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Joey Alexander, Marilyn Maye, Charles Tolliver, NicoleYvette & Eddie Bruce
by Joe Dimino
The 969th Episode of Neon Jazz opens with the unmistakable style, natural charisma, and velvet-smooth vocals of Eddie Bruce, featuring music from his outstanding 2026 album, For Dreamers and Their Dreams. From there, we pay tribute to one of Kansas City's true musical legends as Eddie's former vocal coach, the incomparable Marilyn Maye, lights up the hour with selections from her brilliant 2026 release, Live at Jazz at Lincoln Center. The journey continues with an exciting lineup of fresh voices ...
Continue ReadingRob van Bavel: The Ghost, the King and I featuring Scott Hamilton & Strings
by Jack Bowers
As near as can be deduced, The Ghost, the King and I is a Netherlands-based trio comprised of pianist Rob van Bavel, guitarist Vincent Koning and bassist Frans van Geest. After performing in concert with acclaimed American tenor saxophonist Scott Hamilton and Salon de Musique, a three-member string group from South Korea, van Bavel and his teammates decided that the outcome was so auspicious that it simply had to be recorded. And so it was, in October 2026, ...
Continue ReadingMohini Dey, Jeremy Green, Aurora Clara, Mike Murray, Evan Marien, Three Wise Monkeys and much more
by Len Davis
New music this week comes from phenomenal bassist Mohini Dey, joined by drummer Roni Kaspi and Dennis Chambers, alongside Toronto guitarist Jeremy Green, and the outstanding pairing of m: Oz Noy and Nir Felder paying tribute to the late Pat Martino. From Madrid, Aurora Clara delivers evocative '70s-inspired fusion infused with world music influences, while Canadian guitarist Mike Murray brings powerful progressive jazz, and bassist Evan Marien teams up with drummer Dana Hawkins for some dynamic contemporary fusion. There's progressive ...
Continue ReadingVoo Voo Runs the Voodoo Down
by Maciej Stasiowski
Voo Voo is the faux-phonetic transcription of how Wojciech Waglewski's initials should be pronounced in English--instead of the default “double U" times two. By no mere coincidence, it is also the name of a group he has been running since 1985. Having secured his band this way for sailing on international waters already at the outset, it is surprising that after four decades of extensive musical activity, Waglewski's quartet--since 2011 consisting of its leader (guitar, vocals), Mateusz Pospieszalski (saxophones, keyboards, ...
Continue ReadingIntroducing Saxophonist Jay Thatte
by Sanford Josephson
Jay Thatte has been playing music since he was seven years old, starting out on classical piano. In the sixth grade at Newark Academy, a coeducational private day school in Livingston, NJ, where he lives, he was exposed to jazz by Julius Tolentino, the Director of Bands. “He introduced me to clarinet and saxophone," Thatte recalled. “I've been taking lessons from him since then. I didn't go to Newark Academy for music, but it was like a stroke of luck. ...
Continue ReadingThe Scornful Four: Hopeful Music for Hopeless People
by Jack Kenny
This is an exciting and important album, though some of the language surrounding its release obscures more than it reveals. The term “scornful," for instance, hardly captures the evident musical concord here. What we hear instead is a group in genuine sympathy: cooperative, attentive, and fully committed to the shared purpose of the music. The publicity aligns the quartet with the Gerry Mulligan--Chet Baker pianoless group of the early 1950s, as well as the Sonny Rollins's trio with ...
Continue ReadingDanalogue: Telling The Future Through Old Machines
by Lawrence Peryer
This week we're putting The Tonearm's needle on synthesist and producer Danalogue.Danalogue is a founding member of The Comet Is Coming and half of Soccer96, and he's recently released his debut solo album, Teleportations. The record imagines grief and upheaval as a science-fictional voyage and was sparked by a chance encounter with the artist Moebius that grew into an imagined civilization.We talk about recording alone, with no one else's voice in the room; why he calls ...
Continue ReadingGerry Hemingway with Izumi Kimura, Frank Gratkowski and Christian Weber: Live at Bau 4
by Glenn Astarita
Drummer and composer Gerry Hemingway has spent five decades proving that percussion can be as harmonically literate as any horn or keyboard. That reputation was forged during his decade with the Anthony Braxton Quartet and expanded through an expansive discography on labels including Auricle, Tzadik, Clean Feed, and Intakt. Now based in Switzerland, Hemingway continues to cultivate collaborations that balance compositional rigor with the spontaneity of collective improvisation. Live at Bau 4 documents one such encounter. Per Maxi ...
Continue ReadingGerry Hemingway: Live at Bau 4
by Mark Corroto
Touch. It is the word that most often comes to mind when listening to the music of composer and drummer Gerry Hemingway. While rhythm and structure are central to his work, it is touch, the physical act of striking, rubbing, bowing, pressing and releasing that gives his music its distinctive character. Hemingway's performances do more than generate sound; they evoke texture. They invite the listener to imagine the grain of wood, the scrape of metal, the vibration of strings and ...
Continue ReadingLeft Wall Balcony
by Mike Jurkovic
Pinwheel Pete on cowbell was a philharmonic all his own His tones like a fishwife's virgin murmurs rush the front rows then the left wall balcony w/a wave of clarion richness only Pete conjures in concert On stage his song and dance his lavaliere dreams of disrepair become bop become blues Holds the groove through all ...
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