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Article: Year in Review

Cheryl K's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025

by Cheryl K.
January 5, 2026

Being asked to list my “Best Of" releases of 2025 for AAJ was more torturous to my soul than cleaning the grout of my bathtub walls. I'm one of those folks who only needs a few dishes listed on a restaurant menu or I begin to get light-headed. And just like last year, I struggled with ...

Album

Griot Songs

By Omar Thomas

Label: Omar Thomas Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: The Sun in September; Sail to the Moon; Obeah Woman; Nothing There; Episode d’Azure; The Path; A Touch of Obsidian, a Flash of Scarlet.

Song of the Day

Obeah Woman

April 29, 2025

Album: Griot Songs
By Omar Thomas
Label: Omar Thomas Music
Released: 2025
Duration: 12:08

Article: Album Review

Omar Thomas Large Ensemble: Griot Songs

Read "Griot Songs" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
March 7, 2025

Dopo una lunga gestazione, giunge a noi questo che è il terzo lavoro del Large Ensemble diretto dal compositore newyorchese Omar Thomas (incisione del maggio 2024), un doppio album ambizioso e di chiaro intento anche didascalico in cui l'orchestra appare eloquentemente come il naturale prolungamento del gesto autoriale, con risultati di notevole impatto, sette brani di ...