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Article: In Pictures

Branford Marsalis Quartet: A Joyous Celebration in Jamaica, Queens

by Dave Kaufman
August 2, 2026

On a beautiful summer afternoon at Rufus King Park in Queens, the Branford Marsalis Quartet turned the Downtown Jamaica Riddim and Jazz Festival (07/26/2026) into a joyous celebration. The quartet is one of the finest working groups in contemporary jazz. Its regular lineup includes Joey Calderazzo on piano, Eric Revis on bass, and Justin Faulkner on ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Joey Alexander, Marilyn Maye, Charles Tolliver, NicoleYvette & Eddie Bruce

by Joe Dimino
August 2, 2026

The 969th Episode of Neon Jazz opens with the unmistakable style, natural charisma, and velvet-smooth vocals of Eddie Bruce, featuring music from his outstanding 2026 album, For Dreamers and Their Dreams. From there, we pay tribute to one of Kansas City's true musical legends as Eddie's former vocal coach, the incomparable Marilyn Maye, lights up the ...

Article: Jazz Poetry

Left Wall Balcony

by Mike Jurkovic
August 1, 2026

Pinwheel Pete on cowbell was a philharmonic all his own His tones like a fishwife's virgin murmurs rush the front rows then the left wall balcony w/a wave of clarion richness only Pete conjures in concert On stage his ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

2026 New Releases, Part 1

by Jon Greenbaum
August 1, 2026

These kinds of lists are like a mirror; our aesthetic preferences reflect back to us who we are. This list is saying I-don't-care-much-for-walking-bass-or-the-accepted-conventions-of-the-jazz-tradition. I don't want to accept that truth. I want to love The Tradition. And in my defense of my fealty to straight ahead jazz I will say that I just got ...

News: Recording

Bright Shiny Things Announces The Debut Album 'Dust And The Moon' By Rite Of Strings

August 1, 2026

Bright Shiny Things proudly announces the release of Dust and the Moon, the debut album by Rite of Strings, an international ensemble featuring Iranian-American composer and santoor virtuoso Ehsan Matoori, GRAMMY® Award-winning bassist and composer Edward Perez, GRAMMY® Award-winning drummer Engin Kaan Günaydın, acclaimed violinist and composer Eylem Basaldi, and internationally celebrated clarinetist Ismail Lumanovski, who ...

Article: Interview

Lucy Yeghiazaryan: Serious And Seriously Talented

by R.J. DeLuke
July 31, 2026

Lucy Yeghiazaryan is one of the most compelling jazz vocalists to emerge in recent years. Especially in New York, where she regularly performs in the city's jazz clubs, audiences have been drawn to her rich, powerful tone and her ability to bring an enchanting emotional depth to every lyric. Those qualities, along with her ...

Article: Bailey's Bundles

With Time No Longer an Issue: The Rolling Stones' Hackney Diamonds and Foreign Tongues

by C. Michael Bailey
July 31, 2026

The standard critical frameworks used to evaluate late-career popular music--nostalgia, institutional legacy, and the search for one last masterpiece--have become increasingly inadequate for understanding the Rolling Stones' most recent work. Such approaches inevitably turn new recordings into epilogues to a completed career. The remarkable fact is not that musicians in their eighties remain productive. It is ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Aanya Sengupta

by Daniel Peck
July 31, 2026

One of the rising stars of jazz, New Delhi native Aanya Sengupta heads off to Julliard but not before a Northeast Ohio farewell performance. The two-time DownBeat Student Award winner finished 2025 as the vocalist chair for the Oberlin College Sonny Rollins Jazz Ensemble and makes her post university debut on this episode of the program. ...

Article: In Pictures

The Jimmy Masters Trio with guests Laura Ann Singh and Nanny Assis at the Sandler Center

by Mark Robbins
July 30, 2026

"Hot Nights in Brazil" brought the vibrant rhythms and energy of Brazil to a warm summer evening at Virginia Beach's Sandler Center for the Arts. The Jimmy Masters Trio welcomed vocalist Laura Ann Singh and world-renowned Brazilian singer, guitarist, percussionist, and composer Nanny Assis for an electrifying performance celebrating Brazilian jazz, samba, and bossa nova.

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Camila Nebbia, St. Silva, Danalogue, M. Geddes Gengras, Curio Curio, Myth Math, And More

by Lawrence Peryer
July 30, 2026

Episode 16 spends its first half in transatlantic synthesis: a Buenos Aires-Berlin improv duo, a Vermont ambient composer's tape collages, and a member of The Comet Is Coming reworking the studio synthesizer as a lead instrument on his own. The back half : Curió Curió's diaspora-pop debut, Matthew S reviving his influential Illegal Art label as ...