Jazz Articles about Maria Grand

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Radio & Podcasts

María Grand, Marilyn Crispell, Anders Jormin, Benjamin Herman & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
May 12, 2026

And here we go again--another edition of Mondo Jazz, dedicated to recent and upcoming releases from across the jazz globe, where you can travel from Tokyo to New York in less than half an hour. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Benjamin Herman “Tokyo Moon" The Tokyo Sessions (P-Vine/Roach/Dox) 0:16 Host talks 3:58 Hedvig Mollestad Weejuns “Bitches Blues" Bitches Blues (Rune Grammofon) 5:42 Host talks 13:05 María ...

Radio & Podcasts

Outstanding new release from Maria Grand, newly discovered live Roy Hargrove, Tia Fuller with Shamie Fuller-Royston and Simon Moullier

by Hobart Taylor
April 8, 2026

My usual potpourri of avant-garde, historic recordings, and genre-defying releases. Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Muriel Grossmann" Diversity" from Quartet (Modernistas) 0:10 Yusef Lateef “I Remember Webster" from Alight Upon the Lake-Live at the Jazz Showcase (Resonance) 07:46 Host Speaks 16:01 Flora Purim /Joe Henderson" Butterfly Dreams" from Jazz Dispensary Magia Brasileira (Craft) 17:06 Ray Barretto “Abijan" from Hard Hands (Fania) 24:02 Fuller Sound Tia Fuller/Shamie Fuller-Royston"Dear John" from Dynasty (Cellar) 28:51 Host Speaks 32:40 Gurf Morlix “Deep Dark ...

Album Review

Joel Ross: Gospel Music

Read "Gospel Music" reviewed by Jack Kenny

by Jack Kenny
February 2, 2026

Religion has long provided a stimulus for jazz. Figures as august as Duke Ellington and John Coltrane drew profound inspiration from their faith, though their reception varied. Ellington's religious compositions were often unfairly dismissed as the eccentric, late career works of an aging genius. Conversely, John Coltrane's A Love Supreme (Impulse!, 1965) perfectly captured the spiritual zeitgeist of the 1960s.However, Joel Ross operates with different antecedents. His approach to gospel music tracks the biblical narrative linearly: the Creation, ...

Album Review

Grand/Nebbia/Sánchez/Mendenhall/Fernández: Altered Visions

Read "Altered Visions" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
July 20, 2025

In July 1967, The Beatles released the single “All You Need Is Love," with “Baby, You're a Rich Man" on the flip side. It's not that the quintet performing “Wild Marks," the 33-minute track comprising the entirety of Altered Visions, is covering that Lennon-McCartney anthem. But the music presented here embodies the spirit of the idea that love is all you need. Altered Visions is the inaugural release from Lilailia Records, a label founded by three artists: saxophonists ...

Album Review

Yaron Herman: Radio Paradise

Read "Radio Paradise" reviewed by Anastasia Bogomolets

by Anastasia Bogomolets
April 12, 2025

"When I started working on this album, the first thing that came to my mind was melody. I have been writing a lot over the last few years, mostly in my notebooks, for myself. On the road or at home, anything from long lines to short fragments. With time, (and hard work) these “motifs" started to take shape and turn into 'songs,'" Yaron Herman shares about his backstage process. Even though there are no human vocals on the ...

Album Review

Joel Ross: The Parable Of The Poet

Read "The Parable Of The Poet" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
April 22, 2022

The story of jazz is part musical and part social, the two strands interacting to shape, on one hand, the sound we hear and, on the other, the demographic who make it and constitute its audience. Viewed from London, the semiology surrounding New York-based vibraphonist Joel Ross' octet, heard on his third Blue Note album, The Parable Of The Poet, tells a social story as much as it does a musical one. The octet's optics (check the ...

Radio & Podcasts

Maria Grand, Michel Portal, Anthony Joseph, J&F Band & Other New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
June 1, 2021

A playlist replete with music that hits you hard and deep regardless of the volume at which it was recorded—ranging from a compelling album marking the 85th birthday of Michel Portal to the new concept album by Maria Grand [pictured], and a whole bunch of genre-defying projects to keep your spirits high! Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 The Gangsters “Le Funk" The Gangsters (Self-released) 0:16 Host ...