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Mary Halvorson
The success of her acclaimed 2008 debut, Dragon’s Head (Firehouse 12 Records), led critics to call Ms. Halvorson “probably the most original jazz guitarist to emerge this decade” (Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader) and “the freshest, busiest, most critically acclaimed guitar-slinger out of downtown Manhattan/Brooklyn right now” (Howard Mandel, Jazz Beyond Jazz).
“A singular talent,” adds AllAboutJazz.com’s Troy Collins, “Brooklyn-based guitarist Mary Halvorson has come into her own as a composer and improviser…light years ahead of her peers, she is the most impressive guitarist of her generation. The future of jazz guitar starts here.”
For These Streets
Label: Out Of Your Head Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Swimmers; Nocturno, 1932; Scratching the Surface of a Dream; Migration; Speeding Blots of Ink; Streets; And So On; The Break Had Not Come; Rose; Late June.
Bone Bells
Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Bone Bells; Esmeralda; Folded Secret; Nags Head Valse; Beclouded; Silly Walk; Float Queens; Cristellina e Lontano.
About Ghosts
Label: Nonesuch Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Full of Neon; Carved From; Eventidal; Absinthian; About Ghosts; Amaranthine;
Polyhedral; Endmost.
Clone Row
By Ches Smith
Label: Otherly Love Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Ready Beat; Abrade With Me; Clone Row; Town Down; Heart Breakthrough; Sustained Nightmare; Play Bell
(For Nick).
Sound & Gravity: Chicago's New Home For Poignant Creative Music
by Hrayr Attarian
The inaugural 2025 edition of the ambitious Sound & Gravity Festival took place from September 10th through September 14th at seven different venues on Chicago's Northwest Side. Over 50 musicians, from several countries, performed works spanning genres from contemporary Western classical to jazz, experimental music, and indie rock. The not-for-profit Constellation Performing Arts, which drummer Mike ...
Meet World of Jazz Host Bob Osborne
by Bob Osborne
I currently live in: Eccles, Salford, Greater Manchester UK. I joined All About Jazz in: 2018 Why did you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? Having done a weekly radio show on various stations since 2010 I welcomed the invitation and opportunity to share, with a wider audience, the music I ...
Ches Smith: Clone Row
by Glenn Astarita
Ches Smith, the San Diego-born Sacramento-raised drummer who studied philosophy at the University of Oregon before diving headfirst into the Bay Area's experimental music scene, has long been one of modern jazz's most restless spirits. His deep resume includes work with Marc Ribot, Tim Berne, John Zorn, Mary Halvorson and Nels Cline, cementing his reputation as ...
Ned Rothenberg: Looms & Legends
by Troy Dostert
Solo recordings, at least when they feature instruments other than piano or guitar, can be a challenge even for the most committed jazz listeners. The excitement generated by the dialogue of multiple instrumentalists is, of course, missing, and even the most talented artists can have trouble sustaining one's interest for an entire album. Such releases can ...
Jazz em Agosto 2025
by Stefano Merighi
Jazz em Agosto Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, Portugal August 1-10, 2025 Despite the “onda de calor" which hit it, Lisbon remains as peaceful as ever in its saturnine routine--even though invasive tourism in the Baixa neighborhood has already changed its appearance, and not for the better. August, however, is also ...
