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Musician

Eclectic, outrageous, sometimes mystifying but always imbued with a powerful jazz consciousness, the music of Sun Ra has withstood its skeptics and detractors for nearly three generations. And well it should, since Sun Ra has been both apart of and ahead of the jazz tradition during that time. Like Duke Ellington and swing-era pioneer Fletcher Henderson, Sun Ra learned early on to write music in an arranged form that showcased the specific talents of his individual Arkestra members, and he has retained the services of some of these musicians to this day: John Gilmore, Marshall Allen, and Julian Priester for example since they first joined in the 1950's

Album

Between the Neon and the Cosmos

By Frankie Valli

Label: Saturn/Motown Heritage
Released: 2026
Track listing: Interplanetary Sherry; Jersey Cosmic; Can't Take My Eyes Off the Void; Saturn Serenade; Big Girls Don't Cry (On Other Planets); Walk Like an Egyptian Cotton Club; Rag Doll from the Rings; My Eyes Adored You (From Across the Galaxy); Spacewalk Like a Man; The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore in This Dimension); Cosmic Grease.

Album

Heimstad--Sun Ra Meets Pierre Boulez

By Sun Ra

Label: Nothing Is... Not! Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Angels and Demons at Play; Rocket Number Nine; Structures, Book I, Chapter Ia; Structures, Book I, Chapter Ib; Structures, Book I, Chapter Ic; Little Joe from Chicago; Ode To Mary Lou; 57'63".

Article: Album Review

Moon Inhabitants: Canned Luna

Read "Canned Luna" reviewed by Daniel Mège

by Daniel Mège
September 4, 2026

Is there anybody up there? The question is not as far-fetched as it sounds: NASA's lunar program is about to celebrate All About Jazz's 35th anniversary with the start of construction of a permanent lunar base (2030), laying the foundations for AAJ's 50th anniversary with its completion. Jazz will win: once the planet's taxpayers' money has ...

Article: Live Review

Moldejazz 2026

by Daniel Mège
August 4, 2026

Located at 62°7 North, Moldejazz (the Molde International Jazz Festival) is the ideal place for a festival in week 29, in early summer. A floral scent drifts through The Town of Roses, a ribbon less than a kilometer wide wedged into a peninsula between fjord and mountains. Even once it has set, the sun is never far ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Camila Nebbia, St. Silva, Danalogue, M. Geddes Gengras, Curio Curio, Myth Math, And More

by Lawrence Peryer
July 30, 2026

Episode 16 spends its first half in transatlantic synthesis: a Buenos Aires-Berlin improv duo, a Vermont ambient composer's tape collages, and a member of The Comet Is Coming reworking the studio synthesizer as a lead instrument on his own. The back half : Curió Curió's diaspora-pop debut, Matthew S reviving his influential Illegal Art label as ...

Article: Interview

Sullivan Fortner: Nothing's Ever Finished

by Andrew Schinder
July 9, 2026

Modern jazz musicians are often faced with the impossible, and frankly unfair, task of honoring the music's history and traditions while adding modern elements and contemporary facets to make a 125-year-old musical genre sound fresh. This burden falls even more acutely on musicians hailing from, or who are particularly associated with, the City of New Orleans. ...

Article: Live Review

Marshall Allen, Trae Crudup, Black Cherry, and DoYeon Kim At Vision Festival 2026

by Fran Kursztejn
July 2, 2026

Marshall Allen, Trae Cruddup, Hamid Drake, William Parker, DoYeon Kim Abrons Arts Center Vision Festival June 26, 2026 Creative music (in William Parker's words, “so-called jazz") is an old scene in New York City. Ornette Coleman at least nominally birthed the “free jazz" movement in the '60s, and ever since, the ...

Article: Interview

Hugues Kieffer: Marseille, Five Continents, One Jazz

by Silvia Papa
July 1, 2026

In its 26 years of existence, the festival Marseille Jazz Five Continents has evolved from an event aimed primarily at local audiences--offering Marseille residents the chance to hear some of the biggest names in jazz live--to a boundary-crossing festival that embraces the full richness and diversity of contemporary jazz. Today, it offers an immersive experience spanning ...

Article: Interview

Hugues Kieffer: Tutto il mondo a Marsiglia

by Silvia Papa
June 29, 2026

In 26 anni di attività, il festival Marseille Jazz des Cinq Continents si è trasformato da rassegna rivolta soprattutto a un pubblico locale, cui offriva l'opportunità di ascoltare dal vivo grandi nomi del jazz, a festival trasversale che esplora tutta la ricchezza e la diversità del jazz contemporaneo, in un'esperienza immersiva che spazia fra influenze classiche, ...