Jazz Articles about Jeff Lederer

About Jeff Lederer

Album Review

Matt Wilson's Good Trouble: Love Is The Whole Thing, We Are Only Pieces

Read "Love Is The Whole Thing, We Are Only Pieces" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
September 25, 2026

Drummer Matt Wilson has never needed a soapbox to make a point. His drumming has always been open, as if the music has something to say. It makes sense, then, that Wilson has reconvened Good Trouble to continue making good music with good people, which he considers the most effective form of dissent. With Tia Fuller and Anisha Rush on alto saxophones, Jeff Lederer on tenor saxophone and clarinet, Dawn Clement on piano and vocals, and Ben Allison on acoustic ...

Album Review

Jeff Lederer: There's a Yearnin'

Read "There's a Yearnin'" reviewed by Jerome Wilson

by Jerome Wilson
July 19, 2026

Jazz and classical music have been intersecting for decades. One of the most prominent examples of this was the Third Stream movement of the sixties, where composers and musicians like Gunther Schuller and John Lewis encouraged the efforts of jazz musicians who wanted to experiment in the world of classical music. The music created through the movement is little heard today, but Jeff Lederer has here assembled a selection of works from that period by Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy and Oliver ...

Radio & Podcasts

Unearthing Dolphy & Ornette: Inside Jeff Lederer’s There’s A Yearnin’

by David Bixler
June 19, 2026

In this episode of LINER NOTES we are diving into a monumental new release from saxophonist and composer Jeff Lederer called There's A Yearnin,' out on Little “i" Music. This record is a boundary-blurring project for winds and voice that features the Wildebeest Wind Quintet and vocalist Mary LaRose. Together, they tackle unissued and rare archival scores by Eric Dolphy and Ornette Coleman, alongside several of Jeff's brilliant arrangements of the music of Oliver Nelson. In our conversation today, Jeff ...

Album Review

Bobby Sanabria: Arsenio and Beyond

Read "Arsenio and Beyond" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
June 9, 2026

Much of the music on Arsenio and Beyond was written by the trailblazing Cuban composer Arsenio Rodriguez, a master of the mandolin-like Cuban tres guitar who is credited among other innovations with creating the musical design that became known as son montuno. Rodriguez, drummer and bandleader Bobby Sanabria writes, was “the true Father of Mambo and Son Montuno," without whom “there is no salsa, Afro-Cuban jazz, or, many would even argue, rock or funk." Sanabria and his Multiverse ...

Radio & Podcasts

Black Nile, Bria Skonberg, Arturo Sandoval and an interview with Jeff Lederer and Mary LaRose

by Hobart Taylor
May 6, 2026

This week's show features an interview with Jeff Lederer and Mary LaRose about their new release in conjunction with the Wildebeest Wind Quintet, “There's A Yearnin.'" The album consists of newly resurfaced scores by Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy and Oliver Nelson with new lyrics by Mary LaRose.Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Yazz Ahmed “Dawn Patrol" from Shinrin-Yoku (Night Time Stories) 01:06 Black Nile “Exposure" from Indigo Gardens (MASS MoCA) 08:03 Host Speaks 12:00 Angelique Kidjo} Nadi Balance (feat. Fally ...

Album Review

Joe Fonda: Joe Fonda & Bass Of Operation

Read "Joe Fonda & Bass Of Operation" reviewed by Jerome Wilson

by Jerome Wilson
June 7, 2025

The bassoon is rarely heard in a jazz context, but bassist Joe Fonda got the idea to use the instrument in a free-swinging small group format. He incorporated Michael Rabinowitz, one of the few improvising bassoonists around, into a quartet with two of his long-time collaborators, drummer Harvey Sorgen and reed player Jeff Lederer. Fonda's original idea was for Lederer to play tenor saxophone in the group, but Lederer decided instead to play higher-pitched reeds, clarinet, flute, and piccolo. The ...

Album Review

Joe Fonda: Joe Fonda & Bass Of Operation

Read "Joe Fonda & Bass Of Operation" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
May 25, 2025

Only bassist /composer Joe Fonda--who cut his teeth and honed his humor in the company and camaraderie of such global visionaries as Wadada Leo Smith, Anthony Braxton, Barry Altschul, Paul Bley, and Annette Peacock-- can stand defiantly at the epicenter of a free jazz and classical quartet and ease the ensemble through either door with the deceptively sly and boozy opener “Deja Vu for DC." It whirls. It twirls. It is a whole lot of fun and a particularly ...