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Rodrigo Amado: Wailers
by Mark Corroto
A decade ago, it would have been easy to assume that saxophonist Rodrigo Amado's This Is Our Language (Not Two, 2015) was a singular encounter rather than the beginning of an enduring ensemble. Amado had previously collaborated with bassist Kent Kessler and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love on Teatro (European Echoes, 2006), while drummer Chris Corsano would join him for a pair of exceptional duo recordings. The final piece was the legendary Joe McPhee, whose presence elevated the quartet's debut into something ...
Continue ReadingHill Collective, Terri Lyne Carrington, Pharoah Sanders And More
by Lawrence Peryer
This week's Rotations deals in unfinished business, musical and otherwise. Charles Lloyd revisits a Mumbai session he started in 2009 and never finished. Piero Umiliani's old Rome tapes get a new life at the hands of a producer working from what he left behind. Pharoah Sanders and Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru's decades-old recordings sit easily next to brand-new records from Leeds and Boston that carry forward arguments about struggle, liberation, and what gets left for someone else to finish. Nothing ...
Continue ReadingNew Music From Dorota Piotrowska, Josh Warren And More
by Bob Osborne
A quietly adventurous thread runs through this edition of World of Jazz, tracing how improvisers and composers adapt their music into something reflective yet forward leaning. Most of the selections are selected from extant releases that show where exploratory music is heading--flute driven improvisations, spacious rhythmic architectures, pointed small group dialogues and electronic inflections. The playlist also includes two earlier innovators, a specific reminder that today's practitioners are working inside a continuum shaped by those players who expanded the language ...
Continue ReadingQuartSky at The 19th Summer Jazz Academy
by Marek J. Śmietański
A collection of photos from the QuartSky concert at Wytwórnia in Lodz on July 21, 2026 featuring Jonas Kullhammar, Maciej Obara, Ole Morten Vågan and Håkon Mjaset Johansen. Other photo reports from the same festival: Dust Bunny at The 19th Summer Jazz Academy, The Young Mothers at the 19th Summer Jazz Academy, Robinson Khoury Quatuor Demi-Lune at the 19th Summer Jazz Academy, Äether at the 19th Summer Jazz Academy. Look for the rest soon... ...
Continue ReadingGordian Knot: Muttersprache
by Geno Thackara
Sean Malone was the kind of bassist who could never simply stick to the basic support role if his life depended on it. He spun kaleidoscopic bass/Stick parts across a myriad of fusion, prog and/or metal recordings, but his particular harmonic wizardry never came out more eloquently than on this solo outlet. Gordian Knot had a rare knack for building layered structures as twisty as its namesake and yet also just as artful. ...
Continue ReadingTony Miceli and Chuck Redd At Chris’ Jazz Cafe
by Victor L. Schermer
Chuck Redd and Tony MiceliSteve Weiss Mallet FestivalChris' Jazz Cafe August 1. 2026 For several years, vibraphonist Tony Miceli has arranged with vibraphone makers and music schools and venues in the area to hold a yearly Vibraphone Festival, with performances, workshops, and interviews designed to improve performance, networking, and exposure of the public to vibraphone playing and composing. The festival took on the name “Steven Weiss Vibraphone Festival" to honor the late store owner who ...
Continue ReadingJimi Hendrix: Showman and Sculptor
by Alan Bryson
When you think of Jimi Hendrix, chances are something flamboyant or incendiary comes to mind. His Stratocaster in flames at Monterey, or kneeling before a wall of amps at Woodstock. Those are in my memory bank too, but I'm one of a small group of people alive today who actually experienced The Jimi Hendrix Experience. The spectacle I witnessed was a vastly different, and it took place at a most unlikely venue: the International Ballroom of the Washington Hilton, yes, ...
Continue ReadingCharles Lloyd at the Umbria Summer Jazz Festival 2026
by Rhonda Wagner
Charles Lloyd Quartet Arena Santa Giuliana Umbria Jazz Festival Perugia, Italy July 6, 2026 It was a night to remember in Perugia, Italy. During a brutal heat wave sweeping across southern Europe, the legendary saxophonist Charles Lloyd performed at the Umbria Jazz Festival in the open-air Arena Santa Giuliana, at the top of this medieval walled city. The cool night air was filled with jazz lovers grateful for the 9pm performance start.
Continue ReadingRino Sivathas: Speak Volumes
by Daniel Mège
Which country has the highest proportion of outstanding drummers relative to its total population? A difficult exam question, but by rough estimate, the number of drummers in Norway (really a lot of them), relative to its population (really a small one), makes it an obvious contender. Those who follow the scene have heard of Veslemøy Narvesen, and perhaps Øyvind Leite, Hans Hulbækmo and August Glãnnestrand, to stop at a square whose corners are arranged in reverse alphabetical order. But ...
Continue ReadingMike DiRubbo: Way Out Northwest
by Jack Bowers
Alto saxophonist and composer Mike DiRubbo, an acclaimed artist on the New York City jazz scene for more than three decades, traveled all the way to Vancouver, British Columbia, in October 2025 to record Way Out Northwest with a hand-picked all-Canadian rhythm section: pianist Tilden Webb, bassist Jodi Proznick and drummer Jesse Cahill. The result of their collaboration is a sturdy, swinging slice of contemporary jazz embracing half a dozen of DiRubbo's eloquent original compositions and others by ...
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