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Sleeping Cats

Featuring the music of Pau Moltó
Duration: 06:30
July 5, 2026

There’s a fresh approach to enjoy and inspire on the tune “Sleeping Cats.” The French Horn Jazz Project is comprised of piano / upright bass / drum kit plus a flugelhorn and French horn (the latter played by Pau Moltó). The two horns provide similar ranges and sonority, so the ensemble’s success is due to their overall blend and the beauty of the melody. When one searches the Web, comments about using a French horn in jazz range from “no one ever encouraged me” to “it’s next to impossible.” One technical reason given are “close partials” -- slight differences in embouchure generating different notes (harmonics) in the upper register, making accuracy difficult. Then there’s a “legato tendency,” or a great sound when played smoothly, unlike the attacks, slurs, and swing of, say, a trumpet. Despite these challenges, a few French horn jazz masters emerged, such as Julius Watkins who gigged with Monk, Coltrane, and Davis.

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Paco

Featuring the music of Anat Cohen
Duration: 06:44
June 28, 2026

Anat Cohen has been a catalyst for re-assertion of the clarinet in jazz and world music from the 2000s to the present. Cohen has recorded albums featuring straight-ahead jazz, duos with guitar and piano, Brazilian rhythms, and chamber pieces. Most consistent about her style is the sheer technique she achieves on the instrument, the joyful interplay she generates with her groups, and at-times melancholy mood spun out of klezmer and eastern European scales and ornamentations. The song "Paco" is off her 2024 album Quartetinho: Bloom. Written by her guitarist Tal Mashiach, "Paco" stands out for the unique, blended timbre from the warm, complementary sounds of the guitar, piano and clarinet and for the gracefully shifting pulse. One of her prettiest pieces.

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Soul Journey

Featuring the music of Chris McNulty
Duration: 6:11
June 25, 2026

Soul Journey is Chris McNulty's 8th album and her first release recorded in Australia featuring Australian, American and expatriate European jazz musicians. Her previous releases were all recorded in NYC and released on American labels. McNulty's Soul Journey uses her sonic and compositional skills to explore a deeply personal journey through past, present and future. The album features seven McNulty originals along with five of her favourite standards from the Great American Songbook. These are extracts from the full ensemble tracks from Chris McNulty's Soul Journey.

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When You Know

Featuring the music of Dianne Reeves
Duration: 10:19
June 21, 2026

Since the 1980s, Dianne Reeves has reigned as a master jazz vocalist, celebrated for a seemingly effortless technique that applies to straight-ahead jazz, R&B, and pop-jazz. Her signature style shines through perfectly traversed vocal runs, a warm timbre and an intimate, improvised dialogue with her audience. On "When You Know," Reeves plucks a gem of a pop-folk song--originally performed by Shawn Colvin for the romantic comedy film Serendipity—and transforms it thoroughly. Reharmonized and arranged for Reeves by the gifted composer and pianist Billy Childs, the track becomes a pulsing, passionate exploration of finding the right partner in love. The performance builds into a chant-like outro showcasing the nuanced touch of her entire band. Enjoy this showcase of an artist who knows exactly how to make a song her own.

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Blue in Green and More

Featuring the music of Laufey
Duration: 19:21
June 14, 2026

The singer Laufey has over 24 million monthly listeners on Spotify, with her top hit, a bossa nova, accumulating 1.3 billion listens. Her voice can be described as yearning, warm, angelic and vibrato-heavy. Laufey has won two Grammys in the Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album, for Bewitched and A Matter of Time. Comparisons have been made to chanteuse Julie London (who was popular in the '50s through the '70s for hits like "Cry Me a River") and Edith Piaf. ...And yet, there is debate as to whether Laufey is a real jazz singer. Why the critique? Is it because she is Gen Z (born 1999), a cohort that has been tagged as devoted to hip hop, electronica, pop and (in the U.S.) country music? Does Laufey’s parents’ lineage from Iceland and China rob her of street cred? Do her lush arrangements and storytelling videos peg her in the young pop/soul category?

Make your own characterization about Laufey’s music, starting with "Blue in Green" at 15:26. Her fans will continue to say they love jazz.

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Cantaloupe Island

Featuring the music of Alex Hutchings
Duration: 09:07
June 7, 2026

Here’s an ensemble that knows how to lay down a groove. "Canteloupe Island" is performed by talented guitarist Alex Hutchings based in Bristol UK, with a Bangok gig band comprising Kevin Inthawong on keys, Anthony Parker on drums and Phoowich Tawasinchanadech on bass. This goes to demonstrate that (jazz-fusion) talent isn’t limited to the major markets. Solos begin at 1:47, with Hutchings flying on blues and modal riffs. Parker then ups the ante with tom fills. Based on where you may be in your jazz playing, this rendition either is likely remind you of your earlier jam days or make you want to learn this piece, pronto.

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Vida

Featuring the music of Kemuel Roig
Duration: 60:00
June 6, 2026

“Vida” is the vibrant new track from Cuban-American jazz pianist Kemuel Roig and his trio project 3Discovery. Featuring Samuel Burgos on bass and drummer Juan Armando Diaz, Roig's latest project is an electrifying musical journey.featuring Afro-Cuban rhythms, modern jazz harmony, and fearless improvisation. Captured live in the studio with high-level visual production, "Vida", which channels the pianistic influence of Chucho Valdés in an ebullient mambo-esque celebration, showcases the deep chemistry and dynamic energy of one of today’s most compelling Latin jazz trios. '3Discovery' will release everywhere on July 17.

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Cortège

Featuring the music of Mike Westbrook
Duration: 23:31
May 31, 2026

Mike Westbrook was one of the most path-forging band leaders and composers in all of England. He was as prolific as his music was diverse. Westbrook wrote music for theater, opera, radio, film and television and recorded over 50 albums. His most notable palette was experimental big band jazz. Westbrook sounded like few other arrangers, favoring electric guitar (often with wah-wah), throaty tenor and baritone sax, a rock-ish back beat and voice, among other sounds. His most epic jazz piece was "Cortège," which overlays his big band with poetry in 25 snippets. Check out the spoken text at the outset; the burning, reverb-washed trumpet solo with highway visual backdrop at 1:58; and the electronically-modified bassoon at 7:58. His works are an acquired taste, to be sure, but he will long be remembered for the sheer ambition of combining so many styles and stages. Still don’t believe me? Search for the languorous "Octopus’s Garden from Mike Westbrook’s 'After Abbey Road'." Mike Westbrook passed away on April 11, 2026.

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Sonny Rollins Live in Denmark

Featuring the music of Sonny Rollins
Duration: 86:39
May 29, 2026

Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins was one of those rare icons whose approach to life was as well-respected as his approach to performing jazz. He passed away on May 25, 2026. At a pinnacle of his early career in the late 1950s, he walked away from concerts and focused exclusively on woodshedding for 15 hours a day, while standing on the Williamsburg Bridge to Brooklyn in all kinds of weather. His goal was to achieve musical authenticity – strong tone, indomitable stamina, uniquely constructed solos, and endless curiosity in band formats. Rollins mirrored his musical growth with personal exploration, including stints studying yoga, anthropology, and clean living. On this trio concert recording spanning 1965 to1968, Rollins demonstrates how he methodically builds a solo from melodic recap, to clipped phrases, to flurries, then turns over the energy to his commanding rhythm section. The first song is "There Will Never Be Another You." How True.

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Icarus

Featuring the music of Emily Kuhn
Duration: 8:43
May 27, 2026

Chicago-based trumpeter-composer Emily Kuhn unveils "Icarus" off her upcoming album 'Feathered Things' (July 24, Desafío Candente). Kuhn wrote "Icarus" at a mid-winter artist residency at OxBow School of Art, in Western Michigan. OxBow’s cold, forested, sparkling winter landscape inspired the shimmery aesthetic of the song, which features Meghan Stagl’s delicate vocals, textural guitar pads, and the dark tone of the flugelhorn. While Kuhn didn’t initially set out to write a song about the myth of Icarus, as she found herself experimenting with lyrics, the story emerged as a framework to hold the tension between freedom, stability, and love. "I liked the idea of telling a more intimate side of the story: Icarus acting not out of hubris, but out of a deep longing to be free; his father loving him, teaching him to fly, frantic seeing his son’s feathers melt away," she explains. "While the song is an imagined conversation between parent and child, I also envision the “I” and “you” as two sides of the same person. I think that all of us have some of that duality within us - a deep longing for connection and stability, challenged by that curious, whimsical, often self-destructive voice inside that asks what would happen if we just flew towards the sun and kept flying, and never looked back?" "Icarus" presented Kuhn with a long-desired opportunity to collaborate with a circus artist. Performance artist Hayley Larson perfectly embodies the narrator's whimsy, curiosity, and recklessness in her choreography and performance, while the shadow puppets show a different side of the same character, flying and falling along with the aerials. "I wanted to capture both the playfulness and destructiveness of Icarus' journey, and there's a lot of play with reflections, color, light, and shadows that echo the lyrics and orchestration, getting more and more frenzied as the song builds. Sean Pierce's video work is beautiful - I love the way all the layers come together to create an ever- shifting mood."