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Bremen 1965

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Chris Cross; Sweet and Lovely; Well You Needn't; Don't Blame Me; Epistrophy; Just You, Just Me; I'm Getting Sentimental Over You; Rhythm a Ning; Epistrophy.

Article: Album Review

Thelonious Monk: Bremen 1965

Read "Bremen 1965" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
December 5, 2025

The first official release of the Bremen concert, carefully remastered from the original tapes, is more than just an archival curiosity; it is a revelation. Recorded on an evening characterized by generous tempos and a relaxed exchange, Bremen 1965 reaffirms Thelonious Monk and his experienced quartet as they pay their most fundamental tributes: the uneven poetry ...

Article: Interview

Zlatko Kaučič: The Discipline of Freedom

by Neri Pollastri
October 7, 2025

Fresh from the release of the four-CD box set Inklings (Fundacja Sluchaj, 2024) and on the eve of the 15th edition of the Brda Contemporary Music Festival--which he founded and still directs--drummer, percussionist, composer and educator Zlatko Kaučič continues a career spanning over four decades, marked by collaborations with many of Europe's greatest improvisers. A passionate ...

Article: Album Review

Dawn Clement: Delight

by Paul Rauch
July 21, 2025

Pianist / vocalist / composer Dawn Clement has appeared on plenty of recordings, both as a sideperson and leader, but she has perhaps never quite accomplished what she has here with Delight, on the Origin Records label. There are balances achieved with this record that fans of the long-time Seattle, now Denver-based Clement can ...

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Sparkbird

By Emilie-Claire Barlow

Label: Empress Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: Over the Rainbow; Fais comme l’oiseau; Skylark; Where Will I Be?; Little Jazz Bird; Bird of Beauty; Pajaros de Barro.

Article: Album Review

Wayne Escoffery: Like Minds

by Dave Linn
June 21, 2023

Wayne Escoffery was born in London and raised in New Haven, Connecticut. He began playing the saxophone at the age of 11, later studying at the Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. In the late 1990s, Escoffery started gaining recognition on the jazz scene with ...

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Bird of Beauty

March 14, 2023

Album: Sparkbird
By Emilie-Claire Barlow
Label: Empress Music
Released: 2023
Duration: 04:55

Article: Building a Jazz Library

Sonny Rollins: Ten Colossal Albums

by Chris May
April 6, 2022

The history of modern jazz is a short one, but even so there are few musicians whose careers began in the bop era and who are still with us in 2022. Drummer Roy Haynes is one. Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins is another. Both players recorded with trumpeter Fats Navarro and pianist Bud Powell in 1949.

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Listen Here

By Roseanna Vitro

Label: Skyline Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: No More Blues; You Go To My Head; Centerpiece; Love You Madly; A time For Love; This Happy Madness; Listen Here; It Could Happen To You; Easy Street; Sometime Ago; You Took Advantage of Me; Black Coffee.

News: Recording

Grammy-Nominated Vocalist Roseanna Vitro Reissues 1984 Debut Album, 'Listen Here,' Feat. Kenny Barron Trio

January 14, 2021

Vocalist Roseanna Vitro—performer, recording artist, educator and journalist—reissues Listen Here, the debut album that launched her career. Featuring veteran pianist Kenny Barron, the project ushered into the spotlight a formidable new artist with chops and sensitivity in equal measure – a galvanizing spirit who, having already proven she could move live audiences, now certified her power ...