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Article: Live Review

Jean Toussaint At Dock Street Jazz Club

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by Ian Patterson

Jean ToussaintDock Street Jazz Club Belfast, N. IrelandNovember 28, 2025  A filthy night in Belfast. Relentless rain. The real wet stuff, as they say here.  The sort of Sunday night where it would take a damned good reason to venture out. Jean Toussaint was reason enough. It is not every day, after all, that ...

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Article: Album Review

Yogev Shetrit: Way of Tradition

Read "Way of Tradition" reviewed by Anastasia Bogomolets

by Anastasia Bogomolets

Ever miss music quizzes? This album is the perfect way to test your musical intelligence. It keeps its jazz roots while weaving in all sorts of global influences. Some Central Asian rhythms and melodies emerge in “Bishkek Ancient City." A different kind of vibe, though from the same region, appears in “Uzbekistan." Distinct Moroccan influences shape ...

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News: Award / Grant

Mellon Awards $6.5M to Institutions Advancing Jazz Scholarship and Storytelling

Mellon Awards $6.5M to Institutions Advancing Jazz Scholarship and Storytelling

The Mellon Foundation today announced over $6.5 million in grants dedicated to expanding jazz scholarship and strengthening its cultural infrastructure as part of the Foundation's $35M commitment to preserving America's first original art form. At the center of this latest round of funding for Mellon's jazz initiative is a $5.8 million grant to support the work ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

A Savoy Revival: New OJCs from Hank Mobley & Yusef Lateef

Read "A Savoy Revival: New OJCs from Hank Mobley & Yusef Lateef" reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan

by C. Andrew Hovan

Although the Concord Music Group acquired the legendary Savoy Records archives in 2017, the catalog has seen little reissue activity since. Founded in 1942 by Herman Lubinsky, Savoy earned distinction for documenting rhythm and blues, gospel, and jazz over several decades. The label captured many of bebop's pioneering voices--Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon, Kenny Clarke, and Dizzy ...

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Article: Album Review

Roy Brooks: The Free Slave

Read "The Free Slave" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux

Roy Brooks's The Free Slave, newly reissued on Time Traveler Recordings as a 180-gram vinyl LP, stands as a passionate tribute to the drummer's remarkable artistry and his often overlooked role as one of the most rhythmic thinkers of the post-bop period. Recorded live by Muse Records on April 26, 1970, at Baltimore's renowned Left Bank ...

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Article: Live Review

Ron Carter New Jazz Trio And Foursight Quartet At Birdland

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by Paul Reynolds

Ron Carter New Jazz Trio and Foursight Quartet Birdland New York, NYOctober 16 and 23, 2025 Ron Carter turned 88 in May, 2025. That fact is hard to reconcile with the continuing vitality and frequency of his performances, including those with two small groups at Birdland Jazz Club this month--as ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

The "Jazz Detective" Finds A New Muse, Reissues Lost Classics

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by Joshua Weiner

Joe Fields (1929-2017) was a jazz producer and record executive who worked for Columbia, MGM, Verve, and, most impactfully, at Prestige in the 1950s and 1960s. Shortly after Prestige was sold to Fantasy in 1971, ending a classic era for the storied label, Fields founded Muse Records to document the next phase in jazz. Muse brought ...

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Article: Book Review

The Jazz Barn: Music Inn, the Berkshires, and the Place of Jazz in American Life

Read "The Jazz Barn: Music Inn, the Berkshires, and the Place of Jazz in American Life" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright

by Katchie Cartwright

The Jazz Barn: Music Inn, the Berkshires, and the Place of Jazz in American Life John Gennari 264 Pages ISBN: #978-1-68458-285-3 Brandeis University Press 2025 Award-winning author, University of Vermont professor and Berkshire County native John Gennari encapsulates his fascinating history of The Jazz ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Legendary jazz drummer, bandleader and composer Eric McPherson

Read "Legendary jazz drummer, bandleader and composer Eric McPherson" reviewed by Doug Hall

by Doug Hall

On this show we chat with legendary jazz drummer, band leader, and composer Eric McPherson. Mr. McPherson would be introduced to music and jazz at a very young age. Richard Davis, his godfather and an icon among jazz bassists, was a neighborhood friend of the family, and his mother, a superb dancer-choreographer, deep into the jazz ...

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Article: Interview

Gary Bartz Is Nobody's Jazz Musician

Read "Gary Bartz Is Nobody's Jazz Musician" reviewed by Bridget A. Arnwine

by Bridget A. Arnwine

Gary Bartz is nobody's jazz musician. What he has built and created as an artist with a career that spans six decades defies labels, especially ones that have storied racist connotations and otherwise derogatory origins like the word jazz. He is a composer of the finest order and as gifted as the most revered names in ...


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