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The Jazz Messengers

‘I Thought I Composed That’: Terence Blanchard and the Inheritance of Jazz

by Kofi Adjepong-Boateng
August 4, 2026

Cadogan Hall, where Terence Blanchard and I met, was built in 1907 as a church in the Byzantine Revival style. When its congregation dwindled, the Cadogan Estate reopened it in 2004 as an arts venue, preserving Arild Rosenkrantz's stained glass and stone while the purpose was reimagined--a fitting room in which to discuss “inheritance" and “creation" ...

Kenny Garrett at Ronnie Scott’s: The Ancestors in the Room

by Kofi Adjepong-Boateng
July 24, 2026

Kenny Garrett Ronnie Scott's London July 17, 2026 There are jazz clubs and there is the basement on Frith Street. Kenny Garrett, whom Miles Davis  heard and hired nearly forty years ago, is back, and at the first notes of 'Haynes Here' the room understood this would be not a night ...

Ornette Coleman's and Horace Silver's "Lonely Woman" — A Disambiguation

by Artur Moral
July 27, 2025

Reality is filled with confusion and misunderstandings; some are suggestive or creative, while others are disappointing or, worse, malicious. The jazz world is no stranger to the first type: specific compositions are often confused or misidentified as if they were the same. Usually, this happens because of similar melodies or titles that are sometimes identical. This ...

Méva's Journal

Active since: 2023

Méva’s Journal is a fresh hard bop outfit in the Brisbane Jazz scene, modeled off of the late 50's/60's ‘hard bop’ ensembles. 

The band is led by Evan J. Evans, a Brisbane drummer currently studying a Bachelor in Jazz performance at the Jazz Music Institute, who has written all the music for the band. 

The music is based heavily in the early era of hard bop, taking heavy influence from more angular bebop composers like Thelonious Monk. The band features Tyger Middleton on Tenor Saxophone, Chris James on Alto Saxophone, Jordan Stitt on Piano and Alex Askew on Double Bass.

New Releases From Mercedes Nicole, Danny Jonokuchi Big Band, With Singles By Trudy Pitts, Miki Yamanaka and Leny Andrade & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
August 21, 2023

This broadcast includes new releases from Mercedes Nicole, Danny Jonokuchi Big Band, with singles from Trudy Pitts, Miki Yamanaka and Leny Andrade & Gilson Peranzzetta, with birthday shoutouts to Bernice Petkere (Lullaby of the Leaves, Close Your Eyes), Roberta Donnay, Kat Gang, Linda Dachtyl, Roberta Piket, Jenny Klukken, Cyrille Aimee||, and {{Noa Fort, among others. Thanks ...

Guitarist Oscar Penas' New Album Release, 'Chicken Or Pasta' Is A Fun Listen Right Out Of The Gate

June 12, 2023

Coming on the heels of 2022’s Almadraba, his deeply evocative suite drawing on Andalusian culture and brimming with Iberian, classical, and flamenco flavors, Oscar Penas’ latest finds him returning to his jazz roots. Once again accompanied by 6-string electric bassist Moto Fukushima and drummer Richie Barshay, his regular rhythm tandem for the past 14 years, and ...

Long-Lost Paradigm-Shifting LPs By South Africa's Malombo Jazz Reissued

by Chris May
May 16, 2023

Strut Records has reissued in LP format two long-lost classics of Black South African jazz, Malombo's Malombo Jazz (Gallotone, 1966) and Malombo Jazz Makers Vol. 2 (Gallotone, 1967). At the time of their release, the albums were in a symbiotic relationship with the country's emerging Black Consciousness movement. It would be hard to overstate the discs' ...

Mark Kavuma & The Banger Factory: Arashi No Oto

by Chris May
September 4, 2021

London-based trumpeter and composer Mark Kavuma was last seen in this parish in July 2019. At the start of that month, Kavuma released his second album with his nonet, The Banger Factory. A couple of weeks later, he led a quintet on the floor of the Barbican Art Gallery, performing Thelonious Monk's Brilliant Corners (Riverside, 1956) ...

Bévort 3: On Fire

by Ian Patterson
July 22, 2021

After a recording hiatus of seven years, Bévort 3, the trio led by Pernille Bévort, is back. Not that the Danish saxophonist-composer has been idling. Since the release of Trio Temptations (Gateway Music, 2014), Bévort has dedicated most of her energy to expanded line-ups. Which Craft? (Gateway Music, 2016) for octet and BLIK (Self Produced, 2020) ...