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Radio & Podcasts

Aanya Sengupta

by Daniel Peck
July 31, 2026

One of the rising stars of jazz, New Delhi native Aanya Sengupta heads off to Julliard but not before a Northeast Ohio farewell performance. The two-time DownBeat Student Award winner finished 2025 as the vocalist chair for the Oberlin College Sonny Rollins Jazz Ensemble and makes her post university debut on this episode of the program. Featuring Aanya on vocals, Wilson Woods on piano, Ahmed McLemore on bass and Paul Samuels on drums, and from June 8th, 2025, ...

Radio & Podcasts

Jadi Peperzak Quartet, Efraïm Trujillo with Rembrandt Frerichs and 3 Part Harmony, and more

by Co de Kloet
July 31, 2026

In this August edition of the international injazz podcast, we shine a spotlight on two compelling voices from the Dutch jazz scene. We open with the Jadi Peperzak Quartet, whose original compositions balance melodic clarity with adventurous interplay. From there, we dive into the world of saxophonist Efraïm Trujillo, featured in two distinct settings: his intimate duo work with pianist Rembrandt Frerichs, and the rich, vocal-driven sound of his group 3 Part Harmony. Together, these recordings capture a striking range ...

Interview

Nadav Remez: At the Intersection of Modern Jazz and Jewish Folk

by Dean Nardi
July 30, 2026

Summit (self-released, 2025) is as moving and inventive as any of Nadav Remez' previous albums, either as a leader--So Far (Brooklyn Underground Jazz Records, 2011)--or with various sideman projects, all of which similarly test the limits of modern guitar music. Summit feels like a direct extension of a slippery sound he has been refining for at least two decades and is brighter than the long frown of time. The album's framing naturally offers a wider spotlight to his bandmates, from Greg ...

Album Review

Chick Corea: Sometime Ago

Read "Sometime Ago" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
July 30, 2026

Everyone listening to Sometime Ago, a previously unheard deep dive into solo Chick Corea, is hereby pardoned and excused if at first Sometime Ago is mistaken for a previously unreleased (or unremembered) Keith Jarrett concert. Jarrett had just recently ventured into solo territory at the Stadthalle in Heidelberg, Germany in June of 1972. So the vibe is there in the air of young artists capering, conjuring thin air into something like a song. A sonata. A lasting overture.

In Pictures

The Jimmy Masters Trio with guests Laura Ann Singh and Nanny Assis at the Sandler Center

by Mark Robbins
July 30, 2026

"Hot Nights in Brazil" brought the vibrant rhythms and energy of Brazil to a warm summer evening at Virginia Beach's Sandler Center for the Arts. The Jimmy Masters Trio welcomed vocalist Laura Ann Singh and world-renowned Brazilian singer, guitarist, percussionist, and composer Nanny Assis for an electrifying performance celebrating Brazilian jazz, samba, and bossa nova. Singh, a multilingual vocalist, is known for her performances in Latin boleros, Brazilian music, and contemporary jazz. She is the co-founder of the ...

Album Review

حمد [Ahmed]: Play Monk

Read "Play Monk" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
July 30, 2026

Few contemporary bands dismantle Thelonious Monk's charts with either the conviction or the discipline displayed by حمد [Ahmed] on Play Monk. This double CD veers between primal throb and cerebral cool. Pianist Pat Thomas, alto saxophonist Seymour Wright, bassist Joel Grip and drummer Antonin Gerbal united around a shared affection for the work of pioneering bassist and oud player Ahmed Abdul Malik, whose late '50s albums introduced Arab and East African modes into the hard bop milieu. Although they seemed ...

Album Review

Clark Sommers: WaBaSH

by Troy Dostert
July 30, 2026

An integral component of the Chicago-based jazz community, bassist Clark Sommers has honed his craft as a sideman with everyone from Kurt Elling to Jon Irabagon, with a multifaceted fluency that extends from mainstream jazz to more adventurous projects. And from time to time he also gets to flex as a leader, starting with his debut effort in 2013, Ba(SH) (Origin Records), a recording which documented his long-standing trio with fellow Chicago stalwarts Geof Bradfield on saxophone and Dana Hall ...

Radio & Podcasts

New Music from Nduduzo Makahthini And More

by Bob Osborne
July 30, 2026

This playlist presents a compelling cross-section of contemporary creative music, bridging the pioneering electric fusion of the late 1960s with the sophisticated and fluid improvisations of 2026. At its core, this selection celebrates the “collaborative impulse" The music here traverses the boundary between the composed and the unscripted. By juxtaposing the foundational studio-as-instrument techniques developed by Miles Davis and Teo Macero with the modern approaches of labels like 577, Adhyâropa, and Libra, this sequence highlights a group of artists who ...

Radio & Podcasts

Camila Nebbia, St. Silva, Danalogue, M. Geddes Gengras, Curio Curio, Myth Math, And More

by Lawrence Peryer
July 30, 2026

Episode 16 spends its first half in transatlantic synthesis: a Buenos Aires-Berlin improv duo, a Vermont ambient composer's tape collages, and a member of The Comet Is Coming reworking the studio synthesizer as a lead instrument on his own. The back half : Curió Curió's diaspora-pop debut, Matthew S reviving his influential Illegal Art label as the song-driven Myth Math, and Lee “Scratch" Perry's final recorded statement with Mouse On Mars, made in Berlin two years before his death and ...

The Jazz Life

15 Minutes with MacKenzie Scott

by John March
July 29, 2026

Let me be clear about the title: I have never met MacKenzie Scott, and a 15-minute conversation has not happened--at least not yet. Yes, the headline is intended to get your attention. I can live with that. Artists have been asked to promote themselves in far less honest ways. But the invitation is genuine, and this article is my case for why the conversation is worth having. We are living through a difficult and contradictory moment for the ...