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Michael Formanek: New Digs

Read "New Digs" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
May 6, 2026

Michael Formanek has never been content to anchor a bandstand and call it a career. Over decades of work--from sideman stints with Stan Getz and Joe Henderson to the long-running Thumbscrew trio with Mary Halvorson and Tomas Fujiwara--he has operated as a composer and architect, building rooms rather than merely inhabiting them. New Digs recorded over ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

International Jazz Day Special

by Maurice Hogue
May 4, 2026

This edition of One Man's Jazz landed on April 30th, the date on which International Jazz Day is celebrated. The 2026 festivities are the 15th such event, but this show has been pumping the tires of international artists for many more years than that. Nevertheless, any excuse for a special show, yes? You'll hear music from ...

Article: Album Review

Pat Thomas, Dominic Lash, Tony Orrell: Lifeline

by John Sharpe
May 4, 2026

New bottles, same wine? On Lifeline, Pat Thomas, Dominic Lash and Tony Orrell, who operate under the moniker Bley School with acoustic instruments, convene in the studio with electronics. The trio's defining traits--deep listening, volatility and reflexive interaction--persist, but now unfold through circuitry rather than strings and skins. Furthermore, in place of the covers favored in ...

Article: Play This!

Michael Formanek: aka the Stinger

by Ludovico Granvassu
April 16, 2026

An invitation to perform at the 2023 Guimarães Jazz Festival in Portugal gave bassist and composer Michael Formanek the perfect opportunity to explore the sonic possibilities of the organ--an instrument he first loved in the rock bands of his Bay Area youth, and later rediscovered in the visionary works of Olivier Messiaen.Alexander Hawkins proves ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Stop, Reset and Consider: Listening to Women Jazz Artists

by Jon Greenbaum
March 15, 2026

It's Women's History Month and we are focusing on women jazz artists. We're playing albums where women are leading the date or are featured prominently.Playlist Emily Rach Beisel “Her Still Singing Limbs" from Sumptuous Branching (Amalgam) 00:00 Satoko Fujii Quartet “Mountain Gnome" from Burning Wick (Libra Records) 07:05 Susie Ibarra “Human Beginnings" from Flower ...

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 ...

Article: Year in Review

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden Of Jazzy Delights 2025

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 3, 2026

Capturing the breathtaking beauty, range, and diversity of jazz released in 2025 through a list of “10 best albums" feels as challenging, vain--and ultimately disappointing--as trying to photograph the Grand Canyon at sunset by placing a pinhole in front of a rudimentary digital camera's lens. Sure, a picture will be taken. It might even prove you ...

Album

All It Was

By Olie Brice

Label: West Hill Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Listening Intently to Raptors; After A Break; Morning Mourning (for Tosh Brice); Happy Song for Joni; A Rush of Memory Was All it Was; And We Dance on the Firm Earth.

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The Gleaming World

By Stephen Davis

Label: 577 Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: When We Were Gods; Deer Antler Spray; Sugar Loaf Mountain; Whale Song; Dead Planet; The Gleaming World; Sun Ghost; Tree.

Album

Song Unconditional

By Alexander Hawkins

Label: Intakt
Released: 2025
Track listing: Polyphonic Song; Her Heart Carries Gold to Match Her Eyes; Song of Infinite Variations; Song Bewildered; Satin Antiphonal; Song Symmetrical; Two Trees Equal; Song of Balance; Crinkle, Crinkle; Song of Work Still To Do; Song of Interdependence; Song in Orbit; Song of a Quiet Ecstatic.