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Souvik Dutta: 20 Years of Abstract Logix

by Mike Jacobs
September 27, 2024

If you are a music lover, you may already know the name Souvik (pronounced show-vik) Dutta. Over the last 20 years, he has taken his Abstract Logix enterprise from a pre-YouTube streaming platform to a music retail website to a niche imprint to a respected independent label boasting a top-tier roster that includes the likes of ...

Article: Album Review

Mike Stern: Echoes and Other Songs

Read "Echoes and Other Songs" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
September 13, 2024

With a running time of seventy-seven minutes plus, guitarist Mike Stern's Echoes and Other Songs is effectively a double album. And like most such expansive works--including classics like Bob Dylan's Blonde On Blonde (Columbia, 1966) and The Beatles (aka 'The White Album')(Apple, 1968)--it would benefit from consolidation of its best elements (as would a replacement of ...

Article: Play This!

Remembering Toumani Diabaté: MALIcool

by Ian Patterson
August 20, 2024

The passing of Malian kora griot Toumani Diabaté in July is a great loss to music. Born in Bamako in 1965, in post-independence Mali, Diabaté grew up playing traditional music. but as a leader he was a modernist from the get-go, collaborating with flamenco fusionists Ketama and English bassist Danny Thompson on the excellent Songhai (Nuevos ...

Article: Live Review

Bassekou Kouyaté At Regional Cultural Centre

by Ian Patterson
July 31, 2024

Bassekou Kouyaté Earagail Arts Festival Regional Cultural Centre Letterkenny, Ireland July 27, 2024 Few West African musicians have done as much as Bassekou Kouyaté to take the ngoni, an ancient West African string instrument, to the wider world. Born in Garana in 1966, Kouyaté first wowed ...

Article: Live Review

Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer, & Zakir Hussain with Rakesh Chaurasia at Ulster Performing Arts Center

by Mike Jurkovic
June 20, 2024

Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer, & Zakir Hussain with Rakesh Chaurasia Ulster Performing Arts Center Kingston, NY June 14, 2024 Given that most of the old space heads who groove on these other forms of communication can't see that well to drive at night anymore, it was a bigger crowd than ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Optimism, Evolution & Telepathy

by Bob Osborne
June 20, 2024

2024 is proving to be an excellent year for new jazz. This new selection is no exception. The show kicks off with a couple of bass players, includes two new albums featuring Daniel Carter, and has visits to South America and Australia, amongst other places. The variety of styles and genres included is a testament to ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

The Jazz Defenders, Joe Henderson, Tim Lin & Eyal Vilner

by Joe Dimino
June 9, 2024

Straight from the UK, we begin the 858th Episode of Neon Jazz with The Jazz Defenders with material off their 2024 album Memory in Motion. In honor of their influences, we move into a recent reissue of Horace Silver's LP Late Night. From there, we hear new music from Julieta Eugenio, Flávio Silva and Lenny Marcus ...

Article: Album Review

Chick Corea and Bela Fleck: Remembrance

Read "Remembrance" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
May 22, 2024

As much as master banjoist Bela Fleck loves to play, he loves to perform with other like-minded musicians virtually as much. Consequently, in addition to his long-standing role as leader of The Flecktones ensemble, he has continued to explore his love of the bluegrass music by which he first made a name for himself, My Bluegrass ...

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Take Five with Meg Okura

by AAJ Staff
May 10, 2024

Meet Meg Okura Hailed as “the queen of chamber jazz (All About Jazz)," Tokyo-native Meg Okura is a Grammy-nominated jazz composer and violinist based in New York, known for her music praised by The New York Times as “grandiloquent beauty that transitions easily from grooves to big cascades to buoyant swing." Ms. Okura leads her 10-piece ...

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Hillai Govreen, Béla Fleck, Eva Novoa, Nicole McCabe & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
May 10, 2024

Creative takes on Django Reinhardt and George Gershwin open a show which then spotlights three emerging and compelling musicians: Hillai Govreen, Nicole McCabe and Eva Novoa.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Edouard Pennes “Swing 48" Génération Django (Artwork) 0:16 Host talks 3:33 Béla Fleck ...