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Musician

In command, infectious, energetic and strong: Fay Victor hypnotizes audiences, whether she sings a blues, sculpts a free improvisation piece, reinvents a Herbie Nichols tune through her own lyrics, or effortlessly scats over the harmonies of a jazz standard. Her musicality is deft and the words (usually hers) speak of universal themes with the focus of a story-teller, running the full gamut of human emotion in an original mix of traditional song forms and free improvisation. At the beginning of the nineties, Ms. Victor began building a name as a jazz vocalist around NY performing primarily jazz standards and blues

Album

Members... Don't!

By Tyshawn Sorey

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2026
Track listing: Abstrusions; Effi; Absolutions; Equipoise (pt. 1); Equipoise (pt. 2); Libra; Members, Don't Git Weary.

Album

Purposing the Air

By Ingrid Laubrock

Label: Pyrolastic Records
Released: 2025
Track listing:

CD 1:

Fay Victor & Mariel Roberts: Koan 28; Koan 13; Koan 55; Koan 15; Koan 47; Koan 11; Koan 18; Koan 37; Koan 12; Koan 38; Koan 46; Koan 39; Koan 43; Koan 35; Koan 58.

Sara Serpa & Matt Mitchell: Koan 5; Koan 3; Koan 7; Koan 48; Koan 29; Koan 42; Koan 31; Koan 36; Koan 49; Koan 25; Koan 56; Koan 17; Koan 6; Koan 20; Koan 9.

CD 2:

Koan 8.

Theo Bleckmann & Ben Monder: Koan 23; Koan 10; Koan 24; Koan 30; Koan 32; Koan 33; Koan 45; Koan 40; Koan 14; Koan 59; Koan 60; Koan 53; Koan 51; Koan 54.

Rachel Calloway & Ari Streisfeld: Koan 1; Koan 34; Koan 22; Koan 19; Koan 26; Koan 21; Koan 57; Koan 27; Koan 41; Koan 50; Koan 52; Koan 44; Koan 2; Koan 16; Koan 4.

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Brent Birckhead, Emily Kuhn, Cindy Blackman Santana, Deanna Kirk, Alicia Witt, Louise Alexandra & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
August 3, 2026

This broadcast includes new music from Deanna Kirk, Alicia Witt, Brent Birckhead, Emily Kuhn, Cindy Blackman Santana, Louise Alexandra, plus birthday shoutouts to Annie Ross, Margaret Whiting, Kay Starr, Joanne Brackeen, Antoinette Montague, Nicholas King, Ada Rovatti, Janis Siegel, Carla Hassett, Cynthia Scott, Lisa Maxwell and Fay Victor, among others. Happy listening and please support the ...

Article: Album Review

Tyshawn Sorey: Members... Don't!

Read "Members... Don't!" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
June 24, 2026

One of the most welcome developments in twenty-first century jazz has been drummer Tyshawn Sorey's enthusiastic turn toward the jazz canon. While he had already established himself convincingly as one of the premier figures in creative music on immersive, challenging works such as The Inner Spectrum of Variables (Pi Recordings, 2016) and Verisimilitude (Pi Recordings, 2017), ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Bill Dixon, Fay Victor, Szilárd Mezei Octet, Horace Tapscott and More

by Jon Greenbaum
June 7, 2026

In this archived radio transmission we get down with a variety of tasty post bop, free improvisation, experimental sound and through composed beauties. You're right! Here it is corrected:Playlist Luis Gasca “Street Dude" from For Those Who Chant (Blue Thumb Records) 00:00:00 Marty Ehrlich “The Folksinger" from Cartographies of Flight (Corbett vs. Dempsey) 00:11:44 ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Syndee Winters, Joe Farnsworth, Emma Smith, Lauren Scales, Mike Flanagan & Chris Grasso, Paloma Dineli Chesky

by Mary Foster Conklin
August 4, 2025

This broadcast includes new releases from Syndee Winters, Joe Farnsworth, Emma Smith, Paloma Dineli Chesky, Lauren Scales, Mike Flanagan & Chris Grasso, with birthday shoutouts to Janis Siegel, Emily Asher, Ada Rovatti, Joanne Brackeen, Annie Ross, Fay Victor and Nnenna Freelon, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear--see them live, buy their ...

Article: Album Review

Ingrid Laubrock: Purposing the Air

Read "Purposing the Air" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
July 29, 2025

Avventuroso e ambizioso Purposing the Air, nuovo progetto di Ingrid Laubrock, notevole sassofonista di origini tedesche qui nelle vesti di compositrice. Dal poema “Mood Librarian -a poem in koan" di Erica Hunt, ha estratto sessanta frammenti, trenta nel primo CD e trenta nel secondo, affidandoli a quattro duo dove l'elemento fisso è la voce mentre la ...

Song of the Day

Koan 28

July 14, 2025

Album: Purposing the Air
By Ingrid Laubrock
Label: Pyrolastic Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 3:15

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Ingrid Laubrock: Purposing The Air With Music And Voices

by Lawrence Peryer
June 14, 2025

Today, the Spotlight shines on saxophonist and composer Ingrid Laubrock. Ingrid's just released Purposing The Air (Pyroclastic Records, 2025), a double album that sets 60 brief poems by Erica Hunt to music through four different vocal-instrumental duos. It's an ambitious project that transforms Hunt's emotionally sharp koans into what Ingrid calls “a library of ...