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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Abbey Lincoln, Dorothy Ashby Birthdays, New Releases From Ragan Whiteside, Nicole Zuraitis, Lonnie Plaxico, Tierney Sutton & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
August 18, 2025

This broadcast includes new releases from Ragan Whiteside, Nicole Zuraitis, Lonnie Plaxico and Tierney Sutton, with birthday shoutouts to Louis Armstrong, Regina Carter, Abbey Lincoln, Dorothy Ashby, Cyrille Aimee, Terri Lyne Carrington, Trudy Pitts, Meg Okura and Roberta Piket, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear--see them live, buy their music so ...

Article: Interview

Sam Sadigursky: Making Things

by Katchie Cartwright
May 5, 2025

Los Angeles-bred New York-based clarinetist and multi-reedist Sam Sadigursky enjoys a varied and distinguished career, performing and recording with a number of renowned ensembles, including those of composers Darcy James Argue and Philip Glass, pianists Brad Mehldau and Fred Hersch, pop stars David Byrne and Tom Jones, among others, in addition to his own projects.

Song of the Day

Home Theme

April 3, 2025

Album: Solomon Diaries Vol IV & V
By Sam Sadigursky
Label: Adhyâropa Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 09:45

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with Accordionist Nathan Koci

by AAJ Staff
March 27, 2025

Meet Nathan Koci Nathan Koci is a composer, performer, and music director working across a variety of styles and disciplines, from jazz to theater to dance to improvised and experimental musics. His album Solomon Diaries Vol IV & V (Adhyaropa Records, 2025) with clarinetist Sam Sadigursky is a modern take on Klezmer jazz. As ...

Album

Lingering

By Meg Okura

Label: Adhyâropa Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Improvisation No. 1; Without Words; Again and Again; Will You Hear My Voice; Seven Short Pieces: I.Aleph; Seven Short Pieces: II. Blues Kachol; Seven Short Pieces: III. Mi is Who is He is She; Seven Short Pieces: IV. Maim Korim; Seven Short Pieces: V. Shamaim; Seven Short Pieces: VI. Lilah; Seven Short Pieces: VII. Hora Tarantella; Waltz For Wollesen; Improvisation No. 2; Lingering.

Album

The Hidden World Of Piloo

By Ada Rovatti

Label: Piloo Records and Productions LLC
Released: 2024
Track listing: Make Up Girl; Hey You (Scintilla Of Sonder) (Feat. Fay Claassen ); Painchiller; Life Must Go On ( feat. Alma Naidu); Grooveland; Take It Home (feat. Niki Haris); Simba's Samba; Red August; The Naked King; Done Deal (Feat. Niki Haris and Kurt Elling).

Album

Medietas

By Brian Marsella

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2024
Track listing: Time Floats Away; Time Travelers Overture; Astral Atrocities Exorcised, Plum Sauce, and ... Oh No!; The Hardest Truth; 1; Rise Up; Neighborhood Stroll.

Album

Voyages

By Ben Kono

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Yobiyose (The Calling); Bata-Kusai!!; Belong; Across the Pond; Issei; Nisei; Sansei; Yonsei.

Album

Breathe

By Peter Lenz

Label: ART
Released: 2024
Track listing: Between Lines, Breathe, Von Inneren Grenzen, Enclouded, Eleanor.

Article: Catching Up With

Ben Kono Turned Family History into Chamber Jazz

by Lawrence Peryer
November 18, 2024

Ben Kono discovered his family's American origin story in the pages of his grandfather's memoirs. Thirteen-year-old Juhei Caleb Kono sailed alone from Japan in 1911, worked Pacific Northwest farms, and attended fourth grade as a young adult to build a new life. These translated accounts sparked Kono's new album Voyages (Self Produced), an ambitious blend of ...