• Tom Caraher: Ninety Degrees
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    For his debut as leader, Irish saxophonist Tom Caraher has roped in some of the country's finest jazz musicians to bring his music to life. The album clocks in around the length of an old vinyl, which, for some tastes is ideal in terms...
  • Noah Haidu: Standards III
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Standards III, the ninth album by New York-based pianist Noah Haidu, is essentially a trio date with a guest appearance on one number ("Slipstream") by alto saxophonist Steve Wilson . As was true on Standards (Sunnyside, 2021) and...
  • Antonio Adolfo: Carnaval - The Songs Were So Beautiful
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    What prompted pianist and composer Antonio Adolfo to record, in 2025, an album of songs from the 'golden age' of Brazilian carnaval music, circa 1920-1950? He has known and loved this music since he was a child, growing up in Rio de...
  • Roberto Bonati Chironomic Orchestra: The Gesture Of Sound / The Gesture Of Colour
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Someone once said that writing about music was as illogical as singing about economics. Writers about music inevitably bristle at the suggestion but it might have merit when it comes to improvised music. How do you write about something...
  • Noah Cyrus discusses her new album, odes to family and what independence looks like
    Sunday, July 13, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
    NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to musician Noah Cyrus about how family and faith inspired her new album, "I Want My Loved Ones To Go With Me."
  • Chad McCullough: Transverse
    Sunday, July 13, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Chance encounters can be fortuitous and fruitful. Trumpeter Chad McCullough, on a visit to Macedonia to convene with family, found his way into a small cafe in Skopje, the capital of Independent North Macedonia, where he encountered a...
  • John Yao and his 17 Piece Instrument: Points In Time
    Sunday, July 13, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Trombonist and composer John Yao presents a heartfelt and personal retrospective with Points In Time. This ambitious album delves deeply into the emotional and professional journey he has undertaken over the past twenty years in New York...
  • Freedom Art Quartet: First Dance
    Saturday, July 12, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Raucous, brash and freewheeling, First Dance by The Freedom Art Quartet is rooted in the past yet fresh and contemporary. The album should sound familiar to those who have ventured outside the mainstream and spent time with Ornette...
  • Daniel Garbin: Rising
    Saturday, July 12, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Art serves as a mirror to the world, and music is certainly no exception. Good musicians not only share their talent with listeners but also share their influences and experiences as well. With his debut album Rising, guitarist Daniel...
  • : Kory Reeder and John Cage albums on Another Timbre set pulses running
    Saturday, July 12, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    The two albums below have plenty in common with one another. Both feature compositions by Americans played by Apartment House, a UK-based ensemble who are featured on Another Timbre often enough to be considered the label's house band....
  • Shuffle Demons: Are You Really Real
    Saturday, July 12, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    The Shuffle Demons are a Canadian jazz fusion band from Toronto . The band features a powerhouse ensemble of saxophonists Kelly Jefferson , Richard Underhill and Matt Lagan , anchored by the deep pocket of acoustic bassist Mike Downes...
  • PERFORMANCE / TOUR: Mark Kostabi To Host Exclusive Salon Concert At His Rome Villa On Friday, July 18, 2025
    Saturday, July 12, 2025 from All About Jazz News
  • Wet Leg are back with a slick new record
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
    Wet Leg The English band's sophomore album, moisturizer, is out today. Co-founder Rhian Teasdale joins World Cafe to talk about it.
  • Clipse: Tiny Desk Concert
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
    The Clipse perform a Tiny Desk concert June 20, 2025, at NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C. The hip-hop duo delivers its best live performance ever recorded and one of the hardest Tiny Desks of all time.
  • Take a peek at Stephen Sondheim's papers, now at the Library of Congress
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
    More than 5,000 items from composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim, including lyric and music sketches and unpublished scripts, are now housed in the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress' new collection includes more than 5,000 items from the Broadway legend, including ideas for Sweeney Todd lyrics and notes for Glynis Johns as she sang "Send in the Clowns."
  • PERFORMANCE / TOUR: The 92nd Street Y, New York Announces Jazz In July 2025
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from All About Jazz News
  • Remembering Sly Stone with Music Historian Rickey Vincent
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
    Singer Sylvester Stewart, better known as Sly Stone, leader of the popular American funk rock group Sly And The Family Stone, at the Hatchett We're joined by music historian and professor Rickey Vincent to talk about the legacy of Sly Stone. He talks to us about what made the funk icon so special and why there'll never be another like Sly again.
  • RADIO: JazzWeek Radio Chart: July 14, 2025
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from All About Jazz News
  • Felipe Salles: Camera Obscura
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    "I've been wanting to do a project like this for decades," Amherst -based Brazilian composer and multi-reedist Felipe Salles writes of Camera Obscura. The album combines jazz and classical quartets in a program of original music inspired...
  • The Jazz Innovator: Jerald Miller
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • The Song Poetry of Torhild Ostad and Kazzrie Jaxen
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Chris Potter, Larry Grenadier and Eric Harland: First Meeting: Live at Dizzy’s Club
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Let us not beat around the bush or obfuscate the obvious: First Meeting: Live at Dizzy's Club is as sweet a listen anyone can wish for or expect as simpatico luminaries--pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba, saxophonist Chris Potter, bassist Larry...
  • Something Blue: In The Beginning
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Kathy Sanborn: Romance Language
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Over 60 years ago, the original television series, The Twilight Zone (Rod Serling, CBS, 1959-64), had an unusually memorable episode. Called "Passage for a Trumpet," it featured Jack Klugman, alcoholic, down on his luck and suicidal. A...
  • Interpreting the Lennon/McCartney Songbook, Part 3: Sgt. Pepper
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Andrew Hill, Ralph Burns, Joe Henderson
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • RECORDING: Gabriel Alegria Afro-Peruvian Sextet's 'El Muki,' Due August 15 From Saponegro Records, Celebrates The Group's 20th Anniversary
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from All About Jazz News
  • The best new albums out July 11
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
    Malice and Pusha T of Clipse. NPR Music's Stephen Thompson is back with Celia Gregory of Nashville public radio station WNXP to talk through this week's best new music.
  • VIDEO / DVD: Backgrounder: Spud Murphy - Gone With the Woodwinds
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from All About Jazz News
  • The Plaintive Sigh of a Sonic Doppelgänger: Why are Minor Chords Perceived as “Sad”? Part 3
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • FESTIVAL: Legendary Tower Of Power Rocks Scranton Jazz Festival!
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from All About Jazz News
  • Tune in to a mini-concert with Southern Avenue
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
    Southern Avenue The Memphis band performs songs from their new album, Family .
  • Kim Deal performs an exclusive set for World Cafe
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
    Kim Deal performing an exclusive <em>World Cafe</em> set at Greenwich Village. The alt-rock icon performs music from her debut solo album, Nobody Loves You More.
  • : Several Worthwhile Releases from the Last Few Months
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Despite what is said about physical media going away, a steady supply of new jazz releases keeps showing up every week. Here are some worthy if underappreciated albums from the first half of 2025. Tobias Meinhart Sonic River Self...
  • Tim Boniface: Psalter: Themes for Peace
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Tim Boniface is a jazz saxophonist and composer. He is also an ordained priest in the Church of England and Chaplain at Girton College, University of Cambridge . As Artistic Director of Girton Jazz, his work involves organising concerts...
  • Misha Mengelberg / Sabu Toyozumi: The Analects Of Confucius
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Come for the music of Dutch pianist Misha Mengelberg , and stay for Sabu Toyozumi . Or perhaps you are here for the Japanese drummer--the first non-American invited into the ranks of Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative...
  • Vision Festival 2025
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Dominic Miller at Teatro Bolivar
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Meet Lloyd Haber and Omar Kabir
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • New Music from Weiss, Flying Sutra, Jackson Heinemann and Shead, and More
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Mike on Brad
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • VIDEO / DVD: Perfection: Doug Raney - 'Lean Years' (1979)
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from All About Jazz News
  • Afterword: Final Thoughts and Questions
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • The best R&B Tiny Desk Contest entries
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
    NPR Music received a record number of entries to this year's Tiny Desk Contest: 7,500. The judges discovered so many amazing entries, and now we're sharing some of those standouts here.
  • The soundtrack to 'KPop Demon Hunters' surges on the charts
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
    The soundtrack to the Netflix original movie <em>KPop Demon Hunters</em> surges into the top five. Amid a cluster of top 10 album debuts this week, there's a left-field hit with staying power: the soundtrack to the Netflix original movie KPop Demon Hunters , which surges into the top five.
  • The Plaintive Sigh of a Sonic Doppelgänger: Why are Minor Chords Perceived as “Sad”? Part 2
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Joe Santa Maria: Oblique Rhyme
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    The perennial challenge of balancing individual expression with collective harmony is masterfully addressed by Joe Santa Maria (saxophones), David Tranchina (bass), Gary Fukushima (piano), and Colin Woodford (drums)... [ read more ]
  • Jesse Ed Davis: Tomorrow May Not Be Your Day: The Unissued Atco Recordings 1970-1971
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Originally reissued in November 2024 as a limited-edition vinyl set, the seventy-four-some minutes of The Unissued Atco Recordings 1970-1971 derives from sessions for Jesse Ed Davis ' debut LP Jesse Davis (Atco Records,1971) and its...
  • Andrea Tofanelli with Big band of the State Music School in Konin at Jazzonalia
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Intakt Records
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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