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New Music From Foster, Douglas, HII Trio, Taborn And More

by Bob Osborne
January 15, 2026

This playlist moves through a wide spectrum of contemporary and classic jazz, blending live recordings, ensemble explorations, and intimate duologues. It opens with blues--inflected improvisation and shifts into modern compositions marked by rhythmic drive and layered textures. Chamber-like interplay and orchestral arrangements sit alongside fiery solos and inventive group dialogues, while moments of lyrical reflection contrast ...

Nels Cline and Others At 2026 Winter Jazzfest's Manhattan Marathon

by Paul Reynolds
January 13, 2026

Manhattan Marathon | Brooklyn MarathonNels Cline and More Winter Jazzfest's Manhattan Marathon New York, NY January 9, 2026 Like New York's winters on the whole, the long nights of the city's Winter JazzFest demand hardiness. Moveable feasts that sprawl onto multiple stages in a neighborhood, the Jazzfest's celebrated marathons ...

Unity Jazz Festival 2026 at Jazz At Lincoln Center

by Paul Reynolds
January 12, 2026

Unity Jazz FestivalOpening NightJazz at Lincoln CentreNew York, NY January 8, 2026 It does not rain--or snow--jazz in New York in the first week of January, it pours--or blizzards--the music. Winter JazzFest, the longtime colossus that takes over clubs in downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn, has been joined in the past three years ...

2026 Winter JazzFest Marathons: A Survival Guide

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 6, 2026

For jazz fans who are in New York, when one countdown ends with the Times Square Ball Drop, another one begins--and ends a few days later, when Winter JazzFest officially gets underway with the first downbeat at Le Poisson Rouge. For 22 years, the festival has been the launch pad of the jazz year ...

Marilyn Mazur, Angelika Niescier, Pat Thomas & Tomeka Reid

by Maurice Hogue
January 5, 2026

There's some great music coming in 2026, so I dropped in a preview tracks of upcoming albums by alto saxophonist Angelika Niescier collaborating with some of Chicago's finest, England's free jazz pianist Pat Thomas with XT (2.5 hours of screamin' free jazz on Strata Act (Joy Contemporary), Chicago's cellist supreme Tomeka Reid & quartet, Flea from ...

The Hemphill Stringtet Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill

Label: Out Of Your Head Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Revue; Mingus Gold: Nostalgia in Times Square; Mingus Gold: Alice in Wonderland; Mingus Gold: Better Get Hit in Your Soul; My First Winter/Touchic; Choo Choo.

PIVOT

By Mats Gustafsson

Label: Silkheart Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: The Sensation of Sliding; Blowing out from Chicago; Epistemological Glide; Drops of Sorrow. Accelerating; PIVOT Duos 1; PIVOT Duos 2; PIVOT Duos 3; PIVOT Duos 4; PIVOT Duos 5; PIVOT Duos 6; Unmeasured Mile; I am aware. Standing in Snow.; Drifting against the Wind.; Popular Music Theory.

New releases honoring Kenny Wheeler + Tomeka Reid, Shawn Lovato with Ingrid Laubrock and music from the Charles Tyler Ensemble Resurfaces

by Hobart Taylor
December 17, 2025

Dave Holland and Norma Winstone, Etienne Charles and Emma Rawicz, celebrate Kenny Wheeler on two new releases. New music from Jane Ira Bloom, Zachary Wilder and Kris Davis with the Lutoslawski String Quartet. Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Yelena Eckemoff “Ruins of Alvsborg" from Ruins of Alvsborg (L&H) 00:16 Kenny Wheeler Legacy /Etienne Charles/Emma Rawicz ...

Craig Taborn: When Kabuya Dances

by John Chacona
December 14, 2025

With every passing year, the genius of the late Geri Allen increasingly comes into focus. “When Kabuya Dances" has all the hallmarks of her style: memorable melodies, a sophisticated approach to rhythm and formal audacity. Allen had left Detroit for Howard University shortly before Craig Taborn arrived at the University of Michigan, but he might have ...

Troy Dostert's Best Jazz Albums of 2025

by Troy Dostert
December 10, 2025

We were treated to another superb year of creative jazz and improvised music in 2025, with a broad range of projects seeking to extend the boundaries of jazz into and beyond other idioms. Chamber-adjacent outfits such as the Hemphill Stringtet and Patricia Brennan's latest ensemble blurred the border between jazz and contemporary classical music, while Miguel ...