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Betty Bryant: Nothin' Better To Do...
by Pierre Giroux
Betty Bryant's nothin' better to do.. radiates the natural confidence of a seasoned club date, where the music speaks for itself. A pianist, singer, and composer whose artistry has been shaped by decades of experience rather than trends (at the impressive age of 96), Bryant brings a storyteller's instinct and a deep respect for melody to this session. Producer Robert Kyle, himself a seasoned saxophonist and flautist, places her in a setting that is both intimate and expansive, featuring a ...
Continue ReadingJohn Mlynczak: Why Namm Still Matters In 2026
by Lawrence Peryer
We're putting The Tonearm's needle on John Mlynczak, President and CEO of the National Association of Music Merchants. NAMM is the trade association for the music, sound, and event industries. Basically, NAMM represents the companies that make the tools your favorite music artists use to create their work. John has spent years at Hal Leonard and PreSonus Audio, where music education meets technology. He built curricula, managed platforms, and taught teachers how to use tech in ...
Continue ReadingThe Great American Songbook Goes To The Movies
by Joan Merrill
Broadway bombed. Hollywood boomed. Movies learned to talk. The stock market crashed in 1929 and burst the popularity bubble of Broadway. Going to see a play or a musical was common practice in the Roaring Twenties. There were hundreds of them playing on the Great White Way and millions of Americans of all classes bought tickets. Then came Black Tuesday and the Great Depression. People could not afford Broadway anymore. But out West in sunny California ...
Continue ReadingAsaf Harris: I Thought I Was Ready
by Neil Duggan
Building on the direction of his debut album, Walk of the Ducks (Ubuntu Music, 2022), Israeli saxophonist and composer Asaf Harris follows up with his second release, I Thought I Was Ready. The album consists of seven original pieces that take inspiration from self-reflection and narratives from personal memories. Harris graduated from the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York in 2020, where he received the John Coltrane Award of Excellence. The award recognizes outstanding ...
Continue ReadingHamilton de Holanda's Choro Revolution
by Steven Roby
In this episode, host Steve Roby sits down with Grammy-winning Brazilian mandolin virtuoso Hamilton de Holanda to discuss his innovative approach to the 10- string bandolim, and the deep connections between choro and jazz. The conversation explores two featured tracks from Hamilton's Latin Grammy-winning live album, recorded in New York City. Playlist Hamilton de Holanda “Afro Choro" from Live in NYC (Sony Music) Hamilton de Holanda “o1 Byte 10 Cordas" from Live in NYC (Sony Music, 2025) ...
Continue ReadingJazz Interpretations of the French Impressionist Musical Revolutionaries Erik Satie and Claude Debussy
by Larry Slater
Jazz has had its fair share of musical revolutionaries. Charlie Parker in the 1940s. Ornette Coleman in the late '50s and John Coltrane in the '60s.Erik Satie and Claude Debussy were revolutionaries in the classical music world of 19th century France, and both have been a powerful influence on generations of jazz artists.Satie pushed boundaries with music that lacked bar lines and exhibited ambiguous tonality. Debussy was the first composer to cultivate a musical language that ...
Continue ReadingSusanne Alt: Dark Horse
by Neil Duggan
In 2024, saxophonist Susanne Alt released Royalty For Real (Venus Tunes); the album was a homage to her mentor, the late trumpeter Roy Hargrove. It featured bassist Gerald Cannon and drummer Willie Jones III. Their seven-year collaboration in Hargrove's band brought a tight, intuitive groove to the session, complemented further by keyboardist James Hurt. From that same session comes Dark Horse, which features seven Alt compositions plus a Charlie Parker cover.The album owes its origins to Alt arriving ...
Continue ReadingKris Davis and the Lutoslawski Quartet: The Solastalgia Suite
by Don Phipps
Kris Davis's The Solastalgia Suite is a towering achievement. Straddling the diverse worlds of modern classical and jazz idioms, Davis, already a notable heavyweight on the jazz scene, has moved to another level, the emergence of a kind of beyond jazz. Here, teamed with the Lutoslawski Quartet--Roksana Kwasnikowska (1st violin), Marcin Markowicz (2nd violin), Artur Rozmysłowicz (viola), and Maciej Młodawski (cello)--Davis brings her skills as a composer and pianist to eight tracks of challenging, sublime, chaotic but controlled beauty and ...
Continue ReadingDeodato: In Concert - Live At Felt Forum
by Arnaldo DeSouteiro
Since his days at Verve Records in the early 1960s, when he produced seminal bossa nova albums by such artists as Luiz Bonfá, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Walter Wanderley, Laurindo Almeida, Bola Sete,, João Gilberto and Astrud Gilberto, until his activities during the A&M/CTI era (when also signed Milton Nascimento and Tamba 4) and at the Greenestreet label (which thrived for a scant ten months in 1984, but gave him enough time to launch trumpeter Claudio Roditi's solo career), Creed Taylor ...
Continue ReadingStefano Boggiani: Andvake
by Glenn Astarita
Italian guitarist and composer Stefano Boggiani, now based in Oslo, operates at the crossroads of modern jazz and rock-inflected improvised music. Andvake, his debut for Losen Records, presents a Norwegian quartet featuring Oyvind Mathisen on trumpet, Oskar Lindberget on saxophones, Erlend Olderskog Albertsen on bass, and Markus Kristiansen on drums. The material originates from Boggiani's master's studies at the Norwegian Academy of Music, where the emphasis was placed on refining his compositional language and structural thinking. The title ...
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