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Musician

Matt Penman hails from Auckland, New Zealand where he started playing bass at the age of 14. A scholarship from Berklee saw him move to the States in 1994 and to New York soon after that where he maintains a busy performing, recording and teaching schedule.

He is currently an established member of the SFJazz Collective, an 8-piece composer’s collective devoted to presenting the original works of its members as well as arrangements by the band of a different jazz great’s work every year. The Collective is in its sixth year and currently features Joe Lovano, Dave Douglas and Stefon Harris

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Triumvirate

By Billy Childs

Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: One Fleeting Instant; Carefree; Like Father Like Son; Heroes; Whisper Not; Ask Me Now; Lazy Afternoon; Flamenco Sketches.

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Collage

By Alex Wintz

Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2026
Track listing: Pondhop; Apt 3C; Innings Eater; Better Half; The Shadow of Your Smile; The Wheels of Justice; Isn't It a Pity; It's Been a Minute.

Article: Album Review

Billy Childs: Triumvirate

Read "Triumvirate" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan
June 9, 2026

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.

Article: Album Review

Alex Wintz: Collage

Read "Collage" reviewed by Joshua Weiner

by Joshua Weiner
June 4, 2026

Grammy-nominated guitarist Alex Wintz is not only a frequent performer, both with his own group and with artists such as the trumpeters Etienne Charles and Jeremy Pelt and trombonist Nick Finzer, but also an educator on the faculty of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center Jazz for Teens program and a clever composer. Collage features six ...

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Love and Anger

By Theo Bleckmann

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Love and Anger; Bertie; Solo; You've Got to Hide Your Love Away; The Crossing; Stars; I Feel Real; Mighty Real; Dido's Lament; Teardrop; Precious Lord Choir; Crying, Laughing, Loving, Lying; Precious Lord.

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Sensual

By Rachel Z

Label: Dot Time Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Save My Soul; What I Fear; Bodhisattva; Forgive Me; What About the Kids; Inamorata; Shepard’s Lullaby; Sensual; These Days.

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Sonic River

By Tobias Meinhart

Label: Sonic River Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: This Is Water; After the Rain; Mr. Vertigo; Sonic River; Fugue Y; Where Did You Sleep Last Night?; The Panther; Silencio; Pinball; Korean Chant; Dark Horse.

Article: Live Review

Mino Cinélu at The Presidio Theatre

by Steven Roby
September 10, 2025

Mino Cinélu Presidio Theatre Mino 4 Miles San Francisco, CA September 6, 2025 The room begins with absence--no band, no chatter--just a white gauze curtain hanging like a flag with no country. A looped rhythm creeps in from the edges, dry and sandy, like shoes on stone. Then the words ...

Article: Interview

Jamie Baum: These Are Her Times

by Dean Nardi
August 25, 2025

Jamie Baum is a world-class composer as well as flutist, who smoothly balances woodwinds with horns, guitar, bass, piano and drums so that they are equals. Her compositions can remind you of a Gil Evans arrangement with several decades of development added to create a thoroughly modern milieu. She mixes high-energy with ballads and Western foundations ...