Jazz Articles

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Radio & Podcasts

Glenn Makos, Serge Chaloff, and Tord Gustavsen

by Jerome Wilson
March 18, 2026

This show features recent music by Glenn Makos and Gregory Groover Jr. along with older releases by Serge Chaloff and Tord Gustavsen. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Alex Coke & Carl Michel Sextet “After the Rain" from Emergence (PlayOn) 1:00 Jimbo Ross “Canadian Sunset" from So Do It (Bodacious) 7:03 Host Speaks 13:42 Art Pepper “You'd Be So ...

Album Review

Dave Schumacher & Cubeye: Agua con Gas

Read "Agua con Gas" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
March 18, 2026

As the name Agua Con Gas suggests, Chicago-born, New York-based baritone saxophonist Dave Schumacher and his Cubeye ensemble favor jazz with an unmistakable Latin accent. Schumacher's fourth album with the ensemble leans south of the border all the way, harbored in a sharp and buoyant rhythmic groove that suits them like the proverbial glove. Schumacher's brusque and brawny baritone leads the way on most numbers, kindling memories of such masters of the horn as Ronnie Cuber, Gary Smulyan, ...

Radio & Podcasts

Jon Irabagon, Yelena Eckemoff, Walter Smith III and Eric Mingus with Catherine Sikora

by Hobart Taylor
March 18, 2026

Persian jazz fusion from Qajar Jazz + Shabaka, Niia, Nina Simone re-mixed and Adrian Younge's latest. Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Qajar Jazz “Hot Jazz" from Sovereign (Self-Produced) 00:21 Yelena Eckemoff “Gamla Stan" from Rosendals Garden (L&H) 04:13 Arnold Ludvig “ Port of Thor" from Live @ Maggies (TUTL) 13:47 Catherine Sikora/Eric Mingus “Lament for St. Anthony" from Live at the Studio of the Lost Realm (Self--Produced) 21:08 Host Speaks 32:20 Adrian Younge “Portschute" from Portschute (Linear Labs) 36:01 ...

Chats with Cats

The Music Supervisor: Gary Calamar

by B.D. Lenz
March 17, 2026

For most musicians, the idea of hearing their music in a film or television show feels like hitting the lottery. One day, you're writing and recording in your basement studio, and the next, your song is underscoring a pivotal scene on a major television program. Behind those moments, though, is someone whose job it is to find exactly the right music for the right moment: the music supervisor. Music supervisors sit at the crossroads of art and logistics. ...

Book Review

Listening To Prestige

by Kyle Simpler
March 17, 2026

Listening To Prestige Tad Richards 278 Pages ISBN: # 9798855804959 Excelsior Editions/State University of New York 2026 Shortly after World War II ended, a young music lover named Bob Weinstock opened a record store in Times Square, New York City. The store specialized in jazz recordings, the music that Weinstock and his father loved collecting. Things took a dramatic turn one day when Alfred Lion, the owner of Blue Note Records, stopped by ...

Album Review

Jasper Høiby’s 3Elements: Conversations of Hope

Read "Conversations of Hope" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan
March 17, 2026

Copenhagen-born, London-based bassist Jasper Hoiby has always followed a distinctive musical path. Conversations Of Hope marks the third release in his 3Elements trio project, an evolving series that focuses on his work as a composer and bandleader. For each album, Høiby assembles a new trio lineup, allowing fresh perspectives and interplay to shape the music. Høiby first came to international attention as the founder of Phronesis. Formed in 2005, this influential group challenged expectations of the modern piano ...

Radio & Podcasts

Classic jazz from Ted Curson, Johnny Griffin, and others along with currents from Corcoran Holt, Louis Stewart, and more

by David W. Daniels
March 17, 2026

Classic jazz music from the headliners and also Etta Jones, Oscar Peterson, Leon Thomas, and others. Re-released music from Bobby Watson and Cecil McBee, as well as pre-released music from Louis Stewart. Birthday recognition for Gabor Szabo, Billy Childs, Mino Cinelu, and more.Playlist Tommy Smith leads Youth Jazz Orchestra with Joe Locke “A Night In Tunisia" from Exploration (Spartacus) 00:00 Etta Jones “Cool Cool Daddy" from Lonely And Blue (Prestige) 15:21 Shirley Scott “You Don't Mess Around With ...

Radio & Podcasts

Bill Frisell, Francesco Bigoni, Zeno De Rossi, Norma Winstone & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
March 17, 2026

This time we celebrate 75 years of Bill Frisell through his own music and the wide creative wake it has left across today's scene. This episode also spotlights newly unearthed choral works by Kenny Wheeler and several recent projects involving Italian saxophonist and clarinetist Francesco Bigoni, tracing a thread between enduring influence, rediscovery, and contemporary exploration.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Bill Frisell “In My Dreams" In My ...

Album Review

Django Festival Allstars: Evolution

Read "Evolution" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
March 17, 2026

On Evolution, their fifth recording together, the Django Festival Allstars salute the 25th anniversary of the Django Reinhardt NY Jazz Festival, founded in 2000 by Pat Phillips and her late husband, Ettore Stratta, and held every year since then at New York City's celebrated Birdland Jazz Club. While the name “all-star" is sometimes overused, that is not the case here. This really is an all-star quintet, perfectly suited and ideally prepared to refresh and update the “Gypsy jazz" of Reinhardt ...

Album Review

Matt Greenwood: Daybreak

Read "Daybreak" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
March 17, 2026

Writing about guitarist Matt Greenwood's debut album, Atlas (Self-Produced, 2023), one All About Jazz reviewer wrote, “Expect a great deal more from Matt Greenwood." The Zimbabwe-born artist begins the fulfillment of those expectations with his sophomore outing, Daybreak, moving forward on the sweeping luminosity and atmospheric world-building of his debut. Ambient textures, sometimes subtle and sometimes overt, paint spacious backdrops for eight off Greenwood's engaging compositions, plus his take on Claude Debussy's “La Damoiselle Élue." As it was ...