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Leonardo Pavkovic: The Other Side of the Mountain
by Chris M. Slawecki
From July 22-25, the MoonJune-iverse will orbit around Teramo, Italy, to present the fourth MoonJune Festival and simultaneously celebrate MoonJune Records' 25th anniversary, a gathering convened by MoonJune founder Leonardo Pavkovic. In the following interview, Pavkovic explains the journey that brought him and MoonJune Festival 2026 to Teramo. “I love the idea of celebrating ...
The Art of Swing: A Conversation with Champian Fulton
by Mark Robbins
There are some musicians who seem completely at home in the language of jazz, and Champian Fulton is certainly one of them. As both a pianist and vocalist, she's built a career on bringing the Great American Songbook to life with elegance, swing, and an unmistakable sense of joy. Her performances feel rooted in the tradition, ...
Donald Brown: Delaney Inspirations
by Todd Steed
Donald Brown--renowned pianist, composer, and longtime University of Tennessee professor--brings a deeply personal and culturally resonant vision to his recording Donald Brown and Knoxville Celebrate Beauford Delaney (Kendoray, 2026) inspired by the life and artistry of Knoxville-born painter Beauford Delaney. In partnership with the University of Tennessee Libraries' Boundless: Artists in the Archives program, Brown immersed ...
Ava Preston And Moises Borges Play And Sing Across Borders
by John Chacona
On paper, Moises Borges and Ava Preston are an odd match. He's a guitarist from Bahia, the cradle of Afro-Brazilian culture, who has been a welcome fixture on northeast Ohio's musical scene for decades. She's a vocalist just a couple of years out of high school whose international career is just beginning. On the bandstand, though, ...
Tamara Lukasheva: The Dangerous Beauty of Silence, Slowness and Modern Jazz
by John March
Tamara Lukasheva is one of those artists whose work becomes more difficult to categorize the longer you spend listening to it. A vocalist, composer, and improviser originally from Ukraine and now based in Europe, she moves fluidly between jazz, contemporary composition, improvisation, experimental vocal practice, and forms that do not comfortably belong to any one category. ...
Sunna Gunnlaugs: A Merry Old Time
by Ian Patterson
From the kinetic hurly burly of New York to the dramatic landscape and wide-open spaces of volcanic Iceland. Both environments have informed the music of Icelandic pianist-composer Sunna Gunnlaugs. Twelve years in New York, saw her play and record with some of the city's finest jazz musicians, including drummer Scott McLemore, her husband, and closest musical ...
Sullivan Fortner: Nothing's Ever Finished
by Andrew Schinder
Modern jazz musicians are often faced with the impossible, and frankly unfair, task of honoring the music's history and traditions while adding modern elements and contemporary facets to make a 125-year-old musical genre sound fresh. This burden falls even more acutely on musicians hailing from, or who are particularly associated with, the City of New Orleans. ...
Mariana Bondarenko and the Work of Sustaining Ukrainian Music Culture
by John March
During this year's jazzahead! conference in Bremen, Germany, All About Jazz publicly introduced the new All About Jazz Media initiative--an expansion of the platform into a broader international media and creative production effort focused on music, culture, improvisation, and long-form artistic dialogue. I was there as Creative Director and Head of Production for the new media ...
Fred Hersch Talks About His Found Duo Album With ‘The Guitar Whisperer'
by Frank Housh
Mick Goodrick (1945-2022) is a legend among jazz guitarists as a teacher, author, and mentor to John Scofield, Bill Frisell, and many more. Known as “Mr. Goodchord," Goodrick was a leading theorist in voice leading for guitar and his 1987 book The Advancing Guitarist has been a fundamental text for a generation. It eschews exercises and method in ...
Hugues Kieffer: Marseille, Five Continents, One Jazz
by Silvia Papa
In its 26 years of existence, the festival Marseille Jazz Five Continents has evolved from an event aimed primarily at local audiences--offering Marseille residents the chance to hear some of the biggest names in jazz live--to a boundary-crossing festival that embraces the full richness and diversity of contemporary jazz. Today, it offers an immersive experience spanning ...
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