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Robin Holcomb, Damon Locks, Don Paul, Amanda Gardier and More
by Hobart Taylor
New music from Robin Holcomb, Damon Locks, the Jessica Jones Quartet and Posi-Tone Records' super group Blue Moods.Playlist Dashawn Hickman “ Don't Let The Devil Ride" from Drums, Roots & Steel (Little Village Foundation) 0:00 Amanda Gardier “ Electroshock Therapy" from Auteur (Postal) 6:19 Afro Peruvian New Trends Orchestra Corina Bartra “Tun Tun Tun-La Herida Oscura" from Cosmic Synchronicities (Blue Spiral) 14:12 Omar Thomas “ Sail to the Moon" from Griot Songs (Self Produced) 19:18 Host Speaks 32:36 ...
Continue ReadingWinter JazzFest 2025: The Out-of-Towners - Part 2
by Ludovico Granvassu
Enjoy the second part of our preview of the upcoming Winter JazzFest, with a special focus on the musicians who will be coming to New York from out of town. Happy listening Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme" (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill) 0:00 Salin “Si Chomphu" Kouta in Siam--EP (Amari Music Records) 0:16 Host talks 2:53 Monsieur MÂLÂ “Carnaval" Monsieur MÂLÂ (Art District) 5:09 Michael Leonhart Quartet “Kenny Dorham" The Normyn Suites (Sunnyside Records) ...
Continue Reading2024 in Review
by Jerome Wilson
This show reviews my favorite jazz releases for 2024, including new recordings and newly discovered older concert performances. Artists heard on the show include Fay Victor, Darius Jones, Ron Miles, Frank Carlberg, and David Murray. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Charles Lloyd “Beyond Darkness" from The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) 1:08 Tomasz Stanko Quartet ...
Continue ReadingBrûlez les meubles: The Guitar and Bass Duo Who Threw Away the Script
by Lawrence Peryer
The name Brûlez les meubles carries a wry irony. While it literally means “burn the furniture" in English, the Québec duo playfully inverts the common French phrase “sauver les meubles" (preserve the essential). This tension between preservation and reinvention defines their artistic approach, especially on their latest album Folio #5 (Tour de Bras/Circum-Disc, 2024). The duo of guitarist Louis Beaudoin-de la Sablonnière and bassist Éric Normand has consistently expanded jazz's possibilities by inviting diverse collaborators into their sonic ...
Continue ReadingMorten Duun: Code Breaker
by Jerome Wilson
This album by guitarist Morten Duun constructs a delicate and indeterminate beauty from just a few elements: guitar, trumpet, drums and occasional piano and voice. The music is a gauzy blend of sounds set in a lush silence reminiscent of some of the ECM recordings of Ralph Towner. There is a dreamy feel to the interplay of Duun's strummed guitar and Brandon Choi's echoing trumpet on “Everything You Say is a Spoon," with drummer Wouter Kuhne rumbling in the background. ...
Continue ReadingGiuseppe Segala's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024
by Giuseppe Segala
There is not much to add to this list, other than noting note that the order is alphabetical and, of course, does not reflect any ranking of merit. Without a doubt, 2024 has given us a wealth of wonderful music to listen to and revisit. Unfortunately, many noteworthy albums had to remain beyond the limit of ten CDs; in many cases, their inclusion or exclusion came down to highly subjective criteria, which could very well change in an hour or ...
Continue ReadingNatsuki Tamura / Satoko Fujii / Ramon Lopez: Yama Kawa Umi
by Dan McClenaghan
In a nearly thirty-year career, Satoko Fujii (pianist, bandleader, composer, provocateur, sonic experimenter in the first degree) has shown herself to be one of the most daring and uncompromising artists in music. In a way, she is like Thelonious Monk in that--upon an initial experience with Monk's music (and Fujii's)--the uninitiated may not know quite what to make of what they are hearing, because neither of these artists follows a rule book. They were/are themselves. Best advice to those unfamiliar: ...
Continue Reading2024 Look Back
by David Brown
For this week's program, I want to pick up where we left off last week, revisiting albums released in 2024 that really made an impression on me. This is not a top ten list, but more of a mix-tape if you will of recordings I highly recommend from the past year. Artists include John Zorn's New Masada Quartet, Roy Hargrove's Crisol, Dafnis Prieto Si O Si Quartet, Fay Victor, Tar Baby, Art Tatum, McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, James Brandon ...
Continue ReadingJacob Collier's First Interview: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by Leo Sidran
In 2013, after having posted a series of videos recorded in his family home in North London of himself singing a cappella arrangements of classic--yet sometimes obscure--songs on YouTube, a critical mass began to form around Jacob Collier. His videos of Stevie Wonder's “Isn't She Lovely" and “Don't You Worry Bout A Thing" were passed around by musicians and music enthusiasts and by 2014 he was being managed by Quincy Jones and traveling around the world. He was one of ...
Continue ReadingTake 6 at SFJAZZ
by Ronald Davis
A collection of photos of Take 6 at SFJAZZ in San Francisco on December 28-29th, 2024. ...
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