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Christian McBride and Brad Mehldau at Presidio Theatre

Christian McBride and Brad Mehldau at Presidio Theatre

BY STEVEN ROBY
October 20, 2025

Christian McBride & Brad Mehldau Presidio Theatre San Francisco, CA October 16, 2025 Listening became the real instrument onstage, a single invisible string stretched between Christian McBride and Brad Mehldau and humming all night. At the Presidio Theatre, they approached repertoire as conversation and memory as form, leafing through familiar tunes like a well-loved book, reading passages aloud, underlining new meanings, and showing how a lifetime of music speaks through them. The set ......

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Rita Payés At Jazz à La Villette, In Paris

Rita Payés At Jazz à La Villette, In Paris

BY PIERRE LAVOIE
October 20, 2025

On September 6, 2025, the Jazz à la Villette Festival in Paris presented Rita Payés, a 26-year-old Catalan singer, trombone player, composer, arranger, and lyricist, who has been on stage since her early teens. This performer is in a category of her own, pursuing her personal musical projects with a singularity that has become her signature. Born to a family of musicians, she sings and writes in Catalan, Castilian Spanish, and Portuguese--and sometimes in English, having spent her ......

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Studio Architect And Stage Anchor, Arturo Valdez Scales Up A Transatlantic Career With A High-Impact U.S. Slate Through 2028

Studio Architect And Stage Anchor, Arturo Valdez Scales Up A Transatlantic Career With A High-Impact U.S. Slate Through 2028

BY FRANK GAZERRO
October 20, 2025

Few bassists combine the authority of a first-call bandleader with the technical fluency of a studio producer the way Peruvian jazz standout Arturo Valdez does. His next chapter in the United States, running through 2028, doubles down on both fronts: a robust pipeline of major-label-caliber recording work and a coast-to-coast performance calendar with nationally recognized artists and institutions. The scope of his bookings, alongside a substantive trail of acclaimed releases and headline appearances in Peru, Spain, and the U.S., underscores ......

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Kinan Azmeh & CityBand at Stable Hall

Kinan Azmeh & CityBand at Stable Hall

BY KATCHIE CARTWRIGHT
October 19, 2025

Kinan Azmeh & CityBAnd Stable Hall The New Season 2025/26 San Antonio October 12, 2025 The concert on October 12, 2025 was not Syrian-born Kinan Azmeh's first rodeo, you might say. He had performed in San Antonio a handful of times prior to the Stable Hall concert at the behest of Musical Bridges Around the World, which provides, as their website rightly proclaims, “free access to high quality global performing arts, with a ......

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Paul McCartney at Coors Field

Paul McCartney at Coors Field

BY GEOFF ANDERSON
October 19, 2025

Paul McCartney Coors Field Denver, CO October 11, 2025 A Paul McCartney concert, unlike most other musical events, is laden with cultural significance, bearing carts of baggage both good and bad; but mostly good. The weight of context complicates attempts at a dispassionate evaluation of the music. But it is music. It is inextricably intertwined with passion and emotion. Because of his longevity and cultural impact, McCartney's music just carries more of that ......

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From Lima To Carnegie Hall Arturo Valdez’s Path To Prominence Is Defined By Range, Rigor, And Reach

From Lima To Carnegie Hall Arturo Valdez’s Path To Prominence Is Defined By Range, Rigor, And Reach

BY FRANK GAZERRO
October 19, 2025

Before locking down an extensive run of U.S. commitments, Peruvian bassist Arturo Valdez built a career that traveled confidently between celebrated institutions, headline stages, and influential recording rooms across Peru, Spain, and the United States. His résumé reads as a map of modern jazz and Latin American creativity, with each stop demonstrating a different facet of his craft. In 2021, Valdez stepped onto one of the world’s most storied stages with the Colombian-rooted ensemble Grupo Rebolú, leading the low end ......

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Stanley Clarke Band at The Carver

Stanley Clarke Band at The Carver

BY KATCHIE CARTWRIGHT
October 18, 2025

Stanley Clarke The Carver Community Cultural Center / Jo Long Theatre The New Season 2025/26 San Antonio, TX October 11, 2025 A capacity crowd at The Carver's Jo Long Theatre celebrated the opening of San Antonio's 2025 season on October 11 with a high-spirited set from Stanley Clarke and his ensemble. The playbill promised “incredible, soulful, virtuosic" music, which the renowned bassist and his youthful ensemble delivered. Despite the intricate arrangements and ......

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Roxana Amed: Salir de la melancolía

Roxana Amed: Salir de la melancolía

BY LUDOVICO GRANVASSU
October 18, 2025

The history of pop and rock from Argentina is remarkably rich. Yet outside Latin America, icons such as Luis Alberto Spinetta, Charly García, Gustavo Cerati, and Fito Páez remain less celebrated than they deserve. With her album Todos los fuegos (Sony Latin), Argentine singer Roxana Amed took it upon herself to give a little contribution to their visibility--and “hear-ability"--through a set of jazz-inflected renditions of classics from the '70s and '80s. She's joined by a top-notch band featuring fellow Argentine ......

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Introducing: The Russ Macklem Detroit Quintet

Introducing: The Russ Macklem Detroit Quintet

BY RON SKINNER
October 18, 2025

Following up on his Juno Nominated debut album The South Detroit Connection Russ Macklem returns with a sophomore release that is sure to turn heads. Introducing: the Russ Macklem Detroit Quintet brings together a group of some of the best musicians Detroit has to offer: Kasan Belgrave (alto saxophone), Jordan Anderson (piano), Noah Jackson (bass), Louis Jones III (drums) with Windsor/Detroit trumpeter Russ Macklem leading the band on this set of original compositions. This live-off-the-floor studio album is a triumph ......

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Listening: Music, Movement, Mind

Listening: Music, Movement, Mind

BY TYRAN GRILLO
October 17, 2025

Listening: Music, Movement, Mind Nik Bärtsch 352 Pages ISBN: 9783037786703 Lars Müller Publishers 2021 If Swiss pianist Nik Bärtsch, best known as the mastermind--or perhaps, more fittingly, the beginnermind--behind “Ronin," an ever-evolving interpretive organism for his modular compositions, has long seemed an enigmatic figure, then Listening: Music, Movement, Mind may well serve as the missing link between the man and the mystery. Beneath the disarming subtitle “A Useless Guide for Everything" lies ......

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Grammy Winning Trumpeter Charlie Porter Launches A $10,000 Jazz Album Treasure Hunt

Grammy Winning Trumpeter Charlie Porter Launches A $10,000 Jazz Album Treasure Hunt

BY CHARLIE PORTER
October 17, 2025

Grammy Award–winning trumpeter and composer Charlie Porter returns with Cipher—a project that blurs the line between music and mystery. The eight-track album invites listeners into an immersive experience where sound itself becomes a puzzle to be solved. Hidden within its compositions are nine encrypted musical clues that, once decoded, lead to a real-world treasure worth $10,000. But Cipher is more than a treasure hunt. It’s a strikingly original statement from an artist who has long explored the meeting point between ......

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Becca Stevens at the Joe Henderson Lab

Becca Stevens at the Joe Henderson Lab

BY STEVEN ROBY
October 17, 2025

Becca Stevens Joe Henderson Lab San Francisco, CA October 14, 2025 What happens when a songwriter transforms an intimate space into a map and invites us to follow her route? That was the guiding question of Becca Stevens' early set at the Joe Henderson Lab, where voice and guitar became coordinates, and each song represented a mile of lived experience. The premise was straightforward: Maple to Paper (GroundUP Music, 2024), her 2024 voice-and-guitar cycle, and ......

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Köln 75

Köln 75

BY PAUL REYNOLDS
October 16, 2025

Köln 75One Two Films / Extreme Emotions / Gretchenfilm / MMC Studios Köln GmbHDIrector: Ido Fluk2025 November, 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the release of The Köln Concert (ECM Records, 1975), the live recording by Keith Jarrett that stands as the biggest-selling solo album--and piano album--in jazz history. To mark the occasion cinematically, Köln 75 hit select U.S. movie screens in October, 2025. The film defies expectations and takes risks, almost as much as ......

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Dumpstaphunk at Miner Auditorium

Dumpstaphunk at Miner Auditorium

BY STEVEN ROBY
October 16, 2025

Dumpstaphunk Miner Auditorium San Francisco, CAOctober 11, 2025 What if the beat were a social contract? That question lingered over a sold-out Saturday at Miner Auditorium, where Dumpstaphunk approached funk not as escapism but as a shared practice--an agreement to move, listen, and shape tension and release as a community. This thesis emerged in the music, in the crowd and in the way bandleader Ivan Neville framed the evening: a collective body choosing the groove. ......

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David Helbock, Julia Hofer: Sexy M.F.

David Helbock, Julia Hofer: Sexy M.F.

BY LUDOVICO GRANVASSU
October 16, 2025

Back in 2012 Austrian pianist David Helbock released a beautiful tribute to Prince, entitled Purple (Traumton Records). On his 2025 album Faces of the Night (ACT Music) he returns to his love for the Minneapolis wizard covering two of his songs--including one he skipped the first time around, “Sexy M.F." For Faces of the Night, Helbock teams up with his new co-pilot, the versatile Austrian bassist and cellist Julia Hofer. On this catchy rendition of “Sexy M.F." they are joined ......

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Zé Ibarra: Morena

Zé Ibarra: Morena

BY LUDOVICO GRANVASSU
October 15, 2025

With its lush, imaginative blend of Brazilian Popular Music, jazz, progressive rock, and pop, AFIM (Coala Music/Mr Bongo, 2025)--the sophomore release by Brazilian singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Zé Ibarra--offers plenty of reasons to feel optimistic about the state of modern music. Firmly grounded in Brazil's rich musical legacy, it stands as a case study in how to be forward-looking while steering away from computers and AI. Add the elegant string arrangements by Jaques Morelenbaum, and you have an album for ......

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The Jazz Barn: Music Inn, the Berkshires, and the Place of Jazz in American Life

The Jazz Barn: Music Inn, the Berkshires, and the Place of Jazz in American Life

BY KATCHIE CARTWRIGHT
October 15, 2025

The Jazz Barn: Music Inn, the Berkshires, and the Place of Jazz in American Life John Gennari 264 Pages ISBN: #978-1-68458-285-3 Brandeis University Press 2025 Award-winning author, University of Vermont professor and Berkshire County native John Gennari encapsulates his fascinating history of The Jazz Barn simply. “This a book about what happened in the 1950s in a barn, icehouse, and greenhouse and in the rolling meadows, winding wooded ......

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Gustavo Cortiñas Inspires Unity and Empathy Through Music

Gustavo Cortiñas Inspires Unity and Empathy Through Music

BY DEAN NARDI
October 14, 2025

The renowned French writer Victor Hugo once wrote that “music is noise that thinks." Hugo was highlighting the profound and intellectual nature of music, suggesting that while it may seem like disorganized sound ("noise"), it carries deep meaning and expresses complex ideas and emotions that can only be conveyed through this medium. Hugo also wrote of music which expresses what cannot remain silent. And on that note, we come to the project of Chicago-based drummer and composer Gustavo ......

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The Case for Dave Pell: The Octets and Beyond

The Case for Dave Pell: The Octets and Beyond

BY STEVEN CERRA
October 14, 2025

Of the major books on West Coast Jazz, few have much to say about the Dave Pell Octet, a group that was active on a regular basis from 1952--1964 and intermittently thereafter until Dave's death in 2017. Ted Gioia gives Dave's group a casual mention in the following statement from his West Coast Jazz: Modern Jazz in California, 1945-1960:"If the later nonet, octets, and dectettes of Dave Pell, Marty Paich, Lennie Niehaus, and others have a West ......

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German saxophonist Marubia Releases 'A Seeker’s Dream' on Inner Circle Music

German saxophonist Marubia Releases 'A Seeker’s Dream' on Inner Circle Music

BY MATT FRIPP
October 14, 2025

Inner Circle Music proudly presents A Seeker’s Dream, the second album from rising German saxophonist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Marubia. Set for release on October 7, 2025, the album is a deeply personal work that blends the spiritual depth of Nordic and spiritual jazz with ambient soundscapes, trip hop grooves, and lush, cinematic arrangements. Unbound by conventional jazz narratives, Marubia’s music unfolds as an invitation inward. Influenced by spiritual jazz legends like John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Wayne Shorter, and Jan Garbarek, ......

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