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Michael Dease, Betty Bryant, Miles Donahue & Chuck Redd
by Joe Dimino
We begin the first episode of 2026 with a salute to percussionist & vibraphonist Chuck Redd for standing up to political corruption. He kicks off the 941st Episode of Neon Jazz with music off his 2024 collaboration with Nate Najar off the album Meet The Graingers. From there, we step into the Kansas City-born legendary figure Betty Bryant with music off her 2026 album Nothin Better to Do. From there, we get a whole host of new tunes from Cordite, ...
Continue ReadingThe Pocket Trio: Something Borrowed, Something Blue
by Barry O'Sullivan
A studio album featuring jazz vocals needs something extra to stand out in today's crowded field. A finely crafted set of standards with top musicians is not enough. The vocals must be warm and mellow, yet capable of impressive gymnastics, and bandleader Andrew J Scott, the multi-talented creative force at the piano, achieves just that. He leads a dynamic trio that performs as one organism. Each instrument, Maximillian Alduca on double bass and Tim Geldens on drums, sculpts a musical ...
Continue ReadingBrett Garsed, Tom Coster, Niacin, Chick Corea, Akira Jimbo, Andre Drage, Mohini Dey, Resonance Vox
by Len Davis
We kick off the week at Uncle Moe's Space Ranch with gritty, high-density fusion featuring Brett Garsed and Dennis Chambers, followed by more intense fusion from Tom Coster with the late sax legend Bob Berg. Power Trio Niacin brings the heat alongside the late Chick Corea and drummer Cindy Blackman Santana. We dive into new music from Japanese drummer Akira Jimbo and Otmaro Ruiz, Spanish guitarist Tjides, and Gary Husband with T.O.L. Atmospheric sounds arrive from Norway's Andre Drage, contrasted ...
Continue ReadingResonant Access
Concept by Michael Ricci | Written by AI
In this jazz fiction piece, Resonant Access, music is more than expression--it's a form of inquiry. Elliot Mercer, a modern jazz alto saxophonist and theoretical physicist, discovers that sustained tones and careful listening can destabilize the very systems meant to observe and control the world around him. Blending improvisation, science, and quiet resistance, the story explores jazz as a discipline of resonance, choice, and freedom--one that exists only in the moment it is played. Elliot Mercer discovered it ...
Continue ReadingJussi Reijonen: Sayr: Kaiho--Live In Helsinki
by Dan McClenaghan
Finnish-born guitarist Jussi Reijonen says, “For there to be motion, there needs to be stillness as its counterpoint and vice versa, since through their dance, each defines the other." Music unfolds over time. Reijonen has released a pair of albums in 2025: Sayr: Salt | Thirst (Unmusic)--a studio solo set employing a late--1940s Gibson LG-2--and now Sayr: Kaiho: Live In Helsinki, with the Arabic oud trading places for the guitar at times. Both sets are deep immersions into ...
Continue ReadingNewcomers on Another Timbre
by John Eyles
As Another Timbre's two hundred and fiftieth album release has now been released and acquired by devotees of the label, it seems an appropriate time to appreciate some aspects of the label past, present or future. Firstly, it is impossible to ignore the three box sets: Wandelweiser und so weiter 6 CD set (2012), Morton Feldman Piano 5 CD set (2019), John Cage-Apartment House, Number Pieces 4 CD set (2021). Secondly, the very best musicians who release albums on the ...
Continue ReadingVancouver Jazz Orchestra: Meets Brian Charette
by Jack Bowers
Through the years, Canada has produced an impressive number of world-renowned big bands including Rob McConnell's peerless Boss Brass, the Toronto and Winnipeg Jazz Orchestras, those led by trombonist Dave McMurdo, pianist Jill Townsend and trumpeter Steve McDade, and one of the world's foremost undergraduate bands, Montreal's McGill University Jazz Ensemble. On its debut recording, Meets Brian Charette, the Vancouver Jazz Orchestra proves beyond any doubt that it deserves inclusion in that special fraternity. Simply put, the VJO ...
Continue ReadingPatricia Brennan: Vibraphone Visions Of The Universe
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, we're putting The Tonearm's needle on vibraphonist and composer Patricia Brennan.Patricia Brennan grew up in Veracruz, Mexico, playing salsa with her dad while listening to Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin with her mom. She studied classical percussion at the Curtis Institute, performed with Yo-Yo Ma and the Philadelphia Orchestra, then found her voice and career in jazz and improvisation.Patricia's latest album, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic Records, 2025), takes constellations from the summer sky ...
Continue ReadingDenman Maroney Quintet: Umwelt
by Glenn Astarita
Pianist and composer Denman Maroney, renowned for pioneering 'hyperpiano' techniques--in which he plays the keys with one hand while bowing, sliding, and striking the piano strings with objects such as metal bars, rubber blocks, and plastic implements--and for his innovative temporal harmonies that layer multiple tempos simultaneously, presents his latest work, Umwelt. The title, German for the perceptive capacities of species, draws inspiration from science journalist Ed Yong's book An Immense World (Penguin Random House, 2022), which explores how understanding ...
Continue ReadingCharlie Parker, Harry "Father" White, and Sweet Lucy
by Con Chapman
While it is undeniably true that formal education is generally a benefit both to the student and to society as a whole, it is equally indisputable that many jazz greats got their best education outside a classroom. Johnny Hodges claimed he got the nickname “Rabbit" from his ability to outrun truant officers. Charlie Parker said of his four years at Kansas City's Lincoln High School that he “Went in a freshman, and came out a freshman."
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