Jazz Articles

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Radio & Podcasts

Catherine Russell, Nat Reeves, Bobby Broom & John Beasley

by Joe Dimino
May 10, 2026

We kick off Episode 957 of Neon Jazz with a true living legend--John Beasley--a masterful bridge between jazz's rich past and its ever-evolving present. Teaming up with the powerhouse SWR Big Band, he sets the tone with his stunning 2026 release Invisible Piano. From there, the journey rolls through a lineup of modern greats and enduring voices, featuring fresh sounds from Bobby Broom, Catherine Russell, Nat Reeves, and the timeless spirit of Mal Waldron. Along the way, we spotlight a ...

Album Review

Chris Aschman: Volcanic

by Jack Bowers
May 10, 2026

Although multi-instrumentalist Chris Aschman's third recording may be a shade less than Volcanic, it does deliver some heavy punches marshaled from its roots in the funk/rock/fusion format. Aschman, who plays trumpet and steel pans, is clearly on board with that, as he wrote all save one of the album's seven numbers and arranged every one. Aschman's viewpoint is visible as well in his choice of the quartet's drummer, Henry Plumb, who more than anyone makes sure the rock-heavy ...

Radio & Podcasts

New music from Dezolve, Matteo Mancusco, SLAK, Tom Hemby and Alberto Rigoni

by Len Davis
May 10, 2026

We kick off with fiery jazz fusion from DEZOLVE, alongside guitar brilliance from John McLaughlin and Matteo Mancusco. There's rocky fusion from The Rewind Collective, more Allan Holdsworth-inspired music from Quube, and stunning drum work from Simon Phillips with Protocol 6. We also feature jazzy grooves from SLAK with drum Prodigy Senri Kawaguchi plus music from guitarist Tom Hemby with Vinnie Colaiuta. Fractal guitarist Stephan Thelen, bass masters Alberto Rigoni and Michael Manring, guitarist Manuel Rangel and Japanese bassist Juna ...

Album Review

Steve Tintweiss and the Purple Why: Live at Tompkins Square Park

Read "Live at Tompkins Square Park" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
May 10, 2026

Bassist Steve Tintweiss forged a career as a sideman to such avant-garde luminaries as tenor saxophonists Albert Ayler and Frank Wright and pianist Burton Greene. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, he also led a few bands of rotating memberships. Several of these were recorded live at various venues. In the 2020s, Tintweiss started releasing these sessions on vinyl and CD on his own Inky Dot imprint. The captivating Live in Tompkins Square Park documents a 1967 set from ...

Radio & Podcasts

Archie Shepp's The Magic of Ju-Ju, Serbian Improvisors + New Releases from Caroline Davis, Ishmael Ali, Phil Haynes, Rodrigo Amado and others

by Jon Greenbaum
May 10, 2026

Creative improvisors from Chicago to Brooklyn to Serbia.Playlist 8 Bold Souls “Chapel Hill" from 8 Bold Souls (Sessoms) 00:00 Archie Shepp “The Magic of Ju-Ju" from The Magic of Ju-Ju (Impulse) 12:31 Ishmael Ali “Anathema" from Burn The Plastic, Sell The Copper (Amalgam) 32:04 São Paulo Underground “Evetch" from Beija Flors Velho E Sujo (Cuneiform Records) 36:47 Von Freeman / Misha Mengelberg / Han Bennink “Confirmation" from The Bottle Tapes (Corbett vs Dempsey) 40:07 Caroline Davis “Mars" from ...

Radio & Podcasts

Matthew Stevens, Grammy-award winning jazz guitarist, brings multi-generational talent for upcoming self-titled release

by Doug Hall
May 10, 2026

Our guest artist is Matthew Stevens, a critically acclaimed Grammy Award-winning jazz guitarist and producer. His upcoming album, Matthew Stevens, will be released May 8th on Candid Records. We will listen to a portion of two cuts from this recording, later in the podcast. Stevens shares the concept-album inspiration and overcoming personal challenges that have now allowed him more musical freedom. These compositions meld acoustic and electric sonics through a mix of genre-blurring originals and deeply personal covers. It features ...

Interview

Author George Cole On Miles Davis' Final Decade

by Jack Kenny
May 9, 2026

All About Jazz interviews George Cole author of The Last Miles, which concentrates on the final period of Miles Davis' life. Cole also maintains a website with additional interviews and research about Davis' life between 1980 and 1991. In these pages John Kelman wrote about The Last Miles: The Music of Miles Davis, 1980-1991, “There simply hasn't been another book published on Miles Davis, in any period that has managed to obtain the wealth of interview material and cover ...

Album Review

Asteroid Ekosystem: Sounds Have Dreams

Read "Sounds Have Dreams" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
May 9, 2026

Sounds Have Dreams is the audacious third album (and second studio effort) from Asteroid Ekosystem, the project led by Australian pianist and composer Alister Spence. He has assembled an unlikely quartet that sidesteps genre boundaries: punk and post-punk guitarist Ed Kuepper, The Necks bassist Lloyd Swanton, and the precise, inventive drummer Toby Hall. Spence shaped raw guitar phrases from Kuepper into compositional sketches, then reconvened the group. The result feels less like a conventional album and more like ...

Radio & Podcasts

Caroline Davis: The Saxophone Reimagined In The Fallows

by Lawrence Peryer
May 9, 2026

Today, The Tonearm's needle lands on saxophonist and composer Caroline Davis. Caroline made her album Fallows (Ropeadope, 2026) alone during a residency in Ucross, Wyoming, improvising and recording in a cabin, using prepared saxophone techniques and a unique instrument called an organelle to process and build sounds she'd never put to tape before. The result is twelve tracks that use the saxophone as raw material rather than a lead voice. We talk about how that music ...

Album Review

Javon Jackson: Jackson Plays Dylan

Read "Jackson Plays Dylan" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
May 9, 2026

On Jackson Plays Dylan, tenor saxophonist Javon Jackson, an admirer of Bob Dylan, aims his jazz arsenal toward the iconic singer and songwriter in hopes of reworking Dylan's folk/pop music into a framework that jazz enthusiasts might consider creative and pleasing. So how does that play? For the most part, rather tediously, which is surely not what Jackson's quartet had in mind. As it turns out, Dylan's themes sans lyrics do not lend themselves readily to the jazz ...