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Article: Live Review

Dan Weiss Quartet At Bop Stop

Read "Dan Weiss Quartet At Bop Stop" reviewed by John Chacona


Dan Weiss Quartet Bop Stop at the Music Settlement Cleveland, OH June 6, 2025 In his liner notes to Phillip Golub's Abiding Memory (Endectomorph Music, 2024), Vijay Iyer coined a name for the kind of music made by a set of mostly young, genre-agnostic musicians in New York, “New Brooklyn Complexity," ...

Article: Album Review

Vijay Iyer, Wadada Leo Smith: Defiant Life

Read "Defiant Life" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Un pezzo a testa dei due performers e firmatari del disco e gli altri quattro a paternità condivisa compongono questo puzzle a due voci in cui si respira un'aria quanto mai composta, quasi raggelata (almeno a tratti), volatile, persino un po' dispersiva, quanto meno nelle parti (per nulla rare) in cui Iyer abbandona lo strumento acustico ...

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Article: Play This!

Linda May Han Oh: The Imperative

Read "Linda May Han Oh: The Imperative" reviewed by Carl Medsker


Congratulations to Linda May Han Oh for adding the 2025 Jazz Journalists Association Bass Player of the Year award to her collection of accolades. Since emigrating to the United States from Australia in 2006 (she was born in Malaysia), Oh has built an impressive career, making significant contributions to works by Dave Douglas, Terri Lyne Carrington, ...

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Article: Album Review

Oavette: Oavette LP

Read "Oavette LP" reviewed by David Bruggink


The fusion of acoustic instrumentation and electronic-influenced composition has a modest but persistent foothold in jazz. Listeners might reference examples like Vijay Iyer Trio's “Hood" from Break Stuff, Nik Bärtsch's Ronin, or perhaps most notably, Dysnomia by Dawn of Midi. Despite the emotional gulf between Dysnomia and, say, Keith Jarrett Trio's Standards in Norway, both albums ...

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Article: In Pictures

Torino Jazz Festival 2025, Part 1

Read "Torino Jazz Festival 2025, Part 1" reviewed by Antonio Baiano


Part 1 | Part 2A collection of photos from the Torino Jazz Festival in Torino, Italy from April 23rd, 2025 to April 30th, 2025 featuring Vijay Iyer, Amaro Freitas, Lakecia Benjamin, Enrico Rava, Furio Di Castri, Gabriele Mirabassi, Fausto Ferraiuolo, Tiziano Tononi, Roberto Ottaviano, Margaux Oswald, Jan Bang, Eivind Aarset, Jason Moran, Nasheet Waits, ...

Article: Live Review

Torino Jazz Festival 2025

Read "Torino Jazz Festival 2025" reviewed by Libero Farnè


Torino Jazz Festival 2025 Torino, varie sedi 23--30 aprile 2025 “71 concerti, 8 produzioni originali, 289 musicisti, 58 sedi," così sul retro del programma cartaceo viene sintetizzata e pubblicizzata la tredicesima edizione del Torino Jazz Festival, diretta da Stefano Zenni. Non solo concerti, ma anche conferenze e film sono stati distribuiti in ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Releases From Cortiñas, Muñeses, Wexler And More

Read "New Releases From Cortiñas, Muñeses, Wexler And More" reviewed by Bob Osborne


On this show we have a variety of new releases including latin jazz, classical crossover, and, live cuts. In addition a re-release of a classic album from Keith Jarrett and a dip in the archive for music from John Abercrombie and Julius Hemphill. I also continue my deep dive into the recent re-releases of Ivo Perelman's ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Kazemde George, Charles Mingus, and Caroline Davis

Read "Kazemde George, Charles Mingus, and Caroline Davis" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


This show features music from a variety of players, such as Kazemde George, Cassandra Wilson, Caroline Davis, and Steve Kuhn, as well as newly collected live performances by Charles Mingus. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Felix Henkelhausen, Ochs / Morris / Downs & German Jazz Prize Nominees

Read "Felix Henkelhausen, Ochs / Morris / Downs & German Jazz Prize Nominees" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


Listening to a tune by German bassist Felix Henkelhausen while traveling in the car led me to check out what he was up to; I discovered he's been nominated for a 2025 German Jazz Prize in the Album of the Year category for Deranged Particles. Soon I was exploring other nominees and that led to incorporating ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Ashley Jackson, Reginald Cyntje, Kevin Sun, Fred Moten and Brandon Lopez

Read "Ashley Jackson, Reginald Cyntje, Kevin Sun, Fred Moten and Brandon Lopez" reviewed by Cheryl K.


During this week's two-hour program of Jazz and improvised music, new music from harpist Ashley Jackson, trombonist Reginald Cyntje, vocalists Jackie Myers and Brittany Davis, two picks for Record Story Day (RSD), two selections from saxophonist Kevin Sun, and poet Don Paul. Playlist Gerry Mulligan “My Old Flame" from The Complete Pacific Jazz Recordings ...


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