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Immanuel Wilkens all the way live + Candice Hoyes and Psoas

by Hobart Taylor
June 10, 2026

Music from Immanuel Wilkens Quartet , Live at the Village Vanguard, Vol.3. From France, Plume, From Denmark, Carsten Dahl both with drummer Gregory Hutchinson and both groups celebrate Coltrane. Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Sarah Sharp “The Nearness 0f You" from Deja Vu (Spaceflight) 00:10 Will Lyle “Eridania" from The All Seeing Eye (Self-Produced) 02:37 Kris Tiner/Cathlene Pineda “Wheeler Song" from Sung (Orenda) 09:11 Host Speaks 13:08 Immanuel Wilkins Quartet “Charanam" from Immanuel Wilkins Quartet: Live at the Village ...

Album Review

Immanuel Wilkins Quartet: Immanuel Wilkins Quartet: Live At The Village Vanguard

Read "Immanuel Wilkins Quartet: Live At The Village Vanguard" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
March 21, 2026

Firebrand alto-saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins takes over the Village Vanguard and keeps it loose, y'all. From the rogue bossa nova “Ring Shout" and its immediate successor, “Composition II," each scenario has its very own sweep and sway. Take, for instance, the hell-raising, elders-chant fever inherent in “Composition IX." Twenty-three raucous, raise-the-rafters minutes wherein each participant--pianist and fellow hell-raisers Micah Thomas, bassist and man-on-a-mission Ryoma Takenaga and Kweku Sumbry, a swift footed drummer deeply schooled in Elvin Jones and Max Roach--inflame Immanuel ...

Album Review

Shai Maestro: The Guesthouse

Read "The Guesthouse" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan
February 27, 2026

This is pianist Shai Maestro's second release since signing for Naive in 2025. The first, Solo: Miniatures & Tales (Naïve, 2025), was a personal exploration; in deliberate contrast, The Guesthouse is expansive, open and collaborative. Maestro describes the album as “my attempt to turn the creative chaos that lives in mind into one coherent artistic statement, always having a simple melody as a thread that tells the story of this collective." Inspired by Rumi's poem The Guesthouse, Maestro ...

Book Review

The Philosophy Of Jazz

by Ian Patterson
December 30, 2025

The Philosophy Of Jazz Kevin Le Gendre 105 Pages ISBN: 978 0 7123 5503 2 British Library 2025 If you had to recommend just one book on jazz history to a neophyte, which would it be? Ted Gioia's The History of Jazz (Oxford University Press, 1997) is rightly regarded as a definitive account, but at nearly 600 pages it may deter readers looking for a lighter introduction. What if ...

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 ...

Live Review

Mantova Jazz 2025: Pianisti in Primo Piano

by Angelo Leonardi
December 1, 2025

Mantova Jazz 2025 Auditorium Monteverdi, Teatro Bibiena Mantova 2-22 novembre 2025 Quattro serate di alto profilo artistico con pieno successo di pubblico, hanno caratterizzato l'edizione 2025 di Mantova Jazz, in una formula che da decenni offre il meglio del panorama internazionale. In questi anni di crisi, dove le amministrazioni pubbliche hanno fortemente eroso i finanziamenti all'arte e alla cultura, l'Amministrazione comunale tiene fede al ruolo di Mantova come città Patrimonio Mondiale Unesco di Arte e ...

Album Review

Mary Halvorson: About Ghosts

Read "About Ghosts" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
June 13, 2025

Since Mary Halvorson began her prolific affiliation with Nonesuch Records, she has refused to repeat herself except with a purpose. The simultaneous release of Amaryllis & Belladonna (Nonesuch Records, 2022) was the precursor to the expansive Cloudward (Nonesuch Records, 2024), while About Ghosts represents a retrenchment, albeit a productive one. On five of these eight cuts, the identical Amaryllis Sextet that appeared on the latter LP interacts smoothly with guest saxophonists Immanuel Wilkins and Brian Settles. Such synchrony ...