Jazz Articles about Wayne Tucker

About Wayne Tucker

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Jazz is a beautifully broad church. Whoever you are, whatever you have to say, you are welcome to say it as long as you bring an open heart and an open mind. So when a math professor chooses to express his thoughts on identity through “an eight track concept suite structured as four lemmas [in math, supporting propositions that prepare the ground for larger ideas], each anchored in a mathematical idea used as a conceptual framework," well, why ...

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Jaana Narsipur: The Re-Collection

Read "The Re-Collection" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
June 11, 2026

There are few things more revealing than the songs we hold close from our formative years. Jaana Narsipur on The Re- Collection opens her musical scrapbook of Brit-pop and adult contemporary staples, reimagining them as living, breathing jazz narratives. The result is an album that feels deeply personal without tipping into self-indulgence. Pianist and music director Nicki Adams has taken Narsipur's intricate arrangements and expanded them into expressive jazz frameworks, leaving ample room for improvisation. Other first-rate ensemble members include ...

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Ben Rosenblum: The Longest Way Round

Read "The Longest Way Round" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
March 19, 2026

The Longest Way Round, New York City-based pianist, accordionist and composer Ben Rosenblum and his cutting-edge Nebula Project take listeners on a wild and exhilarating ride across musical boundaries, through multiple genres and around customary intersections to a destination that is as fresh and pleasing as it is creative and unique. While contemporary jazz remains the core element, this is music whose broad framework flows beyond the confines of normal depiction to encompass a harmonic and rhythmic panorama ...

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Ben Rosenblum: The Longest Way Round

by Jack Bowers
March 12, 2026

On The Longest Way Round, New York City-based pianist and composer Ben Rosenblum and his cutting-edge Nebula Project take listeners on a wild and exhilarating ride across musical boundaries, through multiple genres and around customary interactions to a destination that is as fresh and pleasing as it is creative and unique. While contemporary jazz remains the core element, this is music whose broad framework flows beyond the confines of normal depiction to encompass a harmonic and rhythmic panorama ...

My Favourite Things

Wayne Tucker e il Questionario di Proust

by Paolo Peviani
December 13, 2023

Il tratto principale della mia musica Una miscela personale di stili, dal classico all'R&B. Inoltre suono una combinazione particolare di strumenti, tromba, violino, tastiera, e canto. La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me Versatilità e capacità di ascoltarsi e darsi a vicenda. Come musicista, il momento in cui sono stato più felice La pubblicazione del mio secondo album Wake Up and See Sun, col quale ho trovato il ...

Radio & Podcasts

Miku Yonezawa, Wayne Tucker, Yumi Ito, Izo FitzRoy & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
May 19, 2023

Welcome to an edition of Mondo Jazz under the sign of groove and high energy feelgood releases.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" Mondo Jazz Theme 0:00 Jakob Manz “Soul Tiger" Groove Connection (ACT) 0:16 Host talks 2:20 Leon Lee Dorsey “Bumpin' on Sunset" Cantaloupe Island (Jazz Avenue) 3:34 Host talks 8:39 Izo FitzRoy “Keep Your Light on Me" A Good Woman (Jalapeno) 9:58 Joel Harrison “One More Day" Joel ...

Album Review

Ben Rosenblum Nebula Project: A Thousand Pebbles

Read "A Thousand Pebbles" reviewed by Jerome Wilson

by Jerome Wilson
May 11, 2023

Ben Rosenblum's Nebula Project is a group which incorporates sounds from all over the world. Gospel, Brazilian rhythms, European folk dances, and other kinds of music all mix freely with jazz in this exciting and unpredictable set. The horn players, trumpeter Wayne Tucker and reed players Jasper Dutz and Xavier Del Castillo, all do excellent work in realizing the leader's freewheeling concepts. “Bulgares" has Tucker's trumpet and Dutz's bass clarinet darting out in a whirling Bulgarian rhythm over ...