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Esperanza Spalding

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Seven collaborative and five solo albums into her career at 31, Esperanza Spalding has always resolutely, intuitively, deftly expanded upon both her art and herself as a world-renowned genre- bending composer, bassist and vocalist. Spalding’s work, grounded in jazz traditions but never bound by them, has won her four Grammy awards and brought her onstage at the Oscars, the Nobel Prize Ceremony, the White House, and with Prince and Herbie Hancock. Not only does she know who she is, we know who she is. Or, rather, we think we do. The elastic self and work of a true artist is always changing; ideas are channeled, shape-shifting becomes necessary

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Mountain Call

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: 1. "New Energy" 2. "Second Touch" 3. "On The Way" 4. "Unexpected Solutions" 5. "Tribal Dance" 6. "Rehearsal In Theatre" 7. "Discussion" 8. "Epilog" 9. "Delusion" 10. "Evolution: Path Begins" 11. "Evolution: Nature Opening" 12. "Evolution: Fulfillment Final" 13. "Rhapsody: In You" 14. "Rhapsody: Fun And Games" 15. "Rhapsody: Africa" 16. "Rhapsody: In Me" 17. "Rhapsody: Lullaby" 18. "Mountain Call"

Article: Album Review

Shawn Lovato: Biotic

Read "Biotic" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Shawn Lovato si aggiunge alla nutrita schiera di contrabbassisti, compositori e leader di formazioni, che da anni sono diventati una presenza costante nel mondo variegato del jazz e musiche affini (Linda May Han Oh, Esperanza Spalding, Billy Mohler, Avishai Cohen per citarne alcuni). Frequentatore della scena newyorkese più creativa e vivace, da questa Lovato ...

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Article: Live Review

Moldejazz 2026

Read "Moldejazz 2026" reviewed by Daniel Mège


Located at 62°7 North, Moldejazz (the Molde International Jazz Festival) is the ideal place for a festival in week 29, in early summer. A floral scent drifts through The Town of Roses, a ribbon less than a kilometer wide wedged into a peninsula between fjord and mountains. Even once it has set, the sun is never far ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Voo Voo Runs the Voodoo Down

Read "Voo Voo Runs the Voodoo Down" reviewed by Maciej Stasiowski


Voo Voo is the faux-phonetic transcription of how Wojciech Waglewski's initials should be pronounced in English--instead of the default “double U" times two. By no mere coincidence, it is also the name of a group he has been running since 1985. Having secured his band this way for sailing on international waters already at the outset, ...

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Article: Journey into Jazz

Love Supreme Festival 2026: A Personal Perspective

Read "Love Supreme Festival 2026: A Personal Perspective" reviewed by Andy Crowther


The South Downs in East Sussex is a beautiful part of the UK. Glynde Place, the location for the Love Supreme Jazz Festival, is in the sweet spot between the bustling seaside city of Brighton and Hove, and the dramatic ridges of the Downs. Rolling countryside, flint-stone buildings, and Glyndebourne House--famous around the world for its ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Kris Davis: Grammy Winner And Musical Explorer

Read "Kris Davis: Grammy Winner And Musical Explorer" reviewed by Doug Hall


Our guest is Kris Davis, Grammy Award-winning jazz pianist, composer and bandleader, who released the acclaimed recording Run the Gauntlet in 2024, with her superb trio featuring bassist Robert Hurst and drummer Johnathan Blake. Davis has released 26 recordings as a leader or co-leader and collaborated with artists such as Terri Lyne Carrington, Dave Holland, John ...

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Article: Live Review

The Gil Evans Project at Birdland

Read "The Gil Evans Project at Birdland" reviewed by Paul Reynolds


The Gil Evans Project Birdland  Sketches of Spain and Porgy and Bess New York NY May 27 and May 30, 2026 Among the many celebrations of Miles Davis during his centennial week, it's hard to rival the ambition of Ryan Truesdell's fine five-night takeover of the main room at Birdland to ...

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Article: Live Review

Fuchsthone Orchestra featuring Evi Filippou & UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra featuring Jazzmeia Horn at Jazzfest Bonn 2026

Read "Fuchsthone Orchestra featuring Evi Filippou & UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra featuring Jazzmeia Horn at Jazzfest Bonn 2026" reviewed by Artur Moral


Fuchsthone Orchestra featuring Evi FilippouUMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra featuring Jazzmeia HornTelekom Forum Bonn, GermanyMay 9, 2026  Its host city may lack the jazz pedigree of others, but the truth is that, barely fifteen years old, Jazzfest Bonn has carved out a place among its most prestigious German counterparts--those of Moers, ...

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Article: Play This!

Jamile and Vinicius Gomes: Endangered Species

Read "Jamile and Vinicius Gomes: Endangered Species" reviewed by John Chacona


The musical exchange between Wayne Shorter and Brazil yielded some of the great man's most indelible compositions. Happily, the conversation happens in the other direction, as Jamile and guitarist Vinicius Gomes demonstrate on “Endangered Species." With its wide intervallic leaps and skylarking melodic trajectory, the song is for virtuosos only; notably, only Esperanza Spalding seems to ...


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