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Adam O'Farrill: Elephant

Read "Elephant" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
April 16, 2026

On Elephant, trumpeter Adam O'Farrill steers his ensemble through music that is deliberate and quietly volatile. The writing favors asymmetry without sounding academic, and the group responds with alert patience. Moreover, brass lines hover and fracture while the rhythm moves in angled cycles. The album avoids easy dramatics, building tension through restraint. O'Farrill often ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Jesse Davis, Jazzlab Orchestra, Xavi Rekja, New Jazz Underground

by Cheryl K.
April 6, 2026

During this week's two-hour program of jazz and improvised music--vocalist Rebecca Rafla; saxophonist Jesse Davis; saxophonist/composer Oded Tzur; the Jazzlab Orchestra; saxophonist Tia Fuller and pianist Shamie Fuller-Royston; Neves E Silva; trumpeter Adam O'Farrill's Elephant; the David Smith Quintet; and Jazz Sabbath. Playlist Cal Tjader/Mary Stalling “I Didn't Know About You" from Cal Tjader ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Yvonne Rogers, Adam O'Farrill, Monfort, Nina Tonji & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
March 31, 2026

Another week of sifting through the flood of recent and upcoming jazz releases, another playlist full of gems you won't find on shuffle.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Simona Severini, Jacopo Ferrazza “Caravan" Dream Scenario (Parco Della Musica) 0:16 Host talks 3:11 Alexa Tarantino ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Jon Irabagon, Yelena Eckemoff, Walter Smith III and Eric Mingus with Catherine Sikora

by Hobart Taylor
March 18, 2026

Persian jazz fusion from Qajar Jazz + Shabaka, Niia, Nina Simone re-mixed and Adrian Younge's latest. Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Qajar Jazz “Hot Jazz" from Sovereign (Self-Produced) 00:21 Yelena Eckemoff “Gamla Stan" from Rosendals Garden (L&H) 04:13 Arnold Ludvig “ Port of Thor" from Live @ Maggies (TUTL) 13:47 Catherine Sikora/Eric Mingus “Lament for ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Music from Camila Nebbia, Anais Drago, Ayumi Ishito, Tomeka Reid, Maria Faust & Luise Volkmann

by Jon Greenbaum
February 8, 2026

More explorations of the boundaries of improvisation and composition from artists around the globe.Playlist Anais Drago “Out Of The Cage" from Relevé (Habitable Records) 00:00 Adam O'Farrill “Sea Triptych, Pt. 2--The Three of Us, Floating" from ELEPHANT (Out Of Our Heads Records) 03:35 Gianluigi Trovesi “C'era una volta un ballo" from Cinque Piccole Storie ...

Article: What is Jazz?

2026 Winter JazzFest Marathons: A Survival Guide

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 6, 2026

For jazz fans who are in New York, when one countdown ends with the Times Square Ball Drop, another one begins--and ends a few days later, when Winter JazzFest officially gets underway with the first downbeat at Le Poisson Rouge. For 22 years, the festival has been the launch pad of the jazz year ...

Article: Year in Review

I Dischi del 2025 secondo Ludovico Granvassu

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 5, 2026

Immortalare la bellezza e la varietà del jazz pubblicato nel 2025 attraverso una “top ten" appare tanto arduo, vano--e alla fine deludente--quanto cercare di fotografare un tramonto sulla costiera amalfitana usando una rudimentale fotocamera digitale e facendo un forellino sul copriobiettivo. Certo, una foto verrà scattata. Potrebbe persino dimostrare che eri lì, in quel momento, quando ...

Album

For These Streets

By Adam O'Farrill

Label: Out Of Your Head Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Swimmers; Nocturno, 1932; Scratching the Surface of a Dream; Migration; Speeding Blots of Ink; Streets; And So On; The Break Had Not Come; Rose; Late June.

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About Ghosts

By Mary Halvorson

Label: Nonesuch Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Full of Neon; Carved From; Eventidal; Absinthian; About Ghosts; Amaranthine; Polyhedral; Endmost.

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Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley

By Arturo O'Farrill

Label: Zoho Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Mundoagua: I. Glacial, II. Mundoagua, III. The Politics of Water; Blue Palestine: Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four. ; Día de los muertos: I. Flowery Death, II. La Bruja, III. Mambo Cadaverous.