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Album

The Latin Side of Mingus

Label: Savant Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Gunslinging Bird" (Originally titled "If Charlie Parker Were a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats") Boogie Stop Shuffle; No Dejes Que Pase Aqui Goodbye Pork Pie Hat; Hora Decubitus; Duke Ellington’s Sound of Love; All The Things You Could Be By Now If Sigmund Freud’s Wife Was Your Mother; Better Get Hit In Your Soul.

Album

A Change Is Gonna Come

By Bill O'Connell

Label: Savant Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Moment’s Notice; Loco-Motive; Covid Blues; A Change Is Gonna Come; Sun for Sonny; Enough Is Enough; Sweet Peanut; A Prayer for Us; Chaos; My Foolish Heart.

Article: Year in Review

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden Of Jazzy Delights 2022

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 29, 2022

The depth and range of the music that jazz players have put on record in 2022 are so big that summarizing this “year in jazz" by selecting only ten albums feels akin to taking the photo of a breath-taking landscape with an ultra-low resolution camera... Ten years from now, how is one supposed to understand how ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

A Few Of My Favorite 2022 Jazz Things (So Far) - Part 1

by Ludovico Granvassu
July 19, 2022

Since 2022 has been barreling down at breakneck speed... it's July already, which is actually the perfect moment to take stock of what the first half of the year had to offer to jazz fans. Please enjoy some of the tunes that have brought us most delight during the first six months of the year!

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Roxy Coss, Deadeye, Gilad Hekselman, Johannes Wallmann & More New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
July 2, 2022

This week we focus on new and upcoming albums featuring emerging guitarists like Reinier Baas and Gilad Hekselman, electro-acoustic projects and more... Happy listening! PlaylistBen Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Johannes Wallmann “Precarious Towers" Precarious Towers (Shifting Paragdim) 0:16 Host talks 5:34 Bill O'Connell “Enough Is ...

Article: Album Review

Andrea Brachfeld & Insight: Evolution

Read "Evolution" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
June 30, 2022

Although Andrea Brachfeld's may not be a household name, the versatile flutist and composer has been a well-established and respected presence on New York City's jazz and Afro-Cuban scenes since around 1970. On Evolution, her tenth recording as leader, Brachfeld delves musically into children's issues “and the ongoing need [for] basic necessities even in the best ...

Article: Album Review

Andrea Brachfeld: Evolution

Read "Evolution" reviewed by Jane Kozhevnikova

by Jane Kozhevnikova
June 10, 2022

Andrea Brachfeld is a critically acclaimed flutist, composer and educator. She has won multiple awards, including a grant from Chamber Music America and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and was once recognized as the best jazz flutist by Hot House magazine. Evolution features Brachfeld's longtime collaborators Bill O'Connell (piano), Harvie S (bass) and Jason Tiemann (drums). ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Pop Goes the Jazzbo

by Patrick Burnette
May 12, 2022

"Going Pop" can mean many different things where jazz musicians are concerned, from adding electricity (dang it, Miles, why you do that?), to covering pop songs, to actually experimenting with writing pop songs (not too many take this path and few emerge unscathed). And then there's rare jazzer combining jazz and pop songs, as you'll soon ...