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The Cookers At Miner Auditorium
by Steven Roby
The Cookers Miner Auditorium San Francisco, California October 16, 2025 Some bands chase heat; The Cookers shape it--transforming velocity into design and treating their repertoire as a living lab for risk. On this night at Miner Auditorium, the seven-piece did not rely on memory. They played in the present tense, with charts that encourage lift, turn, and smooth landings, the way only a seasoned band with deep trust can deliver. The premise was simple and ...
Continue ReadingMike Keneally & Beer For Dolphins at The Cutting Room
by Max Kutner
Mike Keneally & Beer for Dolphins The Cutting Room New York, NY October 14, 2025 Mike Keneally was making an especially rare NYC appearance with his long-standing band, Beer for Dolphins this Tuesday evening at The Cutting Room. For over 30 years, Keneally has established himself as a singular force of nature as a composer and songwriter as well as a freakishly facile singer, keyboardist, and guitarist--all qualities which were on abundant display throughout the ...
Continue ReadingJoel Frahm Trio At Magy's Farm
by Ian Patterson
Joel Frahm Trio Magy's Farm Dromara, N. Ireland October 17, 2025 After 30 years in New York and then Nashville, tenor saxophonist Joel Frahm has swapped the year-round blur of club dates and tours for the relative security of the teaching faculty at Texas State University. It is undoubtedly great news for that renowned institution's music students, but a loss for jazz fans around the world who are not going to see Frahm with ...
Continue ReadingHillai Govreen: Every Other Now
by Kyle Simpler
Many musicians are content to write and perform songs, while others continuously explore deeper territory. Clarinetist, saxophonist, and composer Hillai Govreen belongs firmly to the latter camp. At heart, she is a storyteller, and with Every Other Now, her debut solo release, she creates music that invites not only listening but also imagination. Govreen first drew notice with Allusions (Starr Street, 2021), a duo with pianist Nitsan Kolko, where her sensitivity and command of dialogue came to the ...
Continue ReadingNancy Walker: Deeper Down
by Konstantin N. Rega
Award-winning Canadian pianist Nancy Walker finds musical camaraderie and a gentle sway on Deeper Down. Clearly a labor of love, the tracks glide by almost effortlessly. Walker's quartet includes saxophonist Tara Davidson, bassist Lauren Falls and Ethan Ardelli on drums. And it is their ability to synchronize and intuit one another that allows the music to blossom. Though they might not have a big sound, they have a steady one; it keeps the listener engaged while offering approachability matched with ...
Continue ReadingTed Piltzecker: Peace Vibes
by Jack Bowers
With the world desperately in need of more Peace Vibes in these times of seemingly endless strife and division, vibraphonist Ted Piltzecker is happy to oblige, putting his Colorado-based “quartet" to work on the problem via a series of bright and handsome themes whose gracefulness and charm are designed to calm even the most savage beast. The word quartet is placed between quotation marks because Piltzecker leads a quintet on at least two tracks and perhaps others; ...
Continue ReadingMonktober Continues, New Music from Charles Lloyd and More, Birthday Music from Roy Hargrove and More
by David W. Daniels
Monktober continues with very early recordings by Coleman Hawkins and Milt Jackson featuring Thelonious Monk on piano. Also, some of Monk's own compositions by himself and others. Classics by other artists including Charles Mingus, Dave Brubeck, and more. New music from Lori Williams, Ruby Rushton, and more. Recognizing this week's jazz musician birthdays with music from Freddy Cole, Kazumi Watanabe, and more.Playlist Grachan Moncur III Octet “Monk In Wonderland"--from Exploration (Capri) 00:00 Coleman Hawkins with Thelonious Monk “Drifting ...
Continue ReadingBen LaMar Gay, Witold, Harald Lassen, Jon Irabagon & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
Enjoy a playlist that shines a light on recent and upcoming releases while trying to bridge the gap between mainstream and progressive audiences. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Jon Irabagon “Buggin' the Mud" Plainspeak -Someone to Someone (Irrabagast) 0:16 Host talks 5:52 Josh Lawrence “Long as You're Living" Still We Dream (Posi-Tone) 6:53 Host talks 10:46 Ben LaMar Gay “there, inside the morning glory" Yowzers ...
Continue ReadingMark Turner, Perelman/Wooley, O.N.E. & Herb Robertson
by Maurice Hogue
Acclaimed saxophonist Mark Turner's new recording, Reflections on: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, will attract attention not only for the brilliant playing, but also for the very forthright topic of a bi-racial man able to “pass" as white. Turner used as his motivation the semi-fictional account written by James Weldon Johnson, a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance &a key member of the Civil Rights movement, and the fact that passing as white happened in Turner's own family. Other ...
Continue ReadingRGG featuring Robert Więckiewicz at Lem Festival
by Marek J. Śmietański
A collection of photos from the RGG & Robert Więckiewicz concert at EC1 in Lodz on October 7, 2025 featuring Łukasz Ojdana, Maciej Garbowski, Krzysztof Gradziuk and Robert Więckiewicz (a famous Polish film and television actor), who read excerpts from Stanisław Lem's novel Solaris. The concert was one of the highlights of the Lem Festival “Megabit Bomb," dedicated to algorithms that are the foundation of AI development and the basis of quantum mechanics. ...
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