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Bluegrass
By Bob Mintzer
Label: MCG Jazz
Released: 2025
Track listing: Slip and Slide; Elzic’s Farewell/Yew Piney Mountain; Down in the Willow Garden; Green Lawn;
Emy in the Woods; Replace It All; In the Lion’s Den; Dexter; Borealis.
Ben Boddie On Jazz 2025
by Benjamin Boddie
Every year, jazz reminds us of its vastness, and 2025 was no different. These recordings consistently graced Ben Boddie on Jazz, showcasing a blend of deep tradition and bold exploration. From grand ensemble pieces to intimate, personal recordings, the albums on this list capture the creativity, curiosity, and emotional depth that keep jazz moving. These are ...
Jack Bowers' Best Jazz Albums Of 2025
by Jack Bowers
2025: Another year which proves that jazz is not only alive and well but flourishing in its own little corner of the musical world. The number of splendid new recordings by groups large and small was as plentiful as ever and, even better, spanned the globe from the U.S. to Europe, Asia to Latin America, and ...
WDR Big Band: Bluegrass
by Jack Bowers
Violinist Darol Anger literally had a dream, one in which he was performing his bluegrass music not with the David Grisman Quintet or another small group but in front of a full-fledged big band--and in Germany, of all places. Even though it was a dream he thought would never come true, it was so vivid and ...
Finally Friday
By Jason Kush
Label: MCG Jazz
Released: 2023
Track listing: Hasty J; Finally Friday; Slipping Through the Cracks; With Thoughts of Agnes; Asked and
Answered; Easy Going; Soledad del Otono; Razor Burn.
Jason Kush: Finally Friday
by Jack Bowers
Simply narrating the resume of saxophonist/educator/writer/composer Jason Kush would require more space than is usually devoted to an entire review. For someone his age--or even someone older--Kush, currently an associate professor at Slippery Rock (PA) University, has had an exceptionally wide and productive career as a performer, teacher and author in a multitude of genres in ...
Craig Davis: Music of Dodo Marmarosa
Michael “Dodo" Marmarosa was a fascinating jazz pianist. Among the first pianists to master bebop in the mid-1940s, he had an accomplished, plush touch. As I wrote back in 2008, “Dodo was less aggressive than Bud Powell and more expressive and complex than Al Haig. He preferred a punctuating, full keyboard approach, developing ideas in the ...
Force of Nature
Label: MCG Jazz
Released: 2022
Track listing: Gjon Mill Jam Session; Aries; Taurus; Cancer / Act of Contrition; Lonely Moments; What's Your Story,
Morning Glory? / Ghost of Love; Force of Mature; Intermission; Dirge Blues; Carcinoma; Stompin' at the
Savoy; My Blue Heaven.
Tone Paintings
By Craig Davis
Label: MCG Jazz
Released: 2022
Track listing: Mellow Mood; Dodo’s Bounce; Dodo’s Blues; Escape; A Ditty for Dodo; Opus No. 5;
Compadoo; Dary Departs; Tone Paintings; Battle of the Balcony Jive; Dodo’s Lament.
Ludovico Granvassu's Garden Of Jazzy Delights 2022
by Ludovico Granvassu
The depth and range of the music that jazz players have put on record in 2022 are so big that summarizing this “year in jazz" by selecting only ten albums feels akin to taking the photo of a breath-taking landscape with an ultra-low resolution camera... Ten years from now, how is one supposed to understand how ...
