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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Rob Mazurek, Ches Smith, Steve Lehman, and Joe Fonda

by Jerome Wilson
June 4, 2025

This show features recent recordings by Joe Fonda, Steve Lehman and Ches Smith as well as older ones by Rob Mazurek, Kevin Sun, and Emily Remler. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Jethro Tull “Serenade ...

Article: Album Review

Jed Levy: Faces and Places

Read "Faces and Places" reviewed by Jack Kenny

by Jack Kenny
May 15, 2025

This is a beautiful album that is fired up right from the start. The sound of the tenor is faintly reminiscent of Warne Marsh. There is no seeking after angularity. Jed Levy's way with melody is completely natural and integrated into the quintet, though there are surprises all the way through the improvisations. Jed ...

Article: Album Review

Jaki Byard: Blues For Smoke

Read "Blues For Smoke" reviewed by Fran Kursztejn

by Fran Kursztejn
April 25, 2025

If Jaki Byard is most commonly categorized as a proud progenitor of the 'new jazz,' as his seminal work with Eric Dolphy on Outward Bound and Charles Mingus on Black Saint and the Sinner Lady would suggest, then a record like Blues for Smoke may throw listeners for a loop. Byard's notoriously difficult to pin down--a ...

Article: Live Review

Winter Jazzfest 2025: The Once and Future Music

by Adam Beaudoin
April 9, 2025

Winter JazzfestNew York, NYJanuary 9-15, 2025 Impressions of A Love Supreme We are standing in a line outside the venue, waiting in the January chill to listen to nearly two dozen musicians perform and pay tribute to John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, 60 years to the month after its release. People ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Peter Madsen, Immanuel Wilkins, and the WDR Big Band

by Jerome Wilson
April 9, 2025

This program contains new music from Peter Madsen, the WDR Big Band and the Steve Allee Big Band. It also features Immanuel Wilkins, Jaki Byard, and Taylor Ho Bynum. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 ...

Article: Album Review

Don Ellis: How Time Passes to Essence Revisited

Read "How Time Passes to Essence Revisited" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
March 24, 2025

Nelle storie del jazz Don Ellis è ricordato principalmente per l'innovativa big band che guidò per un decennio, dalla metà degli anni sessanta. Questa preziosa riedizione ci rammenta i suoi inizi di carriera, quando esplorava nuove soluzioni a partire dalla tromba: accoppia il suo debutto in quartetto (...How Time Passes...) dell'ottobre 1960 con alcuni brani di ...

Album

Mingus Takes Manhattan - The Complete Birdland Dates: 1961 - 1962

By Charles Mingus

Label: New Land Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: 21st October 1961 - 24th March 1962 - Nouroog; Ecclusiastics; Hog Callin` Blues; Take The ‘A’ Train; Fables Of Faubus ; Eat That Chicken.

31st March 1962 - 5th May 1962 - Monk, Funk Or Vice Versa; Oh Lord, Don’t Let Them...; Eat That Chicken; Reets and I.

5th May 1962 - 12th May 1962 - Monk, Funk or Vice Versa; Devil Woman; Eat That Chicken; Introduction by Symphony Syd; Peggy’s Blue Skylight ; Tijuana Table Dance (aka Ysabel’s Table Dance); Eat That Chicken.

19th October 1962 - 26th October 1962 - The Search (I Can't Get Started); Monk, Funk or Vice Versa; Please Don't Come Back From The Moon; Eat That Chicken; Monk, Funk or Vice Versa; O.P.; The Search (I Can't Get Started).

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How Time Passes to Essence Revisited

By Don Ellis

Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2024
Track listing: …How Time Passes; Sallie; A Simplex One; Waste; Improvisational Suite 1; Slow Space; Ostinato; Donkey; Form; Irony.

Article: Multiple Reviews

Some Overlooked 2024 Releases

by Jerome Wilson
December 7, 2024

Here are reviews of some of the many worthwhile jazz albums that came out in the latter half of 2024. Leslie Pintchik Prayer For What Remains Pintch Hard Records 2024 The latest album by pianist Leslie Pintchik has a gentle, swinging calm to it. She ...

Article: Jazz in Long Form

Roots to Branches: Broadway, Jazz, and David Bowie?

by Kurt Ellenberger
August 28, 2024

In 10th grade, I had a classmate in my French class named Morvan, whom I didn't know at all (in fact, I doubt I ever ever talked to her). She was quiet and introverted but also somewhat defiant and aloof. She always dressed in what was quite outlandish fashion at the time. She was somewhere in ...