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Visions Jazz Ensemble: Across the Field

Read "Across the Field" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
November 16, 2024

Here is a unique and intriguing concept: a baker's dozen collegiate anthems and fight songs, trimly recast in contemporary jazz settings by the seven-member Visions Jazz Ensemble, comprised of Indiana University alumni who stride Across the Field with an abundance of proficiency and perception. Although the hip arrangements by the ensemble's co-leaders, trumpeter ...

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Jessica Lauren, Soulpersona, Chris Bangs, Jazzbois & More

by Tony Poole
September 21, 2024

Tony Poole, former BBC jazz presenter, plays his favourite new singles, new album tracks and pre-releases. Playlist Jazzbois “TOOHI" from Still Blunted (Independent) 00:00 Soulpersona & Carl Hudson “Don't Hate The Player (Raregroove Mix)" single (Sun City Records) 04:23 Chris Bangs “Alegria" from Dream World (Acid Jazz Records) 10:15 Jessica Lauren “Alefela" single (BBE ...

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A Few of My Favorite 2024 Jazz Things (So Far), Part 1

by Ludovico Granvassu
July 16, 2024

It's July already! And so, with this installment of Mondo Jazz, we start sharing some of our favorite tunes from the first six months of a 2024 that has been quite generous with jazz fans!Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Joe Webb “CCTV" Collblanc--EP ...

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Nicole McCabe: Mosaic

by Chris May
May 27, 2024

Alto saxophonist Nicole McCabe's Mosaic is produced by guitarist Jeff Parker, among whose other plus points is his relationship with International Anthem (IA), the Chicago-based label which has brought us Makaya McCraven, Jaimie Branch, Irreversible Entanglements and Ruth Goller, among other artists of note. Parker has released two albums on the label and is heard on ...

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Vinícius Cantuária, Sam Fribush, Haroldo Bontempo, Natalie Cressman & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
April 9, 2024

The mighty organ trio of Sam Fribush opens a set mostly devoted to post-bossa nova Brazilian projects. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Sam Fribush “Supper / Make Me a Plate" People Please (Flybird) 0:16 Host talks 5:23 Ricardo Dias Gomes “Morrerei ...

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Joel Ross, Simona Severini, Larry Goldings, John Sneider & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
March 19, 2024

Billy Valentine's new single, three albums that will end up on our best of the year list, and more... that's what you'll find in this thoroughly enjoyable ride!Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Laurent de Wilde “Get Up and Dance" Life Is a Movie ...

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John Zorn’s Masada, Tommy Flanagan, Jeff Parker

by David Brown
February 27, 2024

This week a trio of works featuring guitarist Jeff Parker, we then work our way tough a pile of recently acquired '80s LPs featuring lots of Tommy Flanagan, some Mulgrew Miller and Ronnie Mathews; and finally, we revisit John Zorn's Masada Quartet--leaders of the Radical Jewish Cultural movement of the '90s--who made their first recordings 30 ...

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Jeff Parker, Pascal Le Boeuf, and Franz Koglmann

by Jerome Wilson
February 14, 2024

This show features newer music from musicians such as Pascal Le Boeuf, Billy Mohler, and Gabriel Espinosa and older music from the likes of Jeff Parker, Andrew Hill and Franz Koglmann. Playlist The Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & ...

Album

Lightning Dreamers

By Rob Mazurek

Label: International Anthem Recording Company
Released: 2023
Track listing: Future Shaman; Dream Sleeper; Shape Shifter; Black River; White River.

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Billy Valentine And The Universal Truth

By Billy Valentine

Label: Flying Dutchman
Released: 2023
Track listing: We the People Who Are Darker Than Blue; Home Is Where the Hatred Is; My People… Hold On; The Creator Has a Master Plan; Sign of the Times; You Haven’t Done Nothin’; Wade in the Water; The World Is a Ghetto.