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Ambrose Akinmusire and Mary Halvorson, Miki Yamanaka and Nicole Glover, Melissa Aldana and Linda May Han Oh, Christian Finger with Ralph Alessi and Ben Monder

by Hobart Taylor
August 19, 2026

Candice Hoyes, Miguel Zenon with Luis Perdomo, Nicole Mccabe with Savannah Harris and a dope Nina Simone remix. Playlist Ambrose Akinmusire / Mary Halvorson “Soundcheck" from Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings (Nonesuch) 00:00 Ambrose Akinmusire / Mary Halvorson “Tangled Pretty" from Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings (Nonesuch) 03:27 Host Speaks 07:51 Miguel Zenon / Luis Perdomo “Sombras" fromEl Arte de Bolero Vol. 3(Miel) 08:59 Nicole McCabe/Savannah Harris “Lonely People" from All Together Now (Sudden Quarterly) 14:36 Gregory Uhlmann / Alabaster ...

Live Review

Ambrose Akinmusire Quartet Seizes the Evening at Village Vanguard

by Andrew Schinder
June 6, 2026

Ambrose Akinmusire Quartet Village Vangaurd New York, NY May 26, 2026 May 26, 2026 was a momentous day in jazz history. The jazz community celebrated the centennial of one of its most revered figures, Miles Davis. At the same time, the music world was still raw following the previous day's news of the death of Sonny Rollins, one of the last living links to jazz's post-bop golden age. Both events sparked tributes, analyses, ...

Album Review

Ambrose Akinmusire / Mary Halvorson: Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings

Read "Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
June 1, 2026

In a true meeting of great minds, shared aesthetic, and Nonesuch label mates, trumpeter/composer Ambrose Akinmusire and guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson play intently with their new Halvorson and hand-me-down Akinmusire Line 6 DL4 MkII Delay Modeler, and break the dark silence with the spectral movement of Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings. More laid back and ambient than either of the influencers' past works--Halvorson's 2022 Nonesuch debut Amaryllis and Belladonna; Code Girl (Nonesuch, 2024); or Akinmusire's Grammy-nominated On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment (Blue Note, 2020) and Origami ...

In Pictures

Wayne's Sessions for Miles and Lee at Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa

by Marek J. Śmietański
May 19, 2026

Once upon a time, Miles Davis asked Wayne Shorter to compose music for an orchestral album. Yet neither those legendary sessions with Miles nor the similarly planned recordings with Lee Morgan ever came to life. The extraordinary scores remained hidden for decades--a silent treasure stacked in Wayne's home-- until they were rediscovered by Phillip Golub, assistant musical director of Shorter's opera Iphigenia, with a libretto by Esperanza Spalding. When conductor Clark Rundell first laid eyes on the manuscripts written for two of ...

Album Review

Carmen Staaf: Sounding Line

Read "Sounding Line" reviewed by Vic Albani

by Vic Albani
December 16, 2025

Carmen Staaf è una forza emergente della scena musicale di New York e, più in generale, del panorama jazz internazionale. Pianista originaria di Seattle--allieva di Danilo Perez--ha suonato e registrato con alcuni dei musicisti più influenti della nostra epoca. È stata ascoltata al Village Vanguard, al Blue Note, allo SFJAZZ e in numerosi festival di primo piano in tutto il mondo, tra cui Newport, Monterey, Montreux e il North Sea Jazz Festival, pur rimanendo per lungo tempo poco citata da ...

Album Review

Thomas Morgan: Around You Is A Forest

Read "Around You Is A Forest" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala

by Giuseppe Segala
December 2, 2025

Il valore, la sensibilità e la duttilità musicale di Thomas Morgan lo ha portato a essere uno dei contrabbassisti maggiormente richiesti della scena contemporanea. Ora, con questo lavoro, il primo a proprio nome dopo tanta attività nei contesti più differenti, documentata in una copiosa serie di album fondamentali del jazz contemporaneo, Morgan ha deciso di affermare la propria volontà nel tracciare un proprio disegno personale, per dare vita in qualche senso a un lavoro esemplare, che incontri pienamente le proprie ...

Album Review

Linda May Han Oh: Strange Heavens

Read "Strange Heavens" reviewed by Vic Albani

by Vic Albani
November 26, 2025

Vic AlbaniStrange Heavens Linda May Han Oh***Biophila RecordsPortal; Strange Heavens; Living Proof; Acapella; The Sweetest Water; Noise Machinery; Home; Paperbirds; Folk Song; Work Song; Skin; Just Waiting. * Formazione: Linda May Han Oh (contrabbasso) / Ambrose Akinmusire (tromba) / Tyshawn Sorey (batteria)Malesiana di nascita, australiana d'adozione e newyorchese di professione, Linda May Han Oh è oggi una presenza imprescindibile nella Grande Mela e sulla scena internazionale, ...