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Amaika Rude: The Ska and the Abstract Truth
by Don Phipps
A remake of a classic and fun to boot! Amaika Rude's album, The Ska and the Abstract Truth, evokes happy head nodding to the tunes found on Oliver Nelson's masterpiece Blues and the Abstract Truth (Impulse 1961). The original album, released in February 1961, featured Nelson on saxophone and included such jazz luminaries as Freddie Hubbard, Eric Dolphy, Bill Evans, Paul Chambers and Roy Haynes. With a lineup like that, is it any wonder why many jazz publications have given ...
Continue ReadingRafael Enciso: Crossfade
by Jack Bowers
On Crossfade, his debut recording as leader, bassist Rafael Enciso wrests as much rhythmic and harmonic mileage as possible from what is basically a quartet date, using tenor saxphonist Dayna Stephens to add color and depth to one of his ten original compositions, organist Jahari Stampley to amplify two others. Elsewhere, Enciso and his companions paint with broad musical strokes, breathing life into his impressions of a “Waterfall," “Solstice," “Skipping Stones" and “Whirlpool," the last showcasing Enciso's resonant ...
Continue ReadingTim Richards Trio: Four Aces
by Neil Duggan
Tim Richards has been plying his trade as a jazz pianist since 1982. In that time, he has been the guiding force behind numerous group projects: Spirit Level, Great Spirit, Hextet and his own trio. Followers of his recordings have had to exercise considerable patience--his last release was 2015's Telegraph Hill (33jazz), and his last trio recording stretches back even further to 2010's Shapeshifting (33jazz). Fortunately, the wait is over: he returns with his fourth trio recording, Four Aces.
Continue ReadingThe Final Batch of My Favorite 2025 Jazz Things - Part 2
by Ludovico Granvassu
The past six months have delivered more music than anyone could possibly absorb in real time. So this week, instead of trying to keep up, we slow things down and look back--focusing on the songs that earned repeat listens and slowly made a home in our ears.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Charlie Hunter, Ella Feingold “Housatonic" Different Strokes for Different Folks (SideHustle) 0:16 Host talks 2:34 Craig ...
Continue ReadingBrandon Sanders, Sean Mason, Aretha Tillotson, Enoch Smith Jr. and more
by Benjamin Boddie
Today's Music--Right Now! Fantastic music by Brandon Sanders, Sean Mason, The Flying Horse Big Band, Kenny Barron, David Sneider, Enoch Smith Jr., Aretha Tillotson, Josie Falbo, Aaron Parks, Steve Houghton, Socrates Garcia, Neil Gray, Lafayette Harris Jr., Scott Silbert, James Suggs, Andy Nevala, Angela Verbrugge, Ted Rosenthal, Chad Lefkowitz-Brown, Andrew Carroll, Charles Lloyd, Nat Adderley Jr., Neal Miner, Michael Dease, Kate Wyatt, Charlie Porter, Caelan Cardello, Anthony Stanco, Margherita Fava, and more.Playlist Brandon Sanders “8/4 Beat" from Lasting ...
Continue ReadingRemembrance 2025: Jim McNeely, Chuck Mangione, Andy Bey, Eddie Palmieri and Hermeto Pascoal
by Larry Slater
Every year the jazz world loses some major artists and 2025 was no exception.In this hour, we remember the composer and arranger Jim McNeely, one of the most distinguished large ensemble jazz composers of his generation.Hermeto Pascoal was a Brazilian artist who defied classification. He became a favorite of audiences around the world, though he was never particularly well known in the US. Known in Brazil as “The Sorcerer" and “The Mad Genius," he wrote more ...
Continue ReadingMost Read Articles: 2025
by Michael Ricci
All About Jazz tracks how often an article is read, and the articles listed below represent our most popular in 2025. Best Jazz Albums of 2025: All-Star Break Edition Year in Review July 2, 2025 Bob Schlesinger at Dazzle Live Review August 20, 2025 The Unlikely Story of Cannonball Adderley's Rise to the Top So You Don't Like Jazz ...
Continue ReadingCrossroads of Idol Dreams
Concept by Blue Note Portal | Written by AI
London, late November 1968. Hurtwood Edge, Surrey. The house is wrapped in the kind of English rain that never quite commits to falling; it merely hangs in the air like a bad memory. Inside the kitchen the Aga ticks like an old heart that has forgotten the rhythm of joy. The air carries yesterday's curry, cold tea, and the faint, shameful ghost of smack cooked too often on the same bent spoon. At 6:10 a.m. the stairs creak ...
Continue ReadingBill Evans: Haunted Heart: The Legendary Riverside Studio Recordings (Remastered 2025)
by C. Andrew Hovan
The past five years have been a banner period for recordings drawn from the vast canon of Bill Evans work, encompassing both previously issued material and newly discovered performances. Adding to the fact that one can easily hunt down previously issued expansive reissues of Evans' Riverside, Verve, and Fantasy catalogs, many unearthed tapes have finally seen the light of day through the efforts of Elemental Music and Resonance Records. And while it has been several decades since the JVC XRCD ...
Continue ReadingNorbert Stein Pata Trio: Planetentochter
by Glenn Astarita
In the ever-expanding cosmos of European free jazz, Norbert Stein's Pata Trio arrives like a meteor--compact, unpredictable and tinged with pata-physical whimsy. Recorded in late 2024 in Cologne, the album runs just under 40 minutes across six tracks, a tightly plotted interstellar voyage led by Stein's tenor saxophone, alongside pianist Uwe Oberg and drummer Jörg Fischer. This bass-less lineup feels less like a constraint than an open field, allowing the music to hover in abstraction while grounding itself in Stein's ...
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