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Dream Manifest

Label: Dom Recs / Star People Nation
Released: 2025
Track listing: prelude 3; one pillow ft. Estelle & Kassa Overall; 64 joints ft. Tyreek McDole; up frequency (higher) ft. MAAD; light as a feather ft. Gary Bartz & Natureboy Flako; high vibrations ft. Malaya & D'LEAU; crystal waterfalls; we still wanna dance ft. D'LEAU; postlude 3.

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Brandon Sanders: Lasting Impression

Read "Lasting Impression" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
December 21, 2025

Brandon Sanders' 2025 release, Lasting Impression, is a heartfelt reaffirmation of the core values that have shaped jazz drumming for generations. Instead of chasing novelty for its own sake, Sanders grounds the album in straightforward clarity that honours the legacy of those countless craftsmen who viewed swing as a personal responsibility. From the opening bars, he ...

Article: Live Review

Stefon Harris & Blackout / Theo Croker at Miner Auditorium

by Steven Roby
December 4, 2025

Stefon Harris & Blackout/Theo Croker Miner Auditorium Terence Blanchard's UpSwing Series San Francisco, CA November 29, 2025 The UpSwing series, curated by Terence Blanchard at SFJAZZ, acts as a key indicator of the health of American improvised music. It is more than just a showcase; it functions as a laboratory. ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Dream Manifest

by Karan Khosla
September 17, 2025

Dream Manifest: Theo Croker's Studio Invocation Theo Croker is a trumpeter whose career zigzags across genres and continents earning Grammy nominations, platinum credits, and a reputation for erasing boundaries. With Dream Manifest, he pushes farther than before: a studio album built on layers, detail, and a spirit of relentless curiosity and collaboration. For this ...

Article: Live Review

46th Annual Tri-C JazzFest

by C. Andrew Hovan
July 8, 2025

46th Annual Tri-C JazzFest Playhouse Square Cleveland, OH June 26-28, 2025 Jazz festivals occupy a precarious space these days. Pressured by financial constraints, too many have drifted toward booking artists with only a passing connection to the jazz tradition. Cuts to both public and private funding have only compounded ...

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Auteur

By David Weiss

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Too Little, Too Late; Resilience (for George); The Other Side of the Mountain; Rebop; The Mirror; With Gratitude (for Wayne); One for Bu.

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David Weiss Sextet: Auteur

by Edward Blanco
September 24, 2024

Trumpeter, composer and bandleader David Weiss delivers the fourth album from his exquisite sextet entitled Auteur, a French term originally used to define film directors as the “author' of the film and in musical respects here, to mean the director or “scene setters" of the music. A master of the bebop sound Weiss, as stated in ...

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Too Little, Too Late

September 21, 2024

Album: Auteur
By David Weiss
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 05:14

Article: Live Review

Jazzkaar 2024

by Martin Longley
August 7, 2024

Jazzkaar Telliskivi Creative City Tallinn, Estonia April 21-28, 2024 Customarily, the almost-always April placement of the Jazzkaar festival is accompanied by a goodly beaming of spring-flavored sunshine, perhaps infected by the odd murky downpour, but soon drying off its feathers. Instead, during 2024's 35th edition, Tallinn's wondrous eight-dayer ...

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Festival International de Jazz de Montréal 2024

by Mark Sullivan
July 11, 2024

Various Venues Festival International de Jazz de Montréal Montréal, Canada June 30 to July 4, 2024 This year's official announcement of the headliners of the 44th edition of the festival included André 3000, Norah Jones, Hiatus Kaiyote, Laufey, Robert Glasper, and Orville Peck. This diverse group is notable for departing from ...