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Julius Gawlik, Conference Call & Camila Nebbia
by Maurice Hogue
German saxophonist Julius Gawlik has captured my attention whenever I've heard him play, particularly of late with Jim Black's The Schrimps. His brilliance has taken him to the NDR Big Band at only 23 years old, and now he's released a very fine debut It's All In Your Head. More saxophone of note comes from the latest release by Conference Call, that improvisatory powerhouse led by master reedist Gebhard Ullmann and from Argentinean saxophonist Camila Nebbia who has been taking ...
Continue ReadingStefon Harris on Soul, Sound, and Harmony in Motion
by Steven Roby
Stefon Harris is a four-time Grammy-nominated jazz vibraphonist, bandleader, and educator. A longtime leader of the band Blackout and former member of the SFJAZZ Collective, he has recorded for Blue Note and Concord, collaborated with artists from Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter to Dianne Reeves and Common, and serves on the faculty at Rutgers University--Newark. Harris is also co-founder of the Melodic Progression Institute and creator of the Harmony Cloud ear-training app. In this episode: Stefon's early experiences with music ...
Continue ReadingFate Marable’s Mississippi River Conservatory
by Karl Ackermann
In 2020, I published A Map of Jazz: Crossroads of Music and Human Rights (WS Publishing), a book that looks at the culture of jazz on a timeline with cultures of the world. At more than 500 pages, the book is incomplete by necessity; there is no well-marked path, and the history is sometimes nebulous. However, as a map of events and the chronology of jazz music, it leads to unfamiliar places. The series Backstories dives deeper into people and ...
Continue ReadingMarkus Rutz: Many Moons
by Ken Hohman
Orson Welles once quipped, “I'm not such a fool as to not take the moon seriously." Journeyman Chicago trumpeter Markus Rutz takes this sentiment to heart with his fine recording, Many Moons, which finds him under the spell of our silvery satellite, leveraging it as a muse for the passage of time and a melancholy reflection of life's varied chapters. Vacillating from judiciously selected covers (Van Morrison's “Moondance"), catchy originals ("Penumbra") and jazz standards ("Blue Moon" and “Blue ...
Continue ReadingForlì Open Music 2025
by Luciano Rossetti
A collection of photos from the Forlì Open Music in Forlì from November 1, 2025 to November 2, 2025 featuring Fred Frith, Lotte Anker, Daniele Roccato Ludus Gravis, Sergio Armaroli, David Toop, Edoardo Marraffa, Daniela Cattivelli, Mat Maneri, Lucian Ban, Marco Colonna, She's Analog, and many others. ...
Continue ReadingGrammy Nominees Part 1, New Music From Theo Bleckmann, Jane Ira Bloom, Ellen Rowe, Anita Wardell, The Jung Stratmann Quartet & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast includes new releases from Theo Bleckmann, Jane Ira Bloom, Ellen Rowe, Anita Wardell and the Jung Stratmann Quartet, with birthday shoutouts to Blue Lu Barker, Ernestine Anderson, LaVern Baker, Cynthia Hilts, Marianne Solivan, Holli Ross, Rene Marie, Diana Krall and Janet Lawson, among others, plus a nod to a few of this year's Grammy Nominees. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear--see them live, buy their music so they can continue to comfort, distract, provoke and ...
Continue ReadingHanna Paulsberg Concept & Elin Rosseland: Himmel Over Hav
by John Eyles
Hanna Paulsberg was born in Rygge, Norway, in November 1987. When she was aged fifteen, she heard a CD playing saxophonist Stan Getz and decided she wanted to play sax herself. The following year she started the music course at Kirkeparken videregaende skole in Moss. She passed her Examen artium in 2009 which meant she could progress to the jazz program at Trondheim Musikkonsevatorium, from which she graduated in 2011, some nine years after hearing Getz. ...
Continue ReadingSatoko Fujii Quartet: Burning Wick
by Dan McClenaghan
Japanese pianist Satoko Fujii is prolific. She has released well over 100 albums in a 30-year career, including a notable stretch in 2018 when she released an album a month. Solo piano outings, duo sets--including several with her husband, trumpeter Natsuki Tamura--trios, quartets, and larger ensembles of every size and shape. A general rule with Fujii: the larger the ensemble, the louder and more brazen the sounds. Her big bands are often particularly riotous. But her small ensembles ...
Continue ReadingSkopje Jazz Festival 2025
by Ziga Koritnik
A collection of photos from the Skopje Jazz Festival 2025 in Skopje from October 16, 2025 to October 19, 2025 featuring Andrzej Jagodzinski Trio, National Jazz Orchestra with Luis Bonilla and Sigi Feigl, Marc Ribot, Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage, After The Wildefire Quartet, Goran Kajfes Tropiques, Wadada Leo Smith and Sylvie Courvoisier duo and James Brandon Lewis Quartet. ...
Continue ReadingCody McCorry: We Used to Cut the Grass #2
by Kyle Simpler
When a band lists Frank Zappa, John Zorn and Sun Ra as some of its major influences, you think you know what to expect. Or do you? That is the question, and Asbury Park, New Jersey composer and bassist Cody McCorry answers it on We Used to Cut the Grass #2. Rather than trying to imitate the influences, McCorry uses them as the foundation for something that comes across as jazz fusion blended with contemporary classical, with a dash of ...
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