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Album Review

Antonio Adolfo: Balaios

Read "Balaios" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright

by Katchie Cartwright
July 20, 2026

Antonio Adolfo draws a parallel between balaios, the baskets that African Brazilian women have carried on their heads for centuries, and musical albums. “Each piece is placed carefully inside, shaped by the moment in which it was born, yet carried into the present with renewed meaning," he says. He speaks of Balaios as a gathering of “what he has cultivated over time--ideas, memories, and melodies." The project, a retrospective of sorts, has a particular focus on the composer-pianist's long association ...

Album Review

Anton Roolaart: The Ballad of General Jupiter

Read "The Ballad of General Jupiter" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
July 20, 2026

Dutch American multi-instrumentalist Anton Roolaart has inhabited the progressive rock world long enough to have earned his credentials, having spent more than a decade championing artists from Van der Graaf Generator to Camel through his streaming station, ProgRockRadio. His album The Plight of Lady Oona (Self-Produced, 2014) featured collaborations with Renaissance vocalist Annie Haslam and confirmed that his ambitions were genuine. In 2020, Roolaart relocated to Amsterdam after most of a lifetime in the States, and the emotional weight of ...

Album Review

Bignami Veltri Jazz Ensemble: Non-Places

Read "Non-Places" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan
July 20, 2026

Non-Places is a large ensemble project from the Bignami Veltri Jazz Ensemble, led by Italian composers Anna Bignami and Laura Veltri. Their nonet, consisting of six horns and a piano trio, brings together some of the leading musicians from the Danish jazz scene. Blending composition, improvisation and slight electronic elements, the group takes influences ranging from contemporary jazz to experimental music. The album takes its title from the concept introduced by French anthropologist Marc Augé, who described “non-places" ...

Radio & Podcasts

Douyé, Ali Ryerson, Carolyn Lee Jones, Kris Davis, Ran Blake & Dominique Eade, Bria Skonberg, Tom Ricci, Roni Ben-Hur & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
July 20, 2026

This broadcast includes new music from Douyé, Ali Ryerson, Carolyn Lee Jones, Kris Davis, Ran Blake & Dominique Eade, Bria Skonberg, Tom Ricci and Roni Ben-Hur, plus birthday shoutouts to Mavis Staples, Carol Morgan, Amber Weekes, Hey Rim Jeon, Mira Choquette, Lezlie Harrison, Lolivone de la Rosa, Nancy Erickson Lamont and Honorable Man Billy Eckstine, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear--see them live, buy their music so they can continue to comfort, distract, provoke and ...

Radio & Podcasts

Robert Corn-Revere: The Lawyer Who Plays Tuba And Pardoned Lenny Bruce

by Mike Jones
July 20, 2026

The man who won Lenny Bruce a pardon four decades after his death turns out to be a tuba player who came to jazz through Dave Brubeck. Robert Corn-Revere has spent more than 40 years as a First Amendment attorney, and on this episode he and Mike Jones trade the law for the record store: classic rock, the ritual of dropping eight bucks on an album, and why the music of that era still fills the same bar he drank ...

Radio & Podcasts

Pat Thomas, Reza Askari & Mali Obomsawin

by Maurice Hogue
July 20, 2026

The bag is not only mixed for this edition, but also vigorously shaken and stirred. Master pianist Pat Thomas & trio's The Day After, a must-listen recording, closes the show with a giant bang, but before that, eclecticism rules. You'll hear music from a couple of discoveries from the recent Vision Festival--pianist Hideki Akaiwa & Baltimore's powerful Konjur Collective--plus some recent finds from my own surfing: saxophonist Jimi Ahlroos from Finland, the Ancient Infinity Orchestra from Leeds, England, and the ...

Interview

The Art of Swing: A Conversation with Champian Fulton

by Mark Robbins
July 19, 2026

There are some musicians who seem completely at home in the language of jazz, and Champian Fulton is certainly one of them. As both a pianist and vocalist, she's built a career on bringing the Great American Songbook to life with elegance, swing, and an unmistakable sense of joy. Her performances feel rooted in the tradition, but they're never nostalgic--they're fresh, spontaneous, and distinctly her own. Born in Oklahoma, Champian grew up surrounded by music. Her father, jazz ...

Play This!

Corcovado Looms Large Over South American Rhythm

by Keith Flint
July 19, 2026

Corcovado refers to the “Hunchback" mountain in the Tijuca Forest near Rio de Janeiro. Similar to the granite peak itself, this track emerges above its surroundings on the album Cannonball's Bossa Nova (Capitol Records, 1963). Immediately following guitarist Durval Ferreira's three introductory chromatic chords, Cannonball Adderley's alto saxophone glides above and gently overlays the rhythm section of Sergio Mendes (piano), Octavio Bailly Jr. (bass), and Dom Um Romão (drums). Written by Antônio Carlos Jobim, at a distinctive 127 ...

Album Review

Stephen Guerra: Um Violão na Cidade Maravilhosa

Read "Um Violão na Cidade Maravilhosa" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright

by Katchie Cartwright
July 19, 2026

Buffalo-based guitarist-songwriter and professor Stephen Guerra's notation has developed a slight Brazilian accent. You notice it in small things like a major chord symbol with a capital “M." Who is reading these charts? Musicians in several choro communities around the globe, as it turns out. Take “Um Negocinho pro Tito," (track 9). Guerra first released it on his self-produced 2025 album No Balanço do Choro-Samba, which featured Rogério Souza on 7-string guitar, Eduardo Neves on flute and Thiago ...

Album Review

Tomos Williams: Cwmwl Tystion III / Empathy

Read "Cwmwl Tystion III / Empathy" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
July 19, 2026

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow. So it has proven for Welsh trumpeter-composer Tomos Williams, whose intended one-off album Cwmwl Tystion / Witness (Tŷ Cerdd, 2019) unwittingly became the first installment of a trilogy charting Welsh identity, history and internationalism. Realizing there were still important stories to tell, Cwmwl Tystion II: Riot! (Tŷ Cerdd, 2021) picked up where Witness left off. On this second volume Williams addressed blood-soaked historical events in Wales--revolts, pogroms and race riots--across a brilliant one-hour suite. ...