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Latest from Sylvie Courvoisier, Houston Person, Jeff Parker, and Reedsmiths Old and New, Coleman Hawkins and Isaiah Collier

by Hobart Taylor
October 7, 2026

Music from Isaiah Collier, Angel Bat Dawid, Sylvie Courvoisier, Charlotte Greve and George + Coleman Hawkins re-mastered. Playlist Dida Pelled “ Shooting Star" from I Wish I was a Single Girl Again (LaReserve) 00:00 Coleman Hawkins “Moonglow" from The Hawk Relaxes (Craft) 03:43 Host Speaks 09:43 Sylvie Courvoisier “Le Pavot Rouge" from Almathea(Pyroclastic) 10:44 Jeff Parker/Chris Speed/Kaveh Rastegar/Aaron Steele “Miles' Mode" from (Single) (International Anthem) 22:48 Host Speaks 30:34 Charlotte Greve “Lighter Blue" from Waterbodies (New Amsterdam) 32:18 ...

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New Music From Sylvie Courvoisier, FROTAE, Michael Dease & More

by Bob Osborne
October 2, 2026

This playlist brings together a wide-ranging collection of brand new and forthcoming releases across disparate sub-genres, avant-garde experimentation, contemporary grooves, big band arrangements, and free improvisation. Spanning fifteen fresh tracks, the sequence showcases dense harmonic layers, complex rhythmic explorations, cinematic textures, and forward-thinking modern jazz where each piece carves out its own unique territory offering a snapshot of cutting-edge creative expression where contrasting sonic worlds constantly shift perspectives and challenge expectations.Playlist Sylvie Courvoisier “At Risk" from Amalthea (Pyroclastic ...

Album Review

Wadada Leo Smith: Constellations and Hemispheres

Read "Constellations and Hemispheres" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
September 18, 2026

The listener is easily startled by Wadada Leo Smith. The man has an aura about him that emanates from some other place, some other time, when the rule of law was set in stone. A time not too long ago when collective aspiration held us all enthralled. And the man who carried that stone is none other than the trumpeter himself. Smith's presence also has a mythical essence that, in and of itself, is hardly breaking news. But ...

Album Review

Patricia Brennan and Sylvie Courvoisier: Talamanti

Read "Talamanti" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
September 7, 2026

It is more than fair to say--right from the start of their kinship in early 2023, in the Sylvie Courvoisier 4 with bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Dan Weiss--that there was something innate, and perhaps more importantly, intimate, between road-clearing pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and rascally vibraphonist Patricia Brennan. Talamanti proves that big time. Organically the sharply focused work of two fearless, free spirits, Talamanti, (the main language of indigenous, Aztec-era Mesoamericans) culminates or, dare one say, ...

Album Review

Sylvie Courvoisier: Eclats - Live in Europe

Read "Eclats - Live in Europe" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
April 19, 2026

Sylvie Courvoisier has never been easy to pin down, which is exactly the point. The Lausanne-born pianist moved to New York City in 1998 and spent the next two-plus decades making herself indispensable to the downtown avant-garde, working alongside John Zorn, Evan Parker, Wadada Leo Smith, and Mark Feldman, among others. She received the Swiss Grand Prix Music and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Music Award in 2025, recognition that felt overdue rather than surprising. Her long-running piano ...

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What I Learned By Juxtaposing Sylvie Courvoisier And Red Garland

by Hobart Taylor
February 18, 2026

New music from the Sylvie Courvoisier Trio juxtaposed with music from the Red Garland Quintet plus Peter Erskine, Tierney Sutton and Irreversible Entanglements. Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Faraó Belmondo Quartet “One Finger Snap" from Do It! (Notes Around) 01:04 Entre Amigos “Fue Nuestro" from Joyful Foundation: The Music of Justin Copeland (Self-Produced) 6:09 Kate Olson “All Pear-Shaped" from So It Goes (Origin) 16:10 Sylvie Courvoisier Trio “Eclats" from Eclats-Live in Europe (Intakt) 21:39 Red Garland Quintet/ John Coltrane/Donald ...

Live Review

Sylvie Courvoisier, Wadada Leo Smith and Mary Halvorson at Roulette

by Paul Reynolds
December 12, 2025

Sylvie Courvoisier, duets with Wadada Leo Smith and Mary Halvorson Roulette Intermedium New York, NY December 7, 2025 So far this jazz season, you'd be hard-pressed to find a double bill as savvy, timely and well-located as Sunday's concert of duets at Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn. In successive sets, pianist Sylvie Courvoisier played with her partners for two acclaimed duo albums in 2025: trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, with whom she recorded Angel Falls (Intakt Records, 2025), and ...