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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.Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
Billboard has revised its system of removing songs from the Hot 100 singles chart once they've gotten too old to qualify as contemporary hits.Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
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Thelonious Monk (1917 -1982) was often grouped with the bebop pianists of the late 1940s and early 1950s. But he was not bop. He was a pianistic world unto itself. Quirky, dissonant, often playful. Mary Lou Williams (1910 -1981) did not...Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Here are five worthwhile jazz albums released in the past few months. Billy Mohler The Eternal Contagious Music2025 Bassist Billy Mohler leads a fiery quartet on this album rooted in the sound of his authoritative bass mixing with Jeff...Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Jamile Staevie Ayres, who goes professionally by her first name, was born and raised in Cachoeira do Sul , a midsize city located a couple of hours from Porto Alegre in Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state in Brazil, and the heart...Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Change the face (and figure) on the cover of Tatum's Swingin' Session!!!, the Chicago-based Shout Section Big Band's fifth recording, and what is left is an almost exact replica of an album cover released by Capitol Records in 1961,...Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Many musicians are content to write and perform songs, while others continuously explore deeper territory. Clarinetist, saxophonist, and composer Hillai Govreen belongs firmly to the latter camp. At heart, she is a storyteller, and with...Tuesday, October 21, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Award-winning Canadian pianist Nancy Walker finds musical camaraderie and a gentle sway on Deeper Down. Clearly a labor of love, the tracks glide by almost effortlessly. Walker's quartet includes saxophonist Tara Davidson , bassist...Tuesday, October 21, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
With the world desperately in need of more Peace Vibes in these times of seemingly endless strife and division, vibraphonist Ted Piltzecker is happy to oblige, putting his Colorado-based "quartet" to work on the problem via a series of...Tuesday, October 21, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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The Charlotte Symphony decided it wants a sonic logo, so it got a composer to write a seven-second piece of music for the orchestra.Monday, October 20, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
The "Danger Zone" singer is asking for his performance to be deleted from a fake "King Trump" video that the president posted to Truth Social on Saturday.Monday, October 20, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
Critic Lloyd Schwartz tells a story about Lezhneva, a Russian singer he "discovered" a few months ago — without realizing he already owned a 2015 recording of her rendition of Handel's early oratorio.Monday, October 20, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
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Nelson Devereaux is a highly creative sax/woodwind player, singer, multi-instrumental sound manipulator and composer who fills the alt-jazz and alt-pop spaces with a unique brew of avant/free/ambient sound. Based in Minnesota, the artist...Monday, October 20, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Guitarist Gregg Belisle-Chi's story mirrors that of saxophonist Tim Berne , which makes Slow Crawl all the more compelling. Berne's own musical journey began when he was so moved by Julius Hemphill 's Dogon A.D... [ read more ]Monday, October 20, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Maintaining its biennial release pattern going back to 2021's Vegetables (Lumo Records) and 2023's Pipe Dream (Lumo Records), The Lina Allemano Four once again strikes gold with The Diptychs, another of the group's ventures into its...Monday, October 20, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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"Sam Rivers wasn't just our bass player — he was pure magic. The pulse beneath every song, the calm in the chaos, the soul in the sound," Limp Bizkit said in a social media post Saturday.Sunday, October 19, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
Gospel music has always played a big role in American culture. Now, the music's wide-ranging history is being celebrated at Nashville's new Museum of Christian & Gospel Music.Sunday, October 19, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Few artists can translate geography into sound with the spatial clarity that Chris Jonas achieves on backwardsupwardsky. A saxophonist, composer and multimedia artist whose résumé includes collaborations with Anthony Braxton , Cecil...Sunday, October 19, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Elana Sasson's work is singularly intersectional and intercultural, by heritage, training and aesthetic preference. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area , she was naturally steeped in American music of various sorts and learned...Sunday, October 19, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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It's About Time likely refers to the fact that although Jason Forsythe has been a jazz composer of note for decades, this is the first-ever recording he has released as leader of his own ensemble, in this case a world-class sextet whose...Sunday, October 19, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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There is no doubting which metropolis Korean-born composer Rin Seo had in mind when writing City Suite, the panoramic opening salvo and centerpiece on the debut recording by her fourteen-member Rin Seo Collective, as the suite's first...Saturday, October 18, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
The 53-plus minutes of deep introspection rendered tangible in a baker's dozen tracks by Mike Mizwinski and company transcends its most overt influences. In fact, the clear-cut echoes of Bob Dylan 's "Tangled Up In Blue" on this opener,...Saturday, October 18, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
After four thoughtfully crafted releases, the Fergus McCreadie Trio adopted an entirely different approach for their fifth album. They journeyed to the Isle of Skye, took the ferry to North Uist in the Scottish Outer Hebrides and spent...Saturday, October 18, 2025 from All About Jazz News