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Minoru Muraoka, Alice Coltrane, Jazztobak And More
by Lawrence Peryer
This episode explores the theme of rediscovery: a 1970 Japanese shakuhachi record just reissued, and a Swedish duo closing things out on a stripped-down reading of an old socialist hymn. In between we present a run built entirely around one photography book, unpublished 1970s portraits by the late Warner Bros. photographer Ginny Winn. The Residents are ...
Jazz Near You Brings Back Its Popular CSV Event Upload Feature
Jazz Near You has restored one of its most popular event submission tools: CSV bulk event upload (aka using a spreadsheet). The newly rebuilt feature allows musicians, venues, festivals, presenters, publicists and other event providers to upload multiple events to the Jazz Near You calendar at once using a CSV file—making it considerably easier to manage ...
Mario Mattia’s "Metamorphosis"—Improvisation Without A Map
The American pianist’s latest freeform improvisation reveals the more exploratory side of a musical language rooted in spontaneity and deep listening. American improvisational pianist Mario Mattia has released Metamorphosis, a seven-minute freeform piano improvisation that begins in lyrical, recognisably tonal territory before gradually moving into increasingly angular and non-tonal terrain. It is an adventurous piece, but ...
Mike Jones, George Benson, Dawn Lambeth, Ayumi Tanaka, Brittany Pitt, Matthew Wilson's Good Trouble & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast includes new music from Mike Jones, George Benson, Dawn Lambeth, Ayumi Tanaka, Brittany Pitt, Matthew Wilson's Good Trouble, with birthday shoutouts to Doris Tauber (Them There Eyes, Drinkin' Again) Champian Fulton, Marcus Goldhaber, Christie Dashiell, Lorraine Feather, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear--see them live, buy their music so ...
Julius Hemphill: Marty Ehrlich and Tim Berne Remember a Musical Visionary
by Dave Kaufman
Julius Hemphill, a brilliant alto saxophonist and extraordinary composer, was a towering figure in avant-garde jazz and creative music. Yet his body of work remains surprisingly little known, even among aficionados of this sort of adventurous music. Hemphill's music demonstrated a deep feeling for the blues and other African American traditions. His creative vision extended well ...
Janis Siegel, Skinny Hightower, Twin Talk & Gergana Velinova
by Joe Dimino
Step inside the 976th Episode of Neon Jazz and get ready for another deep dive into the sounds, stories, and soul of jazz from around the globe. We open the hour with the acclaimed singer Gergana Velinova, featuring music from her powerful 2026 album Free. From there, we hit the Neon Jazz mailbox, digging into quotes, ...
Harvard’s Ming Mei Residency Concert Features Trumpeter/Vocalist/Composer Amir Elsaffar And Percussionist/Composer Susie Ibarra On Thursday, October 1
The evening of contemporary music highlights ElSaffar’s New Quartet and Ibarra’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Sky Islands” Two of the most inventive figures in contemporary music share a single evening of groundbreaking work on Thursday, October 1 at John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge. Trumpeter, vocalist and composer Amir ElSaffar and his New Quartet with Terri ...
Bill Laswell, Kronos Quartet, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, And More.
by Lawrence Peryer
The first half of our show is a deep dub run: an obscure mid-1990s compilation cut, Harry Mudie's 1976 session with King Tubby, Scientist's early-'80s Channel One sound, Prince Far I, and Bill Laswell, who shows up twice, once under his own name and once as the producer who reassembled Bob Marley's catalog into ambient dub ...
Sequoia Snyder: Growing in the Light of the Masters
by Paul Rauch
It was day three of the 47th annual Detroit Jazz Festival, a sunny Sunday late afternoon with just enough white, puffy, high sky clouds to keep the massive crowd gathered at Hart Plaza comfortable. The JP Morgan Chase stage at the southeast corner of the plaza seemed to hang perilously on the edge of the Detroit ...
New York City Jazz Performance Preview: Fall 2026
by Paul Reynolds
New York season includes the first fall programs from two recently opened midtown clubs--The Pocket and Jazzcultural and higher-profile shows for fine emerging performers such as singer Ekep Nkwelle and pianist/arranger Joe Block. The preeminent departure is that of Wynton Marsalis who, after 30 years in the job, will lead his last season as ...


