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Album Review

Art Hirahara: Peace Unknown

Read "Peace Unknown" reviewed by Kyle Simpler


Art Hirahara is one of the most in-demand pianists in contemporary jazz, appearing on countless recordings while steadily building an impressive solo career. WithPeace Unknown, he continues his prolific partnership with Posi-Tone Records, with a deeply personal and expansive set that brings new life to earlier compositions while introducing bold new material. Framed within a robust four-horn ensemble, the album stands as both a reflection on the past and a forward-looking artistic statement, elegantly merging lyrical expressiveness with structural daring. ...

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Radio & Podcasts

Michael Dease, Spike Wilner, Bobby West, Antonia Bennett and more

Read "Michael Dease, Spike Wilner, Bobby West, Antonia Bennett and more" reviewed by Benjamin Boddie


Today's Music--Right Now! Fantastic music by Michael Dease, Spike Wilner Trio, Bobby West, Antonia Bennett, Alon Farber & Hagiga, Dom Salvador, Mark Masters Ensemble, Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell, Neff Irizarry, Mads Tolling, Danny Grissett, Lucía, Tyler Henderson, Sharel Cassity, Dee Dee Bridgewater & Bill Charlap, Jed Levy, Hiromi, Freedom Art Quartet, Ben Sidran, James Moody, Peter Smith, Judy Whitmore, Dave Bass, Jennifer Lee, and more. Playlist Michael Dease “The Classic II" from City Life: Music Of ...

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Album Review

Michael Dease: City Life: Music of Gregg Hill

Read "City Life: Music of Gregg Hill" reviewed by Paul Rauch


Michigan-based composer Gregg Hill is on a remarkable roll, authoring an impressive run of compositions represented on eight albums released on the Origin Records label. Each has featured a bandleader associated with the top shelf staff at Rodney Whitaker's jazz program at Michigan State University. City Life (2025) is the third under the leadership of trombone great Michael Dease. The two-disc release includes 19 compositions from Hill, and features a cast of some of the most powerful voices in jazz ...

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Album Review

Michael Dease: City Life: Music of Gregg Hill

Read "City Life: Music of Gregg Hill" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Jazz trios featuring a horn, bass and drums get right to the core of musical expression. With, most commonly, a saxophone--see Sonny Rollins' blueprint for the horn and trio setting, the 1957 Contemporary Records album Way Out West--the music flows freely. The players do not need to chase chords around. The result is a stretching of the melodies with freewheeling rhythmic finesse. Trombone, bass and drums outings are rare, but Michael Dease goes for it on CD 1 ...

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Radio & Podcasts

New Music from Dease, Woody, Bancroft, Sturino And More

Read "New Music from Dease, Woody, Bancroft, Sturino And More" reviewed by Bob Osborne


On this edition there is a selection of the best in new releases together with two outstanding albums from the recent re-release of the Strata East catalogue.Playlist Michael Dease “Catalyst" from City Life (Origin Records) 00:00 Brandon Woody “Beyond The Reach Of Our Eyes" from For The Love Of It All (Blue Note) 07:08 Eli Wallace, Pablo Vazquez, Marcelo Von Schultz “Volar. No Sos El Laberinto" from Siesta (577 Records) 14:16 Phil Bancroft “Testimony Part 5" from Testimony ...

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Liner Notes

Jordan VanHemert: Survival of the Fittest

Read "Jordan VanHemert: Survival of the Fittest" reviewed by Gary Fukushima


For most of his life, Jordan VanHemert has been on a quest of growth and mastery as a saxophonist, composer and musician. But equally important have been his efforts to contextualize some of the difficulties of his life experiences within the deeper themes of his DNA, discovering in the process resilience, optimism and joy. Jordan's music is meant to convey empathy and solidarity to others who have also faced challenges in their lives. This album, Jordan's fifth as a leader, ...

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Album Review

Jordan VanHemert: Survival of the Fittest

Read "Survival of the Fittest" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Although the title of saxophonist Jordan VanHemert's fifth album, Survival of the Fittest, may elicit images of a crash course in self-defense, that is not at all what he had in mind. The music is thematic, he says, and represents the twin lodestars of adversity and resilience. Even that, however, becomes largely irrelevant once VanHemert and his supporting cast launch what is at its heart a narrative of contemporary post-bop jazz. It is a cast that varies in ...


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