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Live Review

Tallinn Music Week 2026

by Martin Longley
April 18, 2026

Tallinn, Estonia Various Venues April 9-12 2026 It is desired to prepare in advance. There are so many artists performing at Tallinn Music Week, so many venues taken over by record labels, promoters and/or festivals, that an attendee's valuable shape-shifting time will be preserved wisely by giving as many acts an advance Bandcamp spin as possible. Over several years of visiting TMW, it becomes possible to anticipate which stages will offer the most exciting sounds, based ...

Interview

Fred Hersch: The Touch of Genius

by Ken Dryden
April 17, 2026

The sound of Fred Hersch at the piano is so distinctive, a couple of bars is usually enough to identify him. The mainly self-taught Cincinnati native excelled early, playing jazz in his home town before leaving to study with pianist Jaki Byard at the New England Conservatory of Music. From there, Fred moved to New York City, immersing himself by attending live performances and getting invitations to play with still living greats who were willing to give the young man ...

Album Review

Bill Evans: At The BBC 1965

Read "At The BBC 1965" reviewed by Joshua Weiner

by Joshua Weiner
April 17, 2026

Jazz 625 was a British television show, hosted by trumpeter Humphrey Lyttelton, that ran from 1964 to 1966 on BBC2; the name comes from the higher-resolution 625-line UHF system that the station employed for broadcast. The show featured a variety of British musicians as well as top American artists such as Art Blakey, Jimmy Giuffre, Dave Brubeck, Oscar Peterson, Thelonious Monk and the Modern Jazz Quartet. The archives thus hold a treasure trove of mid-60s jazz and, thankfully, the 35 ...

Radio & Podcasts

Céline Peterson Prefers Sarah Vaughn to Britney Spears

by Mike Jones
April 17, 2026

Our latest guest is Celine Peterson, daughter of legendary jazz pianist Oscar Peterson. Céline and Mike talk about the importance of fair treatment and appreciation for artists. Céline shares her experiences managing artists and the impact of social media on music careers, while also reflecting on her upbringing in a musical family. ...

Album Review

Mehmet Ali Sanlikol: The Electric Oud Man Speaks And You Listen…

Read "The Electric Oud Man Speaks And You Listen…" reviewed by Kyle Simpler

by Kyle Simpler
April 17, 2026

Jazz has long operated with something like an open-door policy, absorbing influences from classical, folk, rock, and beyond. Turkish-American composer Mehmet Ali Sanlikol extends that tradition in a particularly personal way on The Electric Oud Man Speaks...And You Listen, a five-track project that brings Turkish makam, jazz improvisation, and rock energy into a shared musical language. Sanlıkol's musical background reflects that synthesis. Raised in Istanbul by a classical pianist mother, he grew up surrounded by Beethoven, Mozart, and Chopin ...

Radio & Podcasts

Tim Picard Quartet

by Daniel Peck
April 17, 2026

Venturing onward to New York seems to be a necessary step in the careers of most aspiring jazz artists.Guitarist Tim Picard has been a Northeast Ohio mainstay, equally adept in straight-ahead and free jazz. But time marches on and opportunities abound in the Big Apple, so Tim is off to New York, but not before one last performance of originals and favorites.Backed by Theron Brown on piano, Jordan McBride on bass and Zaire Darden on drums, ...

Album Review

Oscar Peterson Trio: The Oscar Peterson Trio at Baker's Keyboard Lounge

Read "The Oscar Peterson Trio at Baker's Keyboard Lounge" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
April 17, 2026

There are live recordings that capture an engagement, and others that seem to revive an entirely vanished room. This newly unearthed Verve Records release from Detroit's Baker's Keyboard Lounge, recorded over five sets in August 1960, clearly falls into the latter category. More than just a historical curiosity, it reveals atmosphere, temperament, and mastery. The Oscar Peterson trio at full strength in a venue that knew how to listen, playing as if elegance and fire were not mutually exclusive virtues ...

Radio & Podcasts

The Legacy of Billy Strayhorn, part II: Lotus Blossom, Raincheck and some less well known tunes from the Strayhorn songbook.

by Larry Slater
April 17, 2026

Billy Strayhorn spent his career as Duke Ellington's “composing and arranging partner" but it wasn't until relatively recently that his remarkable contribution to jazz was fully appreciated. When Strayhorn's tunes began making their appearance in the early '40s, other musicians took notice. Gerry Mulligan said, “I was part of a small community of very young musicians and arrangers. When Strayhorn came on the scene, he just blew us away because he was doing very complicated, sophisticated things, and they didn't ...

Album Review

Andrés Coll: Ride to Heaven

Read "Ride to Heaven" reviewed by Artur Moral

by Artur Moral
April 17, 2026

Some instruments can come across as far removed from the jazz orbit--especially when we think of them as vehicles for a soloist's showcase. Yet a number of resolute experimenters have worked hard to prove otherwise, with commendable skill. Among others, such is the case with Dorothy Ashby on harp, Julius Watkins on French horn and Garvin Bushell on oboe. The marimba is another of those devices that at first seem foreign to the genre, more associated with Latin or radically ...

In Pictures

Bergamo Jazz Festival 2026

by Luciano Rossetti
April 17, 2026

A collection of photos from the Bergamo Jazz Festival in Bergamo from March 15--22, 2026 featuring Joe Lovano, Bad Plus featuring Craig Taborn and Chris Potter, Steve Coleman Five Elements, Dave Holland and Lionel Loueke Duo, Wayne Horvitz, Franco D'andrea Trio, Melissa Aldana, The Jazz Passengers, Hedvig Mollestad, Leo Genovese, Anais Drago, Norma Winstone, Lakecia Benjamin, Avishai Cohen, George Garzone, Jacob Bro, Joey Baron, Shabaka Hutchings, Drew Gress and many others. ...