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Radio & Podcasts

End Of Month Keyboard Special including Chick Corea, Charles Earland, and Nina Simone Among Others

by David W. Daniels
March 31, 2026

End Of March 2026 Keyboard Special. Music from those named in the title plus Makoto Ozone, Hiromi, Doug Carn, and lots more!Playlist Chick Corea and Eddie Gomez and Paul Motian “Hot House" from Further Explorations (Concord Jazz) 00:00 Renee Rosnes “Amor Ate O Fim" from Crossing Paths (Smoke Sessions) 8:30 Cecil Taylor “Port Of Call" from The World Of Cecil Taylor (Candid) 12:54 Steve Kuhn “Speak Low" from Countdown (Reservoir) 17:10 Aretha Franklin “Somewhere" from Aretha's Jazz (Compilation) ...

Radio & Podcasts

Four new releases from Stacey Kent, Hendrik Meurkens, Dan West Big Band & Peter Ersikine

by George Graham
March 31, 2026

This week we spotlight four new jazz releases from Stacey Kent, Hendrik Meurkens, Dan West Big Band, Peter ErskinePlaylist Stacey Kent “Lucky to Be Ne" from A Time for Love (Naive) 03:33 Stacey Kent “As" from A Time for Love (Naive) 05:03 Hendrik Meurkens “Samba Tonto" from Samba Tonto (Cellar) 04:37 Hendrik Meurkens “Chelsea Nocturne" from Samba Tonto (Cellar) 05:10 Dan West Big Band “Descant" from Presenting the Dan West Big Band (Self-released) 08:00 Dan West Big Band ...

Live Review

Maerz Musik 2026

by Martin Longley
March 31, 2026

Silent Green/Saint Elisabeth-Church/Haus der Berliner Festspiele Berlin, Germany March 22-24, 2026 Every March, this extended Berlin festival opens up around a multitude of venues, presenting moderne works (often premieres) that involve bulging orchestras, chamber ensembles, small groups or solo performers. Maerz Musik frequently inches towards electronics or free improvisation, with few limits on its new music range. Your scribe was in town for a thin three-day slice, involving great variety even within this corral.

Jazz in Long Form

He Blinded Me With Jazz: The Surprising Jazz DNA in the Music of Thomas Dolby

by Kurt Ellenberger
March 30, 2026

I. Introduction Thomas Dolby is one of the most prominent and recognizable synth pop artists of the '80s. His carefully crafted brand as the bookish, bespeckled “mad synthesizer scientist" was perfect for the time period when MTV emerged as a dominant force in the music industry. MTV made the music video an essential part of an artist's success and the primary marketing and branding tool for both the music and the artist. Dolby, like his hero ...

Live Review

Babel Music 2026

by Martin Longley
March 30, 2026

Le Plateform / Cité De La Musique Marseille, France March 19-21 2026 In the end, the Dock des Suds venue didn't get demolished soon after the 2025 Babel Music weekender. Instead, it has been reborn (and re-bought) as Le Plateforme, looking pretty much unchanged. Therefore Babel (previously known as Babel Med, with a history stretching back two decades) maintained its habitual structure and atmosphere. This prime global music festival operates on multiple levels, balancing local artists ...

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Take Five with Pianist Noah Stoneman

by AAJ Staff
March 30, 2026

Meet Noah Stoneman Noah Stoneman is a pianist and composer from London who has been based in New York City for the past three years. His career has already seen him collaborate with master musicians from all walks of musical life, and he is intent on keeping this diversity of creativity as a fixture of his artistic practice for as long as he can. His distinct and emotionally direct style of pianism has lead him to work with such luminaries ...

Album Review

Chris Parker Septet: Reunion

by Jack Bowers
March 30, 2026

This is a Reunion that Chris Parker was lucky to celebrate. In August 2023, eight months after recording his fifth album as leader and while vacationing in his native Oregon, Parker suffered a serious stroke that left him (temporarily) unable to walk or use his left hand when playing the piano. Before that misfortune struck, Parker had re-scored for septet a dozen songs he had been playing for years in various formats, from solo or trio to quartet or quintet. ...

Radio & Podcasts

Caroline Davis: The Un-Becoming

by David Bixler
March 30, 2026

What happens when you go off the grid to find your sound? For saxophonist Caroline Davis, the answer is Fallows (Ropeadope, 2026), her first solo release which was conceived during a month-long residency at Ucross, Wyoming. During this time, Davis stripped away the “self" to make room for pure creation: the album is the result of a deliberate “un-becoming"--a period where Davis set aside the expectations of daily life to let the landscape speak through her horn. This ...

Radio & Podcasts

Benji Porecki, Evening Sky, Finely Tuned Elephant, Jenny Klukken

by Cheryl K.
March 30, 2026

During this week's two-hour program of jazz and improvised music, cuts from new releases by keyboardist Benjie Porecki; multi--instrumentalist/composer Brian Eaton; the ensemble Evening Sky; guitarist Gilad Barakan; reed player Martin Archer and vocalist Claire McAllister; electronic musician/conceptualist Joseph Branciforte and Fender Rhodes artist Jozef Dumoulin; the quartet Finely Tuned Elephant; and marimba player Jenny Klukken.Playlist Miles Davis “Green" from Aura (Columbia) 8:13 Marilyn Crispell and Anders Jormin “For the Children" from Memento (ECM) 5:45 Benji Porecki “It's ...

Radio & Podcasts

April Varner, Ella Grace, Noa Levy, Audrey Ochoa, Aubrey Johnson , The Sistering Project featuring Lois Deloatch, Nnenna Freelon, Lenora Zenzalai Helm, Kate McGarry

by Mary Foster Conklin
March 30, 2026

The celebration of Women's History Month continues with new music from April Varner, Ella Grace, The Sistering Project featuring Lois Deloatch, Nnenna Freelon, Lenora Zenzalai Helm, Kate McGarry, Noa Levy, Audrey Ochoa and Aubrey Johnson, plus birthday shoutouts to Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Elis Regina, Marian McPartland, Jessica Williams, Deanna Witkowski, Aimee Allen, Giorgia Hannoush, Laura Dreyer, Eliane Elias, Meredith d'Ambrosio, Michele Rosewoman and Nicole Henry, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear--see them live, buy their ...