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Article: Album Review

Shifa شفاء - Rachel Musson, Pat Thomas, Mark Sanders: Ecliptic

by John Sharpe
December 27, 2025

Scrubbed piano strings, malleted drums and a tenor saxophone testing the air may not conjure the usual Sunday-afternoon reverie, yet that is how the trio Shifa ignited its early-2023 matinee at north London's Café Oto. Ecliptic, the group's third document following Live at Café Oto (577 Records, 2019) and Live in Oslo (577 Records, 2020), captures ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Jure Pukl, Remedy/Aki Takase, Evans/Pride & Charles Lloyd

by Maurice Hogue
December 23, 2025

More often than not, after putting one of these playlists together, I'm left feeling so very lucky and privileged to be able to share these artists and their music. This one in particular is filled with some great stuff. Go have a listen to it. Slovenian saxophonist Jure Pukl & quartet take on AI with their ...

Article: Year in Review

Mark Corroto's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025

by Mark Corroto
December 12, 2025

I have an alternative to the year end list. I prefer a “what I listened to most this past year" list. Even so, the discs below would likely make a “best of" list, but that's not my preference. These are discs (and the dreaded digital files) I kept on a heavy rotation. For instance, I am ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Amirtha Kidambi, L.A.S. Collective, Waldron/Rivers & Pat Thomas

by Maurice Hogue
December 1, 2025

I haven't done a three-hour show for a while, but with all the new stuff coming in, it was an easy task. Several live recordings highlight this one: vocalist and provocateuse Amirtha Kidambi & Elder Ones are live in Vilnius Lithuania; the Polish L.A.S. Collective featuring trumpeter Piotr Damasiewicz are live at Café Oto in London ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Meet John O'Gallagher

by Cheryl K.
November 17, 2025

In this hour, an interview with saxophonist, composer, and educator John O'Gallagher. His release Ancestral on Whirlwind Recordings is with drummers Andrew Cyrille and Billy Hart and guitar Ben Monder. Plus, selections from new releases by pianist Pat Thomas and the Brooklyn, NY-based trio Prawntail.Playlist Louis Stewart-Brian Dunning “West Coast Blues" from Alone Together ...

Article: Album Review

Pat Thomas: HIKMAH

by Mark Corroto
November 8, 2025

Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery--except, perhaps, when pianist Pat Thomas takes on the music of jazz legends. In those cases, what emerges is not imitation at all, but transformation. On albums such as Plays the Music of Derek Bailey & Thelonious Monk (FMR, 2008) and Pat Thomas Plays The Duke (New Jazz and ...

Article: Album Review

Pat Thomas: Sufi Women

Read "Sufi Women" reviewed by Fran Kursztejn

by Fran Kursztejn
September 27, 2025

Virtuoso pianist Pat Thomas released one of the finest (and most frustrating) solo performances of this decade with 2024's The Solar Model of Ibn Al-Shatir (Otoroku), and follows with a no-less important, intimate coda in Sufi Women. “Dedicated," as Thomas proclaims, “to the remarkable contribution of Sufi women in the spiritual science...known as Sufism (Islamic mysticism) ...

Article: Live Review

Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2025

by Vincenzo Roggero
August 29, 2025

Jazzfestival SaalfeldenVarious venues Land Salzburg, Austria August 21-24, 2025 One hundred and ninety artists from twenty-six countries, nearly thirty thousand attendees, eight different venues, more than sixty concerts, and a record number of tickets sold. These are just numbers, but they confirm how the Saalfelden Jazz Festival--now in its forty-fifth ...

Article: Live Review

Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2025

by Vincenzo Roggero
August 29, 2025

Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2025 Varie location 21--24 agosto 2025 Centonovanta artisti, provenienti da ventisei paesi, quasi trentamila presenze, otto location differenti, più di sessanta concerti, record di biglietti venduti. Sono solo numeri ma testimoniano come il Saalfelden Jazz Festival--giunto alla quarantacinquesima edizione--sia una rassegna che richiama spettatori da tutta Europa, sia profondamente ...

Article: Album Review

Neil Charles Quartet: Dark Days

Read "Dark Days" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
August 25, 2025

In 2025, amid global unrest and political fracture, the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom can feel like a distant dream, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream" speech like a myth from a gentler past. Has social media, with all its noise and manipulations, induced a kind of societal amnesia? ...