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Senri Oe, Dave Glenn, Erica von Kleist, Ryan Barry & Early Times
by Joe Dimino
From the prolific musician and longtime radio broadcaster Early Times, we kick off the 971st Episode of Neon Jazz with music from his compelling new 2026 recording, Border Crossings. From there, we take a winding journey through an hour of remarkable jazz, uncovering fresh sounds and familiar brilliance along the way. We dig into recordings from jazz heavyweights Senri Oe, Russ Anixter, and Adrian Younge, while also featuring Dave Glenn's moving “Blues for Buck O'Neil," a perfect soundtrack to a ...
Continue ReadingBobby Wiens: Focus
by Jack Bowers
There are times when superb musicianship can redeem an album that may otherwise be gauged as no more than ordinary. Focus, Canadian-bred drummer Bobby Wiens’ second recording as leader, marks one of those times. Even though the album’s dozen themes are, aside from a few outliers, matter-of-fact, they are so marvelously performed by Wiens’ talented quartet that the album’s listening experience becomes a genuine pleasure.<PWhile Wiens, who wrote and arranged the first eleven of those tunes, keeps a ...
Continue ReadingPat Metheny, Weather Report, Tohpati, Jeremy Green, Manuel Gamez, Michael Manring, alan Pasqua
by Len Davis
A nostalgic trip back to 1979 with two pieces of music which opened my first Radio Show in Melbourne on PBSFM. Pat Metheny and Weather Report. New releases feature Indonesian guitarist Tohpati, German guitarist Pete Roth with drummer Bill Bruford and more from the excellent work by guitarist Jeremy Green. Some impressive work by pianist from Venezuela Manuel Gamez featuring Mike Stern and guitarist Fareed Haque paying tribute to the late Pat Martino. Fretless bassist Michael Manring with guitarist Al ...
Continue ReadingTake Five with Singer-Songwriter Rachelle Garniez
by AAJ Staff
Meet Rachelle Garniez Rachelle Garniez is a songwriter, singer, composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Born and raised on New York City's 1970s culturally diverse Upper West Side by an American classical pianist and a European professor of French existentialist literature, Rachelle was exposed to rich and multi-layered influences, from utopian collective free-schooling and Austrian Expressionism to roller disco and congueros in Central Park. In 1982, at age 17, she spent a year making her way around Europe. She picked ...
Continue ReadingTurning Sound Inside Out: Steven Bernstein on ResoNation and Ultra Resonance
by David Bixler
My guest today is the singular trumpeter, composer, and master of musical alchemy, Steven Bernstein. On June 5th, Steven dropped a massive double release on Royal Potato Family that looks both forward and backward, capturing a brilliant moment in time and then completely turning it inside out. The first half of this equation is the Steven Bernstein ResoNation Trio, featuring the incredible rhythm section of bassist Scott Colley and drummer Nasheet Waits. Recorded in 2023, it captures the raw acoustic ...
Continue ReadingThe Led Zeppelin Papers: Presence, Deluxe Edition
by C. Michael Bailey
By 1976, the monolithic machinery of Led Zeppelin was running entirely on fumes, adrenaline, and fractured bones. Recorded in a frantic eighteen-day blitz while Robert Plant was confined to a wheelchair, Presence is often chronicled as Jimmy Page's last stand of pure guitar orchestration. Yet, when considering the wider oeuvre of Led Zeppelin, two entirely separate bands fall out of the discussion, making Presence a fascinating historical collision point. The first iteration was the British blues ...
Continue ReadingMøster!: Bolts
by Kevin Poindexter
Møster! has been blowing minds, woofers, and tweeters with their unique blend of Scandinavian noise-rock and psychedelic jazz-punk for six albums. It would be pointless to ask if this band is ready to take the next big leap forward, because they are not really trying to ascend any ladder. In fact, they are not climbing at all; they are hurtling down a mountain at full speed with a truckload of nitroglycerine. On their seventh album, Bolts, the band, which boasts members ...
Continue ReadingJulian Wittich 紀安: Tidelines
by Andrew Schinder
Young bassist Julian Wittich 紀安's debut album, Tidelines, successfully introduces the musician to the contemporary jazz canon. Based in New York (though a fixture of the Taiwanese live music scene), having Taiwanese and Dutch ancestry, and educated in Amsterdam, Wittich is certainly a citizen of the world. That global outlook informs the diverse, colorful music heard on the album. Confident and assured, Tidelines radiates promise, and certainly elevates expectations for Wittich's output going forward. On Tidelines, Wittich keeps ...
Continue ReadingTerri Lyne Carrington: A Dance Record For Dark Times
by Lawrence Peryer
This week we're putting The Tonearm's needle on drummer, composer, and educator Terri Lyne Carrington. Carrington has just released Trip the Night Fantastic (Candid Records, 2026), the second album from her group, Social Science. It's built for the dance floor but unflinching on the topics of deportation, prison abolition, and climate collapse. We talk about trusting collaborators before they've earned it, playing to a rare, fully attentive crowd at Newport, and calling herself a “frustrated drummer" ...
Continue ReadingAbbie Finn, Harry Keeble, Omar Sosa, And More
by Colin Muirhead
Drummer Abbie Finn and saxophonist Harry Keeble talk about the Finn-Keeble Group, ahead of their gig at Pizza Express in Soho, as well as their other projects. Featuring tracks by the Finn-Keeble Group, the Abbie Finn Trio, Five-Way Split, Omar Sosa, the Scornful Four, and more. Playlist Abbie Finn Trio “Mardi Groove" from Stotties for Three (Self Released) 0:00 Abbie Finn & Harry Keeble “ Interview, part 1" from () 7:19 Five-Way Split “Soho Soirée" from Modus Operandi ...
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