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"There is a generation of young string players who have come up with equal regard for the Bach Cello Suites and Jimi Hendrix’s Are You Experienced, for Beethoven’s String Quartets and the Mahavishnu Orchestra’s Inner Mounting Flame. They dig Dvorak, Debussy and Ravel but also have committed to memory John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme and Led Zeppelin IV. "Violinist-composer-arranger Mads Tolling is definitely in that number. As a longstanding member for the last six years of both the fearless, genre-hopping Turtle Island Quartet and also bassist extraordinaire Stanley Clarke’s band, he is quite accustomed to shattering boundaries and pushing the envelope while dealing in the longstanding tradition of musical cross-fertilization (aka ‘fusion’)

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Northern Readings

By Carlos Henrique Pereira

Label: Salvaterra Music
Released: 2026
Track listing: First Flight; Northern Readings; After Sorrow; All of Us; First Moment; Side by Side; Second Moment; Children's Dream; Third Moment (Green Pearl); Meridian; Fourth Moment; Say It Like iIt Is; Fifth Moment.

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The Skipper and Mike Clark

By Daggerboard

Label: Wide Hive Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Desierto de Tabernas; Changing Emphasis; Tanzanian Skies; Runnin' Into One; Street Sheik; Brother Ranelin; Tranquil Blue; A Pride in the Prairie; Free Lancer; Ruaha Daybreak.

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Northern Readings

June 21, 2026

Album: Northern Readings
By Carlos Henrique Pereira
Label: Salvaterra Music
Released: 2026
Duration: 4:37

Article: Album Review

Carlos Henrique Pereira: Northern Readings

Read "Northern Readings" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
June 7, 2026

Brazilian composer, pianist, and guitarist Carlos Henrique Pereira's release Northern Readings is a quietly remarkable recording that unfolds less like a collection of tracks than a carefully stitched memoir in sound. Grounded in the heritage of Brazil's Minas Gerais State, the album brings together a complementary blend of traditions, with the patience and honesty Pereira shows ...

Article: Album Review

Lawson Rollins: Next Steps

Read "Next Steps" reviewed by Dean Nardi

by Dean Nardi
April 29, 2026

Next Steps is a mainstream but delightful mix of jaunty and splendid originals from gifted North Carolina acoustic guitarist Lawson Rollins, continuing his steady rise into the ranks of the finest contemporary musicians. These are ingenious transformations of his eleven heady compositions into rich improvisations in the company of fine musicians who have played with him ...

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Breakthrough

By Erik Jekabson

Label: Wide Hive Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Jane Wants to Tell You Something (Pt. 1); Jane Wants to Tell You Something (Pt. 2); The Whisperer; A Centered Vibe; Speedway Meadow; Sun on the Keys; Above the Clouds; El Don; Washington as a Surveyor; Into the Jungle (Pt. 1); Into the Jungle (Pt. 2); Into the Jungle (Pt. 3); Sunset on the Keys

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Mads Tolling: Nordic Folklore Meets American Jazz

by Steven Roby
December 2, 2025

This week on Backstage Bay Area, host Steve Roby welcomes two-time Grammy Award-winning violinist Mads Tolling. Known for his work with the Turtle Island Quartet, Stanley Clarke, and Bob Weir, Mads is shifting gears this season to share a piece of his Danish childhood in San Francisco. Mads takes us inside his project, Cool ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Till Brönner; Pino Palladino, Blake Mills; Aki Rissanen & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
September 27, 2025

Enjoy a playlist packed with unbridled joy and energy! Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Till Brönner “Il trucido e lo sbirro" Italia (earMUSIC) 0:16 Host talks 4:59 Aki Rissanen “Glitch In The Heavens" Imaginary Mountains (Edition) 6:43 Pino Palladino, Blake Mills “What Is Wrong with ...

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Michael Dease, Spike Wilner, Bobby West, Antonia Bennett and more

by Benjamin Boddie
June 26, 2025

Today's Music--Right Now! Fantastic music by Michael Dease, Spike Wilner Trio, Bobby West, Antonia Bennett, Alon Farber & Hagiga, Dom Salvador, Mark Masters Ensemble, Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell, Neff Irizarry, Mads Tolling, Danny Grissett, Lucía, Tyler Henderson, Sharel Cassity, Dee Dee Bridgewater & Bill Charlap, Jed Levy, Hiromi, Freedom Art Quartet, Ben Sidran, James ...