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Ayumi Ishito

Ayumi Ishito was born and raised in Ishikawa, Japan. At the age of 19, she began playing tenor saxophone in a college big band at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto. In 2007, Ayumi received a scholarship to attend Berkee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. She spent three years there studying performance and composition. At Berklee, she studied with George Garzone, Hal Crook, and Frank Tiberi. After graduating from Berklee, Ayumi moved to New York in 2010. Currently, Ayumi is a regular member of The Jazz Thieves, GADADU, The Eighty-pound Pug, Platypus Revenge and Big Squid performing and recording for numerous projects

Beyond Flute Group- Instrumental Underground

By Cheryl Pyle

Label: 11th Street Music
Released: 2026
Track listing: 1. Improvisation 1 23:14 2. Improvisation 2 11:27 3. Improvisation 3 12:41

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 ...

Musique Libre Femmes

By Cheryl Pyle

Label: 11th Street Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Musique Libre Femmes, free jazz women 's improvisational set

Wondercult Club

By Ayumi Ishito

Label: 577 Records
Released: 2025

New Music from Weiss, Flying Sutra, Jackson Heinemann and Shead, & More

by Bob Osborne
July 10, 2025

Perhaps the most fascinating and rewarding gift from jazz music is its' unpredictability. On this show the selection of new releases continue to demonstrate that the music never fails to surprise and excite. As well as new material there is further exploration of Ivo Perelman's back catalogue on Leo Records and the recent reissue of the ...

New Releases From Dreyer, Sarian, Murray, Lovano And More

by Bob Osborne
May 1, 2025

The importance of Rudy Van Gelder's studio in New Jersey on the world of jazz cannot be understated. Some of the most important music in the history of the music was recorded there. New recordings from the famous studio are featured on this show. My examination of the work of Ivo Perelman on Leo Records continues. ...

Myra Melford Splash, Thomas Heberer's Remedy & Ra Bishop

by Maurice Hogue
March 31, 2025

It's early in the year to be thinking “best-of" albums, but I'm definitely noting these for December: pianist Myra Melford's Splash Trio with bassist Michael Formanek and drummer Ches Smith and Remedy, the trio of Thomas Heberer trumpet, Joe Fonda bass & Joe Hertenstein drums. These are two recordings that present the kind of free expression ...

Jon Irabagon, Frank Carlberg & Dennis Egberth

by Maurice Hogue
February 17, 2025

Artificial Intelligence. Is it good, is it bad? It's a key component of allaboutjazz.com we know that. Saxophonist and composer Jon Irabagon and an amazing tentet put AI under their musical microscope and the results of their examination are now available on the new “Server Farm." There are similar exploratory approaches on new albums by pianist ...

Sullivan Fortner, Gabriele Comeglio, Nour Symon, Volker Meitz

by Cheryl K.
February 14, 2025

During this week's two-hour program of Jazz and improvised music, cuts from new releases by harpist Ashley Jackson; pianist Sullivan Fortner; Julia Hülsmann; saxophonist Gabriele Comeglio; multidisciplinary artist Nour Symon; vocalist Eugenie Jones; keyboardist Volker Meitz; and saxophonist Lucious Crawford. Playlist Archie Shepp “Invocation: Ballad for a Child" from Attica Blues (Impulse!) :30 Archie ...