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Erena Terakubo

Erena Terakubo is a multi-talented saxophonist, flutist, clarinetist, composer, arranger, and educator from Sapporo, Japan. She is an international sensation whose career performances stretch five different continents. While still in high school, Terakubo released her debut album "North Bird," a collaboration with Kenny Barron, Christian McBride, Lee Pearson, and Peter Bernstein, which reached #1 on the Japanese jazz charts and was awarded Swing Journal's Gold Disc. Her broad experience has inspired five albums since. Recently, Terakubo has been sharing her expertise by teaching workshops at U.S. universities and touring Europe and Japan.

Around the World with U

By Ulysses Owens, Jr.

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2026
Track listing: Prodigal Son; Bebop & Confirmation; Espresso; Morning Prayer; Mo’ Betta Blues; New York; The Light That Grew Amonst Us; Little Girl Power; Stardust; Road Life; I’m Not So Sure.

Return Trajectory

By Michael Dease

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: You Know I Love You; Oasis; Cherokee; Shoreline 151; Up South; Little Dave.

Ulysses Owens, Jr. and Generation Y: Kind of Grunge

by Jack Bowers
September 26, 2026

New York-based master drummer Ulysses Owens Jr. is back, Generation Y in tow, with another generous helping of so-called “grunge jazz" deftly transformed to straight-ahead patterns in a style similar to that of the legendary Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers. This is not, however, precisely the same Generation Y that recorded the well-received ...

Michael Dease Big Band: Return Trajectory

by Jack Bowers
July 3, 2026

While it is not true that a photo of Michael Dease appears in Webster's dictionary next to the word “versatile," the metaphor does not seem too far-fetched once one considers the many tasks Dease carries out on his latest recording, Return Trajectory. Not only does Dease lead his big band, he wrote three of the album's ...

Jazz Journeys: A Conversation with Violinist May Yu

by Kurt Ellenberger
June 3, 2026

In New York City's crowded and competitive music scene, All About Jazz encountered in May (Tianyang) Yu, a violinist whose deep classical foundation, serious jazz language, and improvisational imagination have quickly placed her in professional settings with leading artists including Darcy James Argue. Ingrid Jensen, Erena Terakubo, Misha Piatigorsky, Peter Slavov, Chris Wabich, and recently opening ...

Introducing Saxophonist Paloma Ximena

by Sanford Josephson
May 1, 2026

In May 2022, Rio Americano High School in Sacramento, CA, was a finalist in Jazz at Lincoln Center's Essentially Ellington competition, and sophomore Paloma Ximena won two solo awards: Outstanding Clarinetist and Outstanding Alto Saxophonist. “That was really the start of my career," she said. “That was the moment when I really decided to pursue music." ...

Ulysses Owens, Jr. and Generation Y: Around the World with U

by Jack Bowers
April 8, 2026

Drummer Ulysses Owens, Jr. has a keen eye and ear for talent, which is obvious from the first notes of Around the World with U, his second recording as leader of the Art Blakey-style quintet, Generation Y. When marshaling the ensemble, Owens chose his teammates with care, and they repay his confidence by producing a splendid ...

Carol Albert, NOLA Resistance Quintet, Hindy Bare, Roxy Coss, Julia Hulsmann, Roderick Harper. Jazz Birthday Shoutouts & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
February 2, 2026

This broadcast includes new music from Carol Albert, The NOLA Resistance Quintet, Hindy Bare, Roxy Coss, Hülsmann and Roderick Harper, with birthday shoutouts to Etta James, Eartha Kitt, Barbara Carroll, Kate McGarry, José James, Natalie Douglas, Michelle Nicole, Pureum Jin, Aubrey Logan, Mariah Parker, Nancy Marano and Lori Williams, among others. Happy listening and please support ...

Introducing David Sneider

By David Sneider

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2025
Track listing: Marvelous-Lee; Avale; Bye Bye Blackbird; Robot Portrait; The Music Is the Bandleader; Mama Bear; Tim and Bim; Hackensack.