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Article: Album Review

Gabe Katell: Hear, It Is

Read "Hear, It Is" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

After years of paying his dues by gigging around with groups large and small in southern California, baritone saxophonist Gabe Katell has recorded Hear, It Is, the first album with his name above the marquee, and an impressive one it is, both musically and strategically. To ensure its musical success, Katell enlisted the help ...

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Article: Album Review

Margherita Fava: Murrina

Read "Murrina" reviewed by Geannine Reid

by Geannine Reid

The hum of modern jazz is strong from the first notes of Murrina. Margherita Fava emerges as a creative force at the piano with her crystalline single notes and cascade of piano chords that shimmer with the microcosms of the modern jazz piano tradition. Recorded in the autumn of 2025, the album captures a trio that performs ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Remembrance 2025: Jim McNeely, Chuck Mangione, Andy Bey, Eddie Palmieri and Hermeto Pascoal

Read "Remembrance 2025: Jim McNeely, Chuck Mangione, Andy Bey, Eddie Palmieri and Hermeto Pascoal" reviewed by Larry Slater

by Larry Slater

Every year the jazz world loses some major artists and 2025 was no exception.In this hour, we remember the composer and arranger Jim McNeely, one of the most distinguished large ensemble jazz composers of his generation.Hermeto Pascoal was a Brazilian artist who defied classification. He became a favorite of audiences around the ...

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Article: Album Review

John Scofield Dave Holland: Memories Of Home

Read "Memories Of Home" reviewed by Jack Kenny

by Jack Kenny

This album is fundamentally about rapport, deep listening, and a shared musical history that traces back to Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, and the quartet with Joe Lovano and Al Foster. John Scofield's distinctive guitar style seamlessly integrates post-bop, fusion, funk, and roots-based influences. His dry, idiosyncratic tone and subtle inflections have helped redefine modern ...

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Doo-Bop-A-Lu-Wah: The Musical!

By Miles Davis

Label: Kick-a-Verse
Released: 2025
Track listing: Overture; The Doo-Bop Song; Chocolate Chip; Chocolate Chip (reprise); Rappin' Is Fun-damental; Vanilla Brownie; Duke's Beauty; Sonya (and Jane and Loretta and Alice); On the Next Corner; Blow; My Funny Snickerdoodle; I Said Hands Off My Chocolate Chips, Mothe$(@*&^%#; Mystery; Fun-Damentally Freaky; Fantasy; The Next Mystery; Another Doo-Bop Song (I Mean It (Again)); Softly As In a Morning Sunrise.

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Miles '55: The Prestige Recordings

By Miles Davis

Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: I Didn't; Will You Still Be Mine; I See Your Face Before Me; A Night in Tunisia; A Gal in Calico; Dr. Jackle; Bitty Ditty; Minor March; Changes; Stablemates; How Am I To Know/ Just Squeeze Me; There Is No Greater Love; The Theme; S'posin.

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Article: Jazz Fiction

Holiday Notes Across A Hallway

Read "Holiday Notes Across A Hallway" reviewed by Arthur R George

by Arthur R George

A knock on the door of Augie Cannataro's apartment. He peered through the security window to see the single mother from across the hall. They had always nodded politely at each other when passing in the lobby or hallway. He was respectful but didn't want to approach an involvement in whatever her life was with her ...

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Article: History of Jazz

Vince Guaraldi’s Christmas Sauce: Adding Spice to Charlie Brown Vanilla

Read "Vince Guaraldi’s Christmas Sauce: Adding Spice to Charlie Brown Vanilla" reviewed by Arthur R George

by Arthur R George

It's not simply that pianist Vince Guaraldi slipped jazz past the unsuspecting in composing A Charlie Brown Christmas, the evergreen “Peanuts" animation and soundtrack that has become inescapably part of the holiday. First broadcast in 1965, going on to six decades ago, A Charlie Brown Christmas is a tradition unto itself. It returns to television through ...

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Article: Album Review

Bob Schlesinger: Falling From Earth

Read "Falling From Earth" reviewed by Joshua Weiner

by Joshua Weiner

Many a music project was derailed by the COVID-19 pandemic, but Colorado-based pianist, composer, and educator Bob Schlesinger's Falling From Earth (Self-Produced, 2025) has had a longer gestation and more interesting rebirth than most. With funding from the Pathways to Jazz fund, part of the Boulder County Arts Alliance, Schelsinger initially planned for his first release ...

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Article: Album Review

Peter Evans: Ars Ludicra

Read "Ars Ludicra" reviewed by Fran Kursztejn

by Fran Kursztejn

In the band's handful of releases the past decade, Peter Evans' Being & Becoming has defined itself by an unusual pattern of influence. As the former leader of superstar avant-garde quartet Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Evans has always played the agitator, the many-hats uncompromising auteur, challenging in both sonic intellect and actual practice. He ...


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