Jazz Articles

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Album Review

Rodrigo Amado / Joe McPhee / Kent Kessler / Chris Corsano: Wailers

by John Sharpe
July 25, 2026

Wailers captures Portuguese saxophonist Rodrigo Amado's This Is Our Language quartet at a fascinating juncture, revealing fresh dimensions within one of his most compelling working bands. An unchanged lineup features reedman Joe McPhee (restricting himself solely to tenor), bassist Kent Kessler and drummer Chris Corsano alongside the leader's tenor saxophone. Recorded in a Lisbon studio in 2019, the album now arrives with the feel of an archival issue. But it constitutes the first since Let The Three Be Men (Trost, ...

Radio & Podcasts

Suzanne Ciani: The Buchla's Orchestral Homecoming

by Lawrence Peryer
July 25, 2026

This week, we're putting The Tonearm's needle on five-time Grammy-nominated composer Suzanne Ciani.Suzanne has spent decades innovating electronic music on the Buchla synthesizer, an instrument as intimate to her as any acoustic musician's.Suzanne has multiple projects out this year: CIANI/ORKEST, a live album with the fifty-piece Metropole Orkest, conducted by Simon Dobson; a collaborative live album with British electronic producer Actress; and the score for John Wilson's idiosyncratic new documentary, The History of Concrete.We ...

Interview

Crouching Pop, Hidden Jazz: A Conversation with Johnny Manchild from Johnny Manchild and the Poor Bastards

by Kurt Ellenberger
July 24, 2026

Preamble: In my previous articles, I have highlighted how important jazz and jazz musicians have been in the background of the development of pop music, and how the influence of jazz is sometimes in the foreground as well. My interview with Johnny Manchild is part of this broader discussion of how jazz aesthetics find their way into popular music. Johnny Manchild has an unusual background for a pop musician--he is a multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter/producer who has a jazz degree ...

Live Review

Kenny Garrett at Ronnie Scott’s: The Ancestors in the Room

by Kofi Adjepong-Boateng
July 24, 2026

Kenny Garrett Ronnie Scott's London July 17, 2026 There are jazz clubs and there is the basement on Frith Street. Kenny Garrett, whom Miles Davis heard and hired nearly forty years ago, is back, and at the first notes of 'Haynes Here' the room understood this would be not a night of repertory, but where the repertory comes from. The band is worth naming slowly, a lesson in transmission before a note sounds. ...

Album Review

Charles Lloyd: Sangam & Friends

Read "Sangam & Friends" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
July 24, 2026

With the release of Sangam & Friends, saxophonist-flutist Charles Lloyd pays homage to his kindred spirit and longtime collaborator, tabla master Zakir Hussain. Not that any reaffirmation was necessary based on their prior efforts together, but this album vividly depicts the deep musical affinity between the two extraordinary musicians as well as their sympathetic associates. The album is built around studio recordings made in 2009 for a project that was never completed. Combined with live performances by the ...

Album Review

Skúli Sverrisson with Bill Frisell: For All Your Flowers

Read "For All Your Flowers" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan
July 24, 2026

For All Your Flowers is the second collaboration between Icelandic bassist and composer Skuli Sverrisson and guitarist Bill Frisell, following Strata (Newvelle Records, 2018). Surprisingly, despite appearing on more than 100 recordings, Sverrisson remains little-known, while his partner here has spent decades cultivating one of the most recognizable guitar sounds in jazz, drawing as naturally from folk, country and Americana as it does from improvisation. What unites them is a long history of collaboration across a broad spectrum of artists ...

Radio & Podcasts

Jamey Haddad Quartet Featuring John Shannon, Chris Coles and Peter Slavov

by Daniel Peck
July 24, 2026

Jamey Haddad holds a singular position in the world of jazz and contemporary music. His musical voice transcends styles and trends, and the universal quality of his playing has attracted many international collaborations with artists including Yo-Yo Ma, Paul Simon, and Sting. Fresh off of a tour with Paul Simon, Jamey returned to Cleveland for a sold out two-night stand that features Peter Slavov on bass, Northeast Ohio mainstay Chris Coles on sax, Jamey on percussion and Pittsburgh ...

Album Review

Giancarlo Nino Locatelli: A Decent Run

Read "A Decent Run" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
July 24, 2026

Who needs poetry in an age of internet memes, infinite scrolling and artificial intelligence? Poems ask us to linger over words, to discover meaning in silence as much as in language. Memes, by contrast, are consumed in an instant and forgotten just as quickly. We live in a culture that increasingly prizes immediacy over reflection, image over text and distraction over contemplation. So who still needs poetry? Italian clarinetist Giancarlo Nino Locatelli makes a compelling case that we all do. ...

Radio & Podcasts

Sonny Rollins Tribute, part 2: After the Bridge

by Larry Slater
July 24, 2026

Sonny Rollins, one the music's great improvisers, died May 25th, 2026 at age 95. By the late 1950s, Rollins had become the most revered tenor saxophonist in jazz. He was respected by his peers, the critics and the jazz public, so he shocked the jazz world when he withdrew from performing for 2 years, using New York City's Williamsburg Bridge as his practice location. Upon his return to performing in 1961, he asked the guitarist Jim ...

In Pictures

2026 Tilles Jazz Fest

by Dan Bilawsky
July 23, 2026

72 hours before the 2026 Tilles Jazz Fest, the mercury hit 100 degrees on Long Island; 48 hours ahead of the event, Canadian wildfires sent orange skies and unsafe air quality; and one day before everything was set to get underway, the forecast looked seriously grim--heavy rain(s), thunderstorms, a chance of hail and even a tornado warning showed on the apps. So what did the Tilles staff due? Weather the weather together, of course. With mere hours to pivot, they ...