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Miles Ahead: A Jazz Road Trip

Part 10: Real Isn't the Same as Ready

by Billie Eidson
October 14, 2026

Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18A drive from Oregon to Florida, to experience music and living across the USA, and ultimately join a jazz cruise. AKA, a listening practice, unfolding in real time--written on the road, in the spaces between cities and notes.Day Eighteen Fort Lauderdale, ...

Radio & Podcasts

Kris Davis, Janis Siegel, and Steve Lacy

by Jerome Wilson
October 14, 2026

This program features recent music from Kris Davis, Janis Siegel and Henry Threadgill as well as older work from Steve Lacy, Joel Harrison, and Eric Alexander.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 Elliot Lawrence “Bweebida Bwobbida" from Elliot Lawrence plays Gerry Mulligan Arrangements (Fantasy) 1:01 Stockholm Jazz Orchestra & Jim McNeely “Touch" from Jigsaw (Dragon) 3:48 Host Speaks 12:58 Randal ...

Album Review

Tim Morse: The Fourth Crossing

Read "The Fourth Crossing" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
October 14, 2026

Multi-instrumentalist Tim Morse has long operated in the progressive-rock sphere, both as a solo artist and through various band projects, while his more recent recordings have increasingly emphasized keyboards, synthesizers and electronic textures. The Fourth Crossing continues along that path, with Morse again building much of the music around layered keyboards, analog synth colors and atmospheric arrangements. Rather than representing a major stylistic shift, the album feels like another chapter in his ongoing exploration of electronic and progressive music, favoring ...

In Pictures

Ron Carter Foursight Quartet at Birdland

by Dan Bilawsky
October 13, 2026

There are hints of autumn everywhere. The leaves are turning. Temperatures are dropping, winking at sweater weather. Everything is coming up pumpkin. And for the initiated--in The City That Never Sleeps, at Birdland, “The Jazz Corner of the World"--Ron-tober has taken hold. A major sign of the season, Ron Carter's month-long run at that club has become a welcome traditional that draws fans from near and far. At 89 years of age, the most recorded bassist in history ...

Album Review

Clay Giberson: Moment's Notice

Read "Moment's Notice" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
October 13, 2026

Jazz fans with a history of listening to the innovators of the 20th century will recognise the title of Clay Giberson's trio outing, Moment's Notice, as a pick from saxophonist John Coltrane's 1958 Blue Note Album, Blue Train. It serves here as the set's closer, wrapping the show up with yet another touch of familiarity. Nine of Moments' Notice revisit the standards, tunes by Horace Silver ("Mayreh"), Keith Jarrett ("So Tender"), Wayne Shorter ("Beauty & The Beast"), and Charlie Haden ...

Album Review

Jalen Baker: RePaved

by Jack Bowers
October 13, 2026

RePaved, vibraphonist and composer Jalen Baker's third album as leader of his own ensemble, is an eight-part suite that depicts in musical terms the history of Houston, Texas' historic Black neighborhoods and his family's deep connection to the city's Third Ward, which spans four generations. As is usually true of thematic music, that becomes largely irrelevant once it begins. What is of more than passing interest is that Baker composed the suite's first half-dozen movements, while the seventh ...

Miles Ahead: A Jazz Road Trip

Part 9: Widening the Circle

by Billie Eidson
October 13, 2026

Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 A drive from Oregon to Florida, to experience music and living across the USA, and ultimately join a jazz cruise. AKA, a listening practice, unfolding in real time--written on the road, in the spaces between cities and notes. Day Seventeen ...

Radio & Podcasts

Ayumi Tanaka, Nduduzo Makhathini, Nicholas Payton, Butcher Brown & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
October 13, 2026

Tributes to Miles Davis, essential reissues, and compelling new releases come together in a set full of sonic adventures, surprises, and soul-searching.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Nicholas Payton, Butcher Brown “So What" A Supreme Blue (Concord Jazz) 0:16 Host talks 8:14 Nduduzo Makhathini feat. Keenan Ahrends “Umbono" The Myth We Choose (Blue Note) 9:25 Host talks 14:22 Ayumi Tanaka “Windflower" Windflower (ECM) 15:23 Billy Childs “Flamenco Sketches" ...

Album Review

Bushman's Revenge: Ah, Les Vaches

Read "Ah, Les Vaches" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
October 13, 2026

Norway's Bushman's Revenge has long occupied its own corner of the Scandinavian progressive music scene, where jazz improvisation, psychedelic rock and heavy guitar music regularly cross paths. Guitarist Even Helte Hermansen, drummer Gard Nilssen and new bassist Tor Egil Kreken retain the power-trio format, but brute force is only part of the equation. What distinguishes the band is its ability to turn open-ended improvisation and prog-rock architecture into something unusually organic, moving from atmospheric restraint to near-chaos without sounding as ...

Radio & Podcasts

The HII Trio, Ray Russell, T Square, Usein Bekirov, Aziza Mutafa Zadeh and Chick Corea

by Len Davis
October 13, 2026

This week, we explore a diverse mix of new music and fusion, opening with Brazilian drummer Igor Willcox and the HII Trio, followed by British guitarist Ray Russell featuring Simon Phillips and Japanese fusion legends T Square with Voyage . Belgian progressive outfit The Wrong Object bring us their newest work, while Go Go Penguin deliver something fresh with their new EP We hear bassist Ross Valory paying tribute to the influence of Carlos Santana, before Architects Of Sound takes to ...