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In Pictures

New York Voices at Energa Ladies' Jazz Festival 2026

by Marek J. Śmietański
August 9, 2026

A collection of photos from the New York Voices concert at Teatr Muzyczny im. Danuty Baduszkowej in Gdynia on July 23, 2026 featuring Darmon Meader, Kim Nazarian, Peter Eldridge, Lauren Kinhan and Urszula Dudziak (guest appearance), and Hervé Jeanne, Daniel Schay, Claus-Dieter Bandorf. ...

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Fillmore Dreams, Part 3

by Blue Note Portal
August 9, 2026

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Duane Allman went to bed at four in the morning and slept until three in the afternoon. Xample had been awake since seven and after breakfast had walked east on 5th Street in the cold March morning and felt the city around him like a living thing. By afternoon, the band was stirring and hungry for something that tasted like home. The subway ride uptown was ...

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Fillmore Dreams, Part 2

by Blue Note Portal
August 8, 2026

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 The transition was not at all what Xample expected. Dr. Kovac had walked him through the neural integration protocol multiple times. He had read the technical documentation--all 1,400 pages of it. He had sat in the chamber on the seventy-seventh floor, felt the interface nodes calibrate against his temporal lobes, felt the gentle heat of the mapping sequence as it built a model of his sensorium. He had closed his ...

Album Review

OM: Sudpol

Read "Sudpol" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
August 8, 2026

Formed in Lucerne in 1972 by saxophonist Urs Leimgruber, guitarist Christy Doran, bassist Bobby Burri, and drummer Fredy Studer, the original quartet fused the raw voltage of rock with the open architecture of free improvisation, arriving at a sound they eventually dubbed “ElectroAcoustiCore." Studer's death in 2022, weeks ahead of the release of the anniversary album 50 (Intakt), 2022), might reasonably have closed the book. Instead, the three surviving founders did something a lesser band would not have attempted: they ...

Album Review

Mike Clark: Kuon Ganjo

Read "Kuon Ganjo" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
August 8, 2026

Not much is really new on veteran drummer Mike Clark's 2026 album, Kuon Ganjo (Time Without Beginning), which encompasses a series of nine hard-bop themes performed by Clark's able quintet. Having said that, the most reasonable question is, do they do it well? And the answer to that is an unequivocal yes. Clark, who has been around the block more than a few times during his decades-long career as a jazz/funk timekeeper and is perhaps best known for ...

Album Review

Glam Sam And His Combo: Instrumentals In Colour

Read "Instrumentals In Colour" reviewed by Kitty Kalriess

by Kitty Kalriess
August 8, 2026

Instrumentals in Colour is a re-launch of sorts, a return to the scene by Glam Sam And His Combo, the musical child of Mats Samuelsson. The collection opens with “Talk In Colour (The Brixton Jazz Instrumental)." This is the music you want people to hear when they see you on the street in your best clothes--free, easy, fun. The infectious sound might be heard anywhere: blended in a live DJ mix, or played as a jaunty introduction to ...

Radio & Podcasts

Akusmi, Nelson Patton, arc rae, hackedepicciotto, Grateful Dead and more

by Lawrence Peryer
August 8, 2026

Episode 17 spends its first half putting things together: drone loops rebuilt into full arrangements, improvised cello reassembled into composition, a century-old fiddle tune rebuilt with dance and harmonics, before heading to Los Angeles for a band that builds the same unresolved tension by hand, live, in a room. The back half turns from a microtonal utopia and a rhythmic ambient interior to a straight line from Peter Gabriel through Bruce Hornsby's brand new record featuring Bob Weir and into ...

Live Review

Bill Frisell and Ambrose Akinmusire at NoMad Jazz Festival

by Paul Reynolds
August 7, 2026

Bill Frisell and Ambrose Akinmusire Baruch College NoMad Jazz Festival New York NY August 3, 2026 It's not uncommon to describe jazz duets as musical conversations. But the term, suggesting some silences and even disagreements, isn't quite right for an encounter as uninterrupted and musically telepathic as that of Bill Frisell and Ambrose Akinmusire at Baruch College on Monday night. Akinmusire recently (once again) won top honors as the best trumpeter in the prestigious ...

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Fillmore Dreams, Part 1

by Blue Note Portal
August 7, 2026

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 The room had no name. It didn't need one. Everyone who mattered in the trillion-dollar architecture of Xample Global knew exactly where they were when the elevator opened onto the seventy-seventh floor of the X Tower in what had once been called New York City and was now, in the casual parlance of 2092, simply “the Corridor." The boardroom was a perfect sphere, suspended within the larger structure ...

Album Review

Ben Crosland Quintet: North York Skies

Read "North York Skies" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan
August 7, 2026

Bassist Ben Crosland's compositions are invariably rooted in strong melodies, but they are equally shaped by a sense of place. North York Skies is a heartfelt tribute to the North York Moors, celebrating the beauty, history, folklore and mythology of the upland national park in the English county of North Yorkshire. As Crosland explains, “The twelve compositions are inspired by the beauty and majesty of the Moors and the surrounding countryside, the legends and characters that abound there, and some personal connections ...