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Jon Irabagon / PlainsPeak: Someone to Someone
by Jack Kenny
Jon Irabagon is a musician whose complexity is both exhilarating and daunting. His restless energy, deep self-reflection, remarkable achievements and sharp intellect combine to create a figure who constantly provokes questions--about music, originality and the very nature of artistic expression. In 2011, Irabagon undertook a bold experiment: With Mostly Other People Do The Killing, he recorded Blue (Hot Cup, 2014), a note-for-note recreation of Miles Davis's iconic Kind of Blue (Columbia Records, 1959). This endeavor recalls Gus Van ...
Continue ReadingRodrigo Amado / Chris Corsano: The Healing
by Troy Dostert
Among recent partnerships in free improvisation, the saxophone/drum tandem of Rodrigo Amado and Chris Corsano has been one of the most dynamic and incendiary. They have joined forces in one form or another since the early 2010s; the recording which first put them on the map was their effort with Joe McPhee and Kent Kessler, the widely-celebrated This Is Our Language (Not Two Records). They continued this fruitful project with equally stirring results on A History of Nothing (Trost, 2018) ...
Continue ReadingCelebrating Art Pepper, Al Cohn and Marty Paich on their centennial.
by Larry Slater
It is hard to even imagine the history of jazz without the many musicians born 100 years ago.There were the icons, like Roy Haynes, Oscar Peterson, Gene Ammons and James Moody, as well as long forgotten artists like Dodo Marmarosa , Leo Parker and Sahib ShihabIn this hour, you'll hear gifted musician who had long productive careers in jazz, leaving us a rich legacy of recordings.Mel Torme began his career as a jazz singer, ...
Continue ReadingGoin' Home: Nancy King, Hal Galper, Eddie Palmieri, Flaco Jiménez
by Katchie Cartwright
This week on Caminhos do Jazz radio we mark the passing of the great singer Nancy King, and bid farewell to several other towering musicians who have left us: the inimitable pianists Hal Galper and Eddie Palmieri, and San Antonio's own Flaco Jiménez, the celebrated conjunto accordionist, singer and songwriter. The heart of the program is a deep dive into Impending Bloom (Justice Records, 1991), the unforgettable album by King and bassist Glen Moore, which features the whimsical lyrics of ...
Continue ReadingSunday Best: A Netflix Documentary
by Thomas Cole
Ed Sullivan, at one time was the most renowned name in US television. Most of us hear that name and think of Elvis Presley and his electrifying game-changing performance in 1956. Few of us will ever forget the hip-shaking gyrations that captivated a nation. Nothing like it had ever been seen on national television. Or so the myth goes, as Elvis premiered on the Milton Berle Show a few months earlier. Or we think of and remember his introduction of ...
Continue ReadingMeet Lawrence Peryer
by Lawrence Peryer
I currently live in: Normandy Park, WA I joined All About Jazz in: 2011 Why did you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? I've been a lifelong music fan, and through my work in the music industry I developed a deep appreciation for the art of music criticism and journalism. I always enjoyed writing as well and All About Jazz is an outlet that makes it easy to take a chance and put work in ...
Continue ReadingRyan Keberle & Collectiv do Brasil: Choro das Aguas
by Katchie Cartwright
Ryan Keberle began to study music at age four in Spokane, first at the piano with his mother, Ann, followed by Suzuki violin lessons. His father Dan, a university jazz director, encouraged him to pick up the trombone at 10, for the sensible reason that he always seemed to be short a trombonist in his ensembles. Ryan acquiesced, and it has served him well. He was playing in adult big bands at 15, and is on ...
Continue ReadingMarc Seales: People & Places
by Edward Blanco
Seattle pianist Marc Seales, an established sideman and retired educator from the University of Washington, maintained a long-time friendship and collaboration with such jazz luminaries as Mark Murphy and guitarist great Larry Coryell, both of whom have since passed, and last, but certainly not least, tenor saxophonist Ernie Watts. Seales reunites with saxman Watts on their latest outing entitled People & Places, a collection of six originals, plus the re-imagined Wayne Shorter classic “Palladium," and “Home Light," a tune composed ...
Continue ReadingCory Weeds: Cory Weeds Meets Jerry Weldon
by Jack Bowers
A proper response to the statement Cory Weeds Meets Jerry Weldon could well be “it's about time!" Although widely separated geographically--Weeds is Canadian, Weldon a native New Yorker--these masters of the tenor saxophone have been brightening stages and delighting audiences at venues in the U.S. and around the world for decades. And even though they have 'met' professionally more than once, it is only now--in 2025--that Weeds and Weldon have joined forces and pooled their enormous talents to produce a ...
Continue ReadingNew Music From Örjan Hultén, Eric McPherson, Erik Deutsch & More
by Bob Osborne
On this show a selection of new releases interspersed with tracks from the complete seven volume set of The Art Of Perelman-Shipp, which has just been re-released on Leo Recordings. The playlist includes European jazz, Latin jazz, free improvisation and cutting edge new and emerging stars of the music world.Playlist Örjan Hultén “Please Call Me By My True Names" from Peaceful Warrior (Prophone/Naxos) 00:00 Ivo Perelman “Part 4" from The Art Of Perelman-Shipp Volume 1-Titan (Leo Records) 06:19 ...
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