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Take Five with Guitarist Joey Stuckey

by AAJ Staff
November 5, 2026

Editor's Note: Guitarist, producer, and educator Joey Stuckey completed this Take Five interview shortly before his passing in October 2026. We're grateful that he took the time to share his experiences, musical philosophy, and reflections with All About Jazz. An inspirational, award-winning artist, producer, and podcast host, Joey Stuckey blazed a trail for three ...

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Take Five with Pianist Lenore Raphael

by AAJ Staff
October 25, 2026

I'm a jazz pianist, Steinway artist, jazz educator, and host of Lenore Raphael's JazzSpot on purejazzradio.com. Music has been part of my life since I was three years old--maybe even earlier! I began with classical studies before discovering jazz at age 12. Since then, I've enjoyed a full career performing at major clubs and ...

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Take Five with Multi-instrumentalist MTNLLY

by AAJ Staff
October 20, 2026

MTNLLY is a Nottingham, UK-based independent jazz artist whose music inhabits the space between atmosphere, introspection, and narrative. Rather than treating jazz simply as a musical language, MTNLLY approaches it as a vehicle for storytelling, using mood, texture, and composition to explore memory, emotion, solitude, and the complexities of human experience. All About Jazz: ...

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Take Five with Vocalist Greg Farnese

by AAJ Staff
October 8, 2026

Greg Farnese is a modern-day throwback vocalist, a crooner, if you will. He reignites the treasured and timeless classics from the Great American Songbook and blends them with his unique interpretations of his modern-day favorites. A South Jersey native, Greg began his career in acting and moved to Hollywood, California, where he worked in theater, television ...

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Take Five with Singer-Songwriter Rachelle Garniez

by AAJ Staff
August 16, 2026

Meet Rachelle Garniez Rachelle Garniez is a songwriter, singer, composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Born and raised on New York City's 1970s culturally diverse Upper West Side by an American classical pianist and a European professor of French existentialist literature, Rachelle was exposed to rich and multi-layered influences, from utopian collective free-schooling and Austrian Expressionism to roller ...

Article: Year in Review

Best Jazz Albums of 2026: All-Star Break Edition

by AAJ Staff
July 13, 2026

As we reach the halfway point of 2026, All About Jazz once again borrows a page from Major League Baseball's All-Star break, replacing home runs with jazz albums. This year, 78 staffers submitted their picks, surpassing 2025's participation by 23 contributors--an incredible turnout. Our album reviewers and radio & podcast hosts bring big ...

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Nkomo Records: Protest and Poetry

by AAJ Staff
June 20, 2026

This article was first published on All About Jazz on January 10, 2004. Keyboard player Mike Perry shares the management of Nkomo Records, an independent South African jazz label, with saxophonist Winston Mankunku. The two musicians met in Cape Town in 1976. After gigging together in the early '80s, they joined forces to create ...

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Take Five with Saxophonist Bernell Jones II

by AAJ Staff
June 19, 2026

Meet Bernell Jones Originally from Memphis, TN, Bernell Jones II is an NYC-based genre-fluid saxophonist and songwriter. His music showcases a variety of influences from his upbringing such as gospel, jazz, blues, r&b, etc. As a performing artist, he has worked alongside artists such as Ms. Lauryn Hill, Olivia Dean, Wyclef Jean, Philip Harper, Eric Bellinger, ...

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Take Five with Gary Van Miert AKA The Psychedelic Cowboy

by AAJ Staff
June 5, 2026

Meet Gary Van Miert AKA The Psychedelic Cowboy Gary Van Miert is a New Jersey-based musician and performer best known as the frontman of The Sensational Country Blues Wonders!, a band that blends classic American musical styles like country, gospel, and blues with a distinct vintage flair and theatrical presentation. The Sensational Country Blues Wonders! were ...

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Take Five with Clarinetist Davide Sgarra

by AAJ Staff
June 1, 2026

Meet Davide SgarraDavide Sgarra is an Italian jazz clarinetist and saxophonist based in Brooklyn, New York. Born and raised near Varese in northern Italy, he went on to earn his Bachelor of Music from the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague in the Netherlands and his Master of Music from Manhattan School of Music in New York ...