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Article: Interview

Tessa Souter: Making Connections Between Erik Satie, Jazz, and Personal Identity

Read "Tessa Souter: Making Connections Between Erik Satie, Jazz, and Personal Identity" reviewed by Victor L. Schermer

by Victor L. Schermer

New York-based vocalist Tessa Souter is deservedly treasured among jazz fans, critics and musicians alike. Equally effective performing live and on her several fine recordings, she is a jazz singer who combines the sonority, vocal range and discipline of a classical mezzo soprano with subtle and sultry jazz inflections. Everything she sings is well thought out ...

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Article: Live Review

The Maria Schneider Orchestra at Birdland

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by Paul Reynolds

Maria Schneider Orchestra Birdland Jazz Club New York, NY May 30, 2025 The late set by Maria Schneider and her orchestra on Friday at Birdland Jazz Club was so engrossing as to be a world unto itself. Every aspect of the performance--even including, in the best way, the musicians' identities--bowed to ...

Article: Album Review

Ryan Truesdell: Shades of Sound

Read "Shades of Sound" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi

Shades of Sound costituisce il secondo volume del Gil Evans Project di Ryan Truesdell, inciso dal vivo al Jazz Standard di New York. Data d'incisione e organico sono gli stessi di Lines of Color, il primo volume registrato dal 13 al 18 maggio 2014 con una formazione di 23 musicisti più il leader, scelti tra i ...

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Article: Album Review

Ryan Truesdell: Shades Of Sound

Read "Shades Of Sound" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux

Ryan Truesdell's Shades of Sounds: Gil Evans Project Live at Jazz Standard Vol. 2 is a triumphant continuation of his lovingly curated Gil Evans Project--a musical venture focusing on both preservation and revelation. With this latest volume, Truesdell guides us through Evans' well-known sonic landscape and deeper into the vaults, unearthing four never-before-recorded arrangements that offer ...

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Article: Album Review

Finn Wiest: Aurora

Read "Aurora" reviewed by La-Faithia White

by La-Faithia White

Award-winning drummer Finn Wiest is a first-call sideman in the New York City Jazz scene. He has just finished his Master's degree at the City College of New York with Carl Allen, Steve Wilson and Mike Holobar. Born in Biberach An Der Riss, Germany, Wiest began playing drums at the age of four. He ...

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Article: Album Review

Susan Hinkson: Just in Time

Read "Just in Time" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright

by Katchie Cartwright

In 2025, radio programmers are apt to carp about singers who continue to cover the Great American Songbook. There are new songs and songwriters to explore, they say, and it is true. But for lovers of mainstream jazz, the mellow sound of a sensitive balladeer like Susan Hinkson singing a gem like Harold Arlen and Johnny ...

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Song of the Day

Honey Badger (Don't Care)

Album: Elegy
By Rex Richardson
Label: Summit Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 06:40

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Article: Album Review

Leslie Pintchik: Prayer For What Remains

Read "Prayer For What Remains" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

Pianist and composer Leslie Pintchik abandoned a promising career as an educator at New York's Columbia University in favor of writing and playing piano full-time. What has become clear since then, and especially on her eighth album, Prayer for What Remains, is that academia's loss is beyond any doubt the jazz world's gain. ...

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Article: Album Review

Zach Adleman: We Make: Stories For A New Day

Read "We Make: Stories For A New Day" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

For someone not that long out of college, New York City-based drummer Zach Adleman has kept a full dance card, leading to the release of his impressive debut recording, We Make: Stories for a New Day, on which Adleman leads a nimble sextet through its paces on 11 charming and upbeat songs, nine of which he ...

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Article: Live Review

The Unity Festival at Jazz at Lincoln Center

Read "The Unity Festival at Jazz at Lincoln Center" reviewed by Paul Reynolds

by Paul Reynolds

Rachall and Vilray and others Jazz at Lincoln Center Unity Festival New York, NY January 11, 2025 In its second year, the Unity Festival at Jazz at Lincoln Center--audaciously counter-programmed against the NYC Winter JazzFest--again presented a diverse two-day program, this time including tributes to two fallen jazz giants.


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