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Article: Album Review

Sylvie Courvoisier and Wadada Leo Smith: Angel Falls

Read "Angel Falls" reviewed by Jack Kenny


Wadada Leo Smith describes his music not as “jazz" but as “creative music." He rejects the term “improvisation" in favor of “creation." These specific word choices reflect his unique approach, which is deeply rooted in his early experiences with blues and R&B. Smith uses the full range of his instrument and plays at his ...

Article: Interview

Linda May Han Oh: Jazz e innovazione

Read "Linda May Han Oh: Jazz e innovazione" reviewed by Frank Housh


Linda May Han Oh è una delle artiste più innovative ed affermate della scena jazz di oggi, con collaborazioni che vanno da Dave Douglas a Vijay Iyer e Pat Metheny. L'ultimo album, Strange Heavens (Biophilia Records), vede la partecipazione di Ambrose Akinmusire e Tyshawn Sorey, già presenti in Honey from a Winter Stone di Akinmusire.

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Fieldwork, Matthieu Mazué, Aga Derlak & The Monkious

Read "Fieldwork, Matthieu Mazué, Aga Derlak & The Monkious" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


New releases are always about, but the new ones featured in this episode of OMJ are very, very special. First off, Fieldwork! Vijay Iyer, Steve Lehman & Tyshawn Sorey are all formidable musicians in their own right and as the trio Fieldwork the critical acclaim was huge, the potential endless. But it's taken 17 years for ...

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Article: Album Review

Sean Vokes: Mundane Fascinations

Read "Mundane Fascinations" reviewed by Anastasia Bogomolets


On his second release for his own indie label, Minor Third Records, pianist and composer Sean Vokes invites listeners into a deeply personal sonic world where everyday moments are transformed into vivid, emotionally charged musical snapshots. Mundane Fascinations is a collection of original compositions inspired by images, concepts or fleeting moments and developed with the same ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Sheila Jordan (RIP), Phil Haynes, Jason Kao Hwang, and Sarah Wilson

Read "Sheila Jordan (RIP), Phil Haynes, Jason Kao Hwang, and Sarah Wilson" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


This episode pays tribute to the recently deceased Sheila Jordan by playing music from the early and later parts of her long career. It also features music from Sarah Wilson, Jason Kao Hwang, and Phillip Haynes among others. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & ...

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Fieldwork: Thereupon

Read "Thereupon" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Early in his recording career, pianist Vijay Iyer formed his most compelling group, Fieldwork. The initial album release, Your Life Flashes (Pi Recordings, 2002) broke new ground and put down the roots from which everything Iyer has created in 20-plus years has grown and flourished. Iyer's recording career began in 1995 with Memorophilia (Asian ...

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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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