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Article: Album Review

Joey DeFrancesco: Live at Keystone Korner

Read "Live at Keystone Korner" reviewed by Andrew Schinder

by Andrew Schinder

Joey DeFrancesco is one of the most tragic stories of 21st-century jazz. After the deaths of mid-twentieth-century organ greats Jimmy Smith and Larry Young, the Hammond B-3 became somewhat unfashionable until DeFrancesco's dynamic, virtuosic style helped reignite the jazz community's passion for the instrument. DeFrancesco was prolific and engaging and the perfect ambassador for the organ, until a ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Mark Isham: Analog Machines And A Jazzman'S Breath

Read "Mark Isham: Analog Machines And A Jazzman'S Breath" reviewed by Lawrence Peryer

by Lawrence Peryer

This week we're putting The Tonearm's needle on trumpeter, composer, and synthesist Mark Isham.He's out now with At The Carousel Club, his first solo album in fifteen years, built around vintage analog synthesizers and a band that includes Nels Cline, Vinnie Colaiuta, and a string quartet.We talk about where the album's title ...

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Article: Album Review

Ekep Nkwelle: Caged Bird

Read "Caged Bird" reviewed by Andrew Schinder

by Andrew Schinder

At a time when the jazz music community is blessed with no shortage of upstart young vocalists, Ekep Nkwelle has risen above the fray by embracing the diversity of styles within the jazz idiom, moving from time-honored standards to progressive modernity with ease, and working with masters ranging from Kenny Barron to David Murray. The daughter of Cameroonian immigrants, ...

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Article: Album Review

Joey Alexander: Celestial Keeper

Read "Celestial Keeper" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette

Joey Alexander may no longer qualify as a prodigy, but his skills as a pianist and composer remain prodigious. The bell-like clarity of the notes ringing out at the outset of “Bemused (solo improv 1)" augurs as much for Celestial Keeper as it does for the now 22-year-old, who follows suit throughout the album.

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Article: Album Review

Emmet Cohen: Universal Truth

Read "Universal Truth" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic

There is an old-world saying that some folks are just born with an old soul. Pianist and social media conqueror Emmet Cohen--his pandemic- founded livestream, Live From Emmet's Place, has been viewed by millions across the globe--proves, positively, that the old wisdom still stands and forever will. For within the heart and soul of every jazzman ...

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Article: Album Review

Club D'Elf: Loon & Thrush

Read "Loon & Thrush" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette

In overseeing Club D'Elf since its inception over 25 years ago, founder-leader-bassist Mike Rivard has maintained a core lineup around which has revolved a colorful cast of collaborators as eclectic as the music they have played.  Loon & Thrush is no exception, yet its creation took place in the shadow of the passing of ...

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Article: Interview

Tommy Emmanuel: Finding Common Ground On Guitar

Read "Tommy Emmanuel: Finding Common Ground On Guitar" reviewed by Jim Trageser

by Jim Trageser

Tommy Emmanuel began his musical career at age 6, playing guitar in his family's band as they busked around the Australian bush more than six decades ago. An invitation from guitar legend Chet Atkins to visit Nashville led to Emmanuel's relocating to the United States in 1997, where his genre-defying career has only further exploded.

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News: Recording

Psychedelic Dub-Jazz Collective Club d'Elf Announces New Album 'Loon & Thrush' Out April 10

Psychedelic Dub-Jazz Collective Club d'Elf Announces New Album 'Loon & Thrush' Out April 10

Today, world-class instrumental ensemble Club d'Elf announces that their upcoming album Loon & Thrush will be released on April 10 via Royal Potato Family. Recorded entirely live in the studio with minimal overdubs, the LP captures the raw, ecstatic, Moroccan-influenced energy that defines the band’s signature sound since their inception in 1998. Today, they’re also releasing ...

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Article: Interview

Dave McMurray Hears Himself In All Of Detroit's Music

Read "Dave McMurray Hears Himself In All Of Detroit's Music" reviewed by John Chacona

by John Chacona

Saxophonist and composer Dave McMurray has much of the celebrated history of Detroit music in his memory and under his fingers. Now 70, and with four acclaimed releases on the storied Blue Note label, he is arguably at the pinnacle of a long and remarkably varied career. All the strands of that career are ...

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Article: Live Review

Paul Cornish Trio at BOP STOP

Read "Paul Cornish Trio at BOP STOP" reviewed by John Chacona

by John Chacona

Paul Cornish Trio BOP STOP at the Music Settlement Cleveland, OHSeptember 5, 2025 Paul Cornish began his concert with a recording of a 1966 John Coltrane interview in Japan. Musicians invoke him all the time these days, but the great saxophonist/saint who ecstatically called the spirits makes an odd match ...


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