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Album

Voyages

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Yobiyose (The Calling); Bata-Kusai!!; Belong; Across the Pond; Issei; Nisei; Sansei; Yonsei.

Album

Label: Motéma Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Surrender; We Are All from the Same Stream; Born in 1935; Eight Letters; Karma; You Are My Universe; Nowhere Home; In the Darkest Night; Crossing the River of Grace.

Article: Catching Up With

Ben Kono Turned Family History into Chamber Jazz

by Lawrence Peryer
November 18, 2024

Ben Kono discovered his family's American origin story in the pages of his grandfather's memoirs. Thirteen-year-old Juhei Caleb Kono sailed alone from Japan in 1911, worked Pacific Northwest farms, and attended fourth grade as a young adult to build a new life. These translated accounts sparked Kono's new album Voyages (Self Produced), an ambitious blend of ...

Article: Album Review

Jihye Lee Orchestra: Infinite Connections

Read "Infinite Connections" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
October 3, 2024

Some eighty-odd years ago a handful of trailblazers led by saxophonist Charlie Parker and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie changed the vocabulary of jazz, introducing bebop as a successor to trad jazz and swing and radically transforming the music's landscape and perspective. Their terminology remained pretty much intact for a number of years, with partisans choosing a path ...

Article: Album Review

Jihye Lee Orchestra: Infinite Connections

Read "Infinite Connections" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
July 22, 2024

One of the most ambitious composers working exclusively in the large-ensemble format, Jihye Lee is now offering her third release, coming on the heels of the well-received April (Self-released, 2017) and Daring Mind (Motéma Music, 2021). Lee is a fearless artist with a seemingly limitless imagination, with a multiplicity of themes and rhythms swirling through her ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Mandolinist Joe Brent

by AAJ Staff
May 22, 2024

Meet Joe Brent Called, “one of the truly exceptional musicians of his generation," a mandolinist about whom it has been said, “there has never been a mandolinist with greater technical skills," and a composer whose music, “touches and communicates the essence of what it means to be an alive, feeling human being," Joe Brent has forged ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Chico Hamilton, Jenny Scheinman, and Weather Report

by Jerome Wilson
April 10, 2024

This show's eclectic playlist includes electric freakouts from Ray Russell and Jenny Scheinman, modern blues from Sarah Jane Morris, Fifties “cool jazz" from Chico Hamilton and Teddy Charles, and a large slice of 1971 Weather Report. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings ...

Album

After|Life

By Brian McCarthy

Label: Truth Revolution Recording Collective
Released: 2023
Track listing: Nebula; The Beginning; Flux; Kepler's Law; After|Life Suite: Movement I; Movement II; Movement III; Lucy.

Album

Holidays

By Kristen Lee Sergeant

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Snowbound; My Favorite Things; Solstice; Blue Xmas; What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?; Sleigh Ride; A Child is Born; The Christmas Song; I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm

Album

The Way To You

By Sara Caswell

Label: Anzic Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: South Shore; Stillness; Aneis; On My Way To You; Voyage; Warren's Way; Last Call; Spinning; O Que Tinha De Ser.