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Alex Beltran

Mike Westbrook 1936 - 2026 & More

by Jerome Wilson
April 29, 2026

About half of this episode is dedicated to the work of pianist and composer Mike Westbrook who passed away on April 11, 2026. Music from some of Westbrook's large and small groups will be played as well as a performance with his wife Kate Westbrook. The show will also feature music from Melissa Aldana, Chico Hamilton, ...

Rift

By Alex Beltran

Label: Calligram Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Lulu; Bird Dance; Sub Rosa; Frequency; Fragments; Jay; The River Will Decide; Rift.

Hank Roberts, Charles Lloyd, and Robert Wyatt

by Jerome Wilson
June 19, 2024

This episode includes fresh sounds from Hank Roberts and Robert Wyatt, Swing-era jazz performed by Air and Benny Goodman, and vocals by Kosi and Patty Carpenter. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Bill Cunliffe “Afluencia" ...

Alex Beltran: Rift

by Hrayr Attarian
May 16, 2024

Chicago-based saxophonist Alex Beltran delivers a tour de force with Rift, an exploration of identity in a musical form. Beltran, who grew up in two distinct cultural spheres, those of his Latino father and his white mother, describes in the liner notes how he never fit with either side of the family. This became a source ...

Expectation & Experience

By Shawn Maxwell

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Expectation; J.C. Jones; Empty Shelf; Quiet House; The Great Divide; Feeling Remote; Breathe; A Change of Climate; Alternative Facts; Every Day Is Monday; No Peace Without Justice; The Show Can’t Go On; Empty Stage; Six Hundred; Lockdown; The New Abnormal; Experience.

Shawn Maxwell: Expectation & Experience

by Jack Bowers
May 22, 2021

On Expectation & Experience, his tenth recording as a leader, Chicago-based woodwind specialist Shawn Maxwell is accompanied by almost thirty musicians—but never by more than three on any of its seventeen tracks. Maxwell says the compositions were written during the global Covid-19 pandemic, and the musicians were mustered singly, most in their own homes. While each ...

Midnight Stroll

By Joshua Jern

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Midnight Stroll; Circuit Breaker; With the Best Intentions; Finally Done Doin’ It; Ladybug Bridge; Mr. Roads; Blueberry; Starting Point; Swingin’ a Yarn.

Joshua Jern Jazz Orchestra: Midnight Stroll

by Jack Bowers
April 15, 2020

One can only imagine how difficult it must be, especially in such uncertain times, for any musician to decide that the time has come to assemble a big band and usher it into a recording studio, let alone one whose name and reputation are, more than likely, scarcely known outside his own neighborhood. Thumbing his nose ...