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Joshua Redman: Words Fall Short
by Doug Collette
After extended tenures on Warner Brothers and Nonesuch Records, saxophonist/composer/bandleader Joshua Redman debuted on the Blue Note jazz label in 2023 with Where We Are. And while its successor, Words Fall Short, is right in line with that record by featuring vocals, it initiates a new phase in the leader's career by showcasing his new quartet in its recorded debut. Formed as prelude to the world tour designed to support the previous effort, pianist Paul Cornish, bassist Philip ...
Continue ReadingSimon Hanes: Aimer Colombophiler
by Ludovico Granvassu
Simon Hanes is a musical omnivore with a penchant for Italian movie soundtracks from the '60s and '70s. He typically channels his cinematic flair through the New York-based soundtrack pop ensemble Tredici Bacci, but it was only a matter of time before he composed a score for a full-length film. Aimer Perdre, an offbeat romantic comedy by the Guit Brothers about a compulsive gambler and her escapades--both in gambling and in love--offers the perfect showcase for the many facets of ...
Continue ReadingJudy Whitmore: Let's Fall in Love
by Jack Bowers
Polymath Judy Whitmore has taken time away from her busy and productive career(s) to record her fifth album, Let's Fall in Love, and like the first four, it is a smooth and delightful tour of memorable themes from the Great American Songbook, sung with radiance and heart by one of the leading exponents of popular song on today's scene. Whitmore does not sing jazz (no scatting or improvising here); she leaves that in the capable hands of ...
Continue ReadingLost Tribe: Calle Siete
by Mike Jacobs
Many a jazz/rock-fusion fan's heart may have been broken when Lost Tribe took a more traditional jazz-sounding turn for their third (and final) album, Many Lifetimes (Arabesque, 1998), but those that hung in there knew the gold that group still had in it--as tracks like “Calle Siete"" plainly illustrate. ...
Continue ReadingJoel Frahm, Ryan Keberle, Eddie Moore, Thomas Fonnesbaek & Adam Galblum
by Joe Dimino
We kick off the 913th episode of Neon Jazz with the rich, swinging sound of Kansas City violinist and bandleader Adam Galblum, leading his Hot Club KC ensemble. The show opens with the title track from his fresh 2025 release, Dream Dancing--a vibrant nod to vintage jazz with modern flair. From there, we stay rooted in the KC scene with standout cuts from some of the city's brightest voices--Eddie Moore, the electrifying All Night Trio led by Matt Villinger, and ...
Continue ReadingSoweto Kinch, Theo Croker, Julian Lage, And More
by Colin Muirhead
Featuring music by acts performing in North East England soon and showcasing new releases, with tracks by Soweto Kinch, Theo Croker, Zoë Gilby, Knats, Julian Lage, and more. Playlist Soweto Kinch “A People With No Past" from The New Emancipation (Soweto Kinch Recordings) 00:00 Theo Croker “prelude 3" from Dream Manifest (Dom Recs) 08:54 Joe Webb “Curve Ball" from Hamstrings and Hurricanes (Edition Records) 11:11 Zoe Gilby “Red City" from Twelve Stories (33Jazz Records) 14:12 Knats “Adaeze" from ...
Continue Reading2025 Rochester International Jazz Festival
by Frank Housh
Now in its 22nd year, the Rochester International Jazz Festival is one of North America's finest jazz festivals. On Monday, June 23 I made the one hour from Buffalo and parked adjacent to the street hosting a makeshift food court. June 23 was one of the hottest days of the year in the Genesee River Valley, so music lovers were licking ice cream cones and holding cold, aluminum cans against their necks. I walked past the ...
Continue ReadingNick Biello: New America
by Paul Rauch
Upon listening to alto saxophone virtuoso Nick Biello, a quote attributed to Charles Mingus may come to mind: “If Charlie Parker was a gunslinger, there'd be a whole lot of dead copycats." “Slow down," you might say, “Biello is not Bird, not even close--nobody is." But the quote relates to Biello in that he is far from a Parker or Cannonball Adderley copycat, but he sure as heck is a gunslinger. Throughout New America, this becomes a known to the ...
Continue ReadingMary Gauthier at The Freight and Salvage
by Harry S. Pariser
Mary Gauthier The Freight and Salvage Berkeley, California June 12, 2025 “A song can change a heart by creating empathy. A changed heart has the power to change a mind. And when a mind changes, a person changes. When people change, the world changes. One song, one heart, one mind, one person at a time. Songs can bring us a deeper understanding of each other and ourselves and open the heart to love.“ --Mary Gauthier, ...
Continue ReadingReddish Fetish: Llegue
by Jack Bowers
Once the opening number is discounted as an anomaly, Llegue (pronounced yeh-geh) is a generally pleasing debut recording by the New Jersey-based Reddish Fetish octet, led by drummer Jason Reddish and featuring the Jersey City All-Stars. Reddish Fetish is the fresh incarnation of a group established in the late 1960s by the leader's father, saxophonist Bill Reddish, that blended elements of jazz, rock, avant-garde and world music (as does its present-day replica) to produce its own personal sound. But that ...
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