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The Jazz Passengers

​The JAZZ PASSENGERS are a fantastical fusion of post-bop and musical comedy, once called a “perverse mainstream … hard-bop group as imagined by Frank Zappa.” (Bob Blumenthal, Boston Globe, 1989). Their name, a take-off on Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, reveals the musicians’ wild ride along the eccentric currents in modern American music. Saxophonist Roy Nathanson and trombonist Curtis Fowlkes, who found strong affinity in their Brooklyn roots while together in the band of the Big Apple Circus and John Lurie’s seminal band, The Lounge Lizards, founded the band in 1987. They first broke out on the New York City avant-garde scene centering around the Knitting Factory with a hybrid of Mingus-influenced dance rhythms and original tunes complete with lyrics and/or entertaining stories

Bergamo Jazz Festival 2026

by Luciano Rossetti
April 17, 2026

A collection of photos from the Bergamo Jazz Festival in Bergamo from March 15--22, 2026 featuring Joe Lovano, Bad Plus featuring Craig Taborn and Chris Potter, Steve Coleman Five Elements, Dave Holland and Lionel Loueke Duo, Wayne Horvitz, Franco D'andrea Trio, Melissa Aldana, The Jazz Passengers, Hedvig Mollestad, Leo Genovese, Anais Drago, Norma Winstone, Lakecia Benjamin, ...

I Dischi del 2025 secondo Ludovico Granvassu

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 5, 2026

Immortalare la bellezza e la varietà del jazz pubblicato nel 2025 attraverso una “top ten" appare tanto arduo, vano--e alla fine deludente--quanto cercare di fotografare un tramonto sulla costiera amalfitana usando una rudimentale fotocamera digitale e facendo un forellino sul copriobiettivo. Certo, una foto verrà scattata. Potrebbe persino dimostrare che eri lì, in quel momento, quando ...

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden Of Jazzy Delights 2025

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 3, 2026

Capturing the breathtaking beauty, range, and diversity of jazz released in 2025 through a list of “10 best albums" feels as challenging, vain--and ultimately disappointing--as trying to photograph the Grand Canyon at sunset by placing a pinhole in front of a rudimentary digital camera's lens. Sure, a picture will be taken. It might even prove you ...

Bill Ware, The Jazz Passengers, Csaba Palotai, Rosa Brunello & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 30, 2025

Here is another dip into the river of new albums, focusing releases (and re-releases) worth holding on to.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 The Jazz Passengers feat. Jeff Buckley “Jolly Street" In Love (Sony Legacy) 0:16 Host talks 7:58 Bill Ware and the Club ...

I Dischi del 2024 secondo Ludovico Granvassu

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 2, 2025

Spesso molti articoli sulle “migliori uscite dell'anno" iniziano con una premessa quasi apologetica ("questi non sono necessariamente 'i migliori album dell'anno,' ma 'i miei preferiti';" “è tutto soggettivo;" “domani avrei scelto titoli diversi;" “ho potuto selezionare solo dieci album," ecc.)? Queste dichiarazioni sembrano riflettere il disagio del redattore, costretto a riassumere un vasto ecosistema artistico selezionando ...

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2024

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 31, 2024

Have you noticed how many “best of the year" listicles start with an apologetic preamble ("these are not necessarily 'the best albums of the year' but 'my favorites';" “it's all subjective;" “tomorrow I might have chosen different titles;" “I could only select ten albums" etc.)? Those disclaimers channel the writer's discomfort of having to summarize a ...

Tivon Pennicott, Louis Cole, KAMA Kollektiv, Louise van den Heuvel & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
September 3, 2024

Enjoy an episode built along an ideal bridge between Amsterdam and New Amsterdam, with a special focus on the launch of FOOD, a new New York-based label (as well as live events production company, and soon to be brick-and-mortar restaurant) inspired by the storied, artist-run cafe of 1970's SoHo of the same name.Happy listening!

A Few of My Favorite 2024 Jazz Things (so far), Part 3

by Ludovico Granvassu
July 20, 2024

Welcome to the third part of our retrospective on some of the tunes we have loved the most in the first half of the year. We hope you do too! Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Jukka Eskola, Timo Lassy “The Duke of ...

Basketball and Jazz: The Art of Improvisation, Part 1

by Ludovico Granvassu
June 18, 2024

This time we felt like exploring the interplay of basketball and jazz, focusing in particular on a great jazz advocate like Kareem Abdul Jabbar, on the soundtrack of the HBO series The Winning Time, on an oneiric game played with a basketball fish, and on Stanley Clarke's tribute to this sport, to which he devoted as ...