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Article: Year in Review

Troy Dostert's Best Jazz Albums of 2025

Read "Troy Dostert's Best Jazz Albums of 2025" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert

We were treated to another superb year of creative jazz and improvised music in 2025, with a broad range of projects seeking to extend the boundaries of jazz into and beyond other idioms. Chamber-adjacent outfits such as the Hemphill Stringtet and Patricia Brennan's latest ensemble blurred the border between jazz and contemporary classical music, while Miguel ...

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Article: Live Review

Bologna Jazz Festival 2025

Read "Bologna Jazz Festival 2025" reviewed by Libero Farnè

by Libero Farnè

Bologna Jazz Festival 2025 Varie sedi Bologna e Ferrara 9 ottobre--16 novembre 2025 C'è da domandarsi se si possa definire festival una manifestazione musicale che si protrae per una quarantina di giorni. A Bologna una ragione giustificativa la si può trovare nel volersi ricollegare idealmente al memorabile festival storico, nato alla fine ...

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Article: Album Review

Gregg Belisle-Chi: Slow Crawl: Performing the Music of Tim Berne

Read "Slow Crawl: Performing the Music of Tim Berne" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

Guitarist Gregg Belisle-Chi's story mirrors that of saxophonist Tim Berne, which makes Slow Crawl all the more compelling. Berne's own musical journey began when he was so moved by Julius Hemphill's Dogon A.D. (Mbari, 1972) that he relocated to New York to study directly with the master. Decades later, Belisle-Chi had a similar experience in Seattle ...

Article: Album Review

Alex Harding, Lucian Ban: Blutopia

Read "Blutopia" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri

Il pianista Lucian Ban e il sassofonista baritono Alex Harding, assidui collaboratori dalla fine degli anni Novanta, riuniscono qui un quintetto di stelle per interpretare una musica assai diversificata di brano in brano e la cui sintesi è forse espressa da una citazione del filosofo Ibn Al-Arabi riportata nel libretto, la quale celebra il movimento quale ...

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Article: Live Review

Jazz em Agosto 2025

Read "Jazz em Agosto 2025" reviewed by Stefano Merighi

by Stefano Merighi

Jazz em Agosto Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, Portugal August 1-10, 2025 Despite the “onda de calor" which hit it, Lisbon remains as peaceful as ever in its saturnine routine--even though invasive tourism in the Baixa neighborhood has already changed its appearance, and not for the better. August, however, is also ...

Article: Live Review

Jazz em Agosto 2025

Read "Jazz em Agosto 2025" reviewed by Stefano Merighi

by Stefano Merighi

Jazz em Agosto Fondazione Gulbenkian Lisbona, Portogallo 1-10 agosto 2025 Malgrado la “onda de calor" portoghese stia sfiorando la capitale, Lisbona è al solito pacifica nel suo tran tran saturnino, anche se il turismo invadente della Baixa ha già trasformato certo non in meglio la sua fisionomia. Ma ...

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Article: Album Review

The Hemphill Stringtet: The Hemphill Stringtet Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill

Read "The Hemphill Stringtet Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert

One of the most multifaceted saxophonists to come out of the 1970s-80s jazz avant-garde, Julius Hemphill exuded both fervid power and delicate sensitivity, always with an underpinning of swing to help anchor him within the jazz tradition. While his iconic releases like Dogon A.D. (Mbari, 1972) and Flat-Out Jump Suite (Black Saint, 1980) are rightly considered ...

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Article: Album Review

The Hemphill Stringtet: The Hemphill Stringtet Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill

Read "The Hemphill Stringtet Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

Let us borrow a famous tagline from the dairy industry: Got Hemphill? If not, it is time to take a closer listen. Julius Hemphill (1938-1995) was a towering figure in the creative music scenes of both St. Louis, where he co-founded the Black Artists' Group (BAG), and New York's vibrant loft jazz scene of the 1970s ...

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Article: Album Review

The Hemphill String Stringtet: The Hemphill Stringtet Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill

Read "The Hemphill Stringtet Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

The Hemphill Stringtet's debut album, Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill is a vibrant tribute to the late jazz composer and saxophonist Julius Hemphill (1938--1995). This string quartet, featuring violinists Curtis Stewart and Sam Bardfeld, violist Stephanie Griffin and cellist Tomeka Reid, reimagines Hemphill's compositions with a fresh chamber music perspective. Formed in 2022, the ensemble ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Releases From Cortiñas, Muñeses, Wexler And More

Read "New Releases From Cortiñas, Muñeses, Wexler And More" reviewed by Bob Osborne

by Bob Osborne

On this show we have a variety of new releases including latin jazz, classical crossover, and, live cuts. In addition a re-release of a classic album from Keith Jarrett and a dip in the archive for music from John Abercrombie and Julius Hemphill. I also continue my deep dive into the recent re-releases of Ivo Perelman's ...


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