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Radio & Podcasts

New Music From Linda Sikhakhane, Brandon Seabrook, Angles 4 & More

by Bob Osborne
September 24, 2026

A selection of new and forthcoming releases which includes both the conventional and the experimental. New talent emerges with fresh ideas and jazz legends demonstrate legacy and commitment to artistry. This is a truly eclectic mix of that the jazz world has to offer at this point in time.Playlist Linda Sikhakhane “Vumani" from Linda (Blue Note Records) 00:00 Brandon Seabrook “The Guitar Is A Weather Event" from Utility Modern (Out Of Your Head Records) 04:58 Angles 4 “The ...

Radio & Podcasts

Minoru Muraoka, Alice Coltrane, Jazztobak And More

by Lawrence Peryer
September 24, 2026

This episode explores the theme of rediscovery: a 1970 Japanese shakuhachi record just reissued, and a Swedish duo closing things out on a stripped-down reading of an old socialist hymn. In between we present a run built entirely around one photography book, unpublished 1970s portraits by the late Warner Bros. photographer Ginny Winn. The Residents are out on tour presenting 1979's Eskimo in full and some of that's here, too. There's more, but you'll have to listen to find out...

In Tribute To...

John Coltrane At 100: A Global Perspective

by Ian Patterson
September 23, 2026

With the advent of his birth centenary, John William Coltrane is on our minds again. But then he nearly always is. His influence on generations of saxophonists is palpable. For countless musicians the term “Coltranesque" can be a badge of honor or a millstone around the neck. With the exception perhaps of Miles Davis--whose centenary also fell in 2026--arguably no other jazz musician has been so imitated--knowingly or otherwise. His main influence, however, is not so much in ...

Live Review

Punkt Festival 2026

by Nenad Georgievski
September 23, 2026

Punkt FestivalTeateret/KunstsiloKristiansand, Norway September 3-5, 2026 Kristiansand does not announce itself the way a festival city usually does. The southern Norwegian port sits low along a coastline of pale granite and pine, its old town a grid of white wooden houses running down to Fiskebrygga, a fishing-harbor district where cruise ships dock a short walk from the quay. Just across the water, the wooded hill of Odderøya--once a naval base, now laced with ...

Album Review

Emile Parisien: Floating

by Neil Duggan
September 23, 2026

French soprano saxophonist Emile Parisien is a leading light in French and European jazz. Equally at home in contemporary chamber jazz, free improvisation and more traditional settings, he has developed a distinctive musical language shaped by a wide range of collaborators and influences. Floating is the first release from a quartet that emerged from the closing concert of Parisien's two-year residency at the Cité Internationale in Paris. Intended as a one-off performance, the rapport between the musicians was ...

Album Review

Alessandro Florio: Controra Avenue

Read "Controra Avenue" reviewed by Don Ball

by Don Ball
September 23, 2026

Jazz organ trios tend toward a funky, nitty-gritty sound, like a night out at a juke joint in Mississippi. Italian guitarist Alessandro Florio presents a different approach, much like lazing away on a warm, sunny day at a Mediterranean beach. Not that he cannot bring the groove when he wants, but Florio's album lives up to its name of an imaginary street in New York City that reflects the time after lunch, “controra" in Italian, when the sun is the ...

Radio & Podcasts

Michael Eckroth, Alice Coltrane, and Jack Bruce

by Jerome Wilson
September 23, 2026

This episode includes many different strands of modern jazz, from the sophisticated jazz-rock of Michael Eckroth and Jack Bruce to the spiritual explorations of Alice Coltrane and Simon Moullier.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 Surman “Beyond the Hill" from Flashpoints & Undercurrents (Cuneiform) 00:59 Mica Bethea Big Band “Jonesin' For Thad" from Stage 'N Studio (Self-Produced) 9:13 Host ...

Album Review

Mike Catalano: A Trio Affair

Read "A Trio Affair" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
September 23, 2026

There is something comforting about the way Mike Catalano's A Trio Affair brings his musical trilogy to a close. This release returns to where the story began in 1989 with A Rio Affair, followed 18 years later by A Manhattan Affair. Listening to this album, it feels as if Catalano is less interested in revisiting those albums than in recalling what he liked about them, namely the meeting of New York jazz and Brazilian rhythms. Catalano has also ...

Radio & Podcasts

Chapter 7: Take Five And See The World

by Larry Slater
September 23, 2026

Artie Shaw was an enigma. A self-taught, brilliant clarinetist blessed with movie-star good looks, he became one of the defining musicians of the Big Band era. Yet at the height of his fame, he walked away from the music business, leaving behind a legacy as fascinating as it was influential.In the early 1990s, Ted Hallock--a passionate jazz scholar and former Oregon State Senator--spent a week with Shaw recording an extraordinary series of in-depth conversations about music, life and ...

Radio & Podcasts

Kris Davis Trio, Trumpeter Giveton Gelin, Steve Swallow's latest + Poet Anne Waldman, Thurston Moore and James Ilgenfritz set Willam S. Burroughs' Cut Ups to Music

by Hobart Taylor
September 23, 2026

New music from the Kris Davis Trio, pianist Marta Warelis, poet Saul Williams, and rising trumpet star Gaveton Gelin. Host Speaks 00:00 Agneya Chitke “ Naima" from Agneya (Self-Produced) 00:13 Kris Davis Trio “Congestion Pricing" from Lost In Geneva (4166 Records) 05:41 Host Speaks 13:54 Saul Williams “Baobab Constellations (feat. Carlos Niño)" from Leap Life (Big Dada) 15:26 Marta Warelis “Alternate Endings" from Still Life with Lemons (Relative Pitch) 21:44 Host Speaks 32:32 Justus Eichhorn “Etude in ...