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You're a Funny Guy

by Monk Rowe
April 10, 2026

Announcing Smoke Jazz Club's May Line-up Including Miles Davis Centennial, Album Release Shows By Steve Wilson, Billy Childs And Jeremy Pelt, And More

April 10, 2026

Hailed as the “#1 Jazz Club in New York City (SecretNYC),” SMOKE Jazz Club today announced an exciting line-up for the month of May 2026. Three powerhouse artists celebrate their respective record releases: Steve Wilson Enduring Sonance, Jeremy Pelt Our Community Will Not Be Erased, and Billy Childs Triumvirate. Coinciding with Miles Davis’s May 26th birthday, ...

Big Ears 2026

by Mark Sullivan
April 9, 2026

Big Ears Festival Knoxville, TN March 26-29, 2026 Another year, another jam-packed festival lineup. The Spotlight presentations included SUSS Presents Across the Horizon, an ambient country experience; films and performances related to Ethiopia's musical legacy; and David Byrne's Who is the Sky? Polish pianist/composer Hania Rani offered an ambient concert and the ...

Alma Mićić's Balkan Soul in the Brave New World

by C. Michael Bailey
April 8, 2026

After having released four recordings between 2004 and 2017, the Serbian-American vocalist Alma Mićić (pronounced “Mee-cheech") took the COVID-19 pandemic off in the studio, returning in 2024 contributing vocals for “Evergreen" on tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander's release Timing Is Everything (Cellar Live/La Reserve Records). Mićić's collaboration with Alexander jumpstarted the singer's return to the studio, which ...

Dave Solazzo and the Bridge

by Daniel Peck
April 8, 2026

Sometimes, producing an album takes work, labor, a bit of suffering and a lot of negotiation. For Central New York Based Dave Solazzo and the Bridge, the trio knew after one session that they had to hit the studio and then the road.The fruit of that chemistry produced the 2023 album Locrian Skye, and ...

Bassist/Composer John Pachnos Introduces Himself With A Fully Formed Vision On 'John Pachnos,' Arriving May 15 On Avgonyma Music

April 8, 2026

Just 25 years old, John Pachnos announces himself to the jazz world with a remarkably mature and bracingly individual artistic profile on his stunning debut John Pachnos, set for a May 15 release on his own Avgonyma Music label. A quintet album featuring saxophonist/flutist Carter Vames, guitarist Caleb Heinze, pianist Frankie Midnight, anddrummer Justin Vedovelli, it ...

Queen Of The Violin Kersten Stevens Holds Court In Fairfield County With One-night-only Live Album Recording 

April 7, 2026

Stratford native, Yale University alumna and six-time Apollo Theater winner returns to SHU Community Theatre on May 17 after earning national acclaim and collaborations with 11x Grammy winner Christian McBride Stratford, Connecticut native and internationally acclaimed violinist Kersten Stevens — known as the Queen of the Violin — will return home to Fairfield County to headline ...

Jamile and Vinicius Gomes: Endangered Species

by John Chacona
April 6, 2026

The musical exchange between Wayne Shorter and Brazil yielded some of the great man's most indelible compositions. Happily, the conversation happens in the other direction, as Jamile and guitarist Vinicius Gomes demonstrate on “Endangered Species." With its wide intervallic leaps and skylarking melodic trajectory, the song is for virtuosos only; notably, only Esperanza Spalding seems to ...

Eyal Vilner Big Band, Nicole Zuraitis, Entre Amigos, Leslie Vincent, Chenxi Pan & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
April 6, 2026

Today's broadcast concludes Women's History Month, but we keep the party going year round with new music from Jack Wood, Eyal Vilner Big Band, Nicole Zuraitis, Entre Amigos, Leslie Vincent and Chenxi Pan, with birthday shoutouts to Sarah Vaughan, Aretha Franklin, Pearl Bailey, Jackie Warren, Astrud Gilberto, Mimi Jones, Ledisi, Hiromi, Karen Hammack, Yelena Eckemoff, Vanisha ...

Chart-topping Chante Moore Slated To Perform In "Tribute To Maurice White" Concert, May 9-10

April 6, 2026

Symphonic Jazz Orchestra (SJO), the nation’s premier hybrid orchestra blending the worlds of jazz and classical music, is thrilled to announce that Chanté Moore,the celebrated R&B singer/songwriter, has officially been added to the upcoming “Tribute to Maurice White” shows scheduled for May 9-10, 2026, at Long Beach’s Carpenter Performing Arts Center. Moore joins the 68-member Symphonic ...