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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Ornette Coleman, Bill Evans, Ulysses Owens, Jr., Paul Edis & Noa Levy

by Joe Dimino
April 5, 2026

We launch into the 952nd episode of Neon Jazz with a spark of elegance and invention--UK pianist Paul Edis and San Francisco vocalist Noa Levy reimagining “Peri's Scope," the classic by Bill Evans, from their 2026 release Portrait in Evans. It's a bold, beautiful opening that sets the tone for a journey rich in texture and ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Javier Nero Jazz Orchestra, Hendrik Meurkens, Alexander Claffy, Noa Levy & Paul Edis and more

by Benjamin Boddie
April 2, 2026

Today's Music--Right Now! Fantastic music by Javier Nero Jazz Orchestra, Hendrik Meurkens, Alexander Claffy, Noa Levy & Paul Edis, The BLCK Madonna, Ulysses Owens Jr., Dominic Walker Trio, The Sistering, Pat Bianchi, James Fernando, Sam Robinson, Dave Wilson Quartet, Jazz Sabbath, Jack Wood, Baltimore Jazz Collective, Sam Yahel, Monika Herzig, Kurt Elling & WDR Big Band, ...

Album

Let's Fall in Love

By Judy Whitmore

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: I’ll Take Romance; All of You; A Time for Love; Taking a Chance on Love; How Long Has This Been Going On; Let’s Fall in Love; The Very Thought of You; It’s All Right with Me; Crazy He Calls Me; More Than You Know; I’ve Got a Crush on You; How Deep Is the Ocean.

Article: Album Review

Judy Whitmore: Let's Fall in Love

Read "Let's Fall in Love" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
July 6, 2025

Polymath Judy Whitmore has taken time away from her busy and productive career(s) to record her fifth album, Let's Fall in Love, and like the first four, it is a smooth and delightful tour of memorable themes from the Great American Songbook, sung with radiance and heart by one of the leading exponents of popular song ...

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New Music from Kirilova, Liu, Sveið, Transcedence, And More

by Bob Osborne
June 12, 2025

The conventional meets the experimental in this weeks selection. Well known artists sit side by side with new faces to the World of Jazz. Acoustic and electronic music converge in fascinating new approaches to the music. Playlist Victoria Kirilova Quartet “City Of Hills" from Roots & Skies (DaVinci Jazz) 00:00 The Heath Brothers feat, ...

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Gerald Clayton, Igmar Thomas, Johnny O'Neal & Wes Montgomery

by Joe Dimino
April 27, 2025

As we gear up for the Count Basie at 90 Celebration right here in Kansas City on International Jazz Day 2025, featuring none other than the legendary Count Basie Orchestra, we kick things off in style--with a nod to one of the true greats. We open the show with Wes Montgomery, spinning a track from his ...

Album

Come Fly with Me

By Judy Whitmore

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: It’s Nice to Go Trav’ling; Come Fly with Me; On an Evening in Roma; A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square; There’s a Small Hotel; I Thought About You; Moonlight in Vermont; April in Paris; Georgia on My Mind; Autumn in New York; Beyond the Sea; Around the World.

Album

The Jazz Meurkengers

By Hendrik Meurkens

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2024
Track listing: A Slow One; Belgian Beer At Dawn; A Lullaby For Benny; Silver's Serenade; Meurks' Mood; Dreamsville; If I Were A Bell; A Tear For Toots; Smada.

Article: Album Review

Hendrik Meurkens: The Jazz Meurkengers

Read "The Jazz Meurkengers" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
June 6, 2024

When one thinks of the jazz harmonica, two names immediately come to mind, the late great Toots Thielemans and the incomparable Hendrik Meurkens whose new project The Jazz Meurkengers fully captures Meurkens' desire to produce a new and exciting swinging jazz album. While Meurkens learned to play the vibraphone first at the age of sixteen growing ...

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Hendrik Meurkens: The Jazz Meurkengers

Read "The Jazz Meurkengers" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
May 16, 2024

Harmonica virtuoso Hendrik Meurkens brought together an outstanding group of musicians in The Jazz Meurkengers, which is a swinging tribute to the allure of hard-bop jazz. Supported by the resourceful and highly adaptable rhythm section of pianist Steve Ash, bassist Chris Berger and drummer Andy Watson, the band was augmented by the impeccable guitarist Ed Cherry ...