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The Magic of Stella Cole
by Leo Sidran
Stella Cole didn't set out to become the face of a jazz revival. Growing up in Springfield, Illinois, she fell in love with The Wizard of Oz and movie musicals. By the time she reached college at Northwestern, she nearly abandoned singing altogether--discouraged by a culture that told her the “old" songs weren't marketable. Then the pandemic hit. Locked down at home, she turned back to the comfort movies and music of her childhood, and began posting short ...
Continue ReadingThe Publicist: Antje Huebner
by B.D. Lenz
With technology transforming our world and every aspect of our lives changing so rapidly, it can be difficult to keep up. And the music business, like every other enterprise, has seen the same metamorphosis. For anyone who simply wants to be a musician, it's just not that easy anymore. With all the tools to manage a career at our fingertips, there's more expectation placed on us to understand and utilize them. But it can often be a struggle for artists ...
Continue ReadingMino Cinélu at The Presidio Theatre
by Steven Roby
Mino Cinélu Presidio Theatre Mino 4 Miles San Francisco, CA September 6, 2025 The room begins with absence--no band, no chatter--just a white gauze curtain hanging like a flag with no country. A looped rhythm creeps in from the edges, dry and sandy, like shoes on stone. Then the words land--Miles Davis on change, on refusing the safe--projected large enough to read and short enough to sting. “If anybody wants to keep creating, they ...
Continue ReadingLineage, Lift-Off: Sarah Hanahan’s Alto Speaks in the Present Tense
by Steven Roby
Alto saxophonist Sarah Hanahan plays with the urgency of a musician who learned the music in real time--absorbing the tradition on the bandstand and transforming it into forward momentum. “I've always been sure of my connection to the instrument," she says. “Anyone who knows me knows my dad is a drummer and a great musician. He really got me hip to the music when I was a young kid... we'd watch his DVDs of Buddy Rich's big band, ...
Continue ReadingDreams And Dust: Two From Pianist Izumi Kimura
by Ian Patterson
2025 will go down as a busy year for Ireland-based, Japanese pianist Izumi Kimura. The first half of the year served up the solo album Butterfly Effect (Codama Records) and Glacial Voyage (Between The Lines)--the latter a free-form duo collaboration with guitarist Christy Doran. Both albums favored explorations of mood and textures over virtuosity. Two further collaborative albums once again find Kimura on improvisational terrain, though they are quite different in character. Taken together, these albums are windows onto Kimura ...
Continue ReadingYazz Ahmed: A Paradise In The Hold
by Don Ball
Yazz Ahmed's music has focused on combining her love of jazz with her Bahrani heritage since her first recording in 2011, and with her release, A Paradise in the Hold (Night Time Stories, 2025), she adds a new component: voice. With lyrics in both English and Arabic, Ahmed uses stories and music from her childhood in Bahrain as the seed for this collection of songs, originating about a decade ago when she traveled back to Bahrain to complete a commissioned ...
Continue ReadingMiles Davis: Miles '55: The Prestige Recordings
by Richard J Salvucci
It is hard to imagine any casual jazz fan failing a blindfold test on the vinyls on offer here. It is a game people play: how quickly can you identify the performer. A lot of horn players make it into the competition, because horns are boisterous and mimic the human voice and persona. Clark Terry, some say, requires one note. And for much of his career, starting in the mid-1950s, a compatriot and mentee of Terry's: Miles Davis was equally ...
Continue ReadingReflection... New Music from Brad Mehldau, Satoko Fujii and Natsuki Tamura as well as Scree
by Hobart Taylor
Brad Mehldau reimagines Elliot Smith, Shawn Purcell urges us to “Quiet the Chaos," and a classic cut from Barbara Thompson. Playlist Matthew Jamal / Shabaka Hutchings “Laura" from (Single) (Self-Produced) 00:00 Holly Palmer “Metamorphosis (Capes Up!)" from Metamorphosis (Self-Produced) 4:54 David Occhipinti “Canticum Abaci" from Camera Lucida (Elastic) 8:18 Kelly Green “Blue and Green" from Corner of my Dreams (La Reserve/Green Soul) 13:26 Host Speaks 17:58 Nadav Remez “Summit" from Summit (Self-Produced) 19:44 Jamile / Miki Yamanaka “Bodas ...
Continue ReadingEric McPherson, Adegoke Steve Colson, and Emma Hedrick
by Jerome Wilson
This episode incudes recent music from Eric McPherson, Adegoke Steve Colson and Emma Hedrick as well as older tunes from Steely Dan, Lee Konitz, and Billy Childs. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Weather Report “Waterfall" from Live in Berlin 1971 (NDR Kultur) 00:53 Keith Tippett Group “Green and Orange Night Park" from Dedicated to You, But You Weren't ...
Continue ReadingKahlil Childs and Jacob Hart: Two Young Stars Rise From Detroit
by Paul Rauch
The Detroit Jazz Festival is a huge draw. For fans, it is the largest free jazz event in the world, removing financial barriers and accommodating over 300,000 attendees over Labor Day weekend annually. Over four days, four stages present the best the jazz world has to offer and in the process, celebrates the great jazz history in Detroit by booking the best of the local scene and giving them ample time on the festival's main stages. A very unique aspect ...
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