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Article: Live Review

Donny McCaslin and the Macedonian National Jazz Orchestra at the National Theatre in Macedonia

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Donny McCaslin and the Macedonian National Jazz Orchestra Macedonian National Theatre Skopje, Macedonia July 14, 2025 It's not every day that Skopje's National Theatre transforms into a playground for jazz on this scale, but when it does, the walls remember. On this particular evening, the Macedonian National Jazz Orchestra, under the ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Betty Carter, Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, and Kevin Sun

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This week's program is an archived show from March 2, 2021 that features music from Betty Carter, Roy Haynes. Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, Kevin Sun. and Cameron Mizell. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Chris Lightcap's ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

The Large Ensembles of Ryan Truesdell and Claire Cope

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These are two excellent recent large ensemble jazz recordings. One celebrates the work of a venerated master composer and arranger while the other showcases an outstanding newer writing talent. Ryan Truesdell Shades of Sound Outside in Music 2025 This is the third release from Ryan Truesdell's Gil ...

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Article: Live Review

The Maria Schneider Orchestra at Birdland

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Maria Schneider Orchestra Birdland Jazz Club New York, NY May 30, 2025 The late set by Maria Schneider and her orchestra on Friday at Birdland Jazz Club was so engrossing as to be a world unto itself. Every aspect of the performance--even including, in the best way, the musicians' identities--bowed to ...

Article: Album Review

Ryan Truesdell: Shades of Sound

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Shades of Sound costituisce il secondo volume del Gil Evans Project di Ryan Truesdell, inciso dal vivo al Jazz Standard di New York. Data d'incisione e organico sono gli stessi di Lines of Color, il primo volume registrato dal 13 al 18 maggio 2014 con una formazione di 23 musicisti più il leader, scelti tra i ...

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Article: Album Review

Ryan Truesdell / Gil Evans Project: Shades Of Sound

Read "Shades Of Sound" reviewed by Jack Kenny


Shades of Sound is not about Ryan Truesdell recreating the past. There are excellent reasons to listen to recreations of the music of Gil Evans. As critic Bill Mathieu wrote of Evans, “The mind reels at the intricacy of his orchestral and developmental techniques. His scores are so careful, so formally well-constructed, so mindful of tradition ...

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Article: Live Review

Fred Hersch and Donny McCaslin at Smoke Jazz Club

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Fred Hersch with Donny McCaslin Smoke Jazz and Supper Club New York City March 14, 2025 The pairing of pianist Fred Hersch and saxophonist Donny McCaslin at Smoke Jazz & Supper Club was a dazzling demonstration of musical chemistry--a duo performance that far exceeded the sum of its parts.

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Article: What is Jazz?

Seattle Jazz Fellowship: A New Age In A New Space

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The Seattle Jazz Fellowship, a 501(c)(3) non-profit supporting jazz and jazz culture primarily at the local level, came to life in a backroom bar in the city's arts district on Capitol Hill in October 2021. The city, the nation, the world, was just beginning to fully climb out of the social slumber imposed by the COVID-19 ...

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I Was Here

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Grapes; This Is What It Is; Greenwoman; Luna; Siren Song; Snowfall; Ain’t That Some Shit; If I Don’t See You; Wiggle Room; Never Enough; I’m Runnin’ Out of Time; Lost Days; Cascades.

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Songs My Mom Liked

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Praise; Sketches of Selim; The Holy Innocent (for KB and the Children of Gaza); Crystal Angel; Land of Milk & Honey ; The House of the Brotherhood of the Black Heads; Three Gifts (From a Nigerian Mother to God); Imani (Faith); Hope; When We Said Goodbye; To Be Touched (By the Spirit); If...


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