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Album Review

Marion Brown: Live in Europe 1968 & 1972

Read "Live in Europe 1968 & 1972" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
November 9, 2026

Live In Europe 1968 & 1972 captures Marion Brown at a pivotal juncture, balancing the kinetic energy of his earlier free-jazz work with a growing interest in more spacious improvisation. The saxophonist first achieved prominence thanks to his appearance on John Coltrane's monumental Ascension (Impulse!, 1965). However the raised profile did not translate into more work. He found greater acceptance following a move from New York City to Europe in 1967. Here he forged alliances with fellow expatriates bassist Barre ...

Radio & Podcasts

Amina Figarova, Caroline Davis, Jane Ira Bloom, Jamie Davis, Jennifer Roberts, Noe Socha, UNLV Combos & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
November 9, 2026

This broadcast includes new music from Jamie Davis, Amina Figarova, Caroline Davis, Jane Ira Bloom, Jennifer Roberts, Noe Socha and UNLV Combos, with birthday shoutouts to Ethel Waters, Cleo Laine, Julia Lee, Sippie Wallace, Jay Clayton, Andy Bey, Dori Langdon Previn, Allison Miller, Amanda Monaco, Emily Braden, Carmen Lundy, 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 remind the world that A Woman's ...

Album Review

Ken Vandermark: A Living Poets Group

Read "A Living Poets Group" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
November 9, 2026

Artists such as Michelangelo, Botticelli and Leonardo da Vinci relied on the Medici family to support their creative endeavors. Other influential patrons included Catherine the Great of Russia and Louis XIV of France, while in the 20th century, the Rockefeller Foundation and Peggy Guggenheim helped provide artists with the resources to create ambitious works. Today, crowdfunding platforms such as Kickstarter and Patreon offer alternative means of support, but they can hardly be expected to finance the large-ensemble projects favored by ...

Radio & Podcasts

William Parker, Joe Morris, Devra Hoff & Thollem

by Maurice Hogue
November 9, 2026

William Parker's magnificent bass playing is absent on his new release Waltz For Gregory, but he's still all over the album as composer, lyricist & producer. This one's got a bit of a Raining On The Moon vibe for me. Speaking of bassists, Devra Hoff's new Baile As Baile is an exciting solo excursion, while Joe Morris teams up with two of his top students for a really strong album in Dispersion. Pianist Thollem continues to stir the pot, punching ...

Radio & Podcasts

New music from James Leibow, Lee Ritenour and a feature on Japanese Fusion

by Len Davis
November 9, 2026

We kick off with some new music from guitarist James Leibow, followed by a live version of the classic Captain Fingers featuring Lee Ritenour. We also have the latest from Japanese drumming sensation Senri Kawaguchi recorded live, and the Katsushika Trio, featuring the legendary drummer Akira Jimbo And we're staying in Japan for the remainder of the program, with a selection of some outstanding Japanese fusion. First up, Naniwa Express, followed by Korenos, featuring Mitsuro Suto, who also makes an ...

Radio & Podcasts

John Katsilometes on Thirty Years Covering Everyone in Las Vegas

by Mike Jones
November 9, 2026

For thirty years, if something happened on a Las Vegas stage, John Katsilometes was probably in the room. The entertainment columnist behind “The Kats Report" at the Las Vegas Review-Journal joins host Mike Jones for a conversation about a career built without a journalism degree. From covering the Tyson vs. Holyfield “bite night" as a young sports writer to becoming the last man standing in a beat that used to belong to Norm Clark and Robin Leach, Johnny Kats has ...

Book Review

Jörg Leichtfried: Solo Concepts for the Left Hand in Modern Jazz

by Kurt Ellenberger
November 9, 2026

Solo Concepts for the Left Hand in Modern Jazz Jörg Leichtfried 44 Pages Jamey Aebersold Jazz 2026 Solo jazz piano presents a pianist with many significant challenges, making it the most technically demanding role for a jazz pianist. In a solo performance, the jazz pianist must provide the melody, rhythm, improvisation, accompaniment, and the bass activity, so much of which is handled by other players in a trio, quartet, or quintet setting.

Album Review

Max Light: Unlearning

Read "Unlearning" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
November 8, 2026

Proving he is much more than just a talented guitarist, Max Light's latest effort, Unlearning, carries a great deal of emotional weight in addition to displaying his prodigious technique. Dedicated to his father, distinguished professor Paul Light, the album's concept concerns the elusive nature of memory and the challenges of disorientation when it no longer reliably anchors us. With recurring fragments of melody and subtle rhythmic shifts throughout, Light's compositions powerfully convey a sense of dislocation, yet there is a ...

Album Review

Kirk Knuffke / Marilyn Crispell / Thommy Andersson: Paintbrush

Read "Paintbrush" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
November 8, 2026

Like all things refreshingly human, Paintbrush comes with a backstory of kinship. And the story goes that comrade-in-arms cornetist Kirk Knuffke and bassist Thommy Andersson got in touch with pianist Marilyn Crispell and Crispell, ever one for a new fling, invited the pair to come to Woodstock, New York, as so many before them had in the years before. In January of 2024, come to snowbound Woodstock the pair did, to hang at Crispell's favorite studio, Nevessa Productions in neighboring ...

The Blue Note Portal

Wolf—Future Perfect, 8. Blues & the Abstract Truth

by Blue Note Portal
November 8, 2026

1970--Manhattan, New York Ten days passed inside the West 26th Street loft. For Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, time had ceased to be an enemy. Over the course of a week and a half, he had eagerly surveyed nearly two centuries of human expression. The band quickly realized that, much like their encounter with George Harrison, Wolf was a sliver of his higher consciousness. Yet clearly the two centuries had rendered him exceptionally potent. He was not just a temporal spirit on ...