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Lara Somogyi: Finding Her Muse in the Desert
by Dean Nardi
When one is making a pilgrimage to Joshua Tree in California--even by Zoom call--you must be careful about protecting your eyes from the blinding sunlight and keep your cap on to cover your brain. Listening to the music of Lara Somogyi from her album désert (Mercury KX 2025), one's brain is constantly heated by thoughts of striking it rich musically, thoughts that do not fade much with the late afternoon sun going down over the horizon. You may need some ...
Continue ReadingMike Jurkovic's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025
by Mike Jurkovic
Many things besides the demise of democracy got in the way of listening to everything, but these are the discs still in heavy rotation. Vijay Iyer Thereupon Pi Recordings Gonzalo RubalcabaFirst Meeting: Live at Dizzy's Club 5Passion Records Sylvie CourvoisierBone Bells Pyroclastic Records
Continue ReadingOrlando Molina At Scott's Jazz Club
by Ian Patterson
Orlando Molina Scott's Jazz Club Belfast, N. Ireland October 28, 2025 One of the great things about Scott's Jazz Club is that musicians are often invited back. You get to see the first steps and evolution of a band or a leader new to the scene. You experience the growth and development of established acts, and you witness the different skins that many hard-gigging musicians inhabit. Venezuelan Chilean guitarist Orlando Molina first played the Ballyhackamore venue ...
Continue ReadingDavid G White: While You Were Sleeping
by Dan McClenaghan
Guitarist David White made a splash on Origin Records with his Big Neighborhood band. Neighbors was released in 2005 on the label, followed by 11:11 in 2007. He picked up a Grammy nomination. Both albums pushed boundaries--White cites a wide range of influences: singer/songwriter James Taylor, Latin jazz, Led Zeppelin, McCoy Tyner, bebop and free jazz. Big Neighborhood was a quartet--a saxophone and a rhythm section. For While You Were Sleeping he distills things to the trio format. He ...
Continue ReadingWycliffe Gordon: Holiday Fun!
by Jack Bowers
Trombonist Wycliffe Gordon takes listeners on a pleasurable trip to his childhood and invites them to summon their own precious memories of Holiday Fun! on this splendid new seasonal recording from Arbors Jazz. Gordon has enlisted an all-star ensemble of like-minded musicians and friends to heighten the fun, stepping merrily through a litany of holiday favorites from “Winter Wonderland" to “Frosty the Snowman," “Silent Night" to “Joy to the World," before closing with the venerable “Auld Lang ...
Continue ReadingKenneth Dahl Knudsen: Anti Robotic Dance Music
by Ieva Pakalniskyte
First performing at Vilnius' Tamsta Club in 2023, Anti Robotic Dance Music initially appeared as a burst of futuristic jazz, rock, drum-and-bass energy, shaped by the immediacy of a trio set with a large ensemble. Heard now as a recording, that same performance sharpens into a clearer articulation of bassist and composer Kenneth Dahl Knudsen's defined concept. Set, in the composer's words, “in a dystopian world where machines dominate and rhythm becomes rebellion," the album does not treat this as abstract ...
Continue ReadingSaha Gnawa, Makiko Hirabayashi, Louis Sclavis, Amir ElSaffar, Roberto Ottaviano
by Ludovico Granvassu
Another episode of Mondo Jazz, another constellation of global musical connections--spanning Morocco to India, Basque to Arabic traditions, and the space where classical and world influences meet.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Saha Gnawa feat. Donny McCaslin “Negshah" Saha Gnawa (Pique-nique) 0:16 Host talks 9:35 Makiko Hirabayashi Weavers “High Tide" Gifts (Enja/Yellowbird) 11:14 Host talks 17:01 Louis Sclavis “Long Train" India (Yolk) 18:32 Amir ElSaffar “10:23 AM" New ...
Continue ReadingMads Tolling: Nordic Folklore Meets American Jazz
by Steven Roby
This week on Backstage Bay Area, host Steve Roby welcomes two-time Grammy Award-winning violinist Mads Tolling. Known for his work with the Turtle Island Quartet, Stanley Clarke, and Bob Weir, Mads is shifting gears this season to share a piece of his Danish childhood in San Francisco. Mads takes us inside his project, Cool Yule: A Nordic Holiday Celebration, a “love letter" to his upbringing in Copenhagen. We explore the concept of “hygge," compare the structured traditions of ...
Continue ReadingAnton, Zack, Yuri, Sun-Mi, Andrew, Sara, Ruud, Sebastiaan, Carolina, Evan and more
by Co de Kloet
The end of the year is near. Time to look back. The editors Mark van Schaick en Co de Kloet compiled a varied playlist of talented and emerging Dutch artists with new work. Together, this playlist presents a beautiful sample of Dutch jazz in 2025. Enjoy!Playlist Intro: Boost! “Mess I Made" (J. Hol) Anton de Bruin “Didn't You Know" (A. de Bruin) Zack Lober “Joe Type Tune" (Z. Lober) Yuri Honing's Peace Orchestra “Kaïn & Abel" (Y. Honing) ...
Continue ReadingBest of the Best: Jazz From Detroit
by Paul Rauch
Best of the Best: Jazz From DetroitMagic Circle Productions LLC2025 The history of jazz music is told in hundreds of cities from coast to coast in America. From the cradle in New Orleans and the Mississippi River delta, the great migration of Black Americans northward spread the sounds that we know as the blues and jazz across the country. Millions headed to northern urban centers to escape the ravages of segregation and racial discrimination experienced ...
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