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Miles Ahead: A Jazz Road Trip

Part 5: Before The Sun

by Billie Eidson
October 9, 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 Nine ...

Radio & Podcasts

Chapter 9: The day Artie Shaw played Berezowksy at Bop City

by Larry Slater
October 9, 2026

Artie Shaw was an enigma. A self-taught, brilliant clarinetist blessed with movie-star good looks, he became one of the defining musicians of the Big Band era. Yet at the height of his fame, he walked away from the music business, leaving behind a legacy as fascinating as it was influential. In the early 1990s, Ted Hallock--a passionate jazz scholar and former Oregon State Senator--spent a week with Shaw recording an extraordinary series of in-depth conversations about music, life ...

Radio & Podcasts

Darren Frate Group

by Daniel Peck
October 9, 2026

Darren Frate's music has been described as world music, jazz and jazz fusion woven together by bass driven grooves and improvisation. Darren leads and has the unique ability to perform not just in his own style but to effectively emulate other bassist styles as well.Joined by Nate Yingling on piano and keyboards, Steve Kortyka on saxophone, and Kyle Rowland on percussion and from a September 27th, 2025 performance, Daniel Peck is your host for the Darren Frate Group... ...

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Take Five with Vocalist Greg Farnese

by AAJ Staff
October 8, 2026

Greg Farnese is a modern-day throwback vocalist, a crooner, if you will. He reignites the treasured and timeless classics from the Great American Songbook and blends them with his unique interpretations of his modern-day favorites. A South Jersey native, Greg began his career in acting and moved to Hollywood, California, where he worked in theater, television and films. Missing his roots, he ultimately moved back to the East Coast, where he started his own production company producing content for television, ...

Album Review

Ran Blake: Voices

by Troy Dostert
October 8, 2026

Following closely upon another of his beguiling efforts with vocalist Dominique Eade, Roots & Byways (Sunnyside, 2026), Ran Blake proves he remains just as invested in his solo piano work on Voices. The 19 pieces, which possess Blake's distinctive blend of oblique lyricism and generous breadth, are gorgeous reflections that incorporate broad swaths of twentieth-century music and serve as another vivid reminder of Blake's longstanding dedication to transcending category. From Puccini's “My Name is Mimi" to Fats Waller's ...

Album Review

Science Fair: Sugar in the Morning

Read "Sugar in the Morning" reviewed by Daniel Mège

by Daniel Mège
October 8, 2026

Listening to Anna Ueland amounts to turning a question mark into an exclamation mark. Heard at the Trondheim Jazzfestival in 2026, when elected Ambassador of the University of Trondheim, she presented her string-dominated group Populærmusikk for likesinnede (Popular music for like-minded people), joyful experimental jazz-pop with first-rate soloists. She had just released Music For A Noisy Environment (Sonic Transmissions Records, 2026) with her group Babies On Airplanes, a sort of ad hoc soundtrack for the listener's imagination. Here she is with her quintet ...

In Pictures

September 2026 at SFJAZZ

by Ronald Davis
October 8, 2026

A collection of photos from the SFJAZZ Center in San Francisco from September 1, 2026 to September 30, 2026 featuring Christian McBride and Ursa Major, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Dianne Reeves, Joey Calderazzo, Eric Revis, Cyrille Aimée, Mathis Picard, Paul Cornish, D-Erania Stampley, Miguel Marcel Russell, Greg Hutchinson, Russell Gunn, Marcus Miller, Simon Phillips, Bill Evans--Saxophone, Destiny Muhammad, Glen Pearson, James Mahone, Grace Kelly, Brian Simpson, Nduduzo Makhathini, Leon Joyce, Jr., Arthur “Chico" López, ...

Album Review

Sharp Little Bones: Step Up! Get Down!

Read "Step Up! Get Down!" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan
October 8, 2026

Sharp Little Bones began as the house trio at Peggy's Skylight jazz club, a much-acclaimed jazz venue in Nottingham, UK. Consisting of Simon Paterson on upright and electric basses, Paul Deats (who co-founded Peggy's) on Rhodes piano and Andrew Woody" Wood on drums, they were later joined by tenor saxophonist Tony Kofi, who joined for a gig in 2020, and the chemistry was strong enough to make the arrangement permanent. The name says something about the music: Sharp Little Bones ...

Radio & Podcasts

Ekep Nkwelle, Brandon Seabrook, Donald Vega, Sakoto Fujii, Caixa Cuba

by Cheryl K.
October 8, 2026

During this week's two-hour program of jazz and improvised music--vocalist Ekep Nkwelle; guitarist/banjoist Brandon Seabrook; pianists Thelonious Monk (1967 Euro tour) and Donald Vega; harmonica player Hendrik Meurkens and pianist Steve Sandberg; pianist/composer Sakoto Fujii; the Brazilian trio Caixa Cuba; and guitarist Jocelyn Gould.Playlist [SINGLE] Billie Holiday “Deep Song" from [SINGLE] (Decca) 3:10 Ekep Nkwelle “Night Song" from Caged Bird (Mack Avenue) 4:40 Shai Jaschek “How Much Longer" from Portrait (Jazz Bird) 4:57 Brandon Seabrook “Star-Crossed Phantasms" from ...

Miles Ahead: A Jazz Road Trip