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Radio & Podcasts

2026 New Releases, Part 2

by Jon Greenbaum
August 9, 2026

This is part 2. And in case you missed it, here's Part 1. Like I said last week, I came across hundreds and hundreds of releases. These are the other 2026 highlights that reconfigured the chemicals in my bloodstream. Playlist Dandy Dandie “23 septembre" from Helios y Selene (Yolk Records) 00:04 Diego Pinera 4x4 “Through Hell" from Romanian Dance (iapetus) 01:10 Michael Formanek “Prequel" from New Digs (Intakt Records) 06:33 Alexander Hawkins “Hocket Fierce Peaceful" from No Nation ...

Album Review

Gergana Velinova: Free

by Pierre Giroux
August 9, 2026

Every so often, an album arrives that does not seek to be admired so much as understood. This effort by Bulgarian-Canadian vocalist, songwriter, and poet Gergana Velinova, titled Free, fits that category. Velinova spent five years writing the album's ten songs. There is not a wasted word or an unnecessary note. Another part of the project is the artistic reunion between Velinova and multi-instrumentalist and producer Kristian Alexandrov, who have known each other since their teenage years and share a ...

Album Review

Michael Falzarano: Sunrise Over The Unknown

Read "Sunrise Over The Unknown" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
August 9, 2026

With various and sundry activities spanning the continental United States, from Woodstock to San Francisco and in between, guitarist-songwriter Michael Falzarano is something of a master of space and time. Such rarefied status thus renders the title of Sunrise Over The Unknown perfectly appropriate. The album is as full of promise as accomplishment, a premise underscored by the resplendent front cover image, art titled “Burst" by Natalie de Segonzac. Having played with contemporary iterations of Hot ...

Radio & Podcasts

Jerry Bergonzi, Joel Puckett, Ted Chubb and Matt Otto

by Joe Dimino
August 9, 2026

Kicking off the landmark 970th Episode of Neon Jazz is one of Kansas City's most adventurous musical voices, acclaimed saxophonist Matt Otto, featuring music from his compelling new 2026 album Ephemeral. From there, the journey unfolds through insightful conversations with Sean Pentland, Emie R. Roussel, Ted Chubb, and Jussi Lampela, each offering a unique perspective on the ever-evolving world of jazz. Between these engaging profiles, soak in standout performances from Bobby Matos, Jerry Bergonzi, Bobby Sanabria, Joel Puckett, and Leroy ...

In Pictures

New York Voices at Ladies' Jazz Festival 2026

by Marek J. Śmietański
August 9, 2026

A collection of photos from the New York Voices concert at Teatr Muzyczny im. Danuty Baduszkowej in Gdynia on July 23, 2026 featuring Darmon Meader, Kim Nazarian, Peter Eldridge, Lauren Kinhan and Urszula Dudziak (guest appearance), and Hervé Jeanne, Daniel Schay, Claus-Dieter Bandorf. ...

In Pictures

Dust Bunny at The 19th Summer Jazz Academy

by Marek J. Śmietański
August 9, 2026

A collection of photos from the Dust Bunny concert at Wytwórnia in Lodz on July 21, 2026 featuring Marta Warelis and Nasim López-Palacios Navarro. Other photo reports from the same festival: QuartSky 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... ...

Radio & Podcasts

Joe Lovano: Still on the Rise

by Stephen Braunginn
August 9, 2026

Joe Lovano has been shaping the sound of modern jazz for more than five decades--and this cat is still moving forward. On this episode of Strictly Jazz Sounds, Grammy Award winning saxophonist Joe Lovano joins me for a deep and spirited conversation about Paramount Quartet his latest ECM recording with guitarist Julian Lage, bassist Santi Debriano and drummer Will Calhoun. We get into the music behind the music: the chemistry of the quartet, recording with Manfred Eicher, the contrast between ...

The Blue Note Portal

Fillmore Dreams, Part 3

by Blue Note Portal
August 9, 2026

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Duane Allman went to bed at four in the morning and slept until three in the afternoon. Xample had been awake since seven and after breakfast had walked east on 5th Street in the cold March morning and felt the city around him like a living thing. By afternoon, the band was stirring and hungry for something that tasted like home. The subway ride uptown was ...

The Blue Note Portal

Fillmore Dreams, Part 2

by Blue Note Portal
August 8, 2026

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 The transition was not at all what Xample expected. Dr. Kovac had walked him through the neural integration protocol multiple times. He had read the technical documentation--all 1,400 pages of it. He had sat in the chamber on the seventy-seventh floor, felt the interface nodes calibrate against his temporal lobes, felt the gentle heat of the mapping sequence as it built a model of his sensorium. He had closed his ...

Album Review

OM: Sudpol

Read "Sudpol" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
August 8, 2026

Formed in Lucerne in 1972 by saxophonist Urs Leimgruber, guitarist Christy Doran, bassist Bobby Burri, and drummer Fredy Studer, the original quartet fused the raw voltage of rock with the open architecture of free improvisation, arriving at a sound they eventually dubbed “ElectroAcoustiCore." Studer's death in 2022, weeks ahead of the release of the anniversary album 50 (Intakt), 2022), might reasonably have closed the book. Instead, the three surviving founders did something a lesser band would not have attempted: they ...