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Article: Year in Review

Jerome Wilson's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024

by Jerome Wilson
December 11, 2024

The ten recordings on this list made up some of the most stimulating and breathtaking work I heard all year. There was intelligence, emotion and daring laced all through this music and the title of the Charles Lloyd album provided a comforting sentiment to take into the uncertain future of 2025. Fay VictorLife ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

New music from Mavis Pan, Andrew Hill Sextet Plus Ten, Caleb Wheeler Curtis and More

by Hobart Taylor
October 9, 2024

This week we feature a heady mix of crunchy avant-garde and sweet melodiesPlaylist Fay Victor “The Bassist" from Herbie Nichols SUNG (Tao Forms) 0:00 Alan Braufman “Spirits “ from Infinite Love Infinite Tears (Valley of Search) 6:47 Host Speaks 16:38 Vanisha Gould “Demure" (Cellar) 18:49 Klas Lindqist “ Prelude to a Kiss" from Handle ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Matt Mitchell, Josephine Davies & Francisco Andrade

by Maurice Hogue
September 30, 2024

Several dynamic album debuts in this episode, highlighted by brilliant pianist Matt Mitchell with his long-standing trio of bassist Chris Tordini and drummer Dan Weiss. Despite the countless hours of rehearsals and gigs, Zealous Angles is the first recording by the three. Portuguese saxophonist Francisco Andrade brings a fresh new approach with his new Linhas E ...

Article: We Travel the Spaceways

Ivo Perelman: What A Year In Music

by Mark Corroto
September 29, 2024

There is an adage in the music world that one is damned to be a completist. Ever since performances have been captured on cylinders, records, and now digitally, music devotees have endeavored to collect entire catalogs of their favorite musicians or ensembles. Think about the obsessive hunters of 78 rpm blues records from backwoods artists of ...

Song of the Day

The Cocktail Party

September 27, 2024

Album: Miniature America
By Miles Okazaki
Label: Cygnus Recordings
Released: 2024
Duration: 1:50

Article: Album Review

Ingrid Laubrock / Tom Rainey: Brink

by Mark Corroto
August 28, 2024

Could there be a more intimate sound than that of Brink? The saxophone/drums recording by reedist Ingrid Laubrock and percussionist Tom Rainey is as personal as it gets between two working jazz improvisers. The reason may be that Laubrock and Rainey are not just partners in music, but also life partners. Rainey is one of the ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Releases Plus A Celebration of Vocalists Margaret Whiting, Annie Ross & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
August 5, 2024

This broadcast includes new releases from Willow Smith, Eyal Vilner, Isrea Butler and Markus Howell with birthday shoutouts to Margaret Whiting (100!), Annie Ross, Joanne Brackeen, Nnenna Freelon, Shamie Royston, Janis Siegel, Ada Rovatti and Fay Victor, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear by seeing them live and online. Purchase their ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Orrin Evans, Lux Quartet, Andromeda Turre and Nasheet Waits

by Hobart Taylor
July 31, 2024

This week we feature brand new music from Orrin Evans' Captain Black's Big Band, The Lux Quartet featuring Myra Melford and Alison Miller, vocalist Andromeda Turre and Nasheet Waits. Playlist Brian McCarthy “The Beginning" from After/Life (Truth Revolution) 0:00 Maddie Vogler “Hymn For August" from While We Have Time (Origin) 15:09 Mike Downes “Banff ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Tomeka Reid, Martin Bejerano, Roxana Amed And More

by Hobart Taylor
June 19, 2024

PlaylistBruna Black & John Finbury “Nosso Cais" from Va Revelacao (Self Produced) Eric Alexander “Serenade to a Cuckoo" from Timing Is Everything (Cellar Live) Nicki Parrott “What The World Needs Now" from Feelin' Groovy (Arbors) Host Speaks Paul Freeman “Visions of Ishwara" from Black Composers Series Volume 8 (Sony) Tomeka Reid Quartet “Turning Inward / Sometimes ...

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Nicole McCabe, Herbie Nichols, John Hadfield, Layale Chaker & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
June 11, 2024

They say that three is the perfect number, and so we have decided to go “three-by-three," focusing on three musicians, Nicole McCabe, Herbie Nichols and John Hadfield by featuring three recent tracks associated with each one of them.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Dolphin ...