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Living in Sound - The Music of Charles Mingus
By Harry Skoler
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Goodbye Pork Pie Hat; Peggy’s Blue Skylight; Duke Ellington’s Sound of Love; Remember Rockefeller at Attica; Newcomer; Moves; Sue’s Changes; Invisible Lady; Underdog.
Reflections
By Al Foster
Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: 1. "T.S. Monk"
2. "Pent-Up House
3. "Open Plans"
4. "Blues on the Corner"
5. "Anastasia"
6. "Six"
7. "Punjab"
8. "Beat"
9. "Alone and I"
10. "Half Nelson"
11. "Monk's Bossa"
Out and Out Jazz
Label: Arkadia Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Cram ‘N Exam, White Caps, Fast Forward, Still Life, Airegin, Windsong, Pulp, Shadows
and Light, James Eagle Eye, High Tea for Stephany, Encounter
Tis The Season - New Releases and Jazz Holiday Fare
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast is full of jazz holiday fare, with new Christmas releases from Jonathan Karrant, Jane Monheit and Lyn Stanley, as well as the latest from Houston Person, Nicholas Payton, Nadje Noordhuis and The String Queens, plus birthday shoutouts to Amina Figarova, Ethel Ennis, Fay Claassen, Melissa Aldana, Cassandra Wilson and Beth McKenna, among others. Thanks ...
Ain’t But a Few of Us
by AAJ Staff
The following is an excerpt from the section “Magazine Freelancers" taken from Ain't But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story edited by Willard Jenkins (Duke University Press, 2022). Magazine Freelancers by John Murph John Murph has successfully channeled his voracious appetite for modern music into a keenly social outlook that takes ...
World-Renowned SMOKE Jazz Club Begins The New Year With 80th Birthday Celebrations For Billy Harper And Al Foster, The 10th Annual Coltrane Festival, And More
January 2023 Schedule Sunday, January 1 Coltrane Festival featuring Jeremy Pelt with the Eric Reed / Vincent Herring Quintet Jeremy Pelt: trumpet Vincent Herring: alto & tenor saxophone Eric Reed: piano John Webber: bass Joe Farnsworth: drums SMOKE’s 10th annual Coltrane Festival continues with featured guest trumpeter Jeremy Pelt joining the ...
Grant Geissman, Nicholas Payton and Art Blakey
by Joe Dimino
We begin the 779th Episode of Neon Jazz with a tune from guitarist Grant Geissman's new album Blooz. From there, we hear from one of his early mentors in Chuck Mangione. We get a bit of Chicago flair from singer Tracye Eileen and the great King Oliver. As the episode marches on, we hear new music ...
Xhosa Cole: Ibeji
by Karl Ackermann
Few places on the global jazz scene are enjoying the enthusiastic resurgence of the genre more than the UK. Names that are becoming more familiar—Binker Golding, Nubya Garcia, Idris Rahman, Shabaka Hutchings and others—have triggered something of a youth movement. Emerging in that group is yet another top-notch saxophonist, Xhosa Cole. Cole's sophomore release, Ibeji is ...
World-Renowned SMOKE Jazz Club Announces November 2022 Concert Schedule
One of New York City’s premier live music venues, Smoke Jazz Club, presents a stellar line-up of some of music’s greatest artists during the month of November. Acclaimed for its essential music programming and inspired setting, Smoke Jazz Club recently reopened to much fanfare after being closed to indoor performances and dining for over two years. ...
Monterey Jazz Festival at 65: Let it Happen
by Josef Woodard
Monterey Jazz Festival Monterey County Fairgrounds Monterey, CA September 23-25, 2022 For the finale of the arena portion of this year's Monterey Jazz Festival programming, Gregory Porter channeled one of the aspects which make him special in the jazz pantheon, as spirit mover with gospel roots, and with show biz instincts ...
