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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Barry Greene, Jared Hall, Jesse Davis, Ray Obiedo and more

by Benjamin Boddie
April 23, 2026

Today's Music--Right Now! Fantastic music by Barry Greene, Jared Hall, Jesse Davis, Faye Carol, Abate Berihun & The Addis Ken Project, Ray Obiedo, Shunzo Ohno, The BLCK Madonna, Dave Schumacher & Cubeye, Ben Markley Big Band, Brian Dickinson & Penderecki String Quartet, John Sweenie, Peter Erskine, April Varner, Sam Yahel, Hendrik Meurkens, Walter Smith lll, Tierney ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Genre jambalaya this week, exploratory jazz, third stream, straight ahead and the blues

by Hobart Taylor
April 15, 2026

Dave Adewumi, Yelena Eckimoff, Tomas Janzon, Jesse Davis and Dida Pelled. Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Dave Adewumi" Is" from The Flame Beneath the Silence (Giant Step Arts) 0:11 Erica von Kleist “Picc a Peck" from Picc Pocket (Self-Produced) 05:25 Tomas Janzon “ Did I Say" from Jazz Diary (Changes) 11:02 Host Speaks 16:01 Alicia ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Jesse Davis, Jazzlab Orchestra, Xavi Rekja, New Jazz Underground

by Cheryl K.
April 6, 2026

During this week's two-hour program of jazz and improvised music--vocalist Rebecca Rafla; saxophonist Jesse Davis; saxophonist/composer Oded Tzur; the Jazzlab Orchestra; saxophonist Tia Fuller and pianist Shamie Fuller-Royston; Neves E Silva; trumpeter Adam O'Farrill's Elephant; the David Smith Quintet; and Jazz Sabbath. Playlist Cal Tjader/Mary Stalling “I Didn't Know About You" from Cal Tjader ...

Article: Album Review

Ignasi Terraza: With Respect To Oscar And Niels

Read "With Respect To Oscar And Niels" reviewed by Artur Moral

by Artur Moral
October 8, 2025

Exceptionalism is often presented with a spectacular surface. However, it also hides itself behind multiple layers of deep discretion. This is true with pianist, composer, educator and record producer Ignasi Terraza. His uniqueness is based on several facts: being the first blind person in Spain to earn--a mid-1980s achievement, without today's technology--a degree in Computer Engineering; ...

Article: Album Review

Alvin Queen: The Jazzcup Café Blues

Read "The Jazzcup Café Blues" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
January 6, 2025

Alvin Queen, the legendary drummer who astounded audiences as a child prodigy when he sat in with John Coltrane at Birdland at age twelve, delivers a riveting live performance from Jazzclub Domicile in Pforzheim, Germany, in May 2019. In this eight-track session, Queen is accompanied by Jesse Davis on alto sax, Danny Grissett piano, Dezron Douglas ...

Album

The Jazzcup Café Blues

By Alvin Queen

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2024
Track listing: East Harlem Moon; Au Privave; Jazzcup Café Blues; Herd's Word; Blues For Sluggo; Detour Ahead; Evening Stroll Through Nyhaven; Love You Madly.

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Holiday Music with Donald Vega, Band Of Other Brothers, JD Allen, Nicole Henry and more

by Benjamin Boddie
December 18, 2024

Today's Music--Right Now! Holiday Music by Donald Vega, Band Of Other Brothers, JD Allen, Scott Drier, Nicole Henry, Rosemary Clooney, Wynton Marsalis, Oscar Peterson, Kevin Mahogany, Etta James, Scott Hamilton, Vanessa Rubin, Billie Holiday, Benny Carter, Kurt Elling, Eric Reed, Nnenna Freelon, Javon Jackson, Al Jarreau, Diana Krall, Nat King Cole, and more. Playlist ...

Album

Live at Smalls Jazz Club

By Jesse Davis

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2023
Track listing: Gingerbread Boy; Ceora; Cup Bearers; These Foolish Things; Juicy Lucy; Rhythm-a-Ning; Street of Dreams; Love for Sale.

Article: Year in Review

Jack Bowers' Best Jazz Albums Of 2023

by Jack Bowers
December 19, 2023

2023 was another banner year for jazz of all shapes and sizes. It has been a pleasure to review so many splendid big-band albums along with wonderful enterprises by smaller groups, some of which were recording for the first time (hopefully, not the last). If this was a preview of things to come, we look forward ...

Article: Album Review

Jesse Davis: Live at Smalls Jazz Club

Read "Live at Smalls Jazz Club" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
January 31, 2023

Alto saxophone master Sonny Stitt always chafed when he was called “little Bird," a reference to the greatest alto of them all, Charlie Parker. “I'm not a little Bird," he would say, “I'm me; Sonny Stitt." In similar fashion, Jesse Davis would probably shrug off any comparison to another of the instrument's esteemed patriarchs, the late ...