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Interview

Zela Margossian: Music That Is Healing

by R.J. DeLuke
August 17, 2026

The music of pianist Zela Margossian draws on many influences. It's an amalgam of what she's learned from classical training, investigating of jazz, and her vast exposure to the folk music of her native Armenia. Her music is garnering praise for its varied textures and originality. It carries listeners down interesting pathways. Fans of varied music genres can find something intriguing. Margossian is of Armenian heritage, and that plays a big part in her art. But ...

Album Review

The Joshua Breakstone Quartet: Wonderful!

Read "Wonderful!" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan
August 17, 2026

This is a reissue of Joshua Breakstone's debut as leader. The recording, which has been out of print for nearly 40 years, dates back to 1984, when the guitarist was 27 years old. It also marks the first time the recording has been available on CD. While many guitarists of a similar vintage built success by forging ahead in jazz-rock, Breakstone followed a more time-honored path, following the trail of Kenny Burrell, Grant Green and Wes Montgomery. He ...

In Pictures

Strange Heavens, Sublime Music: Linda May Han Oh Trio at the 2026 Newport Jazz Festival

by Dave Kaufman
August 17, 2026

This year marked the 72nd year of the Newport Jazz Festival and the first with Nate Smith as artistic director, succeeding Christian McBride, who served in that capacity for a decade. It was also my fourth year working the festival as a photographer and photo-essayist, an experience that continues to be one of the high points of my life. Like the vast majority of jazz festivals, Newport features a broad range of jazz-adjacent music as well as artists ...

Album Review

Simon Rose, et al.: One Voice

Read "One Voice" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
August 17, 2026

What is more American than jazz? Historians generally agree that the music was born in New Orleans, forged from African musical traditions, European harmony and Caribbean rhythms. Alongside jazz, baseball and basketball are among America's great cultural inventions. Yet today, none of these belongs solely to the United States. Japan captured the imagination of baseball fans before Venezuela won the 2026 World Baseball Classic, while the NBA has recently been defined by international stars such as Greece's Giannis Antetokounmpo, Serbia's ...

Album Review

Ayumi Tanaka, Thomas Morgan, Thomas Strønen: Windflower

Read "Windflower" reviewed by Frank Housh

by Frank Housh
August 17, 2026

Ayumi Tanaka's Windflower uses Nordic jazz's musical vocabulary against an ancient Japanese landscape, creating depth and beauty by the space left empty. Tanaka is a Japanese pianist and composer for whom Norwegian jazz feels “very personal," explaining how it “made the air feel alive." She was determined to figure out how. She moved to Norway in 2011 and earned a master's degree from the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo. She augmented her studies by improvising “together with the ...

Radio & Podcasts

Bill Prady: Saxophonist & Successful Script Writer

by Mike Jones
August 17, 2026

This week, I am joined by Bill Prady. You may know some of his work: The Big Bang Theory or Stuart Saves the World and even the Muppets! Bill is a friend from way back. We discuss his recent foray into saxophone playing. I've heard him and he's really good. He didn't start learning the sax until later in life. We discuss his experience with that and all the jazz music that has inspired him including his experience with Betty ...

Radio & Podcasts

Yoron Israel, Haruna Fukazawa, Somi, Jim Donica, Visions Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Leos Abbey Lincoln, Dorothy Ashby & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
August 17, 2026

This broadcast includes new music from Yoron Israel, Haruna Fukazawa, Somi, Jim Donica, Visions Jazz Ensemble, plus birthday shoutouts to Abbey Lincoln, Dorothy Ashby, Jeri Southern (100!), Baby Jane Dexter, Terri Lyne Carrington, Jenny Klukken, Linda Dachtyl, Kat Edmonson, Regina Carter and Honorable Man Louis Armstrong, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear--see them live, buy their music so they can continue to comfort, distract, provoke and remind the world that A Woman's Place is in ...

Radio & Podcasts

Celebration Of Clean Feed Records, Part 2

by Maurice Hogue
August 17, 2026

Yes, a Part 2! I had pulled out so much music from the Clean Feed Records catalog that I was left with a raft of music, as deserving to be heard as much as the Clean Feed releases played in the previous tribute episode, so it was an easy choice to just keep it rolling this week. Many thanks again to the folks in Lisbon who had a dream and made it happen. The closing track is an excerpt from ...

Interview

Jussi Reijonen: Memory and Consciousness Not Visited Before

by Dean Nardi
August 16, 2026

In 2025, Finnish guitarist and oud player Jussi Reijonen launched sayr, his intimate series of recordings for solo string instrument with simultaneous release of two stunning albums. One is a fully improvised take at his home studio on steel-string acoustic guitar on an afternoon in March 2025, split into two contrasting arcs--"salt" and “thirst"--as on two sides of a vinyl LP. The other was recorded live in concert in Helsinki, Finland on steel-string acoustic guitar and the Arabic oud, September ...

Album Review

Michael Marcus Quartet: Next Stop Down!

Read "Next Stop Down!" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
August 16, 2026

A fixture in the avant-garde jazz community since the early 1990s, multi-instrumentalist Michael Marcus has done notable work with his own ensembles and alongside other prominent improvisers such as William Parker, Sonny Simmons, Andrew Cyrille and Joe McPhee. His first release with ESP-Disk in 2022, Abstractions in Lime Caverns, featured the leader on no fewer than five separate horns, including the tarogato, an instrument which takes center stage on Next Stop Down!, Marcus' first effort with a top-shelf quartet which ...