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Article: Album Review

Peter Evans: Ars Ludicra

Read "Ars Ludicra" reviewed by Fran Kursztejn


In the band's handful of releases the past decade, Peter Evans' Being & Becoming has defined itself by an unusual pattern of influence. As the former leader of superstar avant-garde quartet Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Evans has always played the agitator, the many-hats uncompromising auteur, challenging in both sonic intellect and actual practice. He ...

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Article: Year in Review

Jack Bowers' Best Jazz Albums Of 2025

Read "Jack Bowers' Best Jazz Albums Of 2025" reviewed by Jack Bowers


2025: Another year which proves that jazz is not only alive and well but flourishing in its own little corner of the musical world. The number of splendid new recordings by groups large and small was as plentiful as ever and, even better, spanned the globe from the U.S. to Europe, Asia to Latin America, and ...

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Wanees Zarour: Silwan

Read "Silwan" reviewed by Jack Bowers


There are times when not knowing what to expect can be helpful. Wanees Zarour, a Palestinian American artist who now calls Chicago home, plays the buzuq and oud, stringed instruments from the Middle East, and couples them on Silwan with his skills as a composer to produce melodic and colorful images of his homeland interspersed with ...

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Song of the Day

Quarantrio

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Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Duration: 04:11

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Benjamin Jephta: Homecoming Revisited

Read "Homecoming Revisited" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


At 22 years of age, the up-and-coming Cape Town-reared bassist Benjamin Jephta introduced himself to the wider world via Homecoming (Self Produced, 2015), an engrossing debut featuring South African standouts like tenor saxophonist Sisonke Xonti, trumpeter Marcus Wyatt, pianist Kyle Shepherd, drummer Sphelelo Mazibuko and vocalist Spha Mdlalose.  A decade later, he gives us Homecoming Revisted, re-envisioning that material ...

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Ted Unseth and the Americana Classic Jazz Orchestra: 20th Anniversary Concerts

Read "20th Anniversary Concerts" reviewed by Jack Bowers


The 20th Anniversary Concerts performed by Ted Unseth's Americana Classic Jazz Orchestra were recorded in 1993, when the orchestra's guest artist, alto saxophonist Benny Waters, was a spry 91 years old. And for those who would like to see as well as hear Waters and the orchestra, the audio CD is accompanied by a briefer video ...

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Vas-y!

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Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Duration: 04:33

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Article: Album Review

Yoshie Fruchter's Pitom: Alive and Well

Read "Alive and Well" reviewed by Max Kutner


Yoshie Fruchter has been a presence within the Radical Jewish and Modern Klezmer music circles for nearly 3 decades. His ensemble, Pitom, showcases many facets of his deep knowledge in those scenes as filtered through the sludge-clouded lenses of grunge, doom, and just straight metal. The band has released three full length albums since its inception, including ...

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Article: Year in Review

Joshua Weiner's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025

Read "Joshua Weiner's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025" reviewed by Joshua Weiner


As we approach the holidays and the end of the year, here are my favorite albums I reviewed for AAJ in 2025! McCoy TynerForces Of Nature: Live At Slugs' Blue Note Records Larry GoldingsI Will Sam First Records

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Transencion

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Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Duration: 5:52


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