Jazz Articles

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In Pictures

Sonia Spinello Quartet at Jazz in Ruins 2026

by Marek J. Śmietański
August 14, 2026

A collection of photos from the Sonia Spinello Quartet concert at the GZUT Model Hall in Gliwice on July 31, 2026 featuring Sonia Spinello, Sonia Candellone, Piotr Schmidt and Tomasz Drozdek. Look for more photo reports from the Jazz In The Ruins 2026 soon... ...

Radio & Podcasts

Chapter 1: Whatever Happened to Arthur Arshawsky?

by Larry Slater
August 14, 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 ...

Inside AAJ

Thirty Years Later, the Vision Remains

by Michael Ricci
August 13, 2026

When people ask me how All About Jazz began, they often assume it started with a website. It didn't. The idea predates AAJ by two years. Before All About Jazz launched in August 1995, I was fascinated by the possibilities of organizing album information in ways that made it more useful, more connected and more enjoyable to explore. At the time, I was working on a CD-ROM project devoted to jazz discographies, inspired in ...

Album Review

East of West: Velella

by Keith Flint
August 13, 2026

Blurring boundaries, dissolving distance, and creating coherence, Velella, the 4th studio album by the Brisbane, Australia trio East of West exhibits the group's distinctive style. The trio is led by Bosnian-born composer Goran Gajić (double bass), with Philip Griffin on oud and laouto, and Malindi Morris on percussion. Collectively, these musicians produce a compelling blend of Balkan-influenced rhythms and melodic motifs. Both the album and its title track derive their name from the species Velella velella (by-the-wind sailor), a ...

Album Review

Rodrigo Amado: Wailers

by Mark Corroto
August 13, 2026

A decade ago, it would have been easy to assume that saxophonist Rodrigo Amado's This Is Our Language (Not Two, 2015) was a singular encounter rather than the beginning of an enduring ensemble. Amado had previously collaborated with bassist Kent Kessler and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love on Teatro (European Echoes, 2006), while drummer Chris Corsano would join him for a pair of exceptional duo recordings. The final piece was the legendary Joe McPhee, whose presence elevated the quartet's debut into something ...

Radio & Podcasts

Hill Collective, Terri Lyne Carrington, Pharoah Sanders And More

by Lawrence Peryer
August 13, 2026

This week's Rotations deals in unfinished business, musical and otherwise. Charles Lloyd revisits a Mumbai session he started in 2009 and never finished. Piero Umiliani's old Rome tapes get a new life at the hands of a producer working from what he left behind. Pharoah Sanders and Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru's decades-old recordings sit easily next to brand-new records from Leeds and Boston that carry forward arguments about struggle, liberation, and what gets left for someone else to finish. Nothing ...

Radio & Podcasts

New Music From Dorota Piotrowska, Josh Warren And More

by Bob Osborne
August 13, 2026

A quietly adventurous thread runs through this edition of World of Jazz, tracing how improvisers and composers adapt their music into something reflective yet forward leaning. Most of the selections are selected from extant releases that show where exploratory music is heading--flute driven improvisations, spacious rhythmic architectures, pointed small group dialogues and electronic inflections. The playlist also includes two earlier innovators, a specific reminder that today's practitioners are working inside a continuum shaped by those players who expanded the language ...

In Pictures

QuartSky at The 19th Summer Jazz Academy

by Marek J. Śmietański
August 13, 2026

A collection of photos from the QuartSky concert at Wytwórnia in Lodz on July 21, 2026 featuring Jonas Kullhammar, Maciej Obara, Ole Morten Vågan and Håkon Mjaset Johansen. Other photo reports from the same festival: Dust Bunny 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 Academy. Look for the rest soon... ...

Play This!

Gordian Knot: Muttersprache

by Geno Thackara
August 13, 2026

Sean Malone was the kind of bassist who could never simply stick to the basic support role if his life depended on it. He spun kaleidoscopic bass/Stick parts across a myriad of fusion, prog and/or metal recordings, but his particular harmonic wizardry never came out more eloquently than on this solo outlet. Gordian Knot had a rare knack for building layered structures as twisty as its namesake and yet also just as artful. ...

Live Review

Tony Miceli and Chuck Redd At Chris’ Jazz Cafe

by Victor L. Schermer
August 12, 2026

Chuck Redd and Tony MiceliSteve Weiss Mallet FestivalChris' Jazz Cafe August 1. 2026 For several years, vibraphonist Tony Miceli has arranged with vibraphone makers and music schools and venues in the area to hold a yearly Vibraphone Festival, with performances, workshops, and interviews designed to improve performance, networking, and exposure of the public to vibraphone playing and composing. The festival took on the name “Steven Weiss Vibraphone Festival" to honor the late store owner who ...