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Article: Album Review

Jared Hall: Hometown

Read "Hometown" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

The Hometown in question is Spokane, Washington, where trumpeter and composer Jared Hall was born and raised. On his third album for Origin Records, Hall salutes the hometown to which he has returned after years as a touring musician with a splendid series of his original compositions and new readings of others by Bobby Hutcherson and ...

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Article: Profile

Carlos Nathaniel Ward: libertà, spiritualità e rigore

Read "Carlos Nathaniel Ward: libertà, spiritualità e rigore" reviewed by Gaetano Fiore

by Gaetano Fiore

“Arte e Jazz? Non facile e acritica gestualità ma concentrato di analitica ponderatezza". In occasione di un mio omaggio pittorico espositivo a Bill Dixon a San Vincenzo (LI) nel 2010, Libero Farnè scrive la suddetta frase che ben fa riflettere su quanto sia importante procedere con “lentezza" per tradurre i concetti di libertà, spiritualità ...

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Article: Album Review

Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins: Thelonious Monk with Sonny Rollins 1953 to 1957 Revisited

Read "Thelonious Monk with Sonny Rollins 1953 to 1957 Revisited" reviewed by Stefano Merighi

by Stefano Merighi

Negli anni Cinquanta il jazz era assai potente e si rafforzava anche in virtù di un'attrazione magnetica che ne avvicinava i protagonisti, individualisti sì ma anche sedotti dalle possibilità di avventure comuni. Tale magnetismo si è spesso concretizzato tra le figure torreggianti di Thelonious Monk e di Sonny Rollins. Questo CD della ezz-thetics ricostruisce ...

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Article: Album Review

Mal Waldron: Stardust & Starlight At The Jazz Showcase

Read "Stardust & Starlight At The Jazz Showcase" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

April 2026 sees Zev Feldman--a man devoted to finding unreleased tapes of past jazz masters, well-known and lesser-known--bringing us four excellent live recordings on his Resonance Records label. All of these shows were captured at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago. Pianist Ahmad Jamal's At the Jazz Showcase comes from 1976; Reedman Yusef Lateef's Alight Upon The ...

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Article: Live Review

Denver Jazz Fest 2026

Read "Denver Jazz Fest 2026" reviewed by Geoff Anderson

by Geoff Anderson

Denver Jazz Fest 2026 Denver and Boulder, CO April 7-12, 2026  It's easy to get used to the lifestyle: a concert every night, and three on Saturday: eight concerts in six days. Shouldn't life be like this all the time? Well, it was for almost a week in early April around Denver ...

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Article: Album Review

Hilarious Disasters: Unnatural Root

Read "Unnatural Root" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

You can take the gal out of Ukraine, but you cannot take Ukraine out of the gal. Kateryna Ziabliuk may pursue her music in Poland these days,  but with Unnatural Root, the debut album of her group Hilarious Disasters, Ziabliuk draws deeply from her Ukrainian traditions. The Kyiv-born pianist, composer and journalist--she co-founded the jazz portal ...

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Article: Live Review

Vijay Iyer Quartet at Smoke

Read "Vijay Iyer Quartet at Smoke" reviewed by Paul Reynolds

by Paul Reynolds

Vijay Iyer Quartet Smoke Jazz Club New York NY April 16, 2026 The career of pianist Vijay Iyer--in addition to stretching to chamber music, big-band compositions and projects with rappers--has included collaborations with those from other cultural traditions, notably musicians from his own South Asian heritage. The storied surname ...

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Article: Building a Jazz Library

The Top 25 Songs Featuring Clarinet

Read "The Top 25 Songs Featuring Clarinet" reviewed by Dean Nardi

by Dean Nardi

As Ian Dury might have sung had he played the clarinet, “Hit me with your licorice stick." (That is “rhythm stick" for those not fluent in punk rock.) From the intricacies of classical music to the smooth swing of jazz to Klezmer--the folk music of the Eastern European Jewish population--the instrument resonates throughout a good portion ...

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Article: Album Review

Mal Waldron: Stardust & Starlight At The Jazz Showcase

Read "Stardust & Starlight At The Jazz Showcase" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux

The never-before-released Stardust & Starlight: At The Jazz Showcase captures pianist Mal Waldron in August 1979, first in solo, then in the company of bassist Steve Rodby and drummer Wilbur Campbell, then in dialogue with the ever-incisive saxophonist Sonny Stitt, and always in conversation with himself. Resonance Records issues this performance as a limited-edition 180-gram 2-LP ...

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Article: Book Review

Listen to Prestige Now, Think Later

Read "Listen to Prestige Now, Think Later" reviewed by Patrick Burnette

by Patrick Burnette

Listening to Prestige: Chronicling its Classic Jazz Records, 1949-1972 Tad Richards 250 Pages ISBN: 979-8-8558-0495-9 State University of New York Press 2025 Most jazz histories end up focusing on individual musicians, understandably enough. Talk about movements in jazz all you want: dixieland, swing, be-bop, hard-bop. You will end up talking ...


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