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PlainsPeak: Someone to Someone

Read "Someone to Someone" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
August 26, 2025

Jon Irabagon's PlainsPeak delivers a soulful homecoming via a love letter to Chicago with its debut, Someone to Someone. Ditching the tech-heavy sprawl of his earlier work like Server Farm (Irabbagast, 2025), the leader returns to Chicago's gritty roots with a lean acoustic quartet that is all heart and sly wit. Irabagon, a Chicago-born ...

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Jon Irabagon / PlainsPeak: Someone to Someone

Read "Someone to Someone" reviewed by Jack Kenny

by Jack Kenny
August 15, 2025

Jon Irabagon is a musician whose complexity is both exhilarating and daunting. His restless energy, deep self-reflection, remarkable achievements and sharp intellect combine to create a figure who constantly provokes questions--about music, originality and the very nature of artistic expression. In 2011, Irabagon undertook a bold experiment: With Mostly Other People Do The Killing, ...

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Several Worthwhile Releases from the Last Few Months

by Jerome Wilson
July 10, 2025

Despite what is said about physical media going away, a steady supply of new jazz releases keeps showing up every week. Here are some worthy if underappreciated albums from the first half of 2025. Tobias Meinhart Sonic River Self Produced 2025 “Sonic River" is a good description ...

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Chris Varga: Breathe

by Jack Bowers
March 31, 2025

It is always refreshing to hear a talented vibraphonist seducing the mallets while leading a band, as is true on Breathe, Chris Varga's second recording, and the first in the U.S., following 2023's Vichara on South Korea's Mung Music label. Varga, who has been living and performing in Seoul for more than two decades, returned “home" ...

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Old Souls

By Neal Alger

Label: Calligram Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Old Souls; This is Not a Test; Place de la Republique; Go with the Sco-Flow; Moment Intro; If Only for a Moment; Choro Delinquente; Dance of the Miscreants; Softly She Sings.

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Colossal Abundance

By Geof Bradfield

Label: Calligram Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Mahororo; Lonnie's Lament; Adelaide Bailey; Tuku; Kaleidoscope; Requiem; Mrs. Parker of K.C.; United; Gandanga Blues; Bermuda Blues.

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Julia Danielle

By Julia Danielle

Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Night and Day; Embraceable You; I Want to Talk About You; If I Loved You; Beautiful Moons Ago; Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams; Lawns; There Will Never Be Another You.

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From Here, From There

By Andy Baker

Label: Calligram Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Close Your Eyes; From Here, From There; A Flower is a Lovesome Thing; Skylark; Blues for VDB; First, Second, Third; Kaper; Softly; The State of the Estate.

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