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Florian Weber Quartet at ECM Warsaw Festival 2025
by Marek J. Śmietański
A collection of photos from the Florian Weber Quartet concert at Chopin University of Music (UMFC) in Warsaw on September 6, 2025 featuring Florian Weber, Michel Benita, Ziv Ravitz and Anna-Lena Schnabel. Other photo reports from the same festival: Mette Henriette at ECM Warsaw Festival 2025, Mathias Eick Quartet at ECM Warsaw Festival 2025 and Giovanni Guidi Trio at ECM Warsaw Festival 2025. ...
Continue ReadingThe Who: Who Are You
by Doug Collette
Besides being the last studio album issued prior to drummer Keith Moon's passing in 1978, Who Are You holds the distinction of being the most enervating release in the British quartet's discography, even more so than the previous album, The Who By Numbers (MCA, 1975).Featuring as it does only one outside musician, the late pianist extraordinaire Nicky Hopkins, The Who By Numbers was refreshing and authoritative in its simplicity even as its material, authored in the throes of ...
Continue ReadingLost and Found, Part 4: James P. Johnson, Ella Fitzgerald, Lennie Tristano & Hasaan Ibn Ali
by Larry Slater
This is the fourth and final hour of recent historic jazz discoveries. There are some amazing and inspiring stories of jazz sleuths who pulled out all the stops to discover long-lost music. The story of James P. Johnson's lost manuscripts ranks right up there with the most dedicated jazz archeologists. James P. Johnson is best known as the inventor of stride piano and the composer of the singular piece of music that came to symbolize the 1920s in ...
Continue ReadingRonald Snijders, Elizabeth Fadel, Federica Lorusso, Sam Newbould and more
by Co de Kloet
Lots of exclusive live recordings in this new episode. First tracks are part of our new Pocket Concerts series, short, intimate performances by top Dutch jazz and world music artists. We also made recordings in our own inJazz Hall during the Pop & Jazz Hilversum festival last October. An hour full of new top Dutch jazz. Enjoy listening! Playlist Intro: Boost! “Mess I Made" (J. Hol) Ronald Snijders & Elizabeth Fadel “Ode to Wayne Shorter" (R. Snijders) Ronald ...
Continue ReadingCaity Gyorgy Brings Strings to Swing
by Steven Roby
Canadian vocalist-composer and three-time JUNO winner Caity Gyorgy (pronounced “George") joins host Steve Roby for a conversation about craft, collaboration, and why swing still feels newly minted when the writing is sharp and the band listens hard. Known for quicksilver phrasing and original tunes that travel between club intimacy and orchestral sheen, Gyorgy traces the path from early influences to her new string-driven project. ...
Continue ReadingRemembering Jack DeJohnette: Unlimited Imagination
by Ian Patterson
It is with sadness that All About jazz must report the passing of NEA Jazz Master Jack DeJohnette--one of the most respected and influential of modern jazz drummers. He died of congestive heart failure on October 26, 2025. He was 83. DeJohnette belongs in the pantheon of great jazz drummers. If there were a Mount Rushmore of jazz drummers--and it would need to be one big old rock--Jack DeJohnette would certainly be there. His unique and ...
Continue ReadingGoldings/Bernstein/Stewart at SMOKE
by Chris DeRosa
Goldings/Bernstein/Stewart Smoke Jazz & Supper Club New York, NY October 23, 2025 Hello, my name is Chris DeRosa and this is what I heard... Tonight's festivities took place at the uptown New York City venue Smoke Jazz & Supper Club. The offering this evening was the organ trio consisting of Larry Goldings on Hammond B-3 organ (known for his Best Jazz Instrumental Album Grammy nomination with John Scofield and Jack DeJohnette for ...
Continue ReadingGrant Green: The Main Attraction
by Arnaldo DeSouteiro
During his brilliant career as one of the best producers in the music history, Creed Taylor (born in Lynchburg, Virginia, on May 13, 1929) has worked with some of world's greatest guitarists: from Barry Galbraith (1919-1983) and Mundell Lowe, who took part in the Creed Taylor Orchestra albums (Lonelyville, Shock!, Ping Pang Pong) for ABC-Paramount in the late Fifties, to smooth jazz virtuoso Steve Laury, who was signed to CTI in 1995. In between, Creed produced memorable albums ...
Continue ReadingKate Wyatt Trio: Murmurations
by Neil Duggan
Murmurations, the dazzling aerial spectacle of starlings swirling together to form ever-changing shapes, is an apt title for this album from the Kate Wyatt Trio. The trio show a similar intuitive understanding, moving in unity while remaining attuned to each member's subtle shifts. Kate Wyatt is a Montreal pianist with a string of recordings both as a leader and as an accompanist. These recordings include jazz albums as well as pop and TV work. Her previous album was ...
Continue ReadingThimo Niesterok: Stepping Forward
by Richard J Salvucci
During his studies at Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, Thimo Niesterock rapidly acquired a reputation as a talent with which to be reckoned. A disciple of Warren Vache and Clark Terry, Niesterock situated himself 'within the tradition,' a trumpet player not another trumpet athlete: 'this week's squeak is next week's note.' Good Heavens he is musical. On ballads and muted numbers, he rolls his notes like Vaché. And if his lines are pretty, but somewhat less imaginative than the ...
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