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The Final Batch of My Favorite 2024 Jazz Things - Part 2

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 28, 2025

2024 was a tough year! It may be hard to be nostalgic about it. It will be much easier to be nostalgic about the amazing music that it brought to us and so, for our first show of 2025, we are looking back at some of the many gems that we have discovered in the past ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Immanuel Wilkins, Mark Lockheart, Kenny Barron, Miguel Zenón & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 5, 2025

Enjoy a set that revolves around the beauty of ensemble work.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Mark Lockheart “Morning Smiles" Smiling (Edition) 0:16 Host talks 7:35 Kit Downes “Full Dress (Live)" Reflex: Dr. Snap (Live) (BimHuis) 9:12 Host talks 16:13 Immanuel Wilkins “AFTERLIFE RESIDENCE ...

Article: Year in Review

I Dischi del 2024 secondo Ludovico Granvassu

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 2, 2025

Spesso molti articoli sulle “migliori uscite dell'anno" iniziano con una premessa quasi apologetica ("questi non sono necessariamente 'i migliori album dell'anno,' ma 'i miei preferiti';" “è tutto soggettivo;" “domani avrei scelto titoli diversi;" “ho potuto selezionare solo dieci album," ecc.)? Queste dichiarazioni sembrano riflettere il disagio del redattore, costretto a riassumere un vasto ecosistema artistico selezionando ...

Article: Year in Review

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2024

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 31, 2024

Have you noticed how many “best of the year" listicles start with an apologetic preamble ("these are not necessarily 'the best albums of the year' but 'my favorites';" “it's all subjective;" “tomorrow I might have chosen different titles;" “I could only select ten albums" etc.)? Those disclaimers channel the writer's discomfort of having to summarize a ...

Album

Relief Party

By Reinier Baas

Label: Dox Records
Released: 2024

Album

Outpost Of Dreams

By Norma Winstone

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: El; Fly the Wind; Jesus Maria; Beneath an Evening Sky; Out of the Dancing Sea; The Steppe; Nocturne; Black Is the Colour; In Search of Sleep; Rowing Home.

Album

Breaking the Shell

By Bill Frisell

Label: Red Hook Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: May 4th; Untitled 23; Kasei Valles; El; Southern Body; Sjung Herte Sjung; Two Twins; Cypher; July 2nd; Proximity; Este a Székelyeknél.

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Red Hook Records

by Hobart Taylor
December 18, 2024

Celebrating Red Hook Records artists Wadada Leo Smith, Amina Claudine Myers, Andrew Cyrille and others, plus new music from Samara Joy. Playlist Aymée Nuviola Kemuel Roig"Imágenes" from Havana Nocturne (Worldwide) 0:00 William Cepeda" Con El Corazón (Plena)" from The Sound of Puerto Rican Jazz (Casabe) 4:39 Sessa “Canção da Cura" from Estrela Acesa (Self ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Jimi Hendrix - A Jazz Experience, Part 1

by Ludovico Granvassu
November 24, 2024

November is Jimi Hendrix's birth month and so we decided to focus this week's edition on jazz renditions of the Jimi Hendrix songbook. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Jimi Hendrix “The Star Spangled Banner" Live at Woodstock (Legacy) 0:16 Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra ...

Article: Live Review

JazzFest Berlin 2024

by John Sharpe
November 11, 2024

JazzFest Berlin 2024 Haus Der Berliner Festspiele Berlin, Germany October 31-November 3, 2024 Intro For its sixtieth edition, the renowned JazzFest Berlin not only presented a full program of 24 shows by over 120 performers from around the globe, but also ran a research lab looking back at the event's history, ...