Al Naffah: The Filmmaker
One of the things I've come to appreciate about jazz is just how much history there is that I still don't know. Take Emily Remler. I'm a guitarist; I've spent most of my life listening to and playing jazz, and yet, embarrassingly, I knew very little about Remler before learning about Firefly: The Emily Remler Story, an upcoming documentary from British filmmaker Al Naffah. And I suspect I'm not the only musician who has a few significant gaps ......
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Marcus Miller At Miner Auditorium
Marcus Miller Miner Auditorium, SFJAZZ Center “We Want Miles" Centennial Celebration San Francisco, CA September 27, 2026 On Sunday at Miner Auditorium, Mino Cinélu stepped down from his percussion riser, carried a large black gourd to center stage, and drew a startling range of sounds from it, wowing the crowd. No one onstage seemed in a hurry to leave. They had reason to linger. This was the final show of Marcus Miller's ......
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Without a Net, and with Love, Uncle Miles
When I called Vince Wilburn Jr. to talk about Miles Davis at 100 (read our own tribute), he answered from the Chicago house where he grew up--the same house where Davis used to telephone his mother and ask her to lower the receiver toward the basement so he could listen to his teenage nephew rehearse. More than forty years later, that telephone became the spine of our conversation about family memory, musical inheritance, grief, and Davis' insistence that the musicians ......
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Sketches Of Spain Or Somethin' Else
The Morning After It's the 1970s, the days before satnav, cell phones and Google Maps. I'm an Englishman working in Spain. I'm a training supervisor for a major motor manufacturer, so I have to travel around a lot, visiting garages--I don't think we called them dealerships in those days--to talk to sales staff about dealing with people and technical staff about dealing with machines. Just occasionally, I reverse the advice for fun. It doesn't change much whichever way it goes. ......
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'Saturday Blues,' A Soulful New Single By Wajdi Cherif
Wajdi Cherif releases “Saturday Blues,” The first single from upcoming trio album: “Explorations” Pianist and composer Wajdi Cherif releases “Saturday Blues,” the first single from his upcoming studio album: Explorations, to be released in January 2027. Performed by the Wajdi Cherif Trio with Gary Wang on acoustic bass and Robert Garcia on drums, “Saturday Blues” begins with the familiar feeling of the blues, direct, relaxed, and inviting, before gradually opening into a more dynamic conversation between the three musicians. “I ......
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: September 28, 2026
All About Jazz publishes the weekly JazzWeek Radio Chart. Discover new releases, track chart movement, and learn what is being played on jazz radio stations in the United States. Enjoy!
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Joey Alexander Celestial Keeper (Mack Avenue) 214 218 -4 2 35 1 10 2 3 2 Antonio Adolfo Balaios (AAM Music) 203 201 +2 1 34 2 10 3 5 3 Stefon Harris Legacy Dances feat. ......SOURCE: All About Jazz
Kelly Green: Taking Care of the Music
Singer/pianist Kelly Green works in a field that can be difficult to negotiate: jazz. In the United States, its popularity doesn't reach that of pop music in all its forms or rock music. But it is always there as a thriving art form. For the keepers of the flame at all levels of talent, it takes dedication and determination to put together a career. Green has those qualities in abundance. She's enjoying a strong ......
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All About Jazz Launches New Shopping Cart and Integrated Payment System
All About Jazz has launched a new shopping cart and integrated payment system, another significant investment designed to make our promotional services easier and more convenient to purchase. The new system replaces our previous single-order process with a true shopping cart, allowing customers to add multiple services to an order and complete everything in a single transaction. The cleaner, more intuitive interface makes it easier to review selections, add or remove items and move seamlessly through checkout. We've also integrated ......
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Defying Gravity
Powerhouse collective, Third Reprise, breathes electric, new life into theater standards by reimagining them through a sophisticated jazz-funk lens. Fronted on this tune by the soulful, soaring vocals of Amanda Barise and anchored by arranger Daniel Rudin's sharp instrumentation, this live studio performance transforms a Broadway classic, “Defying Gravity,” from the musical and movie Wicked, into an absolute groove monster. Listen for the exceptionally tight horn-driven syncopation, the slick synth textures, and a blistering bassline that underpins Barise's vocal acrobatics ......
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Revolutionary Aesthetics: Exploring Warne Marsh's Overthrow of Sweet Georgia Brown
Saxophonist Warne Marsh was a revolutionary and somewhat obscure figure in the development of jazz in the 20th century. He was, along with Lee Konitz, one of the most influential saxophonists to emerge from pianist Lennie Tristano's “school" of jazz improvisation, although Marsh never achieved the commercial success and recognition that Konitz amassed over the years. “Tristanoites" developed, in the late 1940s and early 1950s, a distinct approach to jazz performance and composition based on thoroughly memorizing solos by artists ......
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Adam O'Farrill's ELEPHANT at BOP STOP
Adam O'Farrill's ELEPHANT BOP STOP at the Music Settlement Cleveland, OH September 9, 2026 What might have been on the minds of listeners who considered attending a concert by Adam O'Farrill's ELEPHANT, but who didn't know quite what to expect? Since the band had a name and not a generic description (it could have been called the Adam O'Farrill Quartet), would it play rock-inspired music? A little research into the leader's distinguished lineage ......
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Macedonian Saxophonist Hristijan Risteski Releases Debut Album 'waters Dance'
Macedonian-born, Graz-based saxophonist and clarinetist Hristijan Risteski will release his debut solo album Waters Dance in October 2026 on CD, LP and all major streaming platforms. Featuring Marko Churnchetz on piano, Hrvoje Kralj on double bass and Chris Smith on drums, the album presents a Quartet sound shaped by deep musical trust, strong live chemistry and a distinctly personal compositional voice. Built around a campaign of singles, videos and live dates, Waters Dance brings together classical precision, Macedonian rhythms and ......
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Espen Eriksen Trio: Winter Is Coming
An homage to Game of Thrones? A wish for the end of another excessively hot summer? Or just impatient for better ski conditions? Whatever the intention, the Espen Eriksen trio is back for another set of melodic Nordic jazz. After a pulsing, ominous start, the performance flowers into a memorable theme. The bandmates (Espen Eriksen on piano, Lars Tormod Jenset on bass and Andreas Bye on drums) breathe as one, favoring economical, lyrical invention over hearty rhythmic or harmonic improv. ......
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A Time Capsule in Sound: Jim Pugh’s New American Symphonies
On the surface, Jim Pugh's New American Symphonies might seem like just another interesting new album release, but there is much more involved here. Behind the album cover lies a story of experimentation, loss, and rediscovery that adds a fascinating dimension to this well-crafted recording. To get the full picture, however, we have to go back several decades. By the late 1930s, swing bands dominated American popular music, and Tommy Dorsey had established himself as one ......
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Emily Remler Feature Documentary Launches Kickstarter Campaign
Aletheian Pictures has announced a Kickstarter campaign to help complete Firefly: The Emily Remler Story, the first feature-length documentary about the pioneering American jazz guitarist. Made in co-operation with the Emily Remler Estate, Berklee College of Music and Musicians Institute in Hollywood, the film will feature previously unseen concert performances and interview footage of the late guitarist, alongside contributions from musicians, friends and collaborators including Martin Taylor, Jennifer Batten, Sheryl Bailey, Mimi Fox and Eleonora Strino, among others. Emily Remler ......
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Jazz Near You Brings Back Its Popular CSV Event Upload Feature
Jazz Near You has restored one of its most popular event submission tools: CSV bulk event upload (aka using a spreadsheet). The newly rebuilt feature allows musicians, venues, festivals, presenters, publicists and other event providers to upload multiple events to the Jazz Near You calendar at once using a CSV file—making it considerably easier to manage busy concert schedules without entering each event individually. The CSV upload feature was available on Jazz Near You for years and proved especially useful ......
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Rachel Spencer: Trumpeter Making Artistic Statements
A person's journey in life that takes them into the world of music and, more specifically, down a path that leads to becoming a professional player and performer is an individual and personal thing. There are some similarities with fellow musicians, but each story unfolds amid circumstances and events that are unique to a given individual. For Rachel Spencer, a trumpeter, composer and educator living in Austin, Texas, it started with classical music. She grew up in a ......
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Old School with Wendel Brunious
Growing up in my family, there was quite a bit of music around the house, as my brother John Brunious would be practicing and my daddy would be doing the same. John had actually taught me to play the blues, beginning with Going to New Orleans, first learning it on the piano. Of course, there were records being played too, mostly Louis Armstrong, but my brother was listening to bebop too, including Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, among others. And ......
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John Coltrane At 100: A Global Perspective
With the advent of his birth centenary, John William Coltrane is on our minds again. But then he nearly always is. His influence on generations of saxophonists is palpable. For countless musicians the term “Coltranesque" can be a badge of honor or a millstone around the neck. With the exception perhaps of Miles Davis--whose centenary also fell in 2026--arguably no other jazz musician has been so imitated--knowingly or otherwise. His main influence, however, is not so much in ......
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Punkt Festival 2026
Punkt FestivalTeateret/KunstsiloKristiansand, Norway September 3-5, 2026 Kristiansand does not announce itself the way a festival city usually does. The southern Norwegian port sits low along a coastline of pale granite and pine, its old town a grid of white wooden houses running down to Fiskebrygga, a fishing-harbor district where cruise ships dock a short walk from the quay. Just across the water, the wooded hill of Odderøya--once a naval base, now laced with ......
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