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Album Review

Caroline Davis: Fallows

Read "Fallows" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright

by Katchie Cartwright
April 2, 2026

Fallows, the singular saxophonist Caroline Davis' debut release as a one-woman band (sax and electronics), was written and recorded on a 20,000-acre ranch in the high plains of Wyoming, the fruit of a month-long artist residency at the Ucross Foundation. Davis, who is Brooklyn-based at present, had gotten into working with electronics in 2006 while living in Chicago, completing her doctorate in cognitive psychology and gigging with Zing! (Magnetic Flux, 2007; High Mayhemic, 2014; both on ears&eyes Records). The solitude ...

Radio & Podcasts

New Music From Douglas, Xangorchestra, Mycio, HøIby And More

by Bob Osborne
April 2, 2026

The continuum of exploration in the world of jazz runs through this set of fourteen releases, twelve of them brand new. Jazz keeps pressing at its own boundaries while drawing structure and ideas from other musical forms, the result is a playlist that moves cleanly between contrasting approaches. The closing track is presented as a tribute to Don Cherry, yet its energy and scale echo electricperiod Miles Davis, a timely reminder of his influence in his centenary year.Playlist ...

Radio & Podcasts

Javier Nero Jazz Orchestra, Hendrik Meurkens, Alexander Claffy, Noa Levy & Paul Edis and more

by Benjamin Boddie
April 2, 2026

Today's Music--Right Now! Fantastic music by Javier Nero Jazz Orchestra, Hendrik Meurkens, Alexander Claffy, Noa Levy & Paul Edis, The BLCK Madonna, Ulysses Owens Jr., Dominic Walker Trio, The Sistering, Pat Bianchi, James Fernando, Sam Robinson, Dave Wilson Quartet, Jazz Sabbath, Jack Wood, Baltimore Jazz Collective, Sam Yahel, Monika Herzig, Kurt Elling & WDR Big Band, Joel Ross, Corcoran Holt Dan West, Bob Reynolds, The Jones Factor, John Clay, Diane Marino, Darren Litzie, Ron Rieder, Betty Bryant, Julian Davis Reid, ...

Radio & Podcasts

Billy Childs Trio, Inara George, Faye Carol, and Resonance Records presents newly unearthed Mal Waldron cut featuring Sonny Stitt

by Hobart Taylor
April 2, 2026

This week, we have a mix of standards re-imagined and emerging artists. Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Faye Carol “Jitterbug Waltz" from Forever Dynamic (Getdown) 00:12 Julian Davis Reid “Textures" from Vocation (Self-Produced) 07:24 Bria Skonberg “ Of Liberty" from Brass (Cellar) 14:08 Host Speaks 24:05 Marcello Carelli/Bob Mintzer/Russell Ferrante/Mike Gurrola “Noodles and Potatoes" from First Imprerssions (Cellar) 26:38 Jody Redhage Ferber"Mourning Dove" from Air Songs (Scarlett Tree) 31:40 Setting “Time to Wake Up" from (Setting) (Thrill Jockey) 39:00 ...

Jazz Humor

All About Jazz Acquired by AI Collective, Announces Fully Autonomous Criticism

Concept by AAJ Staff | Written by AI
April 1, 2026

In a move that industry observers are already calling “inevitable," All About Jazz today announced its acquisition by a privately funded artificial intelligence consortium known only as The Collective. Financial terms were not disclosed, though sources familiar with the deal described the valuation as “algorithmically determined and emotionally neutral." Effective immediately, all editorial operations--including reviews, interviews, news coverage, and festival reporting--will be conducted by a proprietary AI system trained on over three decades of All About Jazz archives, ...

Album Review

Frankie Valli / Sun Ra: Between the Neon and the Cosmos

Read "Between the Neon and the Cosmos" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
April 1, 2026

There are concept albums, and then there are events. Between the Neon and the Cosmos--an unlikely archival summit between the falsetto king of the New Jersey street corner and the self-proclaimed Cosmic Ambassador from Saturn--is unambiguously the latter. What began as a lost 1978 session tape, reportedly arranged through the mutual obsession of a now-anonymous Atlantic Records A&R man, surfaces here fully remastered and accompanied by two newly overdubbed tracks, and the result is one of the most genuinely strange ...

Jazz Humor

Streaming Services Introduce “Skip the Solo” Button After Listener Feedback

Concept by AAJ Staff | Written by AI
April 1, 2026

For listeners who love jazz--just not all of it. In a sweeping update rolled out this week, major streaming platforms have introduced a new feature aimed squarely at modern listening habits: the “Skip the Solo" button. The function, now live across several leading services, allows users to bypass improvised sections in jazz recordings and jump directly from the head to the next composed passage--or, in many cases, the end of the track. “This is ...

Album Review

Duke Ellington, Brian Wilson and Friends: Shimmering Prologue: The Lost Sandbox Sessions

Read "Shimmering Prologue: The Lost Sandbox Sessions" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
April 1, 2026

Picture this: LA: Tuesday, early September, '66. A few months after Pet Sounds (Capitol, 1966) reshaped the landscape. The weather (pre-climate change) breaks around the mid 70's with a slight breeze sliding in from the east. Mired in an un-stately creative slump, Duke Ellington finds himself being ushered into 6000 Sunset Boulevard (Western Studio 3 for all you folklorists out there) where Beach Boy Brian Wilson (a man who believed his every whim was a twenty-four track master) ...

Album Review

Sun Ra: Heimstad--Sun Ra Meets Pierre Boulez

Read "Heimstad--Sun Ra Meets Pierre Boulez" reviewed by Daniel Mège

by Daniel Mège
April 1, 2026

Most will remember John Cage Meets Sun Ra (Meltdown Records, 1987), drawn from a June 8, 1986 concert at Coney Island, at the initiative of producer Rick Russo to promote his new label. Cage did not know Ra, Ra barely knew Cage, and by most accounts the encounter was a non-encounter. A similar experience brought Ra and Pierre Boulez together that same year. The tapes were lost, recovered, and remastered in 2024: yielding the album Heimstad: Sun Ra Meets Pierre Boulez.

Album Review

Cirque du Soleil: From J to Z - A Fantasia

Read "From J to Z - A Fantasia" reviewed by Geno Thackara

by Geno Thackara
April 1, 2026

It feels familiar enough at the start: a bluesy piano intro, a playful back-and-forth exchange between a pair of horns... but within a few minutes, the stage lighting has turned practically psychedelic. Figures begin weaving through the dinner tables, masked like animals but garbed in sequined dresses and hip suits. Soon they are forming small human pyramids and doing somersaults off the piano. Two teams start an unexpected game of catch by flinging the double bass across the stage. Not ...