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Rufus Reid is one of a handful of true renaissance figures in the Arts. This bassist and composer has been an active presence in the jazz world since the 1970’s. He has recorded over 500 albums, 25 under his own name, with Terrestrial Dance and Always In The Moment released in Vinyl by Newvelle Records. The 2022 CD release, Celebration, features the jazz trio with a string quartet. Reid can be heard on recordings with Dexter Gordon, Andrew Hill, The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Quartet, Kenny Barron, Stan Getz, J.J. Johnson, Lee Konitz, Jack DeJohnette and many others.

Album

Sound Within

By Randy Ingram

Label: Chill Tone Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Turn Out The Star; My Foolish Heart; Aloft; Ezz-Thetic; Letter To Evan; For All We Know; Sound Within; Mother Of Earl; Remembrance.

Song of the Day

Aloft

October 10, 2026

Album: Sound Within
By Randy Ingram
Label: Chill Tone Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 5:22

Article: Album Review

Randy Ingram: Sound Within

Read "Sound Within" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
August 3, 2026

A sobriquet that could be applied to the pianist Bill Evans is “the poet of the jazz piano," as he more than almost any other pianist combined technical mastery with emotional restraint, creating music that feels introspective rather than demonstrative. Every pianist who has ever fallen under Evans' spell has eventually faced the same dilemma. One ...

Article: Interview

Oscar Rossignoli: Expanding His Musical Journey

by R.J. DeLuke
August 3, 2026

When Oscar Rossignoli was a child in Honduras, he wanted to be a drummer. He was captivated by the instrument and when he went to church services each Sunday with his family, he would scamper to the front row and seat himself close to the drummer. The church services featured a band. His father, ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Classic jazz from Shirley Scott and more, and birthday shoutouts to Behn Gillece and Maceo Parker among others

by David W. Daniels
February 17, 2026

Classic music per the headline, plus the Modern Jazz Quartet, Jimmy Smith, and Joe Williams with Ella Fitzgerald and more! Recently released music from Roy Hargrove, Joel Ross, Snarky Puppy and more. Birthday recognition per the headline, plus Sharel Cassity, Rufus Reid, Omar Hakim, and Eugene McDaniels (songwriter of “Compared To What").Playlist Alchemy Sound ...

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Brain Sync

By Michel Cury

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Night Travel (Feat. Bob Mintzer, Airto Moreira, Fernando Rosa and Victor Marcellus); All So Fleeting (Feat. Mark, Leandro Matsumoto, Helder Lucio and Victor Marcellus); Curupira's Dance (Feat. Bobby Militello, Glecio Nascimento and Igor Willcox); Future Beach (Feat. Rufus Reid and Igor Willcox); The Gateway; Brainwaves (Feat. Airto Moreira, Thiago Espirito Santo and Igor Willcox); Africa (Feat. Alison Crockett, Widor Santiago, Sidiel Vieira, Helder Lucio and Cuca Teixeira); Airto's Solo; Zawinul's Land (Feat. Flora Purim, Airto Moreira, Fernando Rosa and Cuca Teixeira); Dimensions (Feat. Thiago Espirito Santo, Helder Lucio and Victor Marcellus).

Article: Inside the Songs

Dave Anderson: Plays with Gusto

by Dean Nardi
October 27, 2025

Gusto! Vigorous and enthusiastic. Implies doing something with great spirit and energy. From the Spanish, gusto indicates taste, pleasure or liking, and that, friends, wraps and puts a bow around what you hear from New York-based soprano and tenor saxophonist Dave Anderson on his uplifting In Lieu of Flowers album (Label1, 2025). Anderson needed ...

Article: Album Review

Ryan Keberle & Collectiv do Brasil: Choro das Aguas

Read "Choro das Aguas" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright

by Katchie Cartwright
August 14, 2025

Ryan Keberle began to study music at age four in Spokane, first at the piano with his mother, Ann, followed by Suzuki violin lessons. His father Dan, a university jazz director, encouraged him to pick up the trombone at 10, for the sensible reason that he always seemed to be short a trombonist in his ensembles. ...

Article: Interview

Lucian Ban: Following Bartók's Trail Through the Transylvanian Villages

by Dean Nardi
June 18, 2025

It is hard to re-invent where jazz can go. Players can eschew all the conventional methods they want, but a wheel is still a wheel. This is a reason why pianist Lucian Ban's efforts to bring to light the Hungarian composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist Bela Bartók's works as a field collector of folk music in 21st-century ...