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Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Vibrations In The Village: Live At The Village Gate
by Joshua Weiner
Thankfully, fans of classic jazz rarely have long to wait before another wonderful, previously unreleased treasure drops from the indefatigable producer Zev Feldman and the folks at Resonance Records. A pair of live releases by multi-instrumentalist, showman, and musical conjuror Rahsaan Roland Kirk join the limited-edition vinyl lineup for Record Store Day's Black Friday 2025 event, with a standard CD release one week later. Seek & Listen: Live At The Penthouse (Resonance Records, 2025) documents 1967 performances, while ...
Continue ReadingImprovising the Classics: Jazz Goes Baroque
by Larry Slater
I love classical music almost as much as jazz. Like jazz, classical music is a big tent, spanning the entire musical spectrum from medieval chant to twelve tone atonality. Jazz musicians today get most of their music education in universities and colleges, and often in conservatories. A great many of today's jazz artists have a deep appreciation for classical music, and on occasion use the melodies from the classical canon as springboards for improvisation. Improvisation was ...
Continue ReadingFlirtibird and the Black Thong
by Dan McClenaghan
The Taquito Tuesday thing took off like a rocket down at the Oceanic Brew Pub. It was, from the perspective of the kitchen, an ass buster, one sheet pan of those little rolled tacos after another going into the oven. Fortunately--for the owners, Roy and Rafaela--they had hired Hobgood, a guy who had spent 40 years of his 57 years on Earth working in kitchens. The orders kept coming in, and Hobgood, working like a devil, kept putting them out. ...
Continue ReadingNeil Young: Tonight's The Night 50th Anniversary Deluxe
by Doug Collette
Given the checkered history behind Neil Young's Tonight's The Night (Reprise, 1975), the 50th Anniversary Deluxe might well have been issued as a multi-disc package. An expanded collection of this third entry in 'the Ditch Trilogy'--along with Time Fades Away (Reprise, 1973) and On The Beach (Reprise, 1974)-- would accommodate the original recordings of 1973, the subsequent additions from different sources (overseen by Young's now-deceased manager Elliot Roberts), plus the (multiple and) final (sic) resequencing of the dozen cuts during ...
Continue ReadingCamille Bertault, Daniel Santiago, Orchestre National de Jazz, Boz Scaggs & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
Artists stepping outside their usual terrain, while others going deep in the one they're familiar with, take center stage in this week's selection of standout releases.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Boz Scaggs “Angel Eyes" Detour (Concord) 0:16 Host talks 4:54 Daniel Santiago “Christmas Song" Love in the Modern World (Heartcore) 6:32 Camille Bertault “Duvida cruel" Voz e Voces (Sunnyside) 12:27 Host talks 16:59 Andrea Molinari “Small Steps" ...
Continue ReadingBen Folds on Keeping Art Alive
by Steven Roby
In this episode of Backstage Bay Area, host Steve Roby interviews Ben Folds, the pianist, songwriter, and arts advocate who has spent three decades balancing sharp, story-driven pop songs with orchestral ambition. Fresh off the release of Ben Folds Live with the National Symphony Orchestra and deep into his work on the new holiday album Sleigher, Folds discusses what it means to keep art alive in a noisy, distracted culture. The conversation shifts from his years at the ...
Continue ReadingGiving Thanks & Spreading the Jazz Joy
by Michael Ricci
As always, we're celebrating Thanksgiving by recognizing two special groups of people: our benefactors, who helped make much of the 2025 website improvements possible, and our staff, who contribute and edit articles throughout the year. Both contributions are immeasurable, and we thank you all for your generosity, passion, creativity, and friendship. The good people who support this website are as cool--and as essential--as the music itself. With deep appreciation, thank you again! A daily commitment since 1995 At ...
Continue ReadingThree Visitors At Joe Henderson Lab
by Steven Roby
Three Visitors Joe Henderson Lab San Francisco, CA November 22, 2025 The first notes of Edward Simon 's “What If" emerged out of the dark at the Joe Henderson Lab, cutting through the reflections of car lights sliding across the room's glass walls. Inside the 100-seat club, the city was a flickering backdrop rather than a distraction; the real weather was being made onstage by Three Visitors, the long-standing trio of Simon, bassist Scott Colley, and ...
Continue ReadingLoren Schoenberg and His Jazz Orchestra: So Many Memories
by Jack Bowers
Jazz polymath Loren Schoenberg reverses the hands of time on So Many Memories, unveiling sixteen never-before- recorded charts written by the renowned melodist Eddie Sauter in the late 1930s for the Red Norvo-Mildred Bailey Orchestra. To paint his canvas, Schoenberg enlisted students and recent graduates of New York's Juilliard School of Music to be his orchestra, with guest artist Warren Wolf sitting in on xylophone for Norvo, the jazz world's acknowledged master of that instrument before he moved later in ...
Continue ReadingMarcus Miller at The Promontory
by Sandra Kozintseva
A collection of photos from the Marcus Miller concert at The Promontory in Chicago on November 13, 2025 featuring Marcus Miller, Xavier Gordon, Anwar Marshall, Donald Hayes and Russell Gunn. ...
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