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Ledisi, The Manhattan Transfer, Tony Bennett, Lady Blackbird and Many More
by Jua Howard
Greetings Music Family! It's time for another episode of the First Instrument Jazz Show. I've got a lot of new music to share including music from Ledisi, Sachal Vasandani, Juliet Ewing, Whitney Ross-Barris; and a lot of other timeless music including from The Manhattan Transfer, Lady Blackbird, Tony Bennett, Patti Austin, Olatuja and many more. Come get lost in the music with me. Playlist Intro 00:00 Ledisi “If I Never Get to Heaven" from For Dinah (Candid) 3:16 ...
Continue ReadingKenny Barron Songbook Project, Lori Williams, Whitney Ross-Barris, Angela Verbrugge & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast includes new releases from Lori Williams, Kenny Barron, Whitney Ross-Barris, Angela Verbrugge and Phillip Officer, with birthday shoutouts to Lorde, Joni Mitchell, Chris Connor, Anne Sajdera, Russell Malone, Lauren Henderson, Jane Monheit, Lani Hall, Nikara Warren, Bertha Hope, Dara Starr Tucker and Betty Bryant, 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 ...
Continue ReadingMeet John O'Gallagher
by Cheryl K.
In this hour, an interview with saxophonist, composer, and educator John O'Gallagher. His release Ancestral on Whirlwind Recordings is with drummers Andrew Cyrille and Billy Hart and guitar Ben Monder. Plus, selections from new releases by pianist Pat Thomas and the Brooklyn, NY-based trio Prawntail.Playlist Louis Stewart-Brian Dunning “West Coast Blues" from Alone Together (Livia) 4:38 Russ Macklem “Theme for Detroit" from Introducing The Russ Macklem Quintet (TQM Recording Co.) 8:32 [excerpt] John O'Gallagher “Profess" from Ancestral (Whirlwind ...
Continue ReadingGianni Coscia: Sigla 1950
by Ludovico Granvassu
If Gianni Coscia were Korean, he would have been declared a “Human Cultural Asset," the title bestowed upon individuals recognized for their mastery and role in preserving national culture. But he's not Korean, so he may be more accurately described as an Italian living national treasure--a poet laureate trapped in the body of an accordionist. After a lifetime spent giving a jazz inflection to regional and popular Italian musical traditions, he has--at 94--released his first solo album, La ...
Continue ReadingGrant Stewart: Next Spring
by Jack Bowers
There aren't many jazz saxophonists who can hold the floor and the listener's ear through an entire album without ever sounding banal or redundant. Here is one who can. Next Spring is renowned tenor saxophonist Grant Stewart's fifth recording for Cory Weeds' Cellar Music Group, and if it includes any moments that are less than engaging, they are all but impossible to discern. Stewart's personal ingredient is consistency, an ability to conceive and convey fresh ideas in ...
Continue ReadingIan Torres: The Legend Of The Prince Of Darkness?
by Artur Moral
Trying to describe the nature of Ian Torres' latest work, Comprovisation (Self Produced, 2025), with a single word, it would be intriguing. Presented on November 20, 2025 at the Fulton Street Collective in Chicago, the new album mixes spontaneous creation, unwritten composition and studio work. Here, radically acoustic timbres--tenor sax, trombone, drums and his own trumpet--meet the densely electronic sonorities of various synthesizers and drum samplers, utilized from the perspective of a carefully crafted contemporary avant-garde. To be sure, the ...
Continue ReadingRasmus Kjær: Underlake
by Troy Dostert
Although he is based in Copenhagen, pianist/keyboardist Rasmus Kjær's travel to Lake Geneva in Switzerland in 2023 inspired Underlake. The set is a series of pieces united in their evocation of water in its various manifestations. For a restless musician whose many projects include Orgelimprovisationer (Lydhør, 2015), a solo organ recording, and Turist (Wetwear, 2019), a synth-based mélange of world music styles, Underlake represents a return to form, as his austere piano merges with the subtle hues provided by his ...
Continue ReadingMeet Guitarist Adam Levy
by Mike Brannon
This article first appeared on All About Jazz in March 2002. Even if you have listened to jazz for a while, you might not have heard of Adam Levy, but you likely will, either through his higher profile efforts, including work with Tracy Chapman, Joey Baron, Sexmob, John Zorn, and now the latest Blue Note sensation, singer/pianist Norah Jones. Though Bill Frisell, Brian Blade, and Kenny Wollesen, along with Levy, joined the Dallas native on her first major ...
Continue ReadingPepper Adams: Pepper Adams Quintet
by Joshua Weiner
Formed in 2025, the Gammaut label has upped the ante on deluxe audiophile reissues of classic jazz with their debut release, Pepper Adams Quintet (Mode Records, 1957). Original master tapes used? Check. Careful lacquer cutting at 45 RPM by Bernie Grundman? Check. Top-notch heavy vinyl pressing by Gotta Groove Records housed in a sturdy Stoughton gatefold? Check. To all these specs that routinely make audiophiles whip out their credit cards, Gammaut adds a gorgeous 40-page booklet with photos, newly-commissioned drawings, ...
Continue ReadingJack DeJohnette, Horace Silver, Jerry Weldon & Lakecia Benjamin
by Joe Dimino
Kicking off the 932nd episode of Neon Jazz, we dive in with the always electrifying Lakecia Benjamin, joined by Immanuel Wilkins and Mark Whitfield on her powerful new 2025 single “Noble Rise." From there, we journey through a treasure trove of fresh and timeless jazz--unreleased gems from Horace Silver live in Seattle circa 1965, a stirring Chick Corea farewell performance, the haunting beauty of Bill Evans' Haunted Heart, and Charles Mingus captured in full force at Monterey. In between, we ...
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