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Sun Chung of Red Hook Records: Listening at the Threshold
by Tyran Grillo
Sun Chung's Red Hook Records has, in just five years, become one of the most quietly consequential imprints in contemporary creative music. Its significance lies not in volume, market saturation, or stylistic branding, but in something rarer: a producer's ear turned into an aesthetic world. At a time when recorded music is often treated as content, ...
Clarinetist Virginia MacDonald's Debut + Steve Bernstein and Carlin Lee
by Hobart Taylor
Make way for clarinetist Virginia MacDonald's stunning debut release plus new tunes from Emily Kuhn, Alden Hellmuth, Steve Bernstein and a peace anthem from Qasim Naqvi, Wadada Leo Smith and Andrew Cyrille. Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Daphne Parker Powell “Perpetual Light of the Void" from The Death of Cool (Self-Produced) 00:00:08 Steven Bernstein “Two ...
Bobby Naughton: Housatonic Rumble - Live at Charlie's Tap
by John Sharpe
Vibraphonist Bobby Naughton helms a finely attuned trio on Housatonic Rumble, a 1985 live recording drawn from previously unissued tapes discovered in his archive. Although he worked extensively with edge-loving adventurers such as Anthony Braxton and Wadada Leo Smith, and co-founded the Connecticut-based Creative Musicians' Improvisers Forum, this live set affirms a commitment to accessibility which ...
Vijay Iyer Quartet at Smoke
by Paul Reynolds
Vijay Iyer Quartet Smoke Jazz Club New York NY April 16, 2026 The career of pianist Vijay Iyer--in addition to stretching to chamber music, big-band compositions and projects with rappers--has included collaborations with those from other cultural traditions, notably musicians from his own South Asian heritage. The storied surname ...
Sylvie Courvoisier: Eclats - Live in Europe
by Glenn Astarita
Sylvie Courvoisier has never been easy to pin down, which is exactly the point. The Lausanne-born pianist moved to New York City in 1998 and spent the next two-plus decades making herself indispensable to the downtown avant-garde, working alongside John Zorn, Evan Parker, Wadada Leo Smith, and Mark Feldman, among others. She received the Swiss Grand ...
Anna Piosik: In the Absence of Gods
by Alberto Bazzurro
Un intero album di sola tromba deve indurre attenzione non fosse altro che per il coraggio che vi sta dietro. La polacca Anna Piosik (che è anche ceramista), ormai portoghese d'adozione, fra Lisbona e il piccolo villaggio di Alfagar, nell'estremo sud del Paese, ci mette dentro tutta se stessa, in questo suo primo album, appunto, solitario ...
New Music From Douglas, Xangorchestra, Mycio, HøIby And More
by Bob Osborne
The continuum of exploration in the world of jazz runs through this set of fourteen releases, twelve of them brand new. Jazz keeps pressing at its own boundaries while drawing structure and ideas from other musical forms, the result is a playlist that moves cleanly between contrasting approaches. The closing track is presented as a tribute ...
Corcoran Holt, Luke Norris, and Orchestre National de Jazz
by Jerome Wilson
This program features new releases by Corcoran Holt and Luke Norris as well as older music by David Sanborn and the Orchestre National de Jazz.Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 OKB Trio “El Padrino" from ...
Ivo Perelman and Wadada Leo Smith: Duologues 5
by Hrayr Attarian
Tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman thrives in the company of like-minded artists. The number of superb duo releases in his prolific body of work is proof of that. On the fifth volume of the Duologues series, he has found a uniquely synergistic match in the trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith. Smith, a founding member of the ...
Natsuki Tamura / Satoko Fujii: Ki
by John Sharpe
Sometimes the most bracing departures come from artists who know each other best. Japanese pianist Satoko Fujii has a discography with over one hundred entries in every configuration from solo to big band, notable for their variety, often with husband trumpeter Natsuki Tamura in close attendance. However Ki, the tenth offering from their long running duet ...
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