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Jazz Sabbath: Jazz Sabbath Live

Read "Jazz Sabbath Live" reviewed by Geno Thackara

by Geno Thackara
February 13, 2026

One can almost imagine the hypothetical 2025 tour reviews: “To hear him in person, you would never imagine Milton Keanes must be pushing age 80. He zips across the keys with abandon like a man half that age, matched by his equally spry bandmates keeping up with every gallop. The trio continually whips up a storm, defying any age and fit for any time." Or so it would be fun to picture, if you enjoy playing along with ...

Radio & Podcasts

Roy Ayers, John Ellis, Ben Markley & Jazz Sabbath

by Joe Dimino
March 23, 2025

Welcome to the 898th episode of Neon Jazz, where we dive deep into the heartbeat of jazz--past, present, and future. We kick things off with the legendary Jazz Sabbath, helmed by the seasoned Adam Wakeman, bringing their signature blend of jazz-infused reinvention. Then, we take a moment of reverence for the late, great Roy Ayers, a jazz-funk pioneer whose influence will forever echo in the genre. From there, we set our sights on the cutting edge of jazz, spinning brand-new ...

Album Review

Jazz Sabbath: The 1968 Tapes

Read "The 1968 Tapes" reviewed by Geno Thackara

by Geno Thackara
December 17, 2024

The story continues: Jazz Sabbath's eponymous debut (Blacklake, 2020) introduced the premise of a progressive-minded late-'60s piano trio whose unreleased material was plagiarized and adapted in heavy blues style by those young upstarts Black Sabbath. The catalog got an even more fun horn-drenched expansion with 2022's Vol. 2 (Blacklake). The mysterious pianist Milton Keanes (da-dum) and friends commit to the mythology more than ever with The 1968 Tapes, complete with cover in classic Blue Note Records style and a mini-documentary ...

Album Review

Jazz Sabbath: Vol. 2

by Geno Thackara
May 1, 2022

The story is almost worthy of the Onion: it turns out that Black Sabbath, the legendary outfit which practically invented heavy metal, was really a bunch of impostors who stole their early material. Iconic pieces such as “Iron Man" really came from a brilliant forward-thinking jazz combo which disappeared in the late '60s before they could make their stamp on the world, and the first of their long-lost albums only surfaced with the release of Jazz Sabbath (Blacklake) in 2020. ...