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Goldings/Bernstein/Stewart at SMOKE
by Chris DeRosa
Goldings/Bernstein/Stewart Smoke Jazz & Supper Club New York, NY October 23, 2025 Hello, my name is Chris DeRosa and this is what I heard... Tonight's festivities took place at the uptown New York City venue Smoke Jazz & Supper Club. The offering this evening was the organ trio ...
The Jazz Barn: Music Inn, the Berkshires, and the Place of Jazz in American Life
by Katchie Cartwright
The Jazz Barn: Music Inn, the Berkshires, and the Place of Jazz in American Life John Gennari 264 Pages ISBN: #978-1-68458-285-3 Brandeis University Press 2025 Award-winning author, University of Vermont professor and Berkshire County native John Gennari encapsulates his fascinating history of The Jazz ...
A Farewell to Madrid's Café Central
by Artur Moral
It happened to Chicago with The London House and The Velvet Lounge; it happened to San Francisco with the Black Hawk Club and the Keystone Corner; and, of course, it happened to New York City with Cafe Society, Sweet Basil, Village Gate and Jazz Standard. It has also happened in many other places and cities around ...
Gary Bartz Is Nobody's Jazz Musician
by Bridget A. Arnwine
Gary Bartz is nobody's jazz musician. What he has built and created as an artist with a career that spans six decades defies labels, especially ones that have storied racist connotations and otherwise derogatory origins like the word jazz. He is a composer of the finest order and as gifted as the most revered names in ...
Kokoroko: Tuff Times Never Last
by Frank Housh
Kokoroko's sophomore album is cool. Cool as the other side of the pillow, cool like floating on top of the deep blue ocean, cool like the Fonz. Kokoroko may be properly classified within the “Afrobeat" jazz subgenre which mixes West African rhythms with jazz harmony. Its sound also includes a heavy dose of “highlife," ...
Triology: The Slow Road
by Jack Bowers
As if having three of Canada's most cherished and honored jazz musicians together in a recording studio were not enough, that trio--best known by its collective name, Triology--chooses to travel The Slow Road with one of America's national treasures, the incomparable tenor saxophonist Scott Hamilton. When it comes to lovely music lovingly conceived and performed, it ...
Carla Bley, Count Basie, Diane Schuur, Hubert Laws & Sonny Rollins
by Joe Dimino
Welcome to the 900th episode of Neon Jazz! After 14 incredible years, we've hit yet another milestone--one that wouldn't be possible without the legends who have shaped jazz and the fans who've supported us every step of the way. For this special hour, we take a deep dive into the icons who have defined the sound ...
Get Happy: The Music of Harold Arlen’s Great American Songbook
by David Brown
Harold Arlen was a singer, pianist, arranger, and, most importantly, a composer of iconic popular songs in the 20th century. A highly regarded contributor to the Great American Songbook, Arlen wrote over 500 songs, with his most famous being “Over the Rainbow." Born 120 years ago in 1905, Arlen's music--primarily composed for Broadway shows and films--has ...
Paul Kendall: My Shining Hour
by Jack Bowers
If you were to randomly draw the names of “most charming and best-loved American popular standards" out of a hat, chances are you could not fare much better than Pennsylvania-based baritone saxophonist Paul Kendall has by design on My Shining Hour, a splendid album whose playlist encompasses no less than eight singular and seductive melodies from ...
The Jazz Kissa Owner: Danny de Zayas
by B.D. Lenz
When you read the title of this column there's a good chance you asked yourself, “what the heck is a jazz kissa?" I had never heard of them either until a recent interview I did with photographer Philip Arneill about his photo collection dedicated to the dying institution that is the jazz kissa (read that interview ...
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