Jazz Articles about Nicole Glover

About Nicole Glover

Album Review

Christian McBride & Ursa major: Points of Light

Read "Points of Light" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
October 28, 2026

Every great hostess knows that who you invite incites the party. And when is there not a party goin' on at a Christian McBride new jawn? Which is what, coincidentally, happens to be Points of Light, the hot debut of Ursa Major. For the invitees--the midnight intensity of tenor saxophonist Nicole Glover, the perpetual rhythm of drummer Savannah Harris, overactive pianist/keyboardist Mike King, the mod, t-bone blues of guitarist (Ely Perlman aided and abetted by keyboardist, producer Terrace Martin and ...

Album Review

Christian McBride and Ursa Major: Points of Light

Read "Points of Light" reviewed by Andrew Schinder

by Andrew Schinder
October 7, 2026

Bass superstar Christian McBride seemingly has an infinite number of active projects at any given moment, but his group Ursa Major may be his most exciting. With Ursa Major, McBride leads a group of dynamic young musicians whose collective mission is to essentially fulfill McBride's creative impulses--an “all-in" band, as McBride has described it. Over the course of his distinguished career McBride has seemingly explored every jazz and jazz-adjacent genre and sub-genre out there, and he created Ursa Major to tie all ...

Album Review

Helen Sung Big Band: Oracles

Read "Oracles" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright

by Katchie Cartwright
June 12, 2026

"The jazz bandstand is where true democracy lives," the great saxophonist and composer Jimmy Heath told a young Helen Sung. “Everyone must understand their role and come prepared by doing the hard work of study and practice," he said. “Each person will get to say their piece, but it is in the act of integrating as a band that the musicians ultimately create something bigger, richer, and deeper." Oracles launches into a time and place where divisions are deep and ...

Album Review

Nicole Glover: Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Read "Memories, Dreams, Reflections" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
February 23, 2026

Nel suo nuovo album per l'etichetta Savant la sassofonista Nicole Glover conferma la scelta del formato pianoless col bassista Tyrone Allen II e il batterista Kayvon Gordon. L'unica variazione riguarda l'ospite che non è più il vibrafonista Steve Nelson ma il violoncellista Lester St. Louis, aggiunto in un paio di brani. Alcune diversità si aggiungono nelle scelte stilistiche, esemplificate forse dal titolo (che riprende quello dell'autobiografia di Carl Gustav Jung, il noto psicoanalista svizzero): a differenza del precedente (estroverso e ...

Radio & Podcasts

Nicole Glover, Daniel Bulatkin, Gilad Atzmon, Jane Ira Bloom & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
September 25, 2025

Enjoy another playlist of brilliant new releases the algorithms haven't caught up with yet.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Gary Brunton “Snecklifter" Spacecraft (Juste Une Trace) 0:16 Host talks 4:45 Emma Rawicz “Anima Rising" Inkyra (ACT) 6:36 Kai Craig “Lunations" A Time Once Forgotten (Whirlwind) 13:11 Host talks 18:30 Jane Ira Bloom feat. Dominic Fallacaro “Cry without an Alphabet" Songs In Space (Outline) 20:43 Gilad Atzmon, Daniel Bulatkin, ...

Radio & Podcasts

Moon Songs, New Releases By Nicole Zuraitis, Nicole Glover, Samara Joy, Sarah Wilson & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
July 28, 2025

This broadcast celebrates the 56th anniversary of the moon landing with celestial songs and new releases from Nicole Zuraitis, Nicole Glover, Samara Joy and Sarah Wilson||, plus birthday shoutouts to lyricist Dorothy Fields, {{m: Akua Dixon, Jimmy Scott, Mary Osborne, Luciana Souza, Cynthia Scott, Lauren Sevian, Carmen Bradford, Julia Hulsmann and Phoebe Snow, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear--see them live, buy their music so they can continue to comfort, distract, provoke and remind the ...

Radio & Podcasts

Alan Broadbent, Jacob Chung, Allan Harris, Nicole Glover and more

by Benjamin Boddie
July 18, 2025

Today's Music--Right Now! Fantastic music by Alan Broadbent, Jacob Chung, Bill O'Connell, Allan Harris, Nicole Glover, Michael Dease, Joshua Redman, Tessa Souter, Tim Jago, Mike Clark & Mike Zilber, Tyler Henderson, Jed Levy, Joe Kennedy, Kieran Brown, Nicholas Payton, Dave Anderson, Dave Bass, Karla Harris, Jordan VanHemert, Dom Salvador, Eric Scott Reed, Tyreek McDole, and more. Playlist Alan Broadbent “Clifford Notes" from Threads Of Time (Savant) 00:00 Jacob Chung “Oblivion" from Live At Frankie's Jazz Club (Cellar Music ...