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Article: Album Review

Yakir Arbib & Conti Bilong: Afro Baroque

Read "Afro Baroque" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan
October 15, 2025

The fusion of jazz, baroque piano, vocals and traditional Central African and Middle Eastern rhythms might sound like an ambitious overreach, with too many influences competing for space. Yet Afro Baroque proves that what could have been a chaotic collision of styles instead shows how rhythm, melody and cultural expression can complement each other to produce ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with Saxophonist Inbar Solomon

by AAJ Staff
October 12, 2025

Meet Inbar Solomon Inbar Solomon is a saxophonist, flutist, and composer originally from Tel Aviv, Israel who is now based in Brooklyn, New York. A graduate of The New School's Jazz and Contemporary Music program, he received significant merit scholarships from both The New School and Berklee College of Music. Solomon has appeared at major international ...

Article: Rising Stars

Introducing Guitarist Ely Perlman

by Sanford Josephson
September 1, 2025

After graduating from Israel's Thelma Yellin High School for the Performing Arts about four years ago, guitarist Ely Perlman came to the United States to attend Boston's Berklee College of Music. The summer before school started, he went to the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Academy, a music education program in Aspen, CO, directed by bassist Christian McBride. ...

Article: Meet the Staff

Meet Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan
August 1, 2025

I currently live in: A small village in the Lincolnshire Wolds, north of Lincoln, UK I joined All About Jazz in: 2023 Why did you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? I have always used album reviews as a guide to where to spend my hard-earned cash. As All About Jazz ...

Article: Live Review

I Poeti del Piano Solo 2025

by Neri Pollastri
July 15, 2025

Museo Opera del Duomo, Giardino Villa Bardini I Poeti del Piano Solo Firenze 12-14 giugno 2025 Sesta edizione della rassegna I Poeti del Piano Solo, tre concerti con altrettanti pianisti internazionali, organizzata da Musicus Concentus con la direzione artistica di Stefano Maurizi. La novità di quest'anno erano le location: dopo la ...

Article: Year in Review

Best Jazz Albums of 2025: All-Star Break Edition

by AAJ Staff
July 2, 2025

As we hit the halfway mark of 2025, All About Jazz has adopted Major League Baseball's All-Star break approach but swapping homers for albums. Our team of 55 writers convened to name their top three albums of the year so far, with Mary Halvorson's About Ghosts (Nonesuch) emerging as the clear favorite and an early contender ...

Article: Live Review

Vicenza Jazz - New Conversations 2025

by Libero Farnè
May 27, 2025

Vicenza Jazz 2025 Varie sedi Vicenza 15--25 maggio 2025 Vicenza Jazz--New Conversations ha sempre portato un sottotitolo che mettesse in evidenza il tema su cui di anno in anno si concentrava prevalentemente. Questa ventinovesima edizione ha evitato di celebrare anniversari o di puntare i riflettori su uno strumento principe, ...anche se, ...

Article: Live Review

Shai Maestro At Barcelona El Molino

by Artur Moral
May 23, 2025

Shai Maestro El Molino Barcelona, Spain May 16, 2025 The Barcelöna Concert?The intense crimson decor of El Molino, once a café-concert hall devoted to revue and cabaret, now a splendidly renovated space dedicated to all genres of music--with a special emphasis on contemporary jazz--hosted a special night with Shai Maestro. This ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Music From Melford, Halvorson, Henriksen And More

by Bob Osborne
May 22, 2025

A comprehensive look at new releases from the USA and Europe is topped and tailed with older recordings re-issued or released for the first time. New associations between established musicians deliver exciting listening experiences whilst new players on the scene demonstrate Jazz is alive and growing.Playlist Charles Rouse “Bitchin'" from Two Is One (Mack ...

Article: Album Review

Shai Maestro: Solo: Miniatures & Tales

Read "Solo: Miniatures & Tales" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan
May 20, 2025

Shai Maestro fired the imagination when he joined Avishai Cohen's trio when only 19 years old, contributing to four well-received albums. In 2010, Maestro formed his own trio and released a string of albums as leader before moving to ECM Records with two excellent trio albums, The Dream Thief (2018) and Human (2021), which enhanced his ...