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About Chris McCarthy

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Hot House Jazz Magazine as described Chris McCarthy as "one of the most imaginative and impressive voices on the New York jazz scene." Since arriving in New York City in 2016, McCarthy has made a name for himself as one of the scene's most in demand young sidemen. He steps into the foreground as a bandleader with the release of his April 2020 Ropeadope debut, Still Time To Quit. The album features the New York super group of Takuya Kuroda on trumpet, Michael Blake on sax, Sam Minaie on bass and JK Kim on drums. The album has been praised as a "big step forward for McCarthy, an auspicious label debut that bodes well for the future" by Glide Magazine and was prominently featured on Spotify's Jazz X-Press Editorial Playlist.

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Bellflower

By Jun Iida

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Rivers and Bridges; Hotaru Nights; The Final View; Next Time; Marco the Phoenix; Will They Remember?; No Scuffs; Lovers’ Interlude; Chasing Peace; Bellflower.

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The Lively Air

By Aubrey Johnson

Label: Greenleaf Music
Released: 2026
Track listing: Hope; The Words I Cannot Say; Help Me; Don't Be Afraid; Chorinho; The Waking; I'll Never Need to Know; For Luna; The Miracle Is in Us; Quem é Você (Close to Home).

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Chris McCarthy, Sam Blakeslee, The Cosmic Tones Research Trio, John Wadham

by Cheryl K.
September 24, 2026

During this week's two-hour program of jazz and improvised music: pianist/composer Chris McCarthy; the Alg Trio; saxophonist Michael Eaton, pianist Nicki Adams, and drummer Francisco Mela; vocalist Judi Silvano's Garden Winds; trombonist Sam Blakeslee; Brittany Pitt and her trio Shapeshifter; The Cosmic Tones Research Trio; saxophonist/composer Dennis Mitcheltree; and trumpeter Russell Gunn & Blackhawk.

Article: Album Review

Jun Iida: Bellflower

Read "Bellflower" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
July 27, 2026

Bellflower, trumpeter Jun Iida's second recording, is a cordial and even-tempered survey of nine of his original compositions and one by the late Japanese composer Nujabes, ably performed by Iida's talented sextet with spoken word by Zelda Harris on Iida's heartfelt response to warfare and its anguish, “Will They Remember?" While Iida is a ...

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Marco the Phoenix

July 25, 2026

Album: Bellflower
By Jun Iida
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 05:18

About Giuseppe Cucchiara

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Giuseppe Cucchiara

Born: August 18, 1994

Italy born-and-raised and NYC-based upright bassist and composer Giuseppe Cucchiara grew up immersed among countless jazz vinyls and dynamic musical inputs from the earliest age. His father, who happens to be a classical upright bass player, laid the path for him to approach various instruments during his childhood until 2010, when at the age of 16 Giuseppe eventually picked up the bass to never let it go. During his teenage years, he crossed paths with highly praised Italian jazz drummer Stefano Bagnoli, with whom he toured around as a sideman for “We Kids” Trio, and recorded four albums for some major Italian jazz record companies, namely Ultrasound Records, Abeat Records and Jazzit Records

Article: Album Review

Jun Iida: Bellflower

Read "Bellflower" reviewed by Paul Rauch

by Paul Rauch
June 19, 2026

Jun Iida is a stylish trumpeter who has moved around a bit, in the process taking interpretive fragments of the jazz culture in each city he has inhabited. From his native Pittsburgh, to stops in Los Angeles, Seattle and New York City, he has remained connected to each through personal relationships with the local jazz communities ...

Album

Add a Zero

By Chris McCarthy

Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Crunchy; No Breakfast; Tone Paintings; Add a Zero; Very Soon; Depressed to Impress; Buddaboo; Come Sunday.

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Blow Globe

By John Sturino

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Year Of The Globe; Renewal; Only In Dreams (feat. Mar Vilaseca); Slug; Bonafides; Morning Sun (feat. Mar Vilaseca; PLG (Prophets Lefferts Gardens).