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Musician

8 Time Grammy award winning composer-arranger Vince Mendoza has been at the forefront of the jazz and contemporary music scene as a composer, conductor and recording artist for the last 30 years. According to All about Jazz Mendoza “daringly expands the vernacular by including elements of abstract impressionism, romanticism and a highly unorthodox palette to position him as the clear and natural successor to the late Gil Evans.” He has written scores of compositions and arrangements for big band, chamber and symphonic settings while his jazz composing credits read like a “who's who” of the best modern instrumentalists and singers in the world today.

Album

Freedom Trail

By Reis Demuth Wiltgen Trio

Label: CAM Jazz
Released: 2026
Track listing: Freedom Trail; Never Seen Again; Cross Country; Catherine's Song; Viral; Home Is Nearby; Dante; Where The Heart Beats

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Nicole Zuraitis Baked Her Own Cake

by Leo Sidran
September 30, 2026

Nicole Zuraitis has spent much of her career being asked (and asking herself) variations of the same question: where do you fit? Is the music jazz? Is it pop? Is it cabaret?Her new album, The Devil I Knew, doesn't exactly settle the question. Instead, it makes the question seem increasingly beside the point.

Article: Live Review

The Tension Is Where the Music Lives: Miles Davis at 100, Part 3

by Kofi Adjepong-Boateng
August 26, 2026

Herbie Hancock Celebrates Miles Davis Hollywood Bowl Los Angeles, CA August 19, 2026 The Hollywood Bowl began as a picnic ground called Daisy Dell, a canyon chosen for its acoustics, willed into being largely by women, chief among them Artie Mason Carter, a music teacher who believed music was for everyone ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Fred Pallem, Bignami Veltri Jazz Ensemble, Reis Demuth Wiltgen, Julia Keefe & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
August 18, 2026

Enjoy a journey through the lush sonic world of recent large-ensemble recordings.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Fred Pallem & Le Sacre du Tympan “Avron Evrard" François De Roubaix, 50 ans après ... (Train Fantôme) 0:16 Host talks 3:08 Reis Demuth Wiltgen feat. Luxembourg ...

Article: Interview

Miho Hazama: Where Groove Meets Orchestra

by Angelo Leonardi
May 30, 2026

Since making her debut in 2013 at the helm of M_Unit with Journey to Journey, Miho Hazama has built a body of work that has firmly established her among the leading orchestrators of her generation. Over the past decade, the Japanese composer and conductor has collaborated extensively with European orchestras, and since 2020 she ...

Article: Interview

Miho Hazama e la Metropole Orkest

by Angelo Leonardi
May 18, 2026

Da quando ha debuttato nel 2013 alla guida del suo ensemble M_Unit registrando Journey to Journey, il percorso artistico di Miho Hazama è stato un crescendo di acclamati lavori, che l'hanno imposta tra i massimi orchestratori della sua generazione. Da tempo la compositrice e bandleader giapponese collabora con orchestre europee e dal 2020 è ...

Article: Album Review

Metropole Orkest: Arakatak

Read "Arakatak" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
March 30, 2026

L'olandese Metropole Orkest celebra il suo ottantesimo anniversario evitando di compiacersi del ricchissimo e prestigioso passato ma vivendo la contemporaneità in costante tensione innovativa. Per l'occasione pubblica esclusivamente in vinile, Arakatak, un sontuoso doppio LP contenente otto composizioni commissionate a Morris Kliphuis, Vince Mendoza, Donny McCaslin, Miho Hazama, Tineke Postma, Mark Guiliana, Shai Maestro e Louis ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with singer-songwriter-pianist EBBA

by AAJ Staff
March 24, 2026

Meet EBBA NYC-based Swedish singer-songwriter-pianist EBBA is reshaping what it means to be a jazz artist in 2025. A Berklee Presidential Scholar and recent graduate, she moves fluidly between jazz sophistication and raw, modern songwriting, carving out a sound that's fearless and arrestingly original. Fresh off the road with Jon Batiste, adding keys and vocals to his global tour ...

Article: Album Review

Frode Kjekstad Qrt: Stars Aligned

Read "Stars Aligned" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
March 11, 2026

Talented Norwegian guitarist Frode Kjekstad discovered jazz in his early teens through the bebop genius of Charlie Parker and the refined touch of Joe Pass. He started formal jazz guitar studies at fifteen and moved to Oslo in 1994, where he immersed himself in the local scene and performed with legends like Johnny Griffin, Frank Foster, ...