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Fabian Dudek, Dan Weiss, Jasper Hoiby & Mazam
by Maurice Hogue
German alto player Fabian Dudek's new This Every Place is an indication that Dudek's forming his own improvisational language, and his album is graced with the presence of Ingrid Laubrock. A definite must listen. There's a similar path followed by the Portuguese quartet, Mazam, on their new Pilgrimage Vol. 2. Drummer Dan Weiss' latest features a killer quartet with Patricia Brennan, Peter Evans & Miles Okazaki, while bassist Jasper Hoiby and an internationally flavoured band challenge us all with his ...
Continue ReadingCalibro 35, Resavoir, Matt Gold, Nādt Orchestra & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
Enjoy this playlist, with its cinematic funk, Tropicalia-tinged future soundscapes, and the key to understanding the times we are living, courtesy of Ben Sidran and Mose Allison. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Nādt Orchestra “Dualism" Dualism (Locomotiv) 0:16 Host talks Resavoir, Matt Gold “Hazel Canyon" Horizon (International Anthem) Host talks Calibro 35 “Chameleon" Exploration (Record Kicks) Mama Terra “Sly" Chameleons (Live Interpretations of Herbie Hancock) ...
Continue ReadingChapter One: The Dam Square Shuffle
by Alan Bryson
Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 One minute, Django Reinhardt, seventeen years of raw Manouche talent and nervous pre-nuptial jitters, was breathing the familiar fug of his caravan, the scent of woodsmoke and Gauloises thick in the air, his beloved Naguine's laughter still echoing in his ears. The ...
Continue ReadingJames Brandon Lewis Quartet At Solar Myth
by Carl Medsker
James Brandon Lewis Quartet Solar Myth Philadelphia, PA June 9, 2025 Freshly minted album in hand, the James Brandon Lewis quartet filed down the center aisle of Solar Myth and took the stage before a sold-out, anticipatory audience. Then, they rocked the house, establishing themselves as a top-ranked, forward-looking power quartet. Boiling over with talent, they have honed their skills, empathy and group dynamics over five albums and five years together. Lewis, Aruán Ortiz (piano), ...
Continue ReadingVorcza at the 2025 Burlington Vermont Discover Jazz Festival
by Doug Collette
Vorcza Flynn Space Discover Jazz Festival Burlington, Vermont June 5, 2025 Vorcza's early evening performance in Burlington, Vermont's Flynn Space June 5 carried more than a few distinctions. It represented the instrumental trio's first official Discover Jazz Festival show since 2022 and it was the initial offering at the intimate venue of this year's annual five-date run. Perhaps most important of all, especially for the attendees who comfortably filled seats at tables ...
Continue ReadingNick Biello: New America
by Jack Bowers
Alto saxophonist Nick Biello's New America covers a diverse and colorful landscape, one over which his able quintet glides, springs and dances with ease and assurance. Respectfully, they unravel a half-dozen of the leader's elaborate yet accessible compositions and arrangements. Biello, whose upbringing in a music-centered household exposed him to every genre from jazz and classical to rock, r&b, world music and opera, took those credits with him as he studied at New Haven, Connecticut's Hartt School ...
Continue ReadingWill Brahm: Distance to Empty
by Karan Khosla
Distance to Empty is a phrase that carries a familiar feeling--something you might glimpse glowing on the dashboard as you pull away from a final pit stop before a long journey. Will Brahm, metaphorically and musically, poses these questions: How far can you go with what you have? What is left in the tank? What is possible, and what awaits at the edge of it all? Brahm is a Los Angeles-based guitarist and composer whose music moves fluidly ...
Continue ReadingJason Kao Hwang: Soliloquies, Unaccompanied Pizzicato Violin Improvisations
by Richard J Salvucci
Jason Kao Hwang is a child of Chinese immigrants, and previously recorded in Book of Stories (2023), Uncharted Faith (2022), and Human Rites Trio(2022), a CD completed during the Covid-19 pandemic. He places his music, on viola and violin, within the category of avant-garde-jazz-soul-folk. In the abstract, he calls his music “a celebration of life." Some might think his playing most akin to that of a mandolin, for that is the sound he conjures up. Fans ...
Continue ReadingAnais Reno, Kristen R. Bromley, Masha Campagne, Brandee Younger, Sabeth Perez, Svetlana & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast includes new releases from Anais Reno, Kristen R. Bromley, Masha Campagne, Brandee Younger, Sabeth Perez and Svetlana, with birthday shoutouts to Beryl Booker, Valaida Snow, Memphis Minnie, Lili Añel, Monnette Sudler, Angela DeNiro, Bobby Sanabria, Ian Shaw and Erica Lindsay, 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 the Groove. Many thanks ...
Continue ReadingLevon Eskenian: Giving Voice to the Sacred Lineage of Armenian Music
by Nenad Georgievski
It is not often you come across a musician whose work feels like a bridge--between cultures, centuries, and inner worlds. Levon Eskenian, the Armenian musician and artistic director behind the Gurdjieff Ensemble, is one of those rare figures. Through his thoughtful arrangements and deep cultural understanding, he has led the Ensemble in reimagining the music of Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff and Komitas--not as museum pieces, but as living, breathing works that still resonate today. Over the past decade and a half, ...
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