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Article: Album Review

Danny Green: Let the Music Happen

Read "Let the Music Happen" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
October 9, 2026

San Diego-based pianist Danny Green began his recording association with Seattle's Origin/OA2 label in 2014 with After the Calm (OA2 Records, 2015), an inspired trio release featuring bassist Justin Grinnell and drummer Julien Cantelm. It was an auspicious beginning. The group followed up their debut with Altered Narratives (OA2, 2016), featuring a string quartet on three tunes ...

Article: Live Review

Isaiah Collier Plays Coltrane: Live at Jazz Alley in Seattle

by Paul Rauch
October 4, 2026

Isaiah Collier Plays Coltrane Jazz Alley Seattle, WA September 29, 2026 The final wave of Coltrane 100 performances are rolling in, after the year-long blitz of celebrating his genius and legacy. Chicago-born tenor master Isaiah Collier landed at Seattle's renowned Jazz Alley this week, his first two-nighter there after a few ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

The Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Mark Isham, John Coltrane And Others

by Lawrence Peryer
October 2, 2026

John Coltrane would have turned 100 last week. So this hour closes with 15 minutes of him live at the Village Vanguard in 1961. On the way there, we open in Paris in 1970, with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Fontella Bass. In between, mostly new records: my podcast guest Mark Isham's first solo album ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Minoru Muraoka, Alice Coltrane, Jazztobak And More

by Lawrence Peryer
September 24, 2026

This episode explores the theme of rediscovery: a 1970 Japanese shakuhachi record just reissued, and a Swedish duo closing things out on a stripped-down reading of an old socialist hymn. In between we present a run built entirely around one photography book, unpublished 1970s portraits by the late Warner Bros. photographer Ginny Winn. The Residents are ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Bill Laswell, Kronos Quartet, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, And More.

by Lawrence Peryer
September 18, 2026

The first half of our show is a deep dub run: an obscure mid-1990s compilation cut, Harry Mudie's 1976 session with King Tubby, Scientist's early-'80s Channel One sound, Prince Far I, and Bill Laswell, who shows up twice, once under his own name and once as the producer who reassembled Bob Marley's catalog into ambient dub ...

Article: Profile

Sequoia Snyder: Growing in the Light of the Masters

by Paul Rauch
September 17, 2026

It was day three of the 47th annual Detroit Jazz Festival, a sunny Sunday late afternoon with just enough white, puffy, high sky clouds to keep the massive crowd gathered at Hart Plaza comfortable. The JP Morgan Chase stage at the southeast corner of the plaza seemed to hang perilously on the edge of the Detroit ...

Article: Live Review

Detroit Jazz Festival 2026: A Gathering in a Great Jazz City

by Paul Rauch
September 15, 2026

Detroit Jazz Festival 2026 Hart Plaza Detroit, MI September 4-7, 2026 Thursday evening is when artists, media and event staffers begin to file into the Detroit Marriott, arriving from points around the globe. The common purpose is the 47th annual Detroit Jazz Festival, an annual tradition on Labor Day weekend. The ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Barry Harris, Don Patterson, Sonny Stitt And Others

by Lawrence Peryer
September 13, 2026

The beating heart of this week's episode emanates from one man's camera expressed through three records:, Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane's 1957 residency, Barry Harris' 1975 Xanadu debut, and a rediscovered Sonny Stitt & Don Patterson date, all appear in a new book of Don Schlitten's jazz photography, the producer and photographer who died earlier this ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Yoko Ono, Martin Bisi, Fela Kuti, Sons Of Kemet And Others

by Lawrence Peryer
September 6, 2026

A wide-open hour: a new quartet session from Christer Bothén, Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, and Andreas Werliin opens things, and from there we range through Cibo Matto's take on a Yoko Ono song, brand new records from Laura Veirs, Martin Bisi, Cassie Watson Francillon, and the French trio Namas, a Fela Kuti cut from 1973, and ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Azar Lawrence, Brad Mehldau, The Bad Plus, Joshua Redman And More

by Lawrence Peryer
August 28, 2026

I am endlessly interested in the intersection of music and ritual. Formal ritual, spiritual gatherings incorporating music, even liturgical music. Then there are the rituals of making music: the band silently setting up and breaking down, on-stage and in the studio. The order in which gear gets assembled and plugged in. The in-jokes or running gags. ...