Jazz Articles

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Radio & Podcasts

Entre Amigos, Daggerboard The Skipper and Mike Clark, Sam Yahel, The Sistering and more

by Benjamin Boddie
March 19, 2026

Today's Music--Right Now! Fantastic music by Entre Amigos, Daggerboard, The Skipper And Mike Clark, Sam Yahel, The Sistering, Gilad Barakan, Chris Fagan, Julian Davis Reid, Flying High, Joel Ross, Eddie Allen & Push, Baltimore Jazz Collective, James Fernando, Alexa Tarantino, Gafieira Rio Miami, Eyal Vilner Big Band, Dave Slonaker Big Band, Michael Dease, Kurt Elling & WDR Big Band, Jeremy Pelt, Pat Bianchi, Monika Herzig, Nicole McCabe, Chris Parker Septet, Cynthia Scott, Kate Olson, John Clay, Bob Reynolds, Vance Thompson, ...

Album Review

Tomeka Reid Quartet: Dance! Skip! Hop!

Read "Dance! Skip! Hop!" reviewed by Don Ball

by Don Ball
March 19, 2026

If the fourth album from the Tomeka Reid Quartet proves nothing else, it is that the group has shown a remarkable capacity for getting better with each release. Not just in the strength and quality of the compositions, but also through the tightness and cohesiveness of the band. The title Dance! Skip! Hop! is apt for the album as the rhythms roll along through every song, all tying together like an album-long suite. With a band that tends ...

Radio & Podcasts

New Music From Landrus, Imboden, Crispell & Jormin, Frisell, And More

by Bob Osborne
March 19, 2026

This selection offers a sophisticated journey through the contemporary jazz landscape, balancing the refined elegance of established labels with the bold spirit of independent releases. From expansive orchestral arrangements and intimate live performances to experimental dialogues and vibrant global influences, the playlist captures a diverse array of textures and moods. Whether exploring melodic introspection or energetic improvisation, these tracks collectively celebrate the evolving colour and depth of modern creative music.Playlist Brian Landrus “Averse" from Just When You Think ...

Album Review

Ben Rosenblum: The Longest Way Round

Read "The Longest Way Round" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
March 19, 2026

The Longest Way Round, New York City-based pianist, accordionist and composer Ben Rosenblum and his cutting-edge Nebula Project take listeners on a wild and exhilarating ride across musical boundaries, through multiple genres and around customary intersections to a destination that is as fresh and pleasing as it is creative and unique. While contemporary jazz remains the core element, this is music whose broad framework flows beyond the confines of normal depiction to encompass a harmonic and rhythmic panorama ...

Radio & Podcasts

Four Quartets

by Patrick Burnette
March 19, 2026

Have no fear--the boys are not discussing just any four quartets. No, there's a couple of matching sets. An influential album from a certain “European Quartet" confronts its doppelganger from fifty years later; a recent leader date from a guitarist known for his electric work faces off with a work of his youth dating back forty-five years. And if that's not exciting enough, Pat leads Mike into the dark alleyway of Beach Boys bootlegs.Playlist Discussion of Keith Jarrett's ...

Album Review

Dave Wilson: When Even Goes East

Read "When Even Goes East" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
March 19, 2026

There is a long and respected tradition in jazz of taking familiar popular songs and reimagining them in new ways. It involves uncovering fresh rhythmic vitality, harmonic subtleties, and emotional depth within melodies that listeners think they already know. Multi-instrumentalist Dave Wilson follows this tradition with conviction on When Even Goes East, an album that blends four original pieces with inventive reworkings of pop songs from the 1960s and 70s. The result is a collection that feels both reflective and ...

From the Inside

Grit. Discipline. Guts: A 25-Year Blueprint for the Modern Music Career

by Lindsey Boullt
March 18, 2026

I didn't start playing guitar until I was 21. No prodigy pipeline, no major-label safety net. Just a long runway of trial, failure, and forced problem-solving. Over 25 years in San Francisco, I built a career combining performance, composition, education, and production--not as separate identities, but as a single ecosystem. The model is brutally hard to execute. In the AI/streaming era, it might be one of the only models that works. The Death of the Traditional ...

Album Review

Knats: A Great Day In Newcastle

Read "A Great Day In Newcastle" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan
March 18, 2026

Led by two lifelong friends from Newcastle, bassist Stan Woodward and drummer King David Ike Elechi, Knats are not the easiest band to pin down to a single genre. So they created their own: “Geordie Jazz," or as they sometimes call it, “Geordie Noir." Drawing on their Tyneside roots (a “Geordie" being a person from the Tyneside area in the North East of England), the name captures their edgy fusion of soaring melody, driving danceable rhythms, rock energy, and spoken-word ...

In Pictures

Joe Magnarelli & Kirk MacDonald Quintet Dolomiti Ski Jazz 2026

by Danilo Codazzi
March 18, 2026

A collection of photos from the Joe Magnarelli and Kirk MacDonald Quintet / Miles Davis John Coltrane Centennial concert at Dolomiti Ski jazz festival, Centro Polifunzionale, in Castello di Fiemme, Italy, on March 12, 2026, featuring Joe Magnarelli, Kirk MacDonald, Oliver Kent, Rudi Engel and Bernd Reiter. ...

Album Review

Art Edmaiston / Chad Fowler: Memphis Mandala

Read "Memphis Mandala" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
March 18, 2026

We often approach recordings as if they were live performances: fully present in the moment, deeply engaged, and then rarely revisited. Like a concert, the sounds drift into the ether, lingering in memory and, perhaps, subtly reshaping the listener's internal landscape. Yet Memphis Mandala, the 2024 live collaboration between saxophonists Art Edmaiston and Chad Fowler, resists that pattern. Though comfortably situated under the free jazz rubric, this is a recording that rewards, and arguably demands, repeated listening. Each ...