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Take Five with Pianist Noah Stoneman

by AAJ Staff
March 30, 2026

Meet Noah Stoneman Noah Stoneman is a pianist and composer from London who has been based in New York City for the past three years. His career has already seen him collaborate with master musicians from all walks of musical life, and he is intent on keeping this diversity of creativity as a fixture of his ...

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Bergamo Jazz 2026

by Libero Farnè
March 27, 2026

Bergamo Jazz Festival 2026 Varie sedi Bergamo 19--22 marzo 2026 A differenza di altri jazz festival, molto estesi sotto il profilo cronologico e territoriale, quello di Bergamo, a parte alcune appendici prima e dopo, si concentra in quattro giornate fitte di eventi, di progetti speciali e di protagonisti ...

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New & Older Post Bop, Free Jazz and Avant Garde from Europe, NYC, and Montreal

by Jon Greenbaum
March 1, 2026

Lots of new and some older music from Italy, Germany, Finland, Montreal, NYC, England, Estonia, and Sweden.Playlist Kaja Draksler Octet “Skylark" from Bare, Unfolding (Clean Feed Records) 00:00 Joe Morris “Slipshod" from Racket Club (About Time Records) 07:05 Federico Calcagno & The Dolphians “Children of Gaza" from Face The Music (Da Vinci Jazz Records) ...

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Ferdinando Romano al Pinocchio Live Jazz di Firenze

by Neri Pollastri
February 23, 2026

Ferdinando Romano Pinocchio Live Jazz Firenze 17 gennaio 2026 Ferdinando Romano è un musicista che non si attarda sui singoli passi del proprio percorso artistico ma che guarda sempre avanti, esplorando nuove prospettive e collaborando con nuovi compagni di viaggio. Anche nel suo ultimo lavoro The Legends of Otranto --uno dei ...

Article: Building a Jazz Library

Mal Waldron: His Journey Across 12 Albums

by Carl Medsker
February 20, 2026

Mal Waldron's life story is compelling, and to mark his 2025 centenary, this article aims to introduce his work to those less familiar with it by tracing his journey across 12 distinctive recordings. Max Roach once singled him out, along with Thelonious Monk, Herbie Nichols, Hasaan Ibn Ali and Randy Weston, as uniquely original ...

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...and in three months' time, Cecil Taylor freed jazz

by Daniel Mège
February 14, 2026

In the 1950s, while jazz explored its coolness far out west, Cecil Taylor, freshly back from Boston, took up the Thelonious Monkian revolution in New York City. Three years younger (1929) than John Coltrane and Miles Davis, he launched two kids, Archie Vernon Shepp (1936) and Steven Norman Lackritz (1934)--better known as Steve Lacy--whom he drew from dixieland. ...

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Albert Marquès / Rachel Therrien: Dialogue (Vol. I & II)

Read "Dialogue (Vol. I & II)" reviewed by Artur Moral

by Artur Moral
January 30, 2026

Except for the most radically experimental music, in a jazz context increasingly dominated by written scores that leave little room for improvisation, the appearance of a musical diptych centered on the latter is undoubtedly most welcome. This applies both to individual discourse and to creation shared simultaneously by various performers. Granted, many listeners may be absolutely ...

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Mary Lou Williams: A Fungus Amungus

by Ian Patterson
December 29, 2025

The title sounds like something from the fertile imagination of Charles Mingus. A blindfold listening test might throw up Sun Ra. “A Fungus Amungus," however, is Mary Lou Williams and nothing but. This solo piano piece clocks in at a swift three minutes, but the Atlanta-born, Pittsburgh-raised pianist packs a lot of notes and ...

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Eydís Evensen, Orlando Molina, Rempis-Adasiewicz-Corsano, Out Of/Into

by Cheryl K.
December 29, 2025

During this week's two-hour program of jazz and improvised music, holiday music from organist Don Patterson, vocalist Darius de Haas, and trumpeter Louis Armstrong and The Commanders; also, new music from pianists Eydís Evensen, Sean Mason, and Jahari Stampley; saxophonists Ivo Perelman, John Butcher, and Kevin Sun; and guitarist Kevin Brown fronting a quintet.Playlist ...

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Roberto Gatto Quartet al Pinocchio di Firenze

by Neri Pollastri
December 11, 2025

Roberto Gatto Quartet Pinocchio Live Jazz Firenze 15 novembre 2025 La seconda data della stagione invernale 2025 del Pinocchio Live Jazz di Firenze è un tutto esaurito con tanto di persone che se ne tornano a casa mestamente per mancanza di posto: merito di Roberto Gatto, uno dei musicisti “storici" del ...