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Album Review

Irreversible Entanglements: Future Present Past

Read "Future Present Past" reviewed by Jack Kenny

by Jack Kenny
April 14, 2026

Irreversible Entanglements do not deliver coded music. Frustrated by music that only claims to carry a message, the quintet--Camae Ayewa, Luke Stewart, Keir Neuringer, Aquiles Navarro and Tcheser Holmes--fuses long-form improvisation, groove, and spoken word into a contemporary extension of the 1960s and '70s Black avant-garde. They originally came together to protest a police brutality event in 2015 and have remained explicitly oriented toward Black liberation around the world. Across their records, they consistently navigate the space between ...

Radio & Podcasts

Jazz Classics from Sarah Vaughan and Billy Eckstine, Charles Mingus, and others; recent or pending releases from Emmet Cohen, Virginia MacDonald, and others

by David W. Daniels
April 14, 2026

In addition to the artists listed in the title, this show features classics from Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, the ad hoc group Old And New Dreams featuring Don Cherry and Dewey Redman, and others. A re-released album by Thelonious Monk is included. Newly released music from Adam O'Farrill, The Atlantis Jazz Ensemble, and April Varner are included as are others. Finally, birthday recognition for Freddie Hubbard, Billie Holiday, Randy Weston, and several more is given.Playlist Charles ...

Album Review

Adia Vanheerentals: Taking Place

Read "Taking Place" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
April 14, 2026

Belgian saxophonist Adia Vanheerentals is a prodigious talent, having started performing at age 9 and graduating from the Antwerp Conservatory in her early 20s. She is also an imaginative improviser and virtuoso performer. At 27, she already has five releases under her belt and has been impressing critics and audiences alike with her singular approach to creative music. Her fifth release, Taking Place, is a set of enchanting solos cushioned by ambient sounds. The album opens with ...

Radio & Podcasts

Jasper Høiby, Marion Rampal, Willy Rodriguez, John Ellis & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
April 14, 2026

Enjoy a playlist featuring music inspired by Abbey Lincoln, New Orleans, Kurt Vonnegut, loss and hope. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 John Ellis Double Wide “Fireball" Fireball (Sunnyside) 0:16 Host talks 4:14 Marion Rampal “The Music is the Magic" Song for Abbey (Tribute to Abbey Lincoln) (Les Rivières Souterraines) 6:08 Willy Rodriguez “The Perplexity of Eternity" In the Unknown (I Will Find You) (Sunyside) 12:29 Host ...

Album Review

Antonio Forcione & Cenk Erdogan: Storytellers

Read "Storytellers" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski

by Nenad Georgievski
April 14, 2026

On Storytellers, the duet album by guitarists Antonio Forcione and Cenk Erdoğan each song is delivered personally to the listener, like a letter. Some albums do not arrive loudly. They sit beside you, quietly, and start talking. This duet feels exactly like that--intimate and conversational, as if you are being invited into a dialogue that began long before the record button was pressed. What makes this project especially moving is the path that led to it. Their story starts ...

Interview

Jo-Yu Chen: For Taiwanese Pianist Classical Jazz is a Gas

by Dean Nardi
April 13, 2026

It would be a mistake to say that a classical/jazz hybrid was devoid of interest with its reliance on centuries-old scores. Au contraire. Promise rewards outside of the normal range of expectations. On Rendezvous -Jazz Meets Beethoven, Tchaikovsky & More (Sony, 2025), Taiwanese pianist Jo-Yu Chen begins with a mash-up of two Beethoven classics: “Symphony No. 5" and the “Moonlight Sonata." Together they meet on a grand, increasingly intense scale. “Beethoven was a rock star in his era, with his powerful ...

Reassessing

Spectrum

by Dean Nardi
April 13, 2026

Was it jazz or rock? This was (is) the eternal question about fusion. Back in the 1970s when the Mahavishnu Orchestra pioneered the genre, the electric and chaotic unpredictability of the John McLaughlin-led outfit cut across what was thought to be basic jazz concepts by displaying loud electric guitar riffing over what could stand for prog rock organ, bass and drum. And shockingly, none of the original players blew into their instruments. But Mahavishnu McLaughlin was as cruel ...

Album Review

Pierre-Antoine Savoyat: Thousand Shades of a Clown

Read "Thousand Shades of a Clown" reviewed by Ieva Pakalniškytė

by Ieva Pakalniškytė
April 13, 2026

On his 2026 album release, Thousand Shades of a Clown (Challenges Record, 2026), Brussels-based trumpeter and composer Pierre-Antoine Savoyat places the emphasis on proportion, timbre, and space, balancing a quiet surface with an underlying intensity. Leading his quartet Le Monde Merveilleux de Pepito, Savoyat shapes a sound that is understated yet deliberate, allowing the music to unfold without pushing toward obvious peaks. Rather than demanding attention, it draws the ear in gradually, revealing through detail and interaction. From the outset, ...

Album Review

Clovis Nicolas: Blues in Blueprint: 12 Variations on the Blues

Read "Blues in Blueprint: 12 Variations on the Blues" reviewed by Kyle Simpler

by Kyle Simpler
April 13, 2026

The blues has long functioned as something equivalent to comfort food in jazz, a familiar form that musicians return to again and again. On Blues in Blueprint: 12 Variations on the Blues, bassist Clovis Nicolas embraces that tradition while subtly reframing it. Rather than treating the blues as a fixed structure, Nicolas approaches it as a living foundation, exploring the many ways it continues to shape jazz across styles and eras. Born in the Ivory Coast and raised in ...

Radio & Podcasts

Dominic Walker, Tierney Sutton, Jenny Klukken, Bria Skonberg, Ulysses Owens Jr., Tia Fuller & Shamie Fuller-Royston, Lori Nicely, Marilyn Crispell & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
April 13, 2026

This broadcast makes the graceful morph from Women's History Month to Jazz Appreciation Month with new music from Dominic Walker, Tierney Sutton, Jenny Klukken, Bria Skonberg, Ulysses Owens Jr., Fuller Sound (Tia Fuller & Shamie Fuller-Royston), Lori Nicely, Marilyn Crispell, plus birthday shoutouts to Alberta Hunter, Tina May, Doris Day, Paula West, Karen Mason, Allan Harris, Christine Jensen, Tessa Souter, Ben Cassara and Marilyn Crispell, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear--see them live, buy their ...