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Album Review

Alvaro Torres Trio: Mairena

Read "Mairena" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
May 20, 2026

Álvaro Torres laid the groundwork for his jazz journey in a common way (for this uncommon profession): by studying classical piano from a young age. The aspect of improvisation pulled him away from the classical world, into a globe-trotting search based in Spanish folkloric and Hindustani music and jazz and a Master's degree at the Manhattan School of Music.. He blends these diverse forms of musical expression on Mairena. The Spanish-born and New York-based Torres uses the piano ...

Album Review

Connor Bernhard: Pathways

Read "Pathways" reviewed by Jeff Cebulski

by Jeff Cebulski
May 20, 2026

Nearly five years after his debut album Altitude (BASE Records, 2020), Chicago trumpeter Connor Bernhard gathered most of that album's cohorts for his second recording as a leader, Pathways. What also returns is the same bright, engaging horn that distinguishes Bernhard and lifts the proceedings significantly. His band--the three repeaters Julius Tucker on piano, Jeff Swanson on guitar, and Clif Wallace on drums, joined by Evan Salvacion Levine on bass--follows through with their own engaging support. The unusual combination of ...

Live Review

Dave King Trio At Buffalo’s Art Of Jazz

by Frank Housh
May 20, 2026

Dave King Trio Buffalo Akg Art Museum Art Of Jazz Buffalo, NY May 17, 2026 A sunny, 75° day greeted Buffalo jazz lovers as we queued up for the final of four “Art Of Jazz" concerts at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum. A near-capacity crowd heard Dave King Trio reduce six jazz standards into individual threads and weave them into a wild tapestry. The concert began with Ornette Coleman's “Lonely Woman." King built a ...

Album Review

Myra Melford - Satoko Fujii: Katarahi

Read "Katarahi" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
May 20, 2026

When four hands meet across 176 keys, is it even possible for pianists to check their egos at the stage door? Piano duets, by their very nature, often invite comparison--even confrontation. Consider the 1977 encounter between Mary Lou Williams and Cecil Taylor, the high-profile 1978 concerts by Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea, or Kris Davis and Craig Taborn's Octopus (Pyroclastic, 2018). Each of these pairings carried the tension of a musical grappling match. Even Bill Evans' overdubbed Conversations with Myself ...

Radio & Podcasts

Shunzo Ohno, Adam O'Farrill, and Julian Lage

by Jerome Wilson
May 20, 2026

This episode features newer releases by Shunzo Ohno, Adam O'Farrill, and Julian Lage as well as older music by Charles McPherson and Khan Jamal.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 Julian Lage “Night Shade" from Scenes From Above (Blue Note) 00:56 Negative Press Project “Last Goodbye “ from Eternal Life--Jeff Buckley Songs and Sounds (Ridgeway) 8:17 Host Speaks 15:54 Charlie ...

Album Review

Trudy Lynn: Turning the Same Ole Corners

Read "Turning the Same Ole Corners" reviewed by Ron Kalb

by Ron Kalb
May 20, 2026

Listening to the February 2026 digital release of Trudy Lynn's Turning the Same Ole Corners inspires a trip back in time to the Consumer Electronics Show at McCormick Place, Chicago, where Sony unveiled its first CD player. The sound was clean, crystalline, futuristic. Great for classical. Great for pop. But for blues--the music of roadhouse sweat, smoke and booze--it always felt like someone had wiped down the bar with antiseptic. That tension between polish and grit hangs over ...

Radio & Podcasts

Julieta Venegas Has A Good Memory

by Leo Sidran
May 20, 2026

Julieta Venegas grew up in Tijuana, a city that sits at Mexico's northwestern edge and the United States' southwestern edge. Maybe it makes sense that someone raised in a city suspended between identities would resist fixed categories herself. Julieta Venegas has spent much of her career moving fluidly between musical worlds. Like Tijuana itself, Julieta seems most comfortable in the in-between. She was born in 1970 in Long Beach California, and raised in Tijuana. Her parents ...

Live Review

One Night Only: Vinnie Sperrazza with Alex Laurenzi and Solomon Gottfried

by David A. Orthmann
May 20, 2026

Alex Laurenzi Trio Wayne Public Library Wayne, NJ March 12, 2026 I have long admired drummer Vinnie Sperrazza's musicianship on recordings to the exclusion of experiencing him in live performance. It was a pleasure to review Juxtaposition (2017), his Posi-Tone Records release as a leader, as well as Swing & Soul (2024) and Force & Grace (2025), by the band Blue Moods. Directions & Expressions, perhaps the most eclectic of Blue Moods's discs on Posi-Tone, ...

Interview

David Ambrosio Honors The Spirit of the '60s With Civil Disobedience

by John Chacona
May 19, 2026

Social activism and jazz have a long mutual history that arguably reached an apex with the resistance music of the '60s. On record, that music found a home at labels such as Impulse! and ESP-Disk. At the same time, artists in the Blue Note Records stable were assembling a body of work that was inspired by the social and political upheavals of the decade. For a number of reasons, this music has remained somewhat obscure despite its high quality and ...

Album Review

Heidi Martin: Attunement

Read "Attunement" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan
May 19, 2026

Born from two years of research at Rutgers University, Attunement finds singer-songwriter Heidi Martin tracing the life, work and journals of jazz artist and civil rights activist Abbey Lincoln. The result is anything but a conventional tribute; it is more a channelling of Lincoln's spirit, one that has pushed Martin to some of the most ambitious compositional work of her career. Martin is a Washington, D.C.-based jazz vocalist, often blending soul and '60s folk influences into her singing style and ...