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Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Music From Herwig, Remez, Novoa, McBride & More

by Bob Osborne
September 25, 2025

A comprehensive mix of forthcoming and recent, releases which includes a wide variety of differing jazz elements. Women in jazz make a healthy contribution to the playlist with some notable vocal performances and exemplary musicianship. There's also some classic jazz fusion from 1970 from Miles Davis in there as well. Playlist Conrad Herwig “C'Mon ...

Article: Album Review

NYO Jazz: Live in Johannesburg

Read "Live in Johannesburg" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
June 5, 2025

In the summer of 2024, trumpeter/music director Sean Jones and Carnegie Hall's prodigious NYO (National Youth Orchestra) packed their bags and headed overseas for a tour of South Africa, pausing at one of that country's historic landmarks, the Market Theatre, on July 26-28 to present three days of impressive concert performances that thankfully were taped and ...

Album

Iladi

By Linda Sikhakhane

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: iGosa; Inkehli; Ukukhushulwa; Umhlahlandela; Idatshana; Mama; Influential Moments; Ecako.

Article: Year in Review

Mike Jurkovic's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024

by Mike Jurkovic
December 5, 2024

It has been, to say the least, one hell of fright night year. But here is the music that stayed with me, through thick and thin, and all manner of human foible and political upheaval. Vijay IyerCompassion ECM Records Kris Davis

Article: Year in Review

Chris May's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024

by Chris May
December 3, 2024

In case you missed the sad news, our dear friend and compatriot, Chris May, passed away in November (read our tribute). Below are the albums he considered extraordinary in 2024--a final testament to his discerning taste and love of sound. -mR Rob LuftDahab Days Edition Records

Article: Radio & Podcasts

D. D. Jackson, Asher Gamedze & Caroline Davis

by Maurice Hogue
October 7, 2024

A big “welcome back" to pianist D.D. Jackson who's not been heard much on recordings for the last several years. He returned to his native Canada to make Poetry Project, inspired by a commission received during the pandemic to compose music for a poem written by former poet laureate George Elliott Clarke. That led to Clarke ...

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Kris Davis Trio, Propulsion and Porchbone

by Maurice Hogue
September 24, 2024

This week features the first trio recording by pianist Kris Davis in ten years--Run The Gauntlet. It's on her own label, Pyroclastic, and of course it's excellent. The potent avant-garde scene of Chicago emerges on Propulsion in the form of a new quartet led by saxophonist Dave Rempis, while the free jazz scene of NYC contributes ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Nicole Mitchell, Lina Allemano, Laubrock / Rainey & Parker / Barket / Irabagon

by Maurice Hogue
September 9, 2024

After a few shows shortened in length, I had to go back to the old three-hour joint to get all of this terrific music happening. Highlights: the Chicago Afrofuturism of Nicole Mitchell meets the Malian kora legend Ballake Sissoko on Bamako Chicago Sound System; multi-instrumentalist William Parker, drummer Andrew Barker and saxophonist Jon Irabagon cook up ...

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Amy Gadiaga, Ayumi Ishito, Obed Calvaire, Linda Sikhakhane & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
August 2, 2024

If you want to make a case for jazz as a musical Esperanto, the music on this week's show should offer convincing evidence. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Amy Gadiaga “Full Sun (해찬)" All Black Everything--EP (Jazz re:freshed) 0:16 Host talks 4:47 ...

Article: Album Review

Linda Sikhakhane: Iladi

by Mike Jurkovic
July 16, 2024

The music of South African saxophonist Linda Sikhakhane does not so much originate from a particular point in time or space or history as much as it expands and accelerates forth from the sub-Sahara's heady mists. Billowing, charging. Seething, soothing. So ease back and let Iladi (a Zulu wisdom ritual) happen. Let the moves of diaspora move ...