Jazz Articles

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Live Review

Ambrose Akinmusire Quartet Seizes the Evening at Village Vanguard

by Andrew Schinder
June 6, 2026

Ambrose Akinmusire Quartet Village Vangaurd New York, NY May 26, 2026 May 26, 2026 was a momentous day in jazz history. The jazz community celebrated the centennial of one of its most revered figures, Miles Davis. At the same time, the music world was still raw following the previous day's news of the death of Sonny Rollins, one of the last living links to jazz's post-bop golden age. Both events sparked tributes, analyses, ...

Album Review

Glorious Assembly Jazz Orchestra: Glorious Assembly

Read "Glorious Assembly" reviewed by Mark McKergow

by Mark McKergow
June 6, 2026

The Glorious Assembly Jazz Orchestra is the creation of Emmy Award-winning film composer David Mitcham . After a career writing music for the screen, often with jazz undertones, Mitcham has chosen to expand his ambitions by directing a full-on extended big band playing new compositions on Glorious Assembly. The 20- piece group features some of the UK's top players, with additional specialists on flute, E-flat clarinet, bass and contrabass clarinet, and tuba. The palette is further expanded by performers doubling on ...

Play This!

Band Of Other Brothers: Bar Fight

by Mike Jacobs
June 6, 2026

Though they're known as Band of Other Brothers, there's really no other name than “supergroup" for a band that consists of players of such gravity as Jeff Babko, Jeff Coffin, Nir Felder, Will Lee and Keith Carlock. And, as “Bar Fight," the lead track of their debut album City of Cranes (Ear Up Records, 2016) confirms, they live up to that moniker, and then some. ...

Album Review

Terry Waldo & The Gotham City Band: Treasury Volume 3

Read "Treasury Volume 3" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
June 6, 2026

When it comes to ragtime jazz, pianist, historian, author, and cultural preservationist Terry Waldo literally wrote the book. Said book is This Is Ragtime (Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc., 1976), widely regarded as the most thorough and authoritative guide to one of modern jazz's early precursors. Treasury, Volume 3 is the last in a trilogy of recordings by Waldo's Gotham City Band devoted to the best of traditional ragtime music. This is exuberant toe-tapping jazz, radiating happiness and ...

Album Review

Carlos Henriquez: Monk Con Clave

Read "Monk Con Clave" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
June 6, 2026

Carlos Henriquez has long understood that rhythm tells stories long before words arrive. On Monk Con Clave, he takes Thelonious Monk's angular brilliance and brings it back to the streets, dance halls, and other crowded spaces across New York's Afro-Caribbean neighbourhoods. The result is not merely a tribute album but a living dialogue between Monk's genius and Henriquez's Nuyorican identity. Leading his self-named big band, Henriquez has assembled a remarkable multigenerational ensemble featuring musicians from the Jazz at ...

Radio & Podcasts

Alexis Marcelo, Chris Potter, Nite Bjuti, Luke Norris, Adam Rudolph, Tyrone Allen II

by Ludovico Granvassu
June 6, 2026

Here's another weekly dispatch of compelling recent releases from across the ever-expanding jazz spectrum.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Chris Potter “Sister Annie" Alive with Ghosts Today (Edition) 0:16 Host talks 6:01 Luke Norris “Circular" Moment from the Past (Luke Norris) 7:29 Tyrone Allen II “Alt. Stuck" UPWARD (Dreams & Fears) 14:57 Host talks 19:18 Alexis Marcelo “Break Bread" Solo Piano (Intakt) 20:38 Adam Rudolph, Alexis Marcelo, Kaoru ...

Album Review

Siril Malmedal Hauge & Kjetil Mulelid: I Remember Oranges

Read "I Remember Oranges" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles
June 6, 2026

Norwegian jazz pianist and composer Kjetil Andre Mulelid was born on February 4th 1991, in Hurdal, Norway. In 2014, he completed his studies at the Jazz program at Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. Thereafter, he has been active with such bands as Kjemile, Wako and others, as well as his own work with Kjetil Mulelid Trio and his duo with Siril Malmedal Hauge. Hauge, a Norwegian jazz singer, was born on November 28th 1992. She ...

Radio & Podcasts

Paulo Almeida, Michel Gentile Flow, Laura Camacho Tango Project

by Cheryl K.
June 6, 2026

During this week's two-hour program of jazz and improvised music--trumpeters Jacques Kuba Séguin, Malcolm Strachan, Klaus Wienerriother, and Arturo Sandoval; drummers Gustavo Cortiñas and Paulo Almeida; flautist Michel Gentile; saxophonists Loren Stillman and Alan Braufman; pianists Jon Batiste and David Janeway; and bassist Laura Camacho with her Tango Project.Playlist Bobby Hackett & His Orchestra “Sunrise Serenade" from At The Jazz Band Ball--1938-1940 (Jasmine) 2:56 Jacques Kuba Séguin “In Coelum" from Parfum N° 3 (ODD SOUND) 5:21 Steven Bernstein ...

Radio & Podcasts

Jarrod Lawson: compelling R&B vocal soulfulness infused with jazz on latest release

by Doug Hall
June 6, 2026

Our guest artist is Jarrod Lawson, internationally acclaimed soul singer, songwriter, and pianist. Jarrod has carved out a reputation as one of the most compelling voices in modern soul and jazz. Blending elements of soul, gospel, R&B, and jazz, his music is marked by rich harmonies, thoughtful lyricism, and an unmistakable spiritual depth. He released Just Let It this past May. We will listen to a portion of two cuts from this recording later in the podcast. ...

Jazz Poetry

Learning to Listen (for Faruq)

by Marc Beaudin
June 6, 2026

“Listen to the reed and how it tells a tale, complaining of separation" --from Mathnawi by Rumi translated by Faruq Z. Bey (1942--2012) With dusk descending on Marcus Garvey Park suffused w/ the tones and stones of Harlem surrounded suddenly from within by your music Having heard the news just before boarding a plane Having heard the news that your sax was in its case the case closed and ...