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Naptown Sound

Label: Jazzville Studios
Released: 2025
Track listing: Full House; Twins; Spang a Lang; Cookin' at the Kitchen; Naptown Nights; Wes at the Turf; Hubbub; Friends; Zebra II.

Album

Label: Summit Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: August in New York; High on Blueberry Pie; Theme for Jobim; Feels Like Home; Is That Asking Too Much?; Looking at You; I Need a Dream; Sweet Talk; You’re So Cute; Do Be Do Be Do; Alone; Can You Dig Being Dug?; Always in My Heart; Minute Waltz.

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Danhomey Songs

By Nicolas Genest

Label: Very Good Music & Fanphant Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Legba; Guédé Houssou; 3. Midougbé Kpowoun; Zangbèto; Kpérékou; Gbèto; Bachiana Africana; Lonmin; Chocho.

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Branford Marsalis, Eric Scott Reed, Artemis, Jeremy Pelt and more

by Benjamin Boddie
December 6, 2025

Today's Music--Right Now! Fantastic music by Branford Marsalis, Altin Sencalar, Reginald Cyntje, Marianne Solivan, Thomas Marriott, Mitch Towne, Paul Hecht, Lorraine Feather, Eric Scott Reed, Beatle Jazz, John Clayton, Ellie Martin, Jane Ira Bloom, Kandace Springs, Artemis, Posi-Tone Swingtet, Caili O'Doherty, Max Leake, Judy Wexler, Liz Cole, Jeremy Pelt, Darryl Yokley, Mason Razavi, Fred Hersch, Willie ...

Article: Album Review

Nicolas Genest: Danhomey Songs

Read "Danhomey Songs" reviewed by Fran Kursztejn

by Fran Kursztejn
November 22, 2025

Danhomey Songs is French-Beninese trumpeter Nicolas Genest's first record as leader since 2015. Despite a voraciously prolific career working with just about every Francophone master working today, but specifically under the tutelage of Aldo Romano and Henri Texier, he has only produced a handful of recordings as bandleader. Perhaps it is the personages he usually finds ...

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Joe Farnsworth, Sam Dillon, Etienne Charles, Cory Weeds and more

by Benjamin Boddie
July 31, 2025

Today's Music--Right Now! Fantastic music by Joe Farnsworth, Sam Dillon, Etienne Charles, Tyreek McDole, Cory Weeds, Sarah Wilson, Peter Lin & AAPI Jazz Collective, Ola Annabel/Nicolas Meier, NYO Jazz, Jimme Greene, Jordan VanHemert, Alan Broadbent, Antonio Adolfo, Anaïs Reno, Dave Anderson, Gabriel Latchin, Danny Grissett, Atlantic Jazz Collective, Gregory Tady, Greg Murphy, John Clayton, Nicole Glover, ...

Article: Live Review

The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra with John Pizzarelli at the 92NY Jazz in July

by Paul Reynolds
July 19, 2025

The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra with John Pizzarelli Geffen Stage at Kaufmann Concert Hall, 92NY Jazz in July New York, NY July 15, 2025 What's the perfect jazz concert for a sultry summer night? If short and swinging (and air conditioned) is your answer, the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra delivered the goods ...

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Benny Benack III, Brandee Younger, Something Blue, Robert Glasper and more

by Benjamin Boddie
July 9, 2025

Today's Music--Right Now! Fantastic music by Benny Benack III, Brandee Younger, Mike Clark & Mike Zilber, Ola Onabule/Nicolas Meier, Something Blue, Diego Rivera, Robert Glasper, Tessa Souter, Michael Dease, Clifford Jordan, Cyrus Chestnut, Mark Masters Ensemble, John Clayton, Hot Toddies Jazz Band, Planet D Nonet, Behn Gillece, Bobby West, NYO Jazz, Pete McGuinness, Rob Clearfield, Tyreek ...

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46th Annual Tri-C JazzFest

by C. Andrew Hovan
July 8, 2025

46th Annual Tri-C JazzFest Playhouse Square Cleveland, OH June 26-28, 2025 Jazz festivals occupy a precarious space these days. Pressured by financial constraints, too many have drifted toward booking artists with only a passing connection to the jazz tradition. Cuts to both public and private funding have only compounded ...

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Deborah Silver: Deborah Silver with the Count Basie Orchestra: Basie Rocks!

Read "Deborah Silver with the Count Basie Orchestra: Basie Rocks!" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
June 19, 2025

Basie Rocks! A great idea? One best left on the cutting-room floor? Or perhaps a little of both? There are reasonable arguments to be made on all sides of the equation. On the one hand, this is the one and only Count Basie Orchestra, swinging in its own exceptional way. On the other, the orchestra has ...