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Igor Willcox: Have Drums, Will Travel

by Joshua Weiner
January 14, 2026

Brazilian drummer Igor Willcox is fast becoming one of the most interesting young artists in jazz. A string of superb releases with his jazz fusion quartet, which currently includes saxophonist Wagner Barbosa, electric bassist Ricardinho Paraiso, and pianist Erik Escobar, culminated in the 2025 album Time Traveller (Room73 Records, 2025). Music is in Willcox's blood, as ...

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Matt Marantz: About Music, Money and Mouthpieces

by Dean Nardi
January 9, 2026

Back in ancient times, when people would buy actual magazines with paper and print and pictures and ads, some of the music publications would offer companion CD compilations. You could always find two or three tracks that stood out and maybe enticed you to check out an artist's recorded output. That is how I came across ...

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Nicole Zuraitis & Dan Pugach: When Jazz Is Like Love

January 6, 2026

I first hear Nicole Zuraitis dabout three years ago and I was immediately drawn in by the power and charm of her voice. The richness of overtones in her timbre quite literally caresses the ear—even an experienced listener like me—a jazz musician and composer with a few decades in music. This was before her ascent into ...

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Mary Halvorson: About the Ghosts in the Guitar

by Dean Nardi
January 5, 2026

No, guitarheads, recently Mary Halvorson has been inspired to put out records with her Amaryllis sextet more so than some jaggedy, lyrical shredding, but these are pretty darn good jazz records from a tight ensemble consisting of Adam O'Farrill (trumpet), Jacob Garchik (trombone), Patricia Brennan (vibraphone) and a rhythm section of Nick Dunston (bass) and Tomas ...

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Sivan Arbel: Oneness is the Hopefullest Number

by Dean Nardi
December 31, 2025

Israeli vocalist and songwriter Sivan Arbel has a unique composition technique, which she calls “squeezing the sponge." It involves absorbing diverse influences and transforming them into her own original and eclectic musical language. Driven by a desire to bring healing and connection through her music, Arbel's December 2024 release on Adhyâropa Records, Oneness, recorded at Kaleidoscope ...

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Roberto Bonati: la coerente complessità della creazione

by Libero Farnè
December 22, 2025

Quando nel dicembre 2008 intervistai per la prima volta Roberto Bonati per All About Jazz, le scelte fondamentali del musicista parmigiano erano già del tutto delineate. L'insegnamento al Conservatorio Arrigo Boito di Parma--dove tuttora tiene i corsi di Composizione Jazz e Tecniche di improvvisazione, oltre a gestire il Mefisto Ensemble, il large ensemble dei corsi di ...

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Bryan Stovell: The Secrets Of Viral Jazz

by Kerilie McDowall
December 15, 2025

Nanaimo, BC's multi-award-winning and highly esteemed Bryan Stovell has been mentoring and developing the talent of Canada's greatest jazz musicians for decades. Stovell's school bands have won numerous provincial and national awards, and his groups have performed in Japan, Europe, the United States, and every major city in Canada. Some of Stovell's former Nanaimo ...

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Tessa Souter: Singing Her Way to Happiness

by Dean Nardi
December 14, 2025

The English/Trinidadian artist is a bona fide treasure--consummate stage presence, captivating singer, accomplished songwriter. Arriving in New York via San Francisco in 1997, Souter won a scholarship to the Manhattan School of Music in 1999 but left after one semester to study privately with Mark Murphy, who mentored her for four years in return for booking ...

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Yazz Ahmed: un suono che unisce mondi

by Marco Iacoboni
December 8, 2025

La compositrice e trombettista anglo-bahreinita Yazz Ahmed è una delle voci più affascinanti e innovative del jazz contemporaneo, acclamata per la sua efficace fusione di jazz, elettronica d'avanguardia e tradizioni musicali del Medio Oriente, creatrice di paesaggi sonori allo stesso tempo ancestrali e futuristici. Attraverso la sua musica, Yazz Ahmed non cerca solo di ...

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Amaury Faye: A French Jazz Composer Returns To The Source

by Frank Housh
December 5, 2025

Amaury Faye was a child in Toulouse when he began his unlikely love affair with American jazz. A piano teacher exposed him to ragtime which led to Art Tatum, which led him to Ahmad Jamal and the great jazz trios. He released trio recordings in 2016, 2017, and 2018 and a solo album, Buran (L'Esprit du ...