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Alight Upon the Lake: Live at the Jazz Showcase

Label: Resonance Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: (CD1): The Untitled; Mutually Exclusive; Eboness; (CD2): Inside Atlantis; I Remember Webster; Opus 1 & 2; (CD3): Golden Goddess; Straighten Up and Fly Right; Yusef’s Mood.

Article: Building a Jazz Library

Ronnie Cuber: Baritone Boss

by Mark McKergow
September 14, 2026

Ronnie Cuber (1941-2022) made his mark on the jazz world as a versatile and muscular baritone saxophonist. Born in New York on Christmas Day 1941, he started on tenor saxophone but switched to baritone at 17, attracted by the vacant chair in Marshall Brown's Newport Jazz Youth Band (which also featured lifelong colleagues Eddie Gomez and Michael ...

Article: Profile

The Discreet Charm of Tete Montoliu

by Con Chapman
September 9, 2026

In 1947 tenor saxophonist Don Byas, a transplant from America following a tour of Europe, joined a society orchestra--complete with strings--to play dates in Spain. After their ballroom engagement was over, Byas and the band's rhythm section would jam until the early morning hours when they would be forced to quit “either because the police burst ...

Article: Journey into Jazz

Record Store Day 2026 Jazz Releases

by Kyle Simpler
April 3, 2026

Many vinyl enthusiasts get excited when the Record Store Day lists appear, and understandably so: most of the titles are limited-run pressings that can disappear quickly once the doors open. The only drawback, however, is that the lists can be overwhelming to sort through, often spanning multiple pages and covering releases across a wide range of ...

Article: Building a Jazz Library

Mal Waldron: His Journey Across 12 Albums

by Carl Medsker
February 20, 2026

Mal Waldron's life story is compelling, and to mark his 2025 centenary, this article aims to introduce his work to those less familiar with it by tracing his journey across 12 distinctive recordings. Max Roach once singled him out, along with Thelonious Monk, Herbie Nichols, Hasaan Ibn Ali and Randy Weston, as uniquely original ...

Article: History of Jazz

Gravity and Resurgence: The Many Dimensions of Dexter Gordon

by Arthur R George
February 6, 2025

Long Tall Dexter; swinger, bebopper, saxophone balladeer; acting the dissipated genius expatriate who was not unlike himself in the movie Round Midnight; his dressed-up persona “Society Red;" the laconic elder statesman of his later years. Dexter Gordon is all those things, but more than a kaleidoscope of caricatures. Those who trace their lineages through ...

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Atlantis Lullaby - The Concert from Avignon

By Yusef Lateef

Label: Elemental Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: CD 1:

Inside Atlantis; A Flower; Yusef's Mood; Lowland Lullaby.

CD 2:

Eboness; I'm Getting Sentimental Over You; The Untitled.

Article: Play This!

Remembering Albert 'Tootie' heath

by Ian Patterson
April 13, 2024

Drumming great Albert 'Tootie' Heath played with a who's who of jazz greats, from John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins to Wes Montgomery and Nina Simone. He recorded all too infrequently as a leader, probably because he was so in demand for other people's projects. This clip from the 2014 Chicago Jazz Festival finds Heath in the ...

Article: Film Review

I Called Him Morgan at Belfast Film Festival 2017

by Ian Patterson
April 4, 2017

I Called Him Morgan (2016) A film by Kasper Collin Belfast Film Festival Strand Arts Centre, Belfast, N. Ireland March 31, 2017 There was something appropriate about the screening of Kasper Collin's documentary I Called Him Morgan in the Strand Arts Centre. The furnishings of this old, art-deco cinema ...

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The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery

By Wes Montgomery

Label: Riverside
Released: 2008
Track listing: Airegin; D-Natural Blues; Polka Dots and Moonbeams; Four on Six; West Coast Blues; In Your Own Sweet Way; Mr. Walker; Gone With The Wind.