Jazz Articles

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Album Review

Moon Inhabitants: Canned Luna

Read "Canned Luna" reviewed by Daniel Mège

by Daniel Mège
September 4, 2026

Is there anybody up there? The question is not as far-fetched as it sounds: NASA's lunar program is about to celebrate All About Jazz's 35th anniversary with the start of construction of a permanent lunar base (2030), laying the foundations for AAJ's 50th anniversary with its completion. Jazz will win: once the planet's taxpayers' money has been squandered, the economic interest found to be close to nil, and the scientific interest, still the fifth wheel, only AAJ (Thirty Years Later, ...

Album Review

Mali Sheard: Hayfever

by Neil Duggan
September 4, 2026

Having built a strong reputation with London-based eight-piece Ankora, saxophonist Mali Sheard steps into the spotlight with her debut album, Hayfever. It is a release that will do that reputation no harm at all, offering a beguiling blend of jazz, folk and groove, seamlessly integrated into Sheard's distinctive improvisational style. A graduate of Tomorrow's Warriors jazz talent development organisation and the Royal Academy of Music, where she studied with Gary Crosby OBE and Nikki Iles, Sheard makes full use ...

Album Review

Russ Anixter's Hippie Big Band: What Next?

Read "What Next?" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
September 4, 2026

A big band by any other name... Arranger and orchestrator Russ Anixter has chosen to call his 11-piece ensemble the Hippie Big Band. Which is fine, Russ. Whatever works for you. Alas, much of the music on What Next? sounds as though it could have been imported from the mid- 20th century. Yes, this is unquestionably jazz even though it does lean rather heavily on rock, funk and even some free improvisation as its bedrock; and ...

Radio & Podcasts

Stephen Philip Harvey Jazz Orchestra

by Daniel Peck
September 4, 2026

The Stephen Philip Harvey Jazz Orchestra is a seventeen-piece ensemble featuring a rotating roster of world-class musicians from across the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest. Known for their bold sound and adventurous programming, the group debuted in 2022 with Smash!, a studio album released on Next Level. With their most recent release Multiversal, Harvey channels the spirit of America's original large ensemble--the jazz orchestra--into a vivid, pseudo-cinematic soundscape filled with drama, intensity, and imaginative storytelling and the orchestra performs selections ...

Radio & Podcasts

Chapter 4: So, You Liked It Then?

by Larry Slater
September 4, 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 ...

Radio & Podcasts

New releases from the Le Boeuf Brothers, Brent Birckhead, Dan Siegel and Kevin Fort & Andy Brown

by George Graham
September 4, 2026

George Graham spotlights new releases from the Le Boeuf Brothers, Brent Birckhead, Dan Siegel and Kevin Fort & Andy Brown.Playlist Le Boeuf Brothers “Off Center" from Off Center (Soundspore) 5:34 Le Boeuf Brothers “Bah Dum" from Off Center (Soundspore) 4:34 Brent Birckhead “Will the Read Kenny G Please Stand Up!" from Exchange (Self-Released) 7:11 Brent Birckhead “For You" from Exchange (Self-Released) 6:05 Dan Siegel “Resolution" from Resolution (Self-Released) 4:23 Dan Siegel “Easy Does It" from Resolution (Self-Released) 4:50 ...

In Pictures

Mollestad / Reid / Warelis / Håker Flaten / Lillinger at the 19th Summer Jazz Academy

by Marek J. Śmietański
September 4, 2026

A collection of photos of the mentors of the International Jazz Platform concert at Wytwórnia in Lodz on July 22, 2026 featuring Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen, Tomeka Reid, Marta Warelis, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and Christian Lillinger. Other photo reports from the same festival: Dust Bunny at The 19th Summer Jazz Academy, QuartSky at The 19th Summer Jazz Academy, The Young Mothers at the 19th Summer Jazz Academy, Robinson Khoury Quatuor Demi-Lune at the 19th Summer Jazz Academy, Äether at the 19th Summer Jazz ...

Radio & Podcasts

Dwayne Dolphin, Ulysses Owens Jr. & Generation Y, Enoch Smith Jr.. Henry Treadgill and more

by Benjamin Boddie
September 3, 2026

Today's Music--Right Now! Fantastic music by Dwayne Dolphin, Ulysses Owens Jr. & Generation Y, Sir Roland Hanna, Sounds Of April & Randall, Kelly Green, Enoch Smith Jr., Henry Threadgill/Vijay Iyer/Dafnis Prieto, Carmen Lundy, Greg Abate Quartet, WDR Big Band, Fernando Ferrarone, Sebastian Zawadzki, Mike Clark, Ale Nuñez, Oscar Peterson, Miki Yamanaka, Robert Jospe Quartet, Yoko Miwa, Mikayla Shirley, Brad Goode Quintet, Alternative Guitar Summit, Mike DiRubbo, Ali Ryerson, Micah Thomas, Dawn Lambeth, Gianni Bianchini, Kevin Fort & Andy Brown, Paul ...

Radio & Podcasts

Chef’s K.I.S.S.

by Patrick Burnette
September 3, 2026

A nice, straight-forward jazz album caught Mike's ear, so he decided to do a podcast devoted to new releases that don't over egg the pudding, or as Google suggested, “go all around Robin Hood's barn?" (Google's been drinking again). Anyway, while he came up with two fine straight-ahead examples, Pat's offerings ended up a little thornier, if still on the right side of “academic brain-ouch inducer."Playlist Discussion of Jesse Davis' album The Complete Village Vanguard 1961 Recordings (Cellar ...

Radio & Podcasts

Shirley Bassey, Yoko Miwa & Mikayla Shirley, Haruna Fukazawa

by Cheryl K.
September 3, 2026

During this week's two-hour program of jazz and improvised music--vocalists Shirley Bassey, Stella Cole, and Cécile McLorin Salvant; vocalist Mikayla Shirley and pianist Yoko Miwa; vibraphonists Warren Wolf and Stefon Harris; flutist and improviser Haruna Fukazawa; pianist/composer/multi-instrumentalist Skinny Hightower; the Eclectic Maybe Band; whistle/sax/bagpipe player Fraser Fifield; and two selections featuring saxophonist Miguel Zenón.Playlist Shirley Bassey “Diamonds are Forever" from Diamonds are Forever [OST] (EMI) 2:40 Amber Weekes “Strong Man" from To Oscar with Love (Amber Inn) 5:22 ...