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Album Review

Raphaël Pannier Quartet & Khadim Niang Sabar Group: Live In Saint Louis, Senegal

Read "Live In Saint Louis, Senegal" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
March 22, 2026

For many people, life is a maze that they navigate the best they can--unaided by the guiding hand of destiny. For a much smaller number, the clear course of their life presents itself early on. Take Raphael Pannier. At just three years of age, he saw Djabote, a performance video by Senegalese sabar percussionist N'Diaye Rose. The Parisian toddler knew then that rhythms would guide his way. And so it proved. A student of classical percussion in Paris, ...

Play This!

Rufus Wainwright: I’m a Stranger Here Myself

by Ludovico Granvassu
March 22, 2026

I'm a Stranger Here Myself--Wainwright Does Weill (Thirty Tigers, 2025) is a project decades in the making. Rufus Wainwright's affection for the music of Kurt Weill dates back to his twenties, though the idea of an album began to take shape more recently, following a series of concerts at the storied Café Carlyle in 2023. From those intimate performances, the project has blossomed into the lush orchestral form heard on this album--one of the artistic high points of 2025.

Album Review

The Interplay Jazz Orchestra: Bite Your Tongue

Read "Bite Your Tongue" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
March 22, 2026

Even though it began life as the Hofstra University Alumni Orchestra before being renamed in 2013, the Interplay Jazz Orchestra has proven time and again during the course of five splendid recordings that its noble heritage remains intact and that it bears an indomitable spirit of its own, one which affirms that it need not bow to any other other large ensemble, foreign or domestic, when it comes to perceptiveness, precision or power. On Bite Your Tongue, the ...

Radio & Podcasts

Bob Reynolds, Andy James, Harvie S. & Aubrey Johnson

by Joe Dimino
March 22, 2026

We launch the milestone 950th episode of Neon Jazz with a soaring start from the husband-and-wife duo The Wild Blue Herons, featuring Bill Sample and Darlene Cooper, and music from their heartfelt 2026 album It's All About Love. From there, the hour unfolds with powerful new sounds from seasoned jazz masters like Sam Yahel, Eyal Vilner, Bob Reynolds, Harvie S, and Homero Alvarez. We also shine a bright spotlight on rising momentum from artists making waves on the charts, including ...

Interview

Antonio Forcione and Cenk Erdoğan: A Masterclass in Musical Storytelling

by Nenad Georgievski
March 21, 2026

In the world of contemporary string music, there are collaborations born of convenience, and then there are those born of destiny. The union of Italian acoustic virtuoso Antonio Forcione and Turkish fretless master Cenk Erdogan belongs firmly to the latter. Their debut duo album, Storytellers (Jazz Plus, 2025), is not merely a collection of compositions; it is the culmination of a musical dialogue that has been waiting twenty years to find its voice. The two musicians first crossed ...

Album Review

Immanuel Wilkins Quartet: Immanuel Wilkins Quartet: Live At The Village Vanguard

Read "Immanuel Wilkins Quartet: Live At The Village Vanguard" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
March 21, 2026

Firebrand alto-saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins takes over the Village Vanguard and keeps it loose, y'all. From the rogue bossa nova “Ring Shout" and its immediate successor, “Composition II," each scenario has its very own sweep and sway. Take, for instance, the hell-raising, elders-chant fever inherent in “Composition IX." Twenty-three raucous, raise-the-rafters minutes wherein each participant--pianist and fellow hell-raisers Micah Thomas, bassist and man-on-a-mission Ryoma Takenaga and Kweku Sumbry, a swift footed drummer deeply schooled in Elvin Jones and Max Roach--inflame Immanuel ...

Book Review

Listening to Prestige: Chronicling Its Classic Jazz Recordings, 1949–1972

by Mike Jurkovic
March 21, 2026

Listening To Prestige Tad Richards 278 Pages ISBN: # 9798855804959 Excelsior Editions/State University of New York 2026 Hubris and romanticism are the clashing hallmarks of history and jazz, like all human endeavors, is no exception. A sinuous, serpentine, and often torturous road through the American landscape: Slavery, poverty, migration, Jim Crow, drugs, prejudiced, exploitive record execs and police departments, any history of the music could, in less skilled hands, get bogged down easily ...

Album Review

Keith Oxman: Home

by Jack Bowers
March 21, 2026

On Home, the sixth album under his name, Colorado-based tenor saxophonist Keith Oxman and his quintet weave a bright and picturesque tapestry of song that should gladden the heart and enliven the soul of anyone who appreciates music that is as charming as it is meaningful. It is always a pleasure to hear soloists who do not simply blow notes but narrate colorful and expressive stories. That is where Oxman, trumpeter Derek Banach and guitarist Clint Dadian excel, ...

Radio & Podcasts

Zeena Parkins: Invention, Loss, And The Living Harp

by Lawrence Peryer
March 21, 2026

Today we're putting The Tonearm's needle on Zeena Parkins, composer, improviser, and one of the most singular forces in experimental music.Zeena has spent four decades dismantling what the harp can do: through electronics, object preparations, and a series of custom electric instruments she built herself, she's turned a concert hall fixture into something alive and unpredictable.Her collaborators range from Björk to John Zorn to Pauline Oliveros. Last year, she released two records paying tribute to her ...

Album Review

Michael Moody: The Ecstasy of Love

Read "The Ecstasy of Love" reviewed by Artur Moral

by Artur Moral
March 21, 2026

Whether or not there is any personal affinity with their stylistic and thematic approach, it is impossible not to tip one's hat to those musicians who insist on navigating against the current mainstream--be it by brandishing the flag of a fierce vanguard or by defending the essentials of tradition, updated with a layer of necessary contemporaneity. Michael Moody belongs to these latter, and he does so by cloaking his entire output under the mantle of an uninhibited, almost provocatively explicit ...