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Après le déluge: Cécile McLorin Salvant’s Radiant Performance at Little Island

by Dave Kaufman
August 24, 2026

It was a night when the rain fell hard, the music gathered force, and the shared experience became magical. That was the scene on Sunday, August 16, 2026 at Little Island, where Cecile McLorin Salvant and her quartet performed beneath steadily darkening skies. Salvant is perhaps the greatest jazz singer of her generation. She possesses an extraordinary voice, complete command of her instrument, and the ability to elevate almost any material into high art. She is both a ...

Live Review

Cécile McLorin Salvant At Buffalo’s Art Of Jazz

by Frank Housh
May 13, 2026

Cecile McLorin Salvant with Sullivan Fortner Buffalo Akg Art Museum Art Of Jazz Buffalo April 19, 2026 Thick, bright, layered pellets of snow, raised from Lake Erie's surface and chilled in a cold, early spring wind pelted the faces of Buffalo jazz lovers as we entered Buffalo Akg Art Museum's Lipsey Auditorium for the third of the four “Art Of Jazz" concerts on Sunday (April 19, 2026). That snow quickly melted on soil which, only a day earlier, had ...

Journey into Jazz

Big Ears Gets Bigger: A Personal Perspective

by Todd Steed
April 4, 2026

Big Ears Festival Knoxville, TN March 26-29, 2026 Big Ears is growing like a well-fed wild beast. At this rate, the festival might need a “Colossal Ears" rebrand in the next few years. The expansion of venues and options can be overwhelming until you learn the festival's most profound lesson: if you try to control your own festival experience, you will fail gloriously. Big Ears, it seems, has other plans for you. Forget FOMO. There is ...

Album Review

Alexa Tarantino: The Roar and the Whisper

Read "The Roar and the Whisper" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
March 25, 2026

If there is one true sound to describe the sound of luminous liberation, young veteran saxophonist/flautist/composer Alexa Tarantino captures it handily and shares it profusely with her band and everyone else within earshot of The Roar and the Whisper. Tarantino, whose star continues to flare via her ongoing gig at Jazz At Lincoln Center and her stint alongside Renee Rosnes and Allison Miller in the high flying all woman supergroup Artemis on their head spinning second disc, In ...

In Pictures

The Danish Radio Big Band featuring Cecile McLorin Salvant at the Attucks Theater

by Mark Robbins
March 12, 2026

Danish Radio Big Band, originally called The Danish Radio Orchestra, just completed its first United States tour in 24 years, performing at a few art festivals and university presenters in South Carolina and Virginia. The band has been under the leadership of Japanese composer/conductor Miho Hazama since 2019. Because the group is a national broadcast orchestra funded by Danish public radio, their U.S. visits tend to be short residencies or festival appearances, not large commercial tours--so a run of only 2-3 ...

Album Review

Kenny Barron: Songbook

Read "Songbook" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
February 10, 2026

82 anni, magistrale protagonista del pianismo moderno, Kenny Barron raccoglie suoi vecchi e nuovi brani per affidarli all'interpretazione di cantanti. I testi sono della sua vecchia amica Janice Jarrett (eccetto “Minor Blues Redux" scritto da Catherine Russell & Paul Kahn) e gli interpreti vocali vedono nomi ben noti come Cécile McLorin Salvant, Kurt Elling, Catherine Russell e Ann Hampton Callaway accanto agli emergenti Kavita Shah, Ekep Nkwelle e Tyreek McDole. Barron si ritaglia il ruolo di sensibile accompagnatore, intervenendo con ...

Radio & Podcasts

Cecile McLorin Salvant, Ines Velasco, and Roberto Magris

by Jerome Wilson
December 3, 2025

This episode features recent music by Cecile McLorin Salvant, Ines Velasco, and Roberto Magris, plus vintage work from Stan Getz and Maria Muldaur. 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 Larry Coryell “Moment's Notice" from Moment's Notice (Jazz Door) 00:51 Larry Coryell & the Eleventh House “Joy Ride" from Improvisations (Best of the Vanguard Years) (Vanguard) 6:55 Host Speaks 12:59 ...