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Frank Carlberg: Dream Machine

Read "Dream Machine" reviewed by Vic Albani

by Vic Albani
October 31, 2025

Il signor Frank Carlberg, originario di Helsinki, da molti anni si è ritagliato un ruolo importante nella comunità jazzistica newyorkese. Dopo gli studi al Berklee College of Music e al New England Conservatory--dove ha avuto maestri del calibro di Paul Bley, Ran Blake, Geri Allen e Jimmy Giuffre--ha collaborato con figure come Steve Lacy e Kenny ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Luigi Grasso, Eric McPherson, Aruán Ortiz, Michael Blake & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
September 30, 2025

There are countless ways to frame a jazz project--through cinema, sci-fi, the push and pull between roots and exploration, unconventional line-ups, or the African diaspora. You will find them all in this eclectic playlist.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Julien Daïan feat. Daniel Auteuil ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

RIP Nancy King and Terry Reid

by Jerome Wilson
August 27, 2025

This program pays tribute to two musicians who have recently passed away, vocalist Nancy King and singer-guitarist Terry Reid. It also includes music from Max Roach, Meshell Ndegeocello, and Tubby Hayes along others.Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Irène Schweizer, Gato Barbieri, Anita Donndorff & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
July 8, 2025

Unearthed gems, old souls, and soulful organ jazz in this playlist.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Brian Charette “Why'd You Have To Go and Lie To Me Boy" You Don't Know Jack! (Cellar Live) 0:16 Host talks 5:24 Kresten Osgood, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Michael ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Lester Bowie, Hayoung Lyou, and Bill Warfield

by Jerome Wilson
November 20, 2024

This particular show features recent music by Hayoung Lyou and Bill Warfield's Hell's Kitchen Funk Orchestra. It also has older work by Sheila Jordan and Roy Campbell and a pair of selections by Lester Bowie. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of ...

Article: Play This!

Slow Poke: Listen Here

by Ludovico Granvassu
October 10, 2024

Here is a track in which the simmer might be low, but the temperature is definitely very high. “Listen Here" is a composition which Eddie Harris wrote and played with his, usual, fat groove. This, however, is a sultrier rendition by a band that made the savoring of each note, and the development of a hypnotic ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Xero, Chance & Lurie

by Ludovico Granvassu
March 29, 2024

Three new releases by John Lurie, Benjamin Herman and Fergus Quill give us the opportunity to pay tribute to three musicians whose no-holds-barred attitude significantly marked the scenes in New York and the UK in the 1980s, and now: Xero Slingsby, James Chance and Lurie.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. ...

Article: Year in Review

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 3, 2024

If it is true that, like The Police once put it, “when the world is going down you make the best of what's still around," then throughout 2023 jazz fans were better off than most other social groups. In a year in which everyday news brought ever more inconceivable disappointments, jazz musicians, labels, festivals and venues ...

Album

Routes

By Samuel Blaser

Label: Enja
Released: 2023
Track listing: Silver Dollar; Rainy Days; Thoroughfare; Green Island; Chronicles; Beautiful Bed Of Lies; Lady Rawlinson; Rainy Days Dub; Green Island Dub; End Of The Beginning.

Album

Dance of the Mystic Bliss

By Michael Blake

Label: P&M Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Merle the Pearl; Le Coeur du Jardin (The Heart of the Garden); Little Demons; Love Finally Arrives; Topanga Burns; Sagra; Prune Pluck Pangloss; The Meadows; Weeds; Cleopatra.