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Album Review

Plas Moon: More Love More Life

Read "More Love More Life" reviewed by Acacia Grace

by Acacia Grace
October 1, 2026

How can somebody sing about love and make you feel like you've entered a relaxing meditative state? That is the first question that comes to mind while listening to Plas Moon's More Love More Life. This is soulful, ethereal music that does not simply ask to be heard: it creates an atmosphere to fall into. The vocals are soft like silk, yet there is power underneath the restraint. Rather than placing the voice aggressively at the front of ...

Chats with Cats

Al Naffah: The Filmmaker

by B.D. Lenz
September 30, 2026

One of the things I've come to appreciate about jazz is just how much history there is that I still don't know. Take Emily Remler. I'm a guitarist; I've spent most of my life listening to and playing jazz, and yet, embarrassingly, I knew very little about Remler before learning about Firefly: The Emily Remler Story, an upcoming documentary from British filmmaker Al Naffah. And I suspect I'm not the only musician who has a few significant gaps ...

Live Review

Marcus Miller At Miner Auditorium

by Steven Roby
September 30, 2026

Marcus Miller Miner Auditorium, SFJAZZ Center “We Want Miles" Centennial Celebration San Francisco, CA September 27, 2026 On Sunday at Miner Auditorium, Mino Cinélu stepped down from his percussion riser, carried a large black gourd to center stage, and drew a startling range of sounds from it, wowing the crowd. No one onstage seemed in a hurry to leave. They had reason to linger. This was the final show of Marcus Miller's ...

In Pictures

Umbria Jazz 2026: Part 2

by Andrea Rotili
September 30, 2026

Part 1 | Part 2 More photos from the Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia, Italy, from July 3 to July 12, 2026 Cecile McLorin Salvant, Kenny Barron, Gabriele Mirabassi, Jon Batiste, Peter Erskine, Kris Davis, Fred Hersch, Drew Gress, Chris Potter, Aaron Parks, Sting, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, and many others. ...

Album Review

Ami Molinelli, Duo Violão Plus One: Raízes do Choro e Samba (Roots of Choro and Samba)

Read "Raízes do Choro e Samba (Roots of Choro and Samba)" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright

by Katchie Cartwright
September 30, 2026

For the better part of two decades, Ami Molinelli has been a stalwart of the San Francisco Bay Area's Brazilian music scene. Her undergraduate work in Conservation and Resource Studies at University of California at Berkeley led her to spend nine months in Salvador da Bahia, learning about Afro-Brazilian culture and performing with a group of women drummers. “Seeing music used as a community-building tool and social justice mechanism resonated with my conservation studies," she explained. “I began to see ...

Album Review

Daniel Carter / Sabir Mateen / William Parker / Lou Grassi: Keeping It In Context

Read "Keeping It In Context" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
September 30, 2026

This resounding blast from the past affirms drummer Lou Grassi's decision to flip from mainly commercial music to the adventurous end of the spectrum. He recorded Keeping It In Context in a 1996 session with some of New York City's finest avant practitioners following PoGressions (CJR, 1996), the date that led to him first dipping his toe in the free jazz waters. However, over time he forgot about the tapes. But when they resurfaced in 2023, their quality was immediately ...

Radio & Podcasts

An outstanding new release from Emma Dayhuff featuring Isaiah Collier and Paul Cornish, Kevin Sun's latest, Jane Ira Bloom and Caleb Wheeler Curtis with Jason Moran

by Hobart Taylor
September 30, 2026

Music from Anna Webber's latest projects, her nonet and Shimmer and Wince, saxophonist Alain Bradette and a classic cut from Frank Wess. Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Jane Ira Bloom “ White Tower" from Light from a Person (Outline) 00:07 Alain Bradette"Lunatic" from For My Loved Ones (Quantum Gravity) 06:24 Host Speaks 13:10 Anna Webber Nonet “Killing Wealth" from It's Easier to Imagine the End of the World... (Intakt) 13:49 Anna Webber/Adam O'Farrill/Elias Stemeseder/Lesley Mok"Wince" from Shimmer Wince (Intakt) ...

Album Review

Weave4: La Gomma Di Dante

Read "La Gomma Di Dante" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
September 30, 2026

Did the quartet Weave4 reach back 700 years with an eraser and a comma to reimagine Dante Alighieri's famous words: “Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost?" Well, not exactly. This French-Italian collective of pianist Benoit Delbecq, drummer Steve Arguelles, guitarist Francesco Diodati and Francesco Bigoni on tenor saxophone and clarinet follows up its self-titled album, Weave4 (Parco Della Musica Records, 2023), with 15 ...

Radio & Podcasts

Kalaparusha, Bobby Sanabria, and Giorgio Gaslini

by Jerome Wilson
September 30, 2026

This episode highlights spiritual jazz from Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, Latin jazz from the Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band and solo piano from Giorgio Gaslini among other things.Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 John Stevens Trio “Summertime" from Live at the Plough (Ayler) 00:55 David Murray 4tet and Strings “Waltz Again" from Waltz Again (Justin Time) 6:18 Host Speaks 15:07 ...

Radio & Podcasts

Nicole Zuraitis Baked Her Own Cake

by Leo Sidran
September 30, 2026

Nicole Zuraitis has spent much of her career being asked (and asking herself) variations of the same question: where do you fit? Is the music jazz? Is it pop? Is it cabaret?Her new album, The Devil I Knew, doesn't exactly settle the question. Instead, it makes the question seem increasingly beside the point.It's a sprawling, 20-song project produced by Larry Klein, with string arrangements by Vince Mendoza, horn charts by Jerry Hey, and musicians including Larry ...