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Album Review

Mike Jones: Mike Jones With Strings

Read "Mike Jones With Strings" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
September 1, 2026

Pianist Mike Jones' With Strings does not denote a sizable orchestral design but a piano-jazz trio in which a guitar replaces the drums, a format introduced in the 1930s by Nat King Cole's peerless trio and favored for years by the legendary Canadian pianist Oscar Peterson with Herb Ellis, Barney Kessel or Joe Pass on guitar. One thing that Jones, bassist Alex Frank and guitarist Graham Dechter share in common with those earlier groups is an unambiguous capacity--one ...

Radio & Podcasts

Phoenix Trio, Ragini Trio, Weave4, Club d'Elf, Tito Mangialajo Rantzer & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
September 1, 2026

From Indian classical music and Mediterranean roots to European improvisation, deep grooves, live vibes, electronic experimentation, and beyond.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Club d'Elf “Loon and Thrush" Loon & Thrush (Face Pelt / Royal Potato Family) 0:16 Host talks 6:49 Ragini Trio “Part. 1 Bairagi / Part. 2 Panthuvarali / Part. 3 Hamsanandi" 3 (W.E.R.F.) 8:29 Host talks 19:55 The Phoenix Trio “Fencer" Tomorrow Is Today (Giant ...

Radio & Podcasts

August Keyboard Special with Larry Goldings, Omar Sosa, Hiromi, and Others; Birthday Recognition for Wayne Shorter, Jim Beard, and More

by David W. Daniels
September 1, 2026

In addition to the keyboardists and jazz artists named in the title, music is featured from Joe Alterman, Herbie Hancock, Oscar Peterson, and many others. Also birthday acknowledgement for Larry Goldings, Bennie Maupin, and Brad Mehldau. Playlist Don Friedman “Park Row"--from Dreams And Explorations (Riverside) 00:00 Larry Goldings and Peter Bernstein and Bill Stewart “FU Donald"--from Perpetual Pendulum (Smoke Sessions) 8:12 Brad Mehldau “Dream's Monk"--from Progression: The Art Of The Trio, Vol. 5 (Warner Brothers) 13:09 Weather Report ...

In Pictures

Jazz em Agosto 2026, Part 1

by Petra Cvelbar
September 1, 2026

The 42nd edition of Jazz em Agosto in Lisbon opened on July 31 with a solo concert by pianist Joachim Kühn. The second day featured a duo performance by David Maranha (organ) and Rodrigo Amado (tenor saxophone) at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Later, the action moved to the Open-Air Amphitheater in the Gulbenkian Garden, where the quartet Canyon featured Sylvie Courvoisier on piano, Jerome Deupree on drums, Joe Morris on double bass and Lester St. Louis on cello.

Reanimating Conversations Past

Charlie Haden: Anatomy of a Jazz Classic

by John Ephland
August 31, 2026

It was a phoner from the suburban Chicago offices of DownBeat to bassist Charlie Haden in L.A. Our talk, which was held on September 15, 1991, was periodically interrupted by his needing to say, “Hold on one second." The occasion? The 30th anniversary of the release of saxophonist Ornette Coleman's groundbreaking LP Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation. To this day, though, I do not recall this interview ever being published at the magazine. And to think that I talked with ...

Album Review

Josh Warren: The Path

Read "The Path" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
August 31, 2026

Brevity, done well, remains an underrated virtue in jazz. Josh Warren is not yet a household name, though he has been building a reputation the honest way, working alongside a string of notable artists before ever stepping out as a leader. Based in Toronto and only 22 years old, he arrives at The Path with more mileage than his age might suggest. The record, a lean 30 minutes, plays like a set that knows exactly when to leave the stage ...

Album Review

Ilaria Capalbo: The Brightest Sun

Read "The Brightest Sun" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
August 31, 2026

"Look at the darkness," penned Lebanese-American poet Khalil Gibran, “giving birth to the sun." The arrival of a firstborn child also gives birth to the mother, who did not exist before. For Stockholm-based bassist-composer Ilaria Capalbo the profound experience of motherhood triggered a musical response of significant measure. Whereas her impressive debut, Karthago (Bluenord Records, 2022) was a predominantly acoustic affair, The Brightest Sun sees the Neapolitan introduce a little more electricity via bass guitar and pedal effects. Sparingly used, ...

Radio & Podcasts

Franklin Kiermyer, Pascal Niggenkemper & Lao Dan

by Maurice Hogue
August 31, 2026

Follow the bouncing geographic ball in this episode as it lands on disparate places in the jazz universe, starting with ferocious yet spiritual drummer Franklin Kiermyer and his startling new release Scatter The Atoms That Remain. Kiermyer has long been associated with the spiritualism of the Coltranes, Pharoah Sanders, etc. and he's been spending much time living and studying under the guidance of a Tibetan master. Despite the thunderous drums, Kiermyer's spirit is front and center like a ride cymbal. ...

Album Review

Satoko Fujii: Second Attempt

Read "Second Attempt" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
August 31, 2026

Satoko Fujii has spent three decades assembling large ensembles the way other composers assemble scores, treating personnel as raw material shaped alongside melody and structure. Her Berlin orchestra, formed during a 2014 residency, reunites nine years later. Recorded live in Berlin on May 3, 2026, the album closes out a tour Fujii nearly abandoned after a family medical emergency pulled her back to Japan mid-way. It unfolds across five continuous movements, “Part 1" through “Part 5." “Part 1" ...

Radio & Podcasts

Nora Germain, Kelly Green, Dena DeRose, Greg Farnese, Carmen Lundy, Sounds of April & Randall & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
August 31, 2026

This broadcast celebrates two legendary foremothers who contributed timeless lyrics to the Great American Songbook--Dorothy Parker and Carolyn Leigh, along with new music from Nora Germain, Kelly Green, Dena DeRose, Greg Farnese, Carmen Lundy, Sounds of April & Randall, plus birthday shoutouts to Nora Germain, Amy Engelhardt, Cecilia Smith, Naomi Moon Siegel, Kay Kostopoulos, 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 ...