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In Pictures

First Weekend of the 2026 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival

by Mark Robbins
May 28, 2026

The Fair Grounds Race Course and Slots in New Orleans is transformed for two weekends a year into the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Once inside the gates the walk to the far end of the fair grounds to the Jazz Tent is filled the sounds of music from the Kid's Tent, zydeco, soul and funk, rock, pop, bluegrass, gospel, blues and the succulent aromas of Cochon de Lait Po-boys, Crawfish Bread, Vietnamese noodle bowls, Ya Ka Mein and ...

Album Review

Shunzo Ohno: Live at Joe's Pub

Read "Live at Joe's Pub" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
May 28, 2026

A string section? In Joe's Pub? Strange as that may seem, it is clearly the case on veteran trumpeter Shunzo Ohno's latest album, recorded Live at Joe's Pub in New York City. The seven-member section, led by Ohno's daughter, cellist Sasha Ohno, is not mere window dressing, as it plays a sizable role on every one of the album's eight numbers and is, in fact, the only voice heard on Ohno's gossamer “Firefly." What better way to get ...

Interview

Sonny Rollins: Still a Student

by Chris M. Slawecki
May 27, 2026

This article first appeared on All About Jazz sometime in Spring 1999. Considering his five decades as a fixture among the tenor greats, it's pretty safe to say that in 1999 most jazz fans under the age of sixty have never known a time when saxophonist Theodore “Sonny" Rollins was NOT on the scene. From the time he emerged on tenor late in the 1940s to his release of Global Warming in early 1999, Rollins has ...

Interview

From Madrid to New York: Marina Alba’s Voice Across Many Worlds

by May Yu
May 27, 2026

Since moving from Madrid to New York, Marina Alba has quickly begun establishing herself in the city's creative music scene with a unique artistry that moves between violin and voice, classical discipline and jazz freedom, Spanish heritage and contemporary improvisation. Born in Madrid to a family of musicians, Alba grew up surrounded by classical music, tango, flamenco, opera, and improvisation, shaped in part by her father, the renowned flamenco cellist José el Marqués. A ...

Live Review

Gunhild Carling and her Jazz Band at Joe Henderson Lab

by Steven Roby
May 27, 2026

Gunhild Carling and her Jazz Band Joe Henderson Lab San Francisco, CA May 24, 2026 About 45 minutes before showtime, Gunhild Carling was her own roadie. Meticulously, she arranged her merchandise table at the Joe Henderson Lab--custom-designed ties in the center, posters, bags, and her paintings to the left, and albums and CDs filling the right. After a brief chat with early arrivals, she disappeared into her dressing room to prepare. What followed was ...

Album Review

How Now Brown Cow: Don't Drink the Milk - It's Spoiled

Read "Don't Drink the Milk - It's Spoiled" reviewed by Don Ball

by Don Ball
May 27, 2026

Instrumental funk/soul bands are often spurned by the jazz aficionados as less serious than “real" jazz bands, but that would be a mistake with How Now Brown Cow. Despite the playfulness of the band name and song titles, in addition to having a great deal of fun playing, they are serious musicians and this is seriously good music. How Now Brown Cow has played in the Seattle , Washington community for more than a decade, often as a ...

Album Review

Miles Davis: Ascenseur pour l'Échafaud

Read "Ascenseur pour l'Échafaud" reviewed by Jack Kenny

by Jack Kenny
May 27, 2026

A legend has grown up around the music Miles Davis created for Louis Malle's debut film Lift to the Scaffold (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud). The story goes that Davis arrived at the Paris studio having never seen the film. He watched the rushes once, then improvised as the footage rolled with his European quintet--René Urtreger on piano, Barney Wilen on tenor saxophone, Pierre Michelot on bass, and Kenny Clarke on drums. The music was recorded on the night of December 4 ...

Album Review

Alexis P. Suter Band: Just Stay Live, featuring Garth Hudson, Recorded Live at the Falcon

Read "Just Stay Live, featuring Garth Hudson, Recorded Live at the Falcon" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
May 27, 2026

With the late Garth Hudson's photo on such prominent display in Debra Clark's graphic design for Just Stay Live, featuring Garth Hudson, Recorded Live at the Falcon, the participation of the brilliant multi-instrumentalist of The Band threatens to overshadow the other attributes of Just Stay Live, most conspicuous of which is the courageous choice of material. Lesser artists might be daunted by the prospect of covering songs by Gregg Allman ("It's Not My Cross To Bear"), Bob Dylan ...

Radio & Podcasts

Isabella Isherwood, Phil Haynes, William Parker and Others

by Jerome Wilson
May 27, 2026

This episode features recent music from Isabella Isherwood, Phil Haynes, and Edward Simon as well as older work from William Parker, Graham Collier, and Joe Lovano. 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 Joe Lovano “Love in the Garden" from Homage (ECM) 00:56 Pete Mills “Don't Stomp on My Dream" from This Is Now (Mighty Ernie) 4:56 Host Speaks 12:04 ...

Radio & Podcasts

Clarinetist Virginia MacDonald's Debut + Steve Bernstein and Carlin Lee

by Hobart Taylor
May 27, 2026

Make way for clarinetist Virginia MacDonald's stunning debut release plus new tunes from Emily Kuhn, Alden Hellmuth, Steve Bernstein and a peace anthem from Qasim Naqvi, Wadada Leo Smith and Andrew Cyrille. Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Daphne Parker Powell “Perpetual Light of the Void" from The Death of Cool (Self-Produced) 00:00:08 Steven Bernstein “Two Shakes" from Resonation Trio (Royal Potato Family) 04:00 Steven Bernstein/Scotty Hard “Erbium" from Ultra Resonance (Royal Potato Family) 09:38 Host Speaks 14:30 Emily Kuhn ...