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Kurt Elling With Christian Sands at Miner Auditorium

by Steven Roby
October 8, 2025

Kurt Elling With Christian Sands Miner Auditorium (SFJAZZ Center) San Francisco, California October 04, 2025 A spare duo becomes an engine--voice and piano reworking Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, theater, and rock into a present-tense argument for hope, empathy and the living tradition of jazz. They walked on together, and ...

Making Trouble At Twenty-four: The Defiant Ascent Of Pavle Zvekic

October 8, 2025

If jazz is a city—endlessly rebuilt, its back alleys echoing with invention—then Pavle Zvekic is not merely wandering its streets, but laying down bold new thoroughfares through its neighborhoods. Award-winning Serbian writer Oto Oltvanji introduces a pianist who, at just 24, has become a gravitational force in the Balkan and international jazz scenes—equal parts visionary and ...

Christian McBride and Brad Mehldau at The Clarice

by Robert Bellafiore
October 7, 2025

Christian McBride and Brad Mehldau The Clarice College Park, MDOctober 2, 2025 Christian McBride and Brad Mehldau made it to the top of their game together, each helping the other rise from promising talent in early '90s New York City to modern king of the bass and piano, respectively. Now, they ...

Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids at Miner Auditorium

by Steven Roby
October 7, 2025

Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids Miner Auditorium Night Of The Exotictress San Francisco, CA October 2, 2025 This show burned hot and without apology--no coasting, no filler, no easy out. The room hinted at it before the first note: Miner's seats pulled back for a dance floor, a ...

Two Voices, One Room: Hervey & Mason Reframe Monk

by Steven Roby
October 7, 2025

Trumpeter Anthony Hervey and pianist Sean Mason unpacked the soul-and-blues core behind their duo chemistry--why a Monk program belongs in an intimate room, how Hervey's “Du-Rag" reframed ragtime language for now, and why Mason's “Open Your Heart" asked players and listeners to lead with emotion. We talked repertoire choices for a Joe Henderson Lab show, the ...

Pianist and composer Uriel Pascucci Releases 'Marta's Dream' on Zeitlos Sounds

October 7, 2025

Listen to the world premiere recording of Marta's Dream, the new composition by Uriel Pascucci. This music is as colorful, unexpected and with a narrative as varied as dreams. The piece conveys a succession of dynamic sounds, emotions, and sensations. Marta's Dream is the new composition by pianist and composer Uriel Pascucci. The piece is lyrical, ...

Heather McKay, Ledisi's Dinah Washington Tribute, Lizzy & The Triggermen, Kat Ellis, Carmen Staaf & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
October 6, 2025

This broadcast includes new releases from Heather McKay, Ledisi, Lizzy & The Triggermen, Kat Ellis and Carmen Staaf, with birthday shoutouts to feminist historian/producer Rosetta Reitz, Koko Taylor, Rebecca Kilgore, Norma Winstone and Janet Planet, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear--see them live, buy their music so they can continue to ...

Butter And The Genre Announce New Single 'So Cool So Blue' On Out October 22

October 6, 2025

Oklahoma City jazz collective Butter And The Genre will release their new single, “So Cool So Blue,” on Wednesday, October 22, 2025. The track captures the group’s signature blend of melody-forward jazz and contemporary soul, offering listeners an intimate late-night vibe. The single features three of the band’s original members—Gregory “Butter” Haubrich (trumpet/keys), Calliope Staudt (vocals), ...

SFJAZZ Fall Season Kickoff 2025

by Ronald Davis
October 5, 2025

David Kikowski, Nick Finzer, Michelle Lordi & Nancy King

by Joe Dimino
October 5, 2025

We open the 926th episode of Neon Jazz by honoring the incomparable Nancy King, joined here with Fred Hersch, as we bid farewell to her remarkable voice. She passed on August 5, 2025, at the age of 85, leaving behind a luminous legacy of music that will echo for generations. From there, the hour unfolds with ...