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Mark Sherman, Jerry Weldon, Nicholas Payton, Maja Jaku and more
by Benjamin Boddie
Today's Music--Right Now! Fantastic music by Mark Sherman, Jerry Weldon, Nicholas Payton, Maja Jaku, Chris Rottmayer, Ted Piltzecker, Nat Adderley Jr., Richard D. Johnson, Affinity Trio, Anthony Stanco, Noam Lemish, Kelsey Mines, Jimbo Ross, Lili Maljic, Anthony D'Alessandro, Grant Stewart, Michael Dease, Michael Mayo, Baltimore Jazz Collective, Nick Finzer, Christopher McBride, Sacha Boutros, Mike Clark, Charlie Porter, Johnathan Blake, and more. Playlist Mark Sherman “Love Always Always" from Bop Contest (Miles High Records) 00:00 Jerry Weldon “You Go ...
Continue ReadingNew Music From Cardenas, Williams, Faraò, And More
by Bob Osborne
This week's playlist focuses on modern improvisation, small group dynamics, and inventive rhythms. You'll hear brass-led pieces and complex beats, ranging from quiet solo moments to intense group performances and global musical influences. The show highlights drifting melodies, fresh takes on post-bop styles, and ambient textures. Playlist Chris Ryan Williams “Visage (feat. Kalia Vandever)" from Odu--Vibration II (AKP Recordings) 00:00 Andrea Zacchia “Oleo" from Anemoia (Filibusta Records) 05:29 Antonio Faraò “'Round Midnight" from Kind Of... (Notes Around AG) ...
Continue ReadingJoe Magnarelli on Hard Bop, Persistence, and his New York Journey
by David Bixler
For nearly forty years, trumpeter Joe Magnarelli has been a fixture on the New York City jazz scene, gracing the bandstands of icons like Brother Jack McDuff, Lionel Hampton, Toshiko Akiyoshi, and Harry Connick Jr. While playing with these legends, he continued to hone his skills in a variety of small groups, both as a sideman and a leader. His latest work, Concord, is a testament to that unyielding drive. The title, a word defined as “agreement or harmony between ...
Continue ReadingCarmen Staaf: Sounding Line
by Dan McClenaghan
Thelonious Monk (1917 -1982) was often grouped with the bebop pianists of the late 1940s and early 1950s. But he was not bop. He was a pianistic world unto itself. Quirky, dissonant, often playful. Mary Lou Williams (1910 -1981) did not fit the bop category either. She came in before bop's advent. Her music was stylistically closer to Duke Ellington's eloquence, sass and swing. Bop aside, pianist Carmen Staaf heard a musical kinship between these two 20th-century contemporaries. ...
Continue ReadingInteresting Albums from the Past Few Months
by Jerome Wilson
Here are five worthwhile jazz albums released in the past few months. Billy Mohler The Eternal Contagious Music2025 Bassist Billy Mohler leads a fiery quartet on this album rooted in the sound of his authoritative bass mixing with Jeff Parker's guitar and Devin Daniels' alto saxophone. The music, built on simple vamps, dances and throbs easily with alto and guitar soulfully flying over the rumbling power of the bass and drums. ...
Continue ReadingJamile with Miki Yamanaka and her trio plus Steve Wilson: Pursuit of a Pulse
by Katchie Cartwright
Jamile Staevie Ayres, who goes professionally by her first name, was born and raised in Cachoeira do Sul, a midsize city located a couple of hours from Porto Alegre in Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state in Brazil, and the heart of its gaúcho culture. Growing up, she gravitated toward música popular brasileira (MPB) and Black popular music of the US. Gal Costa and Aretha Franklin were her two big vocal heroines. She took her undergraduate degree in Brazil ...
Continue ReadingTatum Langley: Tatum's Swingin' Session
by Jack Bowers
Change the face (and figure) on the cover of Tatum's Swingin' Session!!!, the Chicago-based Shout Section Big Band's fifth recording, and what is left is an almost exact replica of an album cover released by Capitol Records in 1961, depicting a swingin' session led by another rather well-known interpreter of popular song surnamed Sinatra...down to and including the three exclamation marks. It would be good to note that the resemblance endures on the album itself, but there ...
Continue ReadingNow and Then - Fieldwork, LaTanya Hall, Tomas Fujiwara new releases, and tunes from Kris Davis and Mary lou Williams
by Hobart Taylor
New Music from Fieldwork (Steve Lehman, Tyshawn Sorey, and Vijay Iyer), Tomas Fujiwara and Jon Irabagon, and call backs from Kris Davis and Mary Lou Williams.Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Kris Davis “Bird Call Blues" from Diatom Ribbons (Live at the Village Vanguard) (Pyroclastic) 00:14 Tomas Fujiwara “Mobilize" from Dream Up (Out Of Your Head) 11:08 Catherine Sikora “7.R" from Warrior (Self-Produced) 15:38 Host Speaks 20:28 Domo Branch “A Memory" from Hand of Gifts (Albina Trust) 22:06 LaTanya Hall ...
Continue ReadingDan Weiss, David Kikoski, and Enrique Haneine
by Jerome Wilson
This program covers a wide range of sounds. There is new music from drummers Dan Weiss and Enrique Haneine as well as older work from Duke Ellington, Ralph Towner, Dave Douglas, David Kikoski and others. (Note: on the selection “Trouble," I transposed the names of the group and album when I spoke.)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 Vered Dekel ...
Continue ReadingWayne Krantz trio at the Bitter End
by Tanja Momcilovic
A collection of photos from the Wayne Krantz trio concert at The Bitter End in New York City on October 7, 2025 featuring Wayne Krantz, James Genus and Josh Dion. ...
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