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Over the last few years, the name Lex Korten has become increasingly difficult to miss for onlookers in the worldwide community of contemporary Jazz. A New York City native, Korten’s musicianship has earned coveted international awards and undisputed professional recognition, landing his voice a place among top-call rising stars on a global scale. The pianist & composer’s name has appeared in publications like Vogue and The New York Times as well as various critics’ polls, and he's established an enduring presence in the projects of renowned artists such as Pulitzer Prize winner/MacArthur Fellow Tyshawn Sorey, Joel Ross, Melissa Aldana, Mike Moreno, Jaleel Shaw, Robert Hurst and Ari Hoenig. A mainstay in his own generation's foremost groups, Korten has recorded nearly three dozen albums with all kinds of figures in the extended cultural family of Black American Music.

Album

Members... Don't!

By Tyshawn Sorey

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2026
Track listing: Abstrusions; Effi; Absolutions; Equipoise (pt. 1); Equipoise (pt. 2); Libra; Members, Don't Git Weary.

Album

Ceiba

By Simon Moullier

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2026
Track listing: Ceiba; Fuji (feat. Keita Ogawa); Iron Giant; Lotus pt.2; Baião (feat. Keita Ogawa); Low Blues; Ancient Ones; Intro; Voices of the Wind; Mr. Hutcherson; Apollo.

Album

UPWARD

By Tyrone Allen II

Label: Dreams and Fears Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: (early 2020's); Smp Sng; Cassia; UPWARD; art day; The A-Side (dedicated to R. P.); 2020's intro; Stuck; harp solo; Mood 1a-1b; Mood 1c; Alt. stuck; when is it ever really smp / smp 4 me; Bass UNLIMITED

Album

Balance

By Claire Dickson

Label: New Amsterdam Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Balance; Doors; Eyelid; Hurt Me; Sign; Stair; Waterfeel

Song of the Day

Doors

August 2, 2026

Album: Balance
By Claire Dickson
Label: New Amsterdam Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 4:56

Article: Album Review

Tyshawn Sorey: Members... Don't!

Read "Members... Don't!" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
June 24, 2026

One of the most welcome developments in twenty-first century jazz has been drummer Tyshawn Sorey's enthusiastic turn toward the jazz canon. While he had already established himself convincingly as one of the premier figures in creative music on immersive, challenging works such as The Inner Spectrum of Variables (Pi Recordings, 2016) and Verisimilitude (Pi Recordings, 2017), ...

Article: Play This!

Simon Moullier: Iron Giant

by Ludovico Granvassu
June 11, 2026

Witnessing Simon Moullier perform live is invariably impressive, without the French vibraphonist ever attempting to show off. On stage, Moullier is constantly in hot pursuit of the next necessary note or chord, balancing laser-like focus with complete connection to his bandmates. Ceiba--the sixth album in a discography that has been growing annually since 2020, ...

Article: Album Review

Tyshawn Sorey: Members... Don't!

Read "Members... Don't!" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
May 7, 2026

Pulitzer Prize-winning, MacArthur Fellow Dr. Tyshawn Sorey may not remember 1968 directly, since he was born in 1980, but he most certainly and unapologetically understands how angry that year was. And he has captured that fiery time with an epic reimagining? rethinking? rebooting? double take of Max Roach's epic telling of that year after the Summer ...

Article: What is Jazz?

2026 Winter JazzFest Marathons: A Survival Guide

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 6, 2026

For jazz fans who are in New York, when one countdown ends with the Times Square Ball Drop, another one begins--and ends a few days later, when Winter JazzFest officially gets underway with the first downbeat at Le Poisson Rouge. For 22 years, the festival has been the launch pad of the jazz year ...