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Trumpeter Jason Charos was a student at the University of Miami's Frost School of Music, as were alto saxophonist David Mason and pianist Connor Rohrer , while tenor Kendric McAllister was a recent graduate when Charos' impressive...Tuesday, October 28, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
Tuesday, October 28, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Sol Sol is the name of a free-jazz quartet from Sweden that was formed in 2018. They recorded their first album, Unaccustomed Soil, at Atlantic Studios, Stockholm, on June 18th 2018, and had it released by Signal And Sounds Records on...Tuesday, October 28, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
Tuesday, October 28, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Monday, October 27, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
With AI music generators widely available, scammers are uploading songs to the pages of inactive artists and dead musicians. Spotify says it is cracking down, but the practice persists.Monday, October 27, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
Monday, October 27, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
Billboard ranked what they consider the best Halloween songs. All Things Considered staffers have strong opinions about Billboard's take.Monday, October 27, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
Crowe was just 15 years old when he became a music journalist in 1973. He had to talk his mom into letting him go on the road with bands. He chronicles his adventures in his new memoir, The Uncool.Monday, October 27, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
Jack DeJohnette, of the most daring and singular jazz drummers of the last 60 years, died on Sunday.Monday, October 27, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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New music often serves a dual purpose. While it usually introduces fresh sounds, the music's structure generally contains a degree of familiarity, combining recognition with discovery. This idea of exploring new musical territory without...Monday, October 27, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
Monday, October 27, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Is Russ Lossing's Proximity Alert more like football or baseball? The analogy works like this: Baseball is fathers and sons tossing a ball in the backyard, measured and casual; Football is a scrimmage, brothers running, grappling and...Monday, October 27, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
Monday, October 27, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Alice Blue is a pleasant, no-frills session neatly performed by Ravita Jazz, a co-op sextet (or quintet plus vocalist) from Maryland whose presumed overseer is bassist Phil Ravita , as his is the only name that coincides with the name of...Monday, October 27, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
Monday, October 27, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
As in other recent works, on Listen Ship Henry Threadgill appears solely as composer and conductor. No surprise there: his works vividly showcase a quest for a personal compositional dimension, one that reflects his drive for...Monday, October 27, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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One of many American jazz musicians who made Europe home beginning in the early 1960s, pianist Kenny Drew is best remembered as the pianist on John Coltrane 's seminal Blue Train--when he is remembered at all... [ read more ]Sunday, October 26, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
"Keep it swinging." That is the concise credo of veteran tenor saxophonist Jerry Weldon who talks the talk and walks the walk on this galvanic concert date recorded in November 2024 at the New Brunswick (New Jersey) Performing Arts...Sunday, October 26, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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For a century, the tiny Coolidge Auditorium, at the Library of Congress, has been a wellspring of cultural integrity, innovative music and American ingenuity. (And free concerts.)Saturday, October 25, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
McCoy Tyner 's New York Reunion is a fine example of late-period recording, presenting the jazz masters in a quartet setting that draws deeply on tradition while brimming with contemporary energy. Originally released in 1991 on Chesky...Saturday, October 25, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
Saturday, October 25, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
For over twenty-five years, Mike LeDonne 's Groover Quartet has been a shining example of consistency and authenticity in the organ-jazz scene. The latest double-disc release, Turn It Up!: Live at the Sidedoor, captures the group at two...Saturday, October 25, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
Saturday, October 25, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Have you ever considered free improvisation musicians as part of a sangha? The Sanskrit word sangha means community, and in Buddhist practice, it refers to the collective of seekers who support one another along the path toward...Friday, October 24, 2025 from All About Jazz News
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Last night's Billboard Latin Music awards honored Bad Bunny, who received the lifetime achievement award. When the legendary Rita Moreno handed it off, the moment was like the passing of a baton.Friday, October 24, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
On his first album in nearly a decade, global superstar Miguel pulls inspiration from his personal life and Mexican heritage.Friday, October 24, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
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Things tend to come in pairs. The animals went into the ark, all those years ago, two by two. Tonic water was created to control the symptoms of malaria but found its voice when mixed with gin to control the symptoms of reality. Some...Friday, October 24, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Peerless, vibe-savvy vibraphonist Patricia Brennan minces no fools from the get go, launching Of The Near And Far with the kick-ass lead single (singles? They still make singles? In this day? In this age?) "Antilla." A new jazz standard...Friday, October 24, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
After listening closely to Captain Hubs, Illinois-bred, New York-based tenor saxophonist Todd Herbert 's fourth album as leader of his own groups, one question immediately springs to mind: why is this man not scoring high in any polls?...Thursday, October 23, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Joe Fields (1929-2017) was a jazz producer and record executive who worked for Columbia, MGM, Verve, and, most impactfully, at Prestige in the 1950s and 1960s. Shortly after Prestige was sold to Fantasy in 1971, ending a classic era for...Thursday, October 23, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Interviews
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On her stunning new album The BPM , the multi-instrumentalist Sudan Archives explores the freedom of augmented reality and technology through the sounds of club music.Thursday, October 23, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Trumpeter Charlie Porter 's Cipher (PHP, 2025) carries with it a concept that provides clues to a treasure hunt and cash money--an interesting and different idea not broached here. Instead, the focus becomes the music contained within...