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Recording

Modern Drum Master Mathias Kunzli's New Album Now Available

Source: Adhyâropa Public Relations
June 29, 2026

"Mathias Kunzli is an incredible musician who creates with great sensitivity and depth. He is so skilled, while also able to just let go and meditate on a moment. His textures and compositions are always varied, and with this new record he adds to his long-standing tradition of playfulness and experimentation.” —Regina Spektor “I have known and played with Mathias for over 20 years. His pocket is wide, his groove is deep. Mathias' gentle touch, boundless imagination, and most importantly, ...

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Performance / Tour

Smoke Jazz Club Unveils Line-up For August Featuring Tributes To Parker, Davis And Coltrane, Leading Organ Trio Album Release, And More

Source: AMT Public Relations
June 28, 2026

Hailed as the “#1 Jazz Club in New York City (SecretNYC),” SMOKE Jazz Club today announced an exciting line-up for August 2026. The month begins with a special centennial celebration honoring two jazz greats: Miles Davis and John Coltrane—both born in 1926. Grammy-winning trumpeter Nicholas Payton conjures up a program paying tribute to two of their respective groundbreaking albums: Davis’s Kind of Blue (1959) and Coltrane’s A Love Supreme (1965). Two of today’s top saxophonists, Vincent Herring and Eric Alexander, ...

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Festival

Jersey City Jazz Festival 2026: A Fest For Musicians And More

Source: G Sib
June 26, 2026

The Jersey City Jazz Festival has always felt less like a festival built for ticket sales and more like one dreamed up by musicians. Across three days at Exchange Place Plaza, artists stood side-stage to watch one another and lingered in conversations long after their sets ended. The festival's merger with the Jersey City Latin Jazz Festival expanded the musical palette without sacrificing coherence, creating a weekend where straight-ahead jazz, Afro-Caribbean traditions, free improvisation and contemporary groove-based approaches shared the ...

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Recording

Eric Hofbauer And EHX - 'Tongues / Hope Language' Now Out On Vinyl! Double Album Gatefold

Source: Lydia Liebman Promotions
June 25, 2026

NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL (double album gatefold). Available Exclusively on Bandcamp. Tongues / Hope Language is a concept double album exploring the sacred power of storytelling — from the direct and literal to the mystical and unspoken. The two discs are two sides of the same question: if Tongues is the act of communication, Hope Language is its content and outcome. Tongues examines how we speak to power, to each other, and to ourselves. Regina Spektor’s “Us” becomes a driving ...

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Festival

The Spirit Of New York Meets The Adriatic: 11th Annual Made In New York Jazz Festival Celebrates Landmark Edition In Montenegro

Source: Michael Brovkine
June 24, 2026

Powered by Porto Montenegro, the 2026 festival brings an ambitious three-city program featuring jazz legend John Scofield, offering all performances completely free of charge to celebrate a historic milestone. The lineup also features premier American and regional guests. The Made in New York Jazz Festival, in partnership with its premier sponsor Porto Montenegro, has officially announced the lineup and schedule for its highly anticipated 11th annual edition. Running from June 26th to June 28th, 2026, this year's festival stands as ...

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Event

Ravita Jazz Performs Live On The Plaza Concert Series on July 27

Source: Ravita Jazz
June 23, 2026

Wammie Award finalist Ravita Jazz will perform at Live on the Plaza Concert Series. The location is the Woodrow Wilson Plaza at the Reagan International Trade Center, Washington D.C. The concert is Noon until 1PM on Monday July 27, 2026. Included in this performance are jazz/funk and Latin standards. Featured will be selections from our recent CD, Alice Blue, which had been at the top of the 2025 jazz charts for 15 weeks with two number one songs. Phil Ravita ...

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Recording

Pharaoh’s Daughter Unveils 6th Album, Songs Of Desire

Source: Dog Ranch Music PR
June 21, 2026

Pharaoh’s Daughter Unveils 6th Album, Songs of Desire A deeply personal, 18-year musical journey through love, longing, and the sacred erotic Pharaoh’s Daughter announces the release of the band’s sixth album, Songs of Desire (June 12, 2026, Tzadik) a profoundly intimate and long-gestating project inspired by the ancient biblical poetry of the Song of Songs. Developed over nearly two decades, the recording traces an artistic and personal evolution shaped by spiritual study, creative collaboration, motherhood, and an ever-deepening inquiry into ...

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Music Industry

Jazz-con 2026 Announces September Dates, Early Bird 'Yardbird Special' And Initial Session Highlights For The Ultimate Jazz Music Business Conference

Source: Nu Jazz Publicity
June 20, 2026

Virtual global music business conference returns September 14–15, 2026, with sessions on AI, global markets, women in jazz leadership, music security, sync licensing and multilingual international programming Jazz-Con, the global virtual conference and festival at the intersection of jazz, business, culture, technology and innovation, has announced that Jazz-Con 2026 will take place September 14–15, 2026, from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM EST / U.S. time. The two-day event will again be presented as a 100% virtual music business conference, followed ...

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