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Live Review

Canarias Jazz Y Mas 2026

by Larry Pryce
August 26, 2026

Canarias Jazz Y MasAuditorio de Tenerife Adán MartínSanta Cruz de TenerifeJuly 3-25, 2026 Having barely survived the “inner city blues" (more on that later) of intense London temperatures during three successive heatwaves it was with some relief to revisit the Canary Islands to enjoy some cool jazz at their annual jazz festival. This, the 35th edition of the Canarias Jazz Y Mas festival featuring both American and European artists proved to be as invigorating and innovative ...

Radio & Podcasts

Snarky Puppy's Bob Reynolds Channels Eddie Harris + Tunes from South Africa's Linda Sikhahkhane, Leigh Pilzer, Ralph Alessi, and Early John Coltrane Remastered

by Hobart Taylor
August 26, 2026

We're a little saxy this week, this one also features Muriel Grossmann and Greg Abate. Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Linda Sikhakhane “Uzalo" from Linda (Blue Note) 00:24 Stella Cole “Polka Dots and Moonbeams" from Imagination (Decca) 04:58 Leigh Pilzer “Just Another Pretty Song" fromKeep Holding On(Strange Woman) 09:39 Host Speaks 15:00 Ralph Alessi “A Sun That Never Sets" from A Sun That Never Sets (ECM) 16:33 Myra Melford “Sure Grand Out" from Sure Grand Out (Rogue Art) 23:24 ...

Radio & Podcasts

New Releases From Linda Sikhakhane, Elias Haslanger, Skinny Hightower, Plus Classics From Willie Bobo, Weldon Irvine, Gilberto Gil And Eddie Henderson

by Andy Crowther
August 26, 2026

The latest smorgasbord of jazz-ish sounds old and brand new, from across the world. With up-tempo jazz-funk bangers to round out the show. Playlist Linda Sikhakhane “Indlela" from L I N D A (Blue Note) 00:00 Elias Haslanger “Legacy" from Legacy (Cherrywood Records) 04:36 Ulysses Owens Jr. And Generation Y “Touch Me I'm Sick" from Kind Of Grunge (Cellar Live) 10:45 Skinny Hightower “Nimbus" from Feels Like Destiny (Castover) 16:13 LOX “Healing" from The Eight Gates (Jazz Re:freshed) ...

Album Review

John Donaldson: We Were Together, I Forget the Rest

Read "We Were Together, I Forget the Rest" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan
August 26, 2026

Pianist John Donaldson reunites an exceptional cast of long-time collaborators for We Were Together, I Forget the Rest, a deeply personal album written in memory of his late wife, Agatha Coffey. The musicians featured on the recording represent relationships forged across Donaldson's five-decade career. Vocalists Norma Winstone and Rebecka Edlund are joined by drummer Jeff Ballard, saxophonist Iain Ballamy, guitarist Rob Luft, trumpeter Graeme Flowers and bassist Tom Mason. Many of these professional partnerships have evolved into enduring friendships ...

Album Review

Bria Skonberg: Indigo

by Jack Bowers
August 26, 2026

Jazz triple-threat Bria Skonberg is back, singing, scatting and playing eloquent trumpet on Indigo, the Canadian-born artist's eighth recording as leader of her own group (one of which, Bria, earned Canada's JUNO Award in 2017 for best Vocal Jazz Album of the Year). In Skonberg's ongoing back-and-forth between voice and trumpet, voice seems to have gained the upper hand here, as she sings on every one of the album's nine numbers (including one of her own) and plays ...

Album Review

Lisa Marie Simmons: NoteSpeak (In a Word)

Read "NoteSpeak (In a Word)" reviewed by Acacia Grace

by Acacia Grace
August 26, 2026

Lisa Marie Simmons has a story to tell, and she tells it through melody, harmony, spoken word, lively woodwinds, jazz-inflected instrumentation, and a cast of special guests in NoteSpeak (In a Word). This is a unique vocal project, one that feels as much like a work of jazzy poetry and storytelling as it does a traditional album. And Simmons has a way with words throughout the entire project. For NoteSpeak (In a Word)there is a lot happening ...

Radio & Podcasts

Ashley Kahn on the Miracles and Wonder of Paul Simon’s Graceland

by Leo Sidran
August 26, 2026

Forty years ago this month, Paul Simon released Graceland, an album that became one of the defining records of his career, and one of the most celebrated and debated albums of its era.The story famously begins with a cassette of South African township music that Simon couldn't stop listening to. He followed that sound to Johannesburg, where he began recording with local musicians, eventually building an album that also incorporated zydeco, Norteño music, gospel and the sounds of ...

Album Review

CC Syndicate: Flying High

Read "Flying High" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
August 25, 2026

The CC is Peruvian drummer-composer Cote Calmet; the Syndicate is a jazz-funk quartet baring multiple musical signposts. Based in Granada after a decade in Ireland, Calmet has found new creative energy under the Spanish sun. In Andalusia, he has reactivated both Phisqa, his Afro-Peruvian jazz quintet, and CEO(L) Experiment, after long periods of hibernation. African and Latin rhythms are essential drivers of both groups, but with CC Syndicate, Calmet turns to '70s funk and jazz-rock for his grooves.

Album Review

New England Jazz Collaborative: Tributaries

Read "Tributaries" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
August 25, 2026

Tributaries is the debut recording by the seventeen-member New England Jazz Collaborative whose origin and purpose are summed up as follows: “an artist-led non-profit collective dedicated to commissioning, presenting and documenting new music and expanding the audience for what remains a thrilling and vital musical form." The album consists of half a dozen fresh compositions by a quartet of talented composers and arrangers: NEJC founder Jeremy Cohen, Matan Rubinstein, Darryl Harper and Sam Spear, with the ensemble ably ...

Album Review

Mike Lorenz: I'm Not There

Read "I'm Not There" reviewed by Andrew Hunter

by Andrew Hunter
August 25, 2026

Following a period of change, upheaval and reflection in his personal life, Mike Lorenz says that this record demonstrates a new approach for him, reflecting both his roots in jazz and the fact that he has been listening to a lot of songwriters; writers such as Jeff Tweedy and Elliott Smith. The opening track “Where Do You Go?" certainly shows songwriterly dexterity in combining different harmonic and melodic ideas into a congruent whole. The trio setting is pure ...