Kleylehof by the Marco Eneidi Quintet. This late saxophonist is an often overlooked major influence on the ...
Continue ReadingWhy Is Japan a Jazz Paradise—or—Why the Japanese Feel at Home in Jazz?
by Atzko Kohashi
Part 1 | Part 2Why is Japan such a jazz-loving nation? No other country has reissued so many classic jazz albums as Japan. From Blue Note to Riverside to Prestige, masterpieces are constantly being revived--remastered with pristine sound, released in exclusive paper sleeves, or in ultra-high-quality formats like SHM-CD or SACD. Some albums long out of print even in the U.S. have been revived only in Japan. For instance, Bill Evans' Waltz for Debby and Sunday ...
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