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Javier Nero Jazz Orchestra: Alkebulan

Read "Alkebulan" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
March 11, 2026

On Alkebulan, the second recording by his Washington, DC-area Jazz Orchestra, composer, arranger and trombonist Javier Nero pays loving tribute to his African heritage, as he did on the orchestra's earlier album for Outside In Music, emet (The Black Land). As before, Nero uses his considerable skills as a writer and orchestrator to share and amplify ...

Article: Live Review

Meg Okura and Pan-Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble at The Jazz Gallery

by Max Kutner
March 5, 2026

Meg Okura and Pan-Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble The Jazz Gallery New York, NY February 19, 2026 Freewheeling, versatile, and razor sharp, Meg Okura brought her Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble to The Jazz Gallery on Thursday, February 19th in support of both the group's newly released fifth album Isaiah and the 20th anniversary of ...

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Brian Culbertson: Day Trip

Read "Day Trip" reviewed by Bridget A. Arnwine

by Bridget A. Arnwine
February 17, 2026

Multi-instrumentalist Brian Culbertson is a musician with a vision, and on his Day Trip, he sets out to share that vision with his listeners. What is that vision? It is that of an artist who understands what music is capable of and his role as an artist to bring that all to fruition: the slow groove ...

Article: Interview

Richie Beirach: Indelible Memories and Thought-Provoking Reflections on a Life in Jazz, Part 1

by Victor L. Schermer
January 31, 2026

This two-part article was first published on All About Jazz on August 13, 2019. Part 1 | Part 2 Richie Beirach hovers somewhat mysteriously in the pantheon of the great modern jazz pianists. Some of the others in that category from his generation (coming up in the 1960s/'70s), like Herbie Hancock, Keith ...

Article: Live Review

Ra Kalam Bob Moses and the Heart Breath Ensemble at The National Jazz Museum in Harlem

by Paul Reynolds
January 27, 2026

Ra Kalam Bob Moses and the Heart Breath EnsembleThe National Jazz Museum in Harlem New York, NY January 22, 2026The concert by Ra Kalam Bob Moses--as the veteran drummer is now known--and the Heart Breath Ensemble on Thursday was not what it seemed at first glance, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. ...

Article: Album Review

Michael Dease: MSU Jazz Trombones: Spartan Strong

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by Jack Bowers
January 16, 2026

Michael Dease, widely admired as one of the world's foremost jazz trombonists but rather less-known as an educator, dons his professorial garb on Spartan Strong, supervising a splendid session by a special corps of undergrads (and students in his trombone studio) who together comprise the MSU (Michigan State University) Jazz Trombones, twenty-three members in all when ...

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Usein Bekirov: Free Way Deluxe

Read "Free Way Deluxe" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
January 14, 2026

Labels, reductive at best, prove especially slippery when applied to Lviv-based pianist-keyboardist Usein Bekirov. Ethno-jazz, ethno-fusion, jazz-funk--all these titles and more have followed his music around since his debut album, Taterrium (4Records, 2016). Born in Uzbekistan but raised in Crimea from the age of eight, Bekirov has drawn variously on his Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar roots, ...

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The Journey

By Gabriele Comeglio

Label: Dodicilune Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Shuffle Tune; Bassic Instinct; Song for Caterina; Bop Street; Just in Case: For My Parents; Night Roads; South; Che M’importa Del Mondo; Frully; Alice; Lullaby of the Leaves; Prelude.

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Building Characters

By Charles Chen

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2025
Track listing: Kismet; Zhong Fei, Fierce Warrior; If on a Winter’s Night O Traveler…; Colossus of Rhodes; Alice in Wonderland; Straw Hot; Soph, Aeon of Wisdom; Stardust.

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