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Article: Album Review

Cindy Blackman Santana: Coherence

Read "Coherence" reviewed by Kyle Simpler

by Kyle Simpler

Some musicians communicate their passion almost before they ever play a note, and drummer Cindy Blackman Santana is one of them. Whether performing jazz, rock, soul, or world music, she approaches each style with the conviction that music ultimately transcends categories. Coherence is possibly her clearest statement of that philosophy. Blackman Santana's broad musical ...

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Article: Album Review

Joey Alexander: Celestial Keeper

Read "Celestial Keeper" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette

Joey Alexander may no longer qualify as a prodigy, but his skills as a pianist and composer remain prodigious. The bell-like clarity of the notes ringing out at the outset of “Bemused (solo improv 1)" augurs as much for Celestial Keeper as it does for the now 22-year-old, who follows suit throughout the album.

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Article: Album Review

Billy Childs: Triumvirate

Read "Triumvirate" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan

Billy Childs earned a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Jazz Album for his 2023 release The Winds Of Change (Mack Avenue Records). Triumvirate arrives as the follow-up. Accolades are not unusual for Childs. He holds six Grammys in total, along with numerous nominations, reflecting his exceptionally high standards both as a jazz pianist and classical composer.

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Article: Album Review

Charles Tolliver: Right Now... And Then

Read "Right Now... And Then" reviewed by Andrew Schinder

by Andrew Schinder

While jazz fusion dominated the commercial jazz scene during the 1970s, beneath the surface many musicians eschewed current market trends, and continued to develop and push forward the hard bop, modal, and spiritual sounds established during the previous decade. Many of those artists recorded for Strata-East Records, the now-seminal label co-founded by trumpeter Charles Tolliver and pianist ...

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Article: Year in Review

I Dischi del 2025 secondo Ludovico Granvassu

Read "I Dischi del 2025 secondo Ludovico Granvassu" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu

by Ludovico Granvassu

Immortalare la bellezza e la varietà del jazz pubblicato nel 2025 attraverso una “top ten" appare tanto arduo, vano--e alla fine deludente--quanto cercare di fotografare un tramonto sulla costiera amalfitana usando una rudimentale fotocamera digitale e facendo un forellino sul copriobiettivo. Certo, una foto verrà scattata. Potrebbe persino dimostrare che eri lì, in quel momento, quando ...

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Article: Year in Review

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden Of Jazzy Delights 2025

Read "Ludovico Granvassu's Garden Of Jazzy Delights 2025" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu

by Ludovico Granvassu

Capturing the breathtaking beauty, range, and diversity of jazz released in 2025 through a list of “10 best albums" feels as challenging, vain--and ultimately disappointing--as trying to photograph the Grand Canyon at sunset by placing a pinhole in front of a rudimentary digital camera's lens. Sure, a picture will be taken. It might even prove you ...

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Without Further Ado, Vol 1

By Christian McBride Big Band

Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Murder by Numbers; Back In Love Again; Old Folks; Moanin'; All Through The Night; Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow; Come Rain Or Come Shine; Op. 49 - Cold Chicken Suite, 3rd Movement.

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Fasten Up

By Yellowjackets

Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Comin' Home Baby; Fasten Up; Will Power; November 8th; The Truth Of You; The Lion; Swingmeister General; An Interesting Dream; Broken ; The Unresolved Question; Xemeris.

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Elemental

By Dee Dee Bridgewater

Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Beginning To See The Light; Mood Indigo; Honeysuckle Rose; Here's That Rainy Day; Love For Sale; 'S Wonderful; In The Still Of The Night; Caravan.

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Article: Year in Review

Konstantin Rega's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025

Read "Konstantin Rega's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025" reviewed by Konstantin N. Rega

by Konstantin N. Rega

Even as the world seems to spin faster and faster, jazz has got your back. With albums responding to the current musical dialogue as well as those looking back to the past, 2025 offered a wonderful assortment of delicious earworms. It was a year of tasteful tunes, imaginative expressionistic freestyling, and generous arrangements of time-favoured oldies. ...


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