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One For My Baby

July 25, 2025

Album: Just in Time
By Susan Hinkson
Label: Windfall Creations
Released: 2025
Duration: 04:06

Article: Album Review

In 2025, radio programmers are apt to carp about singers who continue to cover the Great American Songbook. There are new songs and songwriters to explore, they say, and it is true. But for lovers of mainstream jazz, the mellow sound of a sensitive balladeer like Susan Hinkson singing a gem like Harold Arlen and Johnny ...

Album

Crossing Paths

By Renee Rosnes

Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Frevo; Pra Dizer Adeus (featuring Edu Lobo); Trilhos Urbanos; Canta, Canta Mais (featuring Maucha Adnet); Casa Forte (featuring Edu Lobo); Essa Mulher (featuring Joyce Moreno); Amor Até O Fim; Estórias da Floresta; Caminhos Cruzados (featuring Maucha Adnet).

Song of the Day

Frevo

December 19, 2024

Album: Crossing Paths
By Renee Rosnes
Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 04:43

Article: Album Review

Renee Rosnes: Crossing Paths

Read "Crossing Paths" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright

by Katchie Cartwright
December 7, 2024

In the course of a career that began in the 1980s and continues to flourish, Renee Rosnes has developed an extraordinary sound, both as a composer and as a pianist, one that is readily recognizable whatever the context. With Crossing Paths, she taps into longstanding affinities and affection for Brazilian music, illuminating elements and flavors that ...

Article: Interview

A Conversation with Charlie Hunter

by Jason West
September 15, 2024

This article was first published at All About Jazz in May 1999. One tends to get the impression that Charlie Hunter truly doesn't care about the big money, the acres of critics, or the international hype he receives. Perhaps this is because the 31 year-old Bay Area native is too concerned about growing as ...

Article: Liner Notes

Ralph Bowen: Five

by C. Andrew Hovan
September 1, 2024

Although he's better known in educational circles due to his solid commitment to jazz pedagogy as a member of the faculty at Rutgers University, Ralph Bowen has been a vital member of the jazz community since debuting with the group Out of the Blue back in the mid '80s. His adaptability to a diversity of musical ...

Article: Live Review

Gilmore Piano Festival 2024

by John Ephland
June 5, 2024

Irving S. Gilmore International Piano FestivalKalamazoo, MIApril 24 to May 12, 2024 Thelonious Monk ends his 1967 album Straight, No Chaser with the song “We See." This Monk classic quartet remake from the 1950s was also the last piece of jazz music performed at this year's Irving S. Gilmore International Piano Festival. ...

Article: Live Review

Kurt Elling & Danilo Pérez at Jazz, TX

by Katchie Cartwright
May 29, 2024

Kurt Elling & Danilo Pérez Jazz, TX San Antonio, Texas May 9, 2024 Kurt Elling's presence has a density that generates its own gravitational pull. He plants himself solidly in the moment onstage and draws the audience in. Danilo Pérez is similarly brilliant and focused. He shares Elling's dedication to the ...

Article: Live Review

Bergamo Jazz Festival 2024

by Vincenzo Roggero
April 2, 2024

Bergamo Jazz Festival Bergamo Varie sedi 21-24.3.2024 La quarantacinquesima edizione di Bergamo Jazz coincide con il passaggio di testimone nella direzione artistica da Maria Pia De Vito allo statunitense Joe Lovano, più volte ospite come musicista della rassegna orobica. La formula è quella consolidata da anni: tre serate con doppio concerto ...