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Pianist-composer Sylvie Courvoisier, a Brooklyn-based native of Switzerland and winner of Germany’s International Jazz Piano Prize in 2022, has earned renown for balancing two distinct worlds: the deep, richly detailed chamber music of her European roots and the grooving, hook-laden sounds of the avant-jazz scene in New York City, her home for more than two decades.

Few artists feel truly at ease in both concert halls and jazz clubs, playing improvised or composed music. But Courvoisier — “a pianist of equal parts audacity and poise,” according to The New York Times — is as compelling when performing Stravinsky’s epochal Rite of Spring in league with new-music pianist Cory Smythe as she is when improvising with her own acclaimed jazz trio, featuring bassist Drew Gress and drummer Kenny Wollesen.

Album

Constellations and Hemispheres

By Wadada Leo Smith

Label: Burning Ambulance Music
Released: 2026
Track listing: Dark Energy; Lake Tanganyika; Dark Matter, Particles of Light, Mirror of the Unseen; Deep Canyons On Mars; Meditation On Love.

Album

Eclats - Live in Europe

By Sylvie Courvoisier

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Éclats - for Ornette; Just Twisted; Requiem d'un songe; Imprint Double; South Side Rules; Big Steps Towards Silence; Free Hoops; Lulu's Dance; Downward Dog.

Album

Talamanti

By Patricia Brennan

Label: Antlia Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Disparate Chase; The Time We Spent; Corto; Perdidos en el Lamento; Trece Cielos; Hojas de Malabar; Knots and Dander; Coma Berenices; EQ Distant.

Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Music From Sylvie Courvoisier, FROTAE, Michael Dease & More

by Bob Osborne
October 2, 2026

This playlist brings together a wide-ranging collection of brand new and forthcoming releases across disparate sub-genres, avant-garde experimentation, contemporary grooves, big band arrangements, and free improvisation. Spanning fifteen fresh tracks, the sequence showcases dense harmonic layers, complex rhythmic explorations, cinematic textures, and forward-thinking modern jazz where each piece carves out its own unique territory offering a ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Stephan Crump, Amalie Dahl & Wadada Leo Smith

by Maurice Hogue
September 28, 2026

After considering whether or not he was now an empty-nesters--his two boys were not at home--bassist Stephan Crump started investigating the nesting practice of birds and eventually that began to inform his composing. His new striking album, Passerine, is the result. Master trumpet player Wadada Leo Smith's inspiration for his new Constellations And Hemispheres was the ...

Article: Album Review

Wadada Leo Smith: Constellations and Hemispheres

Read "Constellations and Hemispheres" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
September 18, 2026

The listener is easily startled by Wadada Leo Smith. The man has an aura about him that emanates from some other place, some other time, when the rule of law was set in stone. A time not too long ago when collective aspiration held us all enthralled. And the man who carried that stone is none ...

Article: Album Review

Patricia Brennan and Sylvie Courvoisier: Talamanti

Read "Talamanti" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
September 7, 2026

It is more than fair to say--right from the start of their kinship in early 2023, in the Sylvie Courvoisier 4 with bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Dan Weiss--that there was something innate, and perhaps more importantly, intimate, between road-clearing pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and rascally vibraphonist Patricia Brennan. Talamanti proves that big time.

Article: In Pictures

Jazz em Agosto 2026, Part 1

by Petra Cvelbar
September 1, 2026

The 42nd edition of Jazz em Agosto in Lisbon opened on July 31 with a solo concert by pianist Joachim Kühn. The second day featured a duo performance by David Maranha (organ) and Rodrigo Amado (tenor saxophone) at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Later, the action moved to the Open-Air Amphitheater in the Gulbenkian Garden, where the ...

Article: Live Review

Jazz em Agosto 2026

by Stefano Merighi
August 11, 2026

Jazz Em Agosto 2026 Fondazione Gulbenkian Lisbona 31 luglio-9 agosto 2026 È arrivata all'edizione 42 “Jazz Em Agosto," di scena negli spazi sontuosi della Fondazione Gulbenkian a Lisbona, sempre con la direzione artistica di Rui Neves. Ed è stata un'edizione all'insegna dell'eclettismo stilistico, dove il jazz continua ...