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- [Artemis, 'In Real Time' (Blue Note) | Review](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/artemis-in-real-time-blue-note-review/) - By Hrayr Attarian The collaborative sextet Artemis follows its superb eponymous debut with the equally captivating In Real Time. Six originals are sandwiched between two covers that, thanks to pianist Renee Rosnes’ skilled arrangements, maintain conceptual unity. Synergistic interplay, cinematic mood and taut, vibrant performances mark this thrilling music. Opening the album is keyboardist Lyle
- [The Art Ensemble of Chicago: Tending the Garden](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-art-ensemble-of-chicago-tending-the-garden/) - By Neil Tesser The Art Ensemble of Chicago honors six decades of boundary-shattering creativity with a multi-generational aggregation of musicians. The Art Ensemble of Chicago, and that band’s parent organization, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, have never shied from iconoclasm. Since the Art Ensemble’s birth in 1968, they have challenged and upended
- [The Bigness of Wayne](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-bigness-of-wayne/) - Originally published on June 9, 2023. By Larry Blumenfeld Celebrated for his small group achievements, Wayne Shorter expanded his reach to larger ensembles and grander ambitions. When Wayne Shorter was 15 years old, around the time he began performing jazz for audiences in his native Newark, New Jersey, he created a hand-drawn 58-page comic book
- [An Era in Black and White](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/an-era-in-black-and-white/) - By Bob Weinberg What Pauly Cohen lacked in physical stature, he more than made up for in personality. At about 5 foot 3, with a mane of white hair, a bulldog’s jowly countenance and a basketball coach’s whistle around his neck, the trumpet-playing conductor put his multi-generational big band through the paces during afternoon rehearsals
- [Patti Austin: Austin’s Powers](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/patti-austin-austins-powers/) - By Bob Weinberg Patti Austin brings sizzle, sensuality and a lifetime of experience to her swinging new celebration of Ella Fitzgerald. She also brought along some muscle — Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band. Like her idol, Ella Fitzgerald, Patti Austin got her start singing on the stage of the Apollo Theater. Just 4 years old,
- [The Count Basie Orchestra: It’s One O’ Clock Somewhere](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-count-basie-orchestra-its-one-o-clock-somewhere/) - By Bob Weinberg Hip new projects keep the Count Basie Orchestra jumpin’. For 30 years, Scotty Barnhart has enjoyed a privileged spot from which to experience the roaring swing machine that is the Count Basie Orchestra. Starting in the trumpet section in 1993, he graduated to musical director in 2013, carrying on the Count’s big
- [Randolph Noel: In His Element](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/randolph-noel-in-his-element/) - By Michael Roberts Following a 20-year break, and a 30-year career as a teacher, Randolph Noel helms a large ensemble recording once more. Pianist and composer Randolph Noel’s entrancing new album, Elements and Orbits, has been a long time coming. The self-released recording is his first as a leader since 2003’s Hands on the Plow
- [Publisher’s Letter: The Arrangers](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/publishers-letter-the-arrangers/) - By Michael Fagien As a kid, long before I was interested in jazz, I couldn’t quite put my finger on why I instantly fell in love with songs from Blood, Sweat & Tears, Earth Wind & Fire, Kool & the Gang, Average White Band, The Isley Brothers, Steely Dan, Edwin Starr and Chicago, and even
- [TC the 3rd, ‘The Music’ (self-released) | Review](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/tc-the-3rd-the-music-self-released-review/) - By Scott Yanow TC the 3rd, who was born William Theodore Carney III, grew up in Philadelphia and has been a significant part of that city’s local scene for the past quarter-century. The son of organist Trudy Pitts and the late drummer Bill “Mr. C.” Carney, TC (who is modestly billed as “The Voice of
- [Bobby Sanabria: Into the Multiverse](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/bobby-sanabria-into-the-multiverse/) - By Mark Holston Bobby Sanabria has been a champion of the Latin large ensemble. On His Multiverse Big Band’s latest release, he adds more vocals to the mix. During the past three decades, Bobby Sanabria has become one of the most active large ensemble leaders on the scene with his Afro-Caribbean-rhythm-influenced Multiverse Big Band, and
- [Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra and the Riches From Richmond](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/buselli-wallarab-jazz-orchestra-and-the-riches-from-richmond/) - By Bob Weinberg The Buselli-Wallarab big band puts a new glimmer on treasure from the Gennett Records vault. A utilitarian red brick building stands mutely in the wilds of Richmond, Indiana, a six-story tower T-boned by a long, rectangular structure that was once used for the manufacture of pianos. Squint at the image on the
- [His Back Pages: Gaia Wilmer Celebrates Egberto Gismonti](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/his-back-pages-gaia-wilmer-celebrates-egberto-gismonti/) - By Lissette Corsa Gaia Wilmer and her 19-piece ensemble celebrate the genius of Egberto Gismonti. Brazilian composer and saxophonist Gaia Wilmer feels most at home in an Egberto Gismonti song. “When I listen to some of his pieces, I remember being at my dad’s house,” Wilmer says, on the phone from São Paulo, where she
- [Esthesis Quartet, ‘Time Zones’ (Ears and Eyes) | Review](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/esthesis-quartet-time-zones-ears-and-eyes-review/) - By Michael Roberts Time Zones, the title of the Esthesis Quartet’s sophomore outing, acknowledges the widely varied locations the group members call home. But musically, drummer Tina Raymond, who resides in Los Angeles; pianist/vocalist Dawn Clement, Denver; bassist Emma Dayhuff, Chicago; and flutist Elsa Nilsson, Brooklyn, come together in a place where technical ability meets
- [Auditions Roundup: Large and in Charge](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/auditions-roundup-large-and-in-charge/) - By Josef Woodard From Bowie to funk, recent releases display the breadth of the contemporary large ensemble. Jazz big band culture has, by now, come into its own as a landscape of stylistic variables. Recent releases of large ensemble projects demonstrate this truism: Big band is not a “genre” but a “medium,” and a malleable
- [Tierney Sutton & Tamir Hendelman “Double Rainbow” Spring (BFM Jazz) ](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/tierney-sutton-tamir-hendelman-double-rainbow-spring-bfm-jazz/) - What better way to open an album titled Spring than with a song by Antonio Carlos Jobim? Vocalist Tierney Sutton and pianist Tamir Hendelman do just that with their read of the Brazilian maestro’s “Double Rainbow” on their dozen-track ode to the season. The pair evokes the mood of a rainy day in the garden,
- [Purbayan Chatterjee/Mark Lettieiri “Soar” Feathered Creatures (GroundUP)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/purbayan-chatterjee-mark-lettieiri-soar-feathered-creatures-groundup/) - It was during a tour stop in India with his band Snarky Puppy that guitarist Mark Lettieri first encountered sitar virtuoso Purbayan Chatterjee. Chatterjee sat in with the band, and Lettieri was absolutely gobsmacked. “I was totally blown away by his skill,” the guitarist says. “I’d never really heard sitar played like an electric guitar.”
- [Eli Howell “Matchmaker” Steps Taken (D Clef)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/eli-howell-matchmaker-steps-taken-d-clef/) - It seems almost as if the jazz gods were conspiring against Eli Howell. On the eve of the opening session for his debut album, lightning struck Troubadour Recording Studios at Michigan State University, where the trombonist earned both undergrad and master’s degrees. And, previously, he had developed focal dystonia, painful contractions of the facial muscles
- [Sylvie Noble + Ursula Harrison “New Eve” New Eve (Flaming Sword)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/sylvie-noble-ursula-harrison-new-eve-new-eve-flaming-sword/) - Bass and vocal duos are something of a rarity in the jazz world. But when done smartly — think of Sheila Jordan with Harvie S — they can be a real treat, a display of high-wire musicality with no safe place to land. Vocalist Sylvie Noble and bassist Ursula Harrison are more than up to
- [Remembering Peabo Bryson, One of the Great Voices of Our Time](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/remembering-peabo-bryson-one-of-the-great-voices-of-our-time/) - A deep sadness came over me when I heard of the passing of Peabo Bryson, one of the most gifted and emotionally resonant male vocalists of our time. To my ears, Peabo was never simply a great R&B singer or a great balladeer — I have always considered him one of the greatest male vocalists
- [Eliane Elias “At First Sight” Ao Vivo](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/eliane-elias-at-first-sight-ao-vivo/) - While her discography dates back more than 40 years, Eliane Elias is best experienced live in front of an audience. And that’s just how you’ll find her on her latest recording, Ao Vivo, leading her quartet at the SFJAZZ Center’s Miner Auditorium in October 2023. “We stretch out more on stage,” says the pianist and
- [New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2026: Come rain or come shine](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-orleans-jazz-heritage-festival-2026-come-rain-or-come-shine/) - from the top, from left: Delfeayo Marsalis, Fred Wesley, Isaiah Collier, Shamarr Allen, Terrence Blanchard and Ravi Coltrane, The Soul Rebels, Victor Campbell, Dianne Reeves, Robin Barnes text and photos by Joel A. Siegel For its 57th edition, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival drew 475,000 people over two weekends, exceeding the 460,000
- [Mike Bruzzese “Blues 975” Another Space (Bent River)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/mike-bruzzese-blues-975-another-space-bent-river/) - A fixture on the Montreal jazz scene, guitarist and composer Mike Bruzzese assembled a band comprising jazz aces from the U.S. and Canada for his latest release, Another Space. The guitarist’s warm tone and dexterous playing sparkle within the simpatico quartet, whose members sound quite compatible and whose broad and impressive résumés reveal a spectrum
- [Sonny Rollins, Saxophone Colossus and Jazz Immortal, Dies at 95](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/sonny-rollins-saxophone-colossus-and-jazz-immortal-dies-at-95/) - Photo by: Phil Bray Sonny Rollins, the tenor saxophonist whose sound, imagination and spiritual seriousness helped shape the course of modern jazz, died Monday afternoon, May 25, at his home in Woodstock, New York. He was 95. A towering saxophonist, composer and improviser, Rollins was one of the defining figures in American music. Across an
- [Andrés Coll Cosmic Trio “Ride to Heaven” Ride to Heaven (XJAZZ! Music)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/andres-coll-cosmic-trio-ride-to-heaven-ride-to-heaven-xjazz-music/) - The title of the Andrés Coll Cosmic Trio’s latest album, Ride to Heaven, hints at travel beyond the stratosphere, but its roots are deeply planted in terra firma. While much of his music rockets toward outer space, marimba virtuoso and composer Coll is steeped in the folkloric sounds of his native Ibiza, and he’s long
- [Miles Davis at 100: The Sound of Forever](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/miles-davis-at-100-the-sound-of-forever/) - Miles Davis would have turned 100 today, May 26, 2026. Born Miles Dewey Davis III in Alton, Illinois, in 1926 and raised in East St. Louis, Davis became not only one of the defining artists in jazz history, but one of the rare musicians whose influence reshaped the broader sound of the 20th century. To
- [Cento Threeo “Make the Silence Louder” Halfway to Mellowtown](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/cento-threeo-make-the-silence-louder-halfway-to-mellowtown/) - During his long career, Austin, Texas-based guitarist and composer Don Cento has performed indie rock and Americana and has produced recording sessions from classical to metal. But on his latest release, Halfway to Mellowtown, he returns to his jazz roots with the inaugural album by his Cento Threeo. Almost entirely comprising Cento’s original compositions, the
- [Joanne Brackeen “Cram’n Exam” Pink Elephant Magic](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/joanne-brackeen-cramn-exam-pink-elephant-magic/) - Joanne Brackeen has been thrilling audiences for decades, performing professionally since her pre-teens and gigging around Los Angeles with the likes of Charles Lloyd, Bobby Hutcherson and Billy Higgins; she later attained the piano bench with jazz stars Joe Henderson, Stan Getz and Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. As a leader, she’s helmed recording sessions with
- [Irreversible Entanglements “Juntos Vencemos” (featuring Helado Negro) Future Present Past](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/irreversible-entanglements-juntos-vencemos-featuring-helado-negro-future-present-past/) - Photo by: Annemone The members of Irreversible Entanglements came together in 2015 at a Musicians Against Police Brutality event in Brooklyn. While a decade has passed, they’ve lost none of the social and musical passion and commitment that first united them and was unleashed on their 2020 debut album Who Sent You? Now signed to
- [Suhas (featuring Ric Fierabracci and Marco Minnemann) “Fractals” Fractals](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/suhas-featuring-ric-fierabracci-and-marco-minnemann-fractals-fractals/) - Hailing from the port city of Mangalore on the west coast of India, pianist and composer Suhas Padav brings a unique perspective to jazz fusion, likely influenced by cultural references as well as studies at KM College of Music and Technology in Chennai. For his debut single, “Fractals,” the title track to a yet unreleased
- [Hedvig Molledstad Weejuns “Bitches Blues” Bitches Blues (Rune Grammofon)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/hedvig-molledstad-weejuns-bitches-blues-bitches-blues-rune-grammofon/) - Photo by: Eirik Havnes With her latest recording, Bitches Blues, Norwegian guitarist Hedvig Mollestad plays off the title of Miles Davis’ landmark fusion album Bitches Brew. And while Mollestad certainly shares Miles’ sense of sonic adventure, she ventures even further into electronic textures and colors with her Weejuns (short for Norwegians) trio mates, keyboardist Ståle
- [Jacksonville Jazz Festival Returns Memorial Day Weekend with Nile Rodgers & CHIC, Andra Day, Kamasi Washington and More](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jacksonville-jazz-festival-returns-memorial-day-weekend-with-nile-rodgers-chic-andra-day-kamasi-washington-and-more/) - The Jacksonville Jazz Festival will return to downtown Jacksonville, Florida, over Memorial Day weekend, May 21-24, with a free, multi-day program featuring major names in jazz, funk, soul, R&B and fusion. This year’s festival will be held at Ford on Bay, located at 288 E. Bay Street, with additional programming at Riverfront Plaza and other
- [Norah Jones to Be Honored at Jazz Foundation of America’s 2026 Spring Gala](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/norah-jones-to-be-honored-at-jazz-foundation-of-americas-2026-spring-gala/) - The Jazz Foundation of America will present its annual spring benefit gala, A Great Night in Harlem, on Thursday, May 21, at 8 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City. This year’s program will honor 10-time GRAMMY Award winner Norah Jones with the 2026 Dr. Billy Taylor Humanitarian Award. The evening will
- [Igor Gehenot Trio “Shining Face” Shining Face](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/igor-gehenot-trio-shining-face-shining-face/) - Photo by: Hugo Lefevre Just 21 at the time, Belgian pianist Igor Gehenot earned international acclaim with his 2011 debut album Road Story. That trio recording reached No. 1 on Tokyo’s Diskunion charts, was awarded Top Song and Top Album honors on Deezer Music and was named Jazz Album of the Year by the British
- [Norman Brown “Chillax” Authentically Norman](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/norman-brown-chillax-authentically-norman/) - When you’ve been named one of the 50 greatest guitarists of all time by uDiscover Music, sold more than 5 million albums and been called “one of the greatest and most articulate guitarists out there” by no less an authority than George Benson, it’s difficult to know where the legend ends and the self begins.
- [Web Web “Ataraxia” Kover Kover (Compost)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/web-web-ataraxia-kover-kover-compost/) - Together now for a decade, the Munich-based jazz supergroup Web Web provide listeners with a roadmap to their roots and influences with Kover Kover, an album comprising all cover material. Celebrating genre-and-generation spanning rock and pop heroes such as Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Joe Jackson, Talking Heads and Eurythmics, as well as European fusion and
- [Jon von Boehm “Spin To Win” Reflections](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jon-von-boehm-spin-to-win-reflections/) - Bassist and composer Jon von Boehm has amassed an enviable list of players on whom he can call when he’s ready to record. Such was the case with Reflections, the Nashville-based musician’s fourth studio release as a leader. Some of the names in the credits have appeared on his recordings dating back more than a
- [Shunzo Ohno Announces Live at Joe’s Pub](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/shunzo-ohno-announces-live-at-joes-pub/) - Trumpeter and composer Shunzo Ohno will release his new live album Live at Joe’s Pub on April 17 via Pulsebeats Records, drawing from performances recorded over three nights at the New York venue. The album highlights Ohno’s breadth as a performer, composer and orchestrator, featuring his working ensemble alongside members of the Lotus Chamber Music
- [Bergamo Jazz Fest Review: Celebrating Miles, Trane and Beyond in Italy](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/bergamo-jazz-fest-review-celebrating-miles-trane-and-beyond-in-italy/) - By Francesco Martinelli photos courtesy of Bergamo Jazz Festival In many respects, the Bergamo Jazz Festival, which held its 47th edition in March, is unique among events of its kind in Italy. It is certainly one of the country’s oldest — it began in 1969, even if it did not take place every year since
- [Ian Dogole “Africa” The Last Trane to Africa](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/ian-dogole-africa-the-last-trane-to-africa/) - While still in high school, Ian Dogole became transfixed by Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew. Tumbling down the rabbit hole, he dived into the music of Davis, as well as John Coltrane, and followed them through the looking glass into the avant worlds of Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders and Cecil Taylor, among others. Decades later, the
- [Lindsey Webster “Music in Me”](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/lindsey-webster-music-in-me/) - The title song to Lindsey Webster’s latest recording, Music in Me, is both mission statement and origin story. “I remember the first time in my life/Singing standards in the background every night,” she relates in an autobiographical lyric that will ring true for many jazz musicians. “Got a hundred bucks and a couple of drinks
- [Grace Kelly: Twenty Years of Evolution, Groove, and Exploration](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/grace-kelly-twenty-years-of-evolution-groove-and-exploration/) - Few artists in modern jazz have grown up in public quite like Grace Kelly. When she first appeared on the scene as a teenage saxophone prodigy, she was already performing alongside giants of the music. Over the past two decades, however, Kelly has steadily transformed from a promising young traditionalist into a boundary-crossing artist whose music
- [Jason Miles “100 Miles” 100 Miles for Miles Davis (Lightyear/Virgin)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jason-miles-100-miles-100-miles-for-miles-davis-lightyear-virgin/) - Keyboardist, composer and producer Jason Miles played an important role in shaping Miles Davis’ latter-day sound, providing sonic guidance on the albums TuTu, Music From Siesta and Amandla. Of course, Davis’ impact on Miles proved indelible, as well, and Miles has frequently paid tribute, on stage and in the studio, to one of his most
- [Matthew Stevens Announces Self-Titled Album on Candid Records](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/matthew-stevens-announces-self-titled-album-on-candid-records/) - Guitarist, producer and songwriter Matthew Stevens will release his self-titled album, Matthew Stevens, on May 8 via Candid Records, marking what he describes as a “midcareer mission statement.” Co-produced with saxophonist Josh Johnson and percussionist Eric Doob, the album blends acoustic and electric textures across a set of genre-spanning originals and personal reinterpretations. The project
- [Ashley Jackson: Reimagining the Harp’s Story](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/ashley-jackson-reimagining-the-harps-story/) - By Michael Fagien For centuries, the harp has carried a certain image—elegant, refined, perhaps even distant from the everyday emotional pulse of contemporary music. But harpist Ashley Jackson is changing that perception, reshaping not only the instrument’s repertoire but the narrative surrounding it. A performer, scholar, and professor at Hunter College in New York City, Jackson approaches
- [Jill Scott “Pressha” To Whom This May Concern (The Orchard/Blues Babe/Sony Music)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jill-scott-pressha-to-whom-this-may-concern-the-orchard-blues-babe-sony-music/) - Photo By: Kennedi Carter Twenty-five years have passed since Jill Scott introduced herself as a fresh new voice in the world of neo-soul with her breakthrough album Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1.That record went platinum, and its immediate follow-ups went gold. The Philly-born singer-songwriter parlayed that success into film and TV
- [GroundUP Music Festival Celebrates 10 Years of Boundary-Breaking Music in Miami Beach](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/groundup-music-festival-celebrates-10-years-of-boundary-breaking-music-in-miami-beach/) - For a decade, GroundUP Music Festival has stood apart in the global festival landscape—an event where musical boundaries dissolve, artists collaborate freely, and audiences become part of a vibrant creative community. Now celebrating its 10th anniversary, the festival returns to the Miami Beach Bandshell from March 13–15, 2026, reaffirming its reputation as one of the
- [Mark Tonelli “Four-Sided Circle” Brasiliana (Artists Recording Collective)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/mark-tonelli-four-sided-circle-brasiliana-artists-recording-collective/) - Between 2022 and 2025, Illinois-based guitarist and composer Mark Tonelli made more than a dozen trips to Brazil. As a Fulbright Scholar, he had been invited to teach at a university, and on subsequent visits, he began recording the tracks for what would become his new release, Brasiliana. Immersing himself in the culture and rhythms
- [Scott Routenberg Trio “Kelly’s Blues” Live at Merrimans’ Playhouse: Oscar Peterson Tribute (Chroma Note)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/scott-routenberg-trio-kellys-blues-live-at-merrimans-playhouse-oscar-peterson-tribute-chroma-note/) - In celebration of Oscar Peterson’s centennial last year, pianist Scott Routenberg put together a rousing set of Peterson originals, and standards associated with the late jazz icon, and performed them at the South Bend jazz club Merrimans’ Playhouse. An associate professor of jazz piano at Indiana’s Ball State University, Routenberg brought along trio and faculty
- [Sean Imboden Explores Uncharted Realms with Expansive New Large Ensemble Release](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/sean-imboden-explores-uncharted-realms-with-expansive-new-large-ensemble-release/) - Sean Imboden has come a long way since debuting his Large Ensemble in 2017 at a mud-soaked park gig before a handful of listeners. What began humbly has grown into one of the more compelling voices in contemporary big band music. Following the acclaim of 2025’s Communal Heart—praised by All About Jazz for its liberated
- [Dave Stryker “Blue Fire” Blue Fire: The Van Gelder Session (Strikezone)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/dave-stryker-blue-fire-blue-fire-the-van-gelder-session-strikezone/) - Rudy Van Gelder’s magic weaves through some of the greatest jazz recordings of the past six-plus decades. The engineer, and the storied New Jersey studio he established — first in Hackensack, then in Englewood Cliffs — set a high-water mark for jazz recording, which is evident in the classics he engineered for Blue Note, Prestige,
- [Bellbird “Blowing on Embers” The Call (Constellation)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/bellbird-blowing-on-embers-the-call-constellation/) - The Montreal-based quartet Bellbird takes its name and prime directive from an aviary source, one with a loud and distinctive cry. Fittingly, its musical touchstones include Eric Dolphy, who also drew inspiration from birds, as well as Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman’s Prime Time, and the improv scene that developed around Montreal’s Café Résonance. Hints of
- [Denver Jazz Fest 2026 Expands Lineup With Ingrid Jensen Quartet, Rodney Whitaker All-Stars, and More](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/denver-jazz-fest-2026-expands-lineup-with-ingrid-jensen-quartet-rodney-whitaker-all-stars-and-more/) - Denver Jazz has announced the final national and regional artists for the second annual Denver Jazz Fest, set for April 7–12, 2026, in celebration of Jazz Appreciation Month. The Front Range–wide celebration will present more than 40 concerts across 15 venues in Denver and Boulder counties, pairing performances with educational programs that spotlight regional, national,
- [Bruce Hornsby: Memory, Motion, and the Long View on Indigo Park](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/bruce-hornsby-memory-motion-and-the-long-view-on-indigo-park/) - Photo: Bruce Hornsby by David McClister At an age when many artists lean into retrospection, Bruce Hornsby is still pushing forward—testing form, bending harmony, and inviting new voices into his ever-expanding creative orbit. His forthcoming album Indigo Park (arriving April 3) feels less like a late-career reflection than a living, breathing inquiry into how memory
- [At the Crossroads of Craft and Culture: Jazz Echoes Through the 2026 GRAMMYs](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/at-the-crossroads-of-craft-and-culture-jazz-echoes-through-the-2026-grammys/) - The 2026 GRAMMY Awards arrived with their usual constellation of pop spectacle and genre-spanning ambition, but beneath the headlines was a quieter through-line—one that speaks directly to JAZZIZ readers: musicianship mattered. Across jazz, roots, film music, and contemporary hybrids, the evening underscored how deeply today’s most compelling work is informed by feel, form, and fearless
- [Ralph Towner (1939–2025)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/ralph-towner-1939-2025/) - Photo by: Caterina Di Perri / ECM Records Ralph Towner, a guitarist and composer whose music occupied a world entirely its own, died at 85. Over a career spanning more than five decades, he forged a language that drew from jazz, classical tradition, and global music without ever belonging fully to any of them. His
- [Tigran Hamasyan Announces New Album, Manifeste*](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/tigran-hamasyan-announces-new-album-manifeste/) - Pianist and composer Tigran Hamasyan will release Manifeste on February 6, 2026, via Naïve Records. The album represents a new chapter for the Armenia-born artist, whose work continues to bridge jazz, progressive rock, electronic music, and the spiritual traditions of his homeland. Recorded between 2023 and 2025 in locations including Yerevan, Athens, Moscow, and Los
- [Joe Elefante’s Wheel of Dharma “Nobly Born” Return of the Light (self-released)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/joe-elefantes-wheel-of-dharma-nobly-born-return-of-the-light-self-released/) - Pianist and composer Joe Elefante has enjoyed an enviable career. His self-named big band was the house band at Cecil’s Jazz Club for three years; the Kennedy Center appointed him a Jazz Ambassador, which brought him to Europe and the Middle East; and he received appointments from the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop and Betty Carter’s
- [Peter Erskine’s Quiet Revolution](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/peter-erskines-quiet-revolution/) - At 70, the master drummer is still chasing the purest sound—one that makes you lean in. Peter Erskine answers a simple question with a grin you can hear through the screen: yes, he’s a grandpa—again. His second granddaughter, Lois May, arrived on a Thursday morning, joining grandson Leon (now three and a half). It’s the kind of
- [The Nearness of You Concert Returns to Jazz at Lincoln Center in February 2026](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-nearness-of-you-concert-returns-to-jazz-at-lincoln-center-in-february-2026/) - An all-star benefit concert honoring the late saxophonist Michael Brecker will return to Jazz at Lincoln Center on Monday, February 9, 2026, marking the fifth edition of The Nearness of You Concert. The evening will take place in the Appel Room and is hosted by Susie Essman. The 2026 lineup includes James Taylor, Chris Botti,
- [Ebi Soda “Frank Dean and Andrew” Frank Dean and Andrew (Tru Thoughts Limited)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/ebi-soda-frank-dean-and-andrew-frank-dean-and-andrew-tru-thoughts-limited/) - Headquartered in Brighton, England, the members of Ebi Soda arrived at their signature sound through many hours of jamming at a farmhouse in the countryside. Influences such as Flying Lotus, Robert Glasper, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis and the Lounge Lizards inform their sonics and sensibilities, as well as a “loose, Midwest, emo undercurrent,” all of
- [Julian Lage Shares New “Night Shade” Ahead of Upcoming Blue Note Album](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/julian-lage-shares-new-night-shade-ahead-of-upcoming-blue-note-album/) - Guitarist Julian Lage has released “Night Shade,” a new single and live performance video from his forthcoming Blue Note album, Scenes From Above, due January 23. The track serves as the centerpiece of the project and introduces the sound of a new quartet that will anchor the album. Scenes From Above marks Lage’s second collaboration
- [A Quiet Tribute: Steve Khan Salutes Jack DeJohnette](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/a-quiet-tribute-steve-khan-salutes-jack-dejohnette/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziTweDMfFZs There are musicians whose voices announce themselves immediately, and then there are musicians whose voices are earned—shaped slowly by doubt, discovery, failure, and resolve. Steve Khan belongs firmly to the latter group. Today, his sound is unmistakable—two notes are enough—but the path to that clarity was anything but direct. “I don’t think I was one of
- [Tom Scott: The Star-Maker Machinery Behind the Popular Song](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/tom-scott-the-star-maker-machinery-behind-the-popular-song/) - From the Baked Potato to the top of the charts, the saxophonist/arranger/producer tells the real story of how jazz seeped into the bloodstream of pop—and why he’s still not done. By Michael Fagien Tom Scott joined the JAZZIZ podcast like he strolls onto a bandstand: relaxed, wry, and already thinking two bars ahead. Phones are
- [Cory Wong Shares New Single Featuring Magic City Hippies](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/cory-wong-shares-new-single-featuring-magic-city-hippies/) - Cory Wong has released a new single, “Blame It On The Moon,” featuring the Miami-based indie-funk trio Magic City Hippies. The track is the third release from Wong’s upcoming album, Lost In The Wonder, which is scheduled to arrive on February 3, 2026. “Blame It On The Moon” blends disco-inflected rhythms with jazz and funk
- [Emilio Solla to Release Handmade with La Inestable de Brooklyn in March 2026](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/emilio-solla-to-release-handmade-with-la-inestable-de-brooklyn-in-march-2026/) - Latin GRAMMY winner and six-time GRAMMY nominee Emilio Solla will release Handmade, his 15th album, on March 13, 2026, via Club del Disco. The recording features his nine-piece ensemble La Inestable de Brooklyn and presents a set of original compositions drawing from tango, Latin American traditions, jazz, and classical music. Emilio Solla. Photo by Paula
- [Jazzanova, “Fedime’s Flight,” In Between: Deluxe Edition (Sonar Kollektiv)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jazzanova-fedimes-flight-in-between-deluxe-edition-sonar-kollektiv/) - Members of the DJ collective Jazzanova first met while gigging at Delicious Doughnuts, a club in Berlin, in the 1990s. Jürgen V. Knoblauch and Extended Spirit (Axel Reinemer and Stefan Leisering) combined their love of jazz, funk, hip-hop and Brazilian music on a three-song EP in 1997, which featured the intoxicating “Fedime’s Flight.” That track
- [Tony Levin: Between the Notes](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/tony-levin-between-the-notes/) - “I’m a rock player who can play jazz… I like to find new ways to play it — to keep it alive.” A candid conversation with the genre‑spanning bassist about Eastman roots, Chapman Stick breakthroughs, Peter Gabriel’s Funk Fingers, and keeping King Crimson’s ’80s music alive—by reinventing it in the moment. By Michael Fagien There’s
- [Ron Carter & Ricky Dillard Bridge Jazz and Gospel on Sweet, Sweet Spirit](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/ron-carter-ricky-dillard-bridge-jazz-and-gospel-on-sweet-sweet-spirit/) - Groundbreaking collaborative album arrives February 6, 2026 via Motown Gospel and Blue Note Records; title track out today In an unprecedented meeting of two towering American traditions, jazz legend Ron Carter and gospel icon Ricky Dillard have announced a historic joint album, Sweet, Sweet Spirit, arriving February 6, 2026, as a co-release from Motown Gospel
- [Critics' Picks 2025](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/critics-picks-2025/) - Each year, JAZZIZ asks our contributors and editors to select their favorite album releases of the past 12 months. After some serious internal debate, and hours of listening and re-listening, participants cull their lists to 10 titles and pick one that rises above the rest. Those top selections appear first and are accompanied by a
- [Igor Lumpert,“Panonian,” Resistance of the Earth (ears&eyes)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/igor-lumpertpanonian-resistance-of-the-earth-earseyes/) - A decade ago, Slovenian-born saxophonist Igor Lumpert developed a multimedia project titled Prayer for the Earth. The commissioned work utlized his original compostions along with video projections and a choir to spotlight the peril our planet faces in the wake of disasters such as Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy and the Japanese tsunami of 2011. Unfortunately,
- [Montreux Jazz Festival Miami Returns for Third Edition in 2026](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/montreux-jazz-festival-miami-returns-for-third-edition-in-2026/) - The Montreux Jazz Festival Miami returns for its third edition, running February 27–March 1, 2026, at The Hangar at Regatta Grove in Coconut Grove. Set in an intimate 1,500-capacity venue, the festival continues to bring the collaborative spirit of the legendary Swiss event to South Florida. This year’s lineup includes Nile Rodgers & CHIC, TOTO,
- [Linda Dachtyl, “Roxy Strut,” Full Steam Ahead (Chicken Coup/Summit) ](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/linda-dachtyl-roxy-strut-full-steam-ahead-chicken-coup-summit/) - Linda Dachtyl came to the organ through the music of rock bands such as Santana and Three Dog Night. She started at age 6 on an inexpensive Sears organ and later moved on to a Lowery before getting her hands on a Hammond B3. Dachtyl earned a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance from Capital
- [Thurston Moore: A Way In to Out](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/thurston-moore-a-way-in-to-out/) - The Sonic Youth guitarist shares his obsession with free jazz in a new book that tracks the music’s development in 100 albums. By Bob Weinberg Thurston Moore wants readers to know that Now Jazz Now, his new book detailing 100 free jazz and improvisational recordings from 1960 to 1980, is not an academic exercise. Rather,
- [Wojtek Mazolewski, “Rodeo Spirit,” Solo (WMQ)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/wojtek-mazolewski-rodeo-spirit-solo-wmq/) - Best known for leading his self-named quintet, Polish bassist and composer Wojtek Mazolewski goes it alone on his latest recording, Solo. Well, nearly alone. The bassist, who also plays guitar, flute and percussion on the album, has invited a handful of guests with whom he dialogues, including harpist Marysia Osu, percussionist Jozef Rusinowski and electronics
- [J. White “Serenade,” single (JEB-C Music)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/j-white-serenade-single-jeb-c-music/) - Growing up in Detroit, J. White started playing the saxophone at the age of 10 and got deep into jazz in his teen years. Inspirations ranged from Charlie Parker and Cannonball Adderley to contemporary artists such as Gerald Albright, Kirk Whalum and Grover Washington Jr. He also had the example of two musician uncles who
- [Laufey: The Spark That Bridges Generations](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/laufey-the-spark-that-bridges-generations/) - By Michael Fagien Photo by: Emma Summerton In an era when music often feels divided by age, genre, and algorithm, Laufey stands at the rare intersection where generations meet and find common ground. The Icelandic-Chinese singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, arranger, and global phenomenon has, in just a few short years, reignited the world’s fascination with jazz-inflected
- [Auditions: Brandon Sanders](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/auditions-brandon-sanders/) - Brandon Sanders Lasting Impression (Savant/High Note) Drummer Brandon Sanders was born in Kansas City, raised in Los Angeles, and is now based in New York City. And by releasing the first three albums of his career since 2023, the late-blooming 54-year-old displays the seasoning gained by living in three historical jazz epicenters. Sanders’ personnel choices
- [Auditions: Ivo Perelman/Nate Wooley](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/auditions-ivo-perelman-nate-wooley/) - Ivo Perelman/Nate Wooley Polarity 4 (Burning Ambulance) Innovative saxophonist Ivo Perelman thrives in duets with like-minded partners, and intrepid trumpeter Nate Wooley certainly shares his affinity for artistic experimentation. The absorbing Polarity 4, as its title indicates, is the pair’s fourth recording of spontaneous dialogues. A meditative mood prevails throughout the nine interlinked pieces. The
- [Auditions: Aaron Parks](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/auditions-aaron-parks/) - Aaron Parks By All Means (Blue Note) Plenty of jazz recordings lean into the genre’s past while giving short shrift to its future. Pianist-composer Aaron Parks sidesteps this pitfall by getting personal. On his latest release, By All Means, Parks infuses 20th-century styles with a genuine sense of self. The result is extremely respectful yet
- [Auditions: Theo Croker/Sullivan Fortner](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/auditions-theo-croker-sullivan-fortner/) - Theo Croker & Sullivan Fortner PLAY (ACT Music) There’s an obvious double entendre behind the title of trumpeter Theo Croker and pianist Sullivan Fortner’s new duo album PLAY: They mean to invoke the spirit of what children do while following the most basic directive of what musicians do. Indeed, they recorded the session in less
- [Auditions: Amir ElSaffar](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/auditions-amir-elsaffar/) - Amir ElSaffar New Quartet Live at Pierre Boulez Saal (Maqām ) Trumpeter and composer Amir ElSaffar recently launched a new record label to showcase the possibilities of maqam, the system of melodic modes in Middle Eastern and Arabic music. His first contribution to this project is a stunner. A quiet intensity belies the meditative surfaces of
- [Tony Levin on Reinventing the Bass](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/inside-the-mind-of-tony-levin-king-crimson-pg-stick/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZfQEO6U9iA
- [David Garfield, “Sir Charles,” Sir Charles (Creatchy)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/david-garfield-sir-charles-sir-charles-creatchy/) - Keyboardist and producer David Garfield pays homage to a close friend and mentor with “Sir Charles,” a sunny ode to the late steel pan artist Vince Charles. An industry veteran who played with Neil Diamond and Herb Alpert, Charles was a significant figure in Garfield’s career and turned him onto tropical music. Garfield first came
- [Catch Live: Christian McBride](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/catch-live-christian-mcbride/) - Christian McBride winds up a productive year with three Grammy nominations, hoping to add to the nine statuettes the bassist and bandleader has already earned. This time, the 53-year-old Philly native has received nods for Best Jazz Instrumental Album (Trilogy 3, with Chick Corea and Brian Blade), Best Jazz Performance (for that album’s “Windows”) and
- [Laufey Premieres New Animated “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town” Video as Holiday Chart Momentum Builds](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/laufey-premieres-new-animated-santa-claus-is-comin-to-town-video-as-holiday-chart-momentum-builds/) - Photo by: Emma Summerton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmy1-mr0RhA LA-based Icelandic-Chinese artist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Laufey is gearing up for what looks to be another year of holiday chart domination in the U.K. The breakout jazz-pop sensation has premiered a new animated video for her rendition of “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town,” created by Scale Model Studios, directed
- [Braxton Cook, “Not Everyone Can Go,” Not Everyone Can Go (Nettwerk)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/braxton-cook-not-everyone-can-go-not-everyone-can-go-nettwerk/) - Braxton Cook’s latest album, Not Everyone Can Go, came about after some serious soul searching. The multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and composer had been touring relentlessly, with stops in Europe and Asia and a couple of U.S. tours that took him away from his family. Realizing that the roles of husband and father were not compatible with traveling
- [Chet Baker Resurfaces on Swimming by Moonlight](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/chet-baker-resurfaces-on-swimming-by-moonlight/) - The 1988 documentary Let’s Get Lost is a heartbreaking portrait of iconic trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker in his later days. Performing with as much, if not more, depth of feeling as he had in his heyday, Baker, not yet 60, had been ravaged by substance abuse and other torments that plagued him for decades.
- [Catch Live: Miki Yamanaka](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/catch-live-miki-yamanaka/) - Like many jazz artists, pianist Miki Yamanaka dreamed of recording at the famed Van Gelder Studio. Maybe she could tap into the magic of countless classic jazz albums created within the high-ceilinged enivirons of the Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, facility. So, when she had the opportunity to bring her trio into the “House That Rudy
- [Auditions: Sean Mason](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/auditions-sean-mason/) - Sean Mason A Breath of Fresh Air (Taylor Christian) The title of pianist Sean Mason’s second release as a leader alludes not only to a set of music that sidesteps current musical trends of overproduction, but also a deviation from a certain branch of jazz up-and-comers for whom a Ph.D. is required to understand what
- [Catch Live: Rachael and Vilray](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/catch-live-rachael-and-vilray/) - For Rachael and Vilray, the third time’s the charm. Actually, the first two times were pretty damned charming, as well. But the Brooklyn-based duo have further honed their clever, intimate songcraft on their third release, West of Broadway (Concord Jazz), an affectionate but nuanced look at life and love in the Big City. The pair
- [Inside Snarky Puppy: Michael League on Redefining Jazz for a New Generation](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/inside-snarky-puppy-michael-league-on-redefining-jazz-for-a-new-generation/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USUHtPp0nro
- [Critic's Choice: Kurt Rosenwinkel](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/critics-choice-kurt-rosenwinkel/) - Each year, JAZZIZ asks its critics, contributors and editors to sift through the recordings they’ve listened to over the previous 12 months (give or take) and come up with a list of their 10 favorites. We also ask them to select one recording that rose above the rest and write a brief explanation of why
- [Charles Lloyd: Autobiography in Blue](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/charles-lloyd-autobiography-in-blue/) - On his new double album, Charles Lloyd celebrates figures who helped shape the course of his remarkable career. By Bob Weinberg Charles Lloyd didn’t set out to make a tribute record. Rather, the songs on his new Blue Note release Figure in Blue, which honor Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Langston Hughes and his Native American
- [Catch Live: Charles McPherson Quintet](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/catch-live-charles-mcpherson-quintet/) - When Charles McPherson first heard Charlie Parker, he was like a kid in a candy store. In fact, he was a kid in a candy store. Just in his early teens, the budding alto saxophonist slipped a coin into the jukebox at the neighborhood sweet shop to hear a record by Parker, the cat that
- [Requisite: Mal Waldron](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-mal-waldron/) - Mal Waldron The Quest (Prestige/New Jazz), 1962 Past and present collide in intriguing ways on this classic sextet recording by pianist Waldron. Among one of the most forward-thinking musicians and composers in jazz, Waldron incorporates a variety of forms and time signatures that make this recording sound as fresh it must have sounded more than
- [Auditions: Phil Haynes & Free Country](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/auditions-phil-haynes-free-country/) - Phil Haynes & Free Country Liberty Now! (Corner Store Jazz) Brooklyn-based drummer Phil Haynes reconvenes his long-running Free Country quartet for a politically minded double-disc meditation on an era when American liberty appears to be in peril. Haynes, cellist Hank Roberts, guitarist Jim Yanda and bassist Drew Gress draw equally from exploratory jazz and Americana,
- [Auditions: Mark Turner](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/auditions-mark-turner/) - Mark Turner Reflections on The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Giant Steps Arts) This year, tenor saxophonist Mark Turner added two anomalies to his discography: his first solo saxophone album, We Trained Them To Lift Their Heads, and his first socio-racial commentary project, Reflections on The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. James Weldon Johnson, an early
- [Auditions: Sylvie Courvoisier/Wadada Leo Smith](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/auditions-sylvie-courvoisier-wadada-leo-smith/) - Sylvie Courvoisier/Wadada Leo Smith Angel Falls (Intakt) Though each is a ferociously singular artist with their own keenly focused sonic vocabulary, pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith are a match made in heaven. Both approach their music with an intricate compositional rigor that is a direct outgrowth of their improvisational intellect; both approach
- [Auditions: Patricia Brennan](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/auditions-patricia-brennan/) - Patricia Brennan Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) In her liner notes, Patricia Brennan writes that Of the Near and Far was inspired in part by her love of star-gazing. The harmonies for most of the album’s seven pieces were created by superimposing her drawings of specific constellations on the circle of fifths. Hey, whatever
- [Michael League: The Architect of a New Jazz Generation](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/michael-league-the-architect-of-a-new-jazz-generation/) - From the Church to the cosmos, Snarky Puppy has rebuilt the language of groove and connection where complexity and communion could coexist. By Michael Fagien When Jonathan Frakes — the trombone-playing “Commander Riker” from Star Trek: The Next Generation — told me that it was his thirty-something son Jameson who turned him on to Snarky
- [Critic's Pick: Jack DeJohnette](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/critics-pick-jack-dejohnette/) - The jazz world mourns the passing of Jack DeJohnette, the drummer whose remarkable career helped shape the course of modern jazz. From Charles Lloyd to Miles Davis to Keith Jarrett, DeJohnette anchored some of the most indelible sessions of the past 60 years. He died on October 26, at the age of 83. Here is
- [SFJAZZ Collective: Music of Wayne Shorter](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/sfjazz-collective-music-of-wayne-shorter/) - Wayne Shorter’s fascination with Brazilian music was spurred by his 1966 marriage to Ana Maria, who was Portuguese. He’d record the Jobim ballad “Dindi” on his 1970 album Super Nova, and “Vera Cruz,” a song by the Brazilian singer and composer Milton Nascimento, on his 1974 album Moto Grosso Feio. But it was 1975’s Native
- [From Gotham to the High Desert: Eddie Daniels’ Clarinet Without Borders](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/from-gotham-to-the-high-desert-eddie-daniels-clarinet-without-borders/) - Spanning bebop, Brazilian song and classical lyricism, Eddie Daniels continues to chart his own path, blending genres with fearless grace. By Michael Fagien https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63lCduwZJjw In the ever-evolving world of jazz, some artists define themselves by their virtuosity, others by their versatility. For clarinetist Eddie Daniels, it has always been both. At 84, Daniels continues
- [Critic's Pick: Abbey Rader and John McMinn](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/critics-pick-abbey-rader-and-john-mcminn/) - JAZZIZ remembers improvisational drum master Abbey Rader, who died in late September, with this review from 2020. Abbey Rader and John McMinn Duo From the Heart (Abray Productions) Last November, before all the (COVID) madness descended, improvisational masters Abbey Rader and John McMinn crafted a series of extraordinary musical dialogs in McMinn's Liberty City (Miami)
- [Requisite: Clifford Brown and Max Roach](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-clifford-brown-and-max-roach/) - Clifford Brown and Max Roach At Basin Street (EmArcy), 1956 Great excitement followed the announcement that trumpeter Clifford Brown was joining forces with drummer Max Roach in 1954. Bebop royalty, Roach had made his bones alongside Charlie Parker and took part in the epic Jazz at Massey Hall concert with Bird, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell
- [Chick Corea: A Fond Farewell Performance](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/chick-corea-a-fond-farewell-performance/) - Any chance to spend more time with Chick Corea is greatly appreciated. And thanks to his seemingly inexhaustible creativity, listeners can enjoy the late pianist’s company on a few recent releases, including Forever Yours: The Farewell Performance (Candid/Chick Corea Productions), which captures Corea’s final two solo-piano concerts in October 2020 at the Ruth Eckerd Hall
- [Critic's Pick: Milford Graves/Jason Moran](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-milford-graves-jason-moran/) - Each year, JAZZIZ asks its critics, contributors and editors to sift through the recordings they’ve listened to over the previous 12 months (give or take) and come up with a list of their 10 favorites. We also ask them to select one recording that rose above the rest and write a brief explanation of why
- [Boz Scaggs: From Funky Lowdown to Lights-Low Jazz](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/boz-scaggs-from-funky-lowdown-to-lights-low-jazz/) - Boz Scaggs has been part of the rock and soul firmament for nearly 60 years. From his early days with the Steve Miller Band to his self-titled 1969 Atlantic Records breakthrough to his 1976 multi-platinum smash Silk Degrees, Scaggs’ distinctive vocals have caught the ears of all kinds of music lovers. And that includes jazz
- [Requisite: Les McCann and Eddie Harris](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-les-mccann-and-eddie-harris/) - Les McCann and Eddie Harris Swiss Movement (Atlantic), 1969 Call it serendipity. Pianist McCann and saxophonist Harris had each played sets with their respective bands at the Montreux Jazz Festival in June 1969. They then decided they’d like to play a set together, recruiting trumpeter Benny Bailey, who was living in Europe, and making use
- [Bill Laurance, “Opal,” Lumen (ACT)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/bill-laurance-opal-lumen-act/) - As proven by his tenure in the rotating collective Snarky Puppy, Bill Laurance does indeed play well with others. However, the pianist and keyboardist also likes to go it alone on occasion, as he does on his recent solo release, Lumen. Over two days in April, Laurance sequestered himself in the high-ceilinged environs of St.
- [Discovery: David Occhipinti's “Ice Dance”](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/david-occhipinti-ice-dance-camera-lucida-elastic/) - David Occhipinti has crafted an elegant yet emotive form of chamber jazz spanning a more than 20-year discography. The Canadian guitarist and composer’s most recent release, Camera Lucida, finds him once again exploring the intersection of jazz and classical music alongside his Camera ensemble. Opening track “Ice Dance” kicks off the album on an exhilarating note,
- [Catch Live: Ron Carter](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/catch-live-ron-carter/) - As a mainstay of the Miles Davis Quintet from 1963 to 1968, Ron Carter played an enormous role in the shaping of modern jazz, his sinewy basslines heard on game-changers such as E.S.P., Miles Smiles and Nefertiti, among others. Then there were landmark ’60s albums he recorded with McCoy Tyner, Sam Rivers, Eric Dolphy and
- [Shred the Small Stuff](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/shred-the-small-stuff/) - Jake Shimabukuro proves size doesn’t matter when you’re reinventing the ukulele with monster chops and fearless creativity. By Michael Fagien https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCWN3diH6tw When most people think of the ukulele, images of sun-drenched Hawaiian beaches and casual sing-alongs come to mind. But in the hands of Jake Shimabukuro, the instrument transcends its modest reputation, revealing unexpected depth,
- [Critic's Pick: Conrad Herwig](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/critics-pick-conrad-herwig/) - Each year, JAZZIZ asks its critics, contributors and editors to sift through the recordings they’ve listened to over the previous 12 months (give or take) and come up with a list of their 10 favorites. We also ask them to select one recording that rose above the rest and write a brief explanation of why
- [Requisite: Gil Scott-Heron](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-gil-scott-heron/) - Gil Scott-Heron Small Talk at 125th and Lenox (Flying Dutchman), 1970 On his debut recording, Gil Scott-Heron channeled the anger and disgust of Black America in startling, sometimes bitingly humorous verse, laying out a blueprint for the rappers who would follow a decade later. Accompanied by a pair of conga players, the 20-year-old Scott-Heron rhythmically
- [Christian McBride and the Groove That Never Stops](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/christian-mcbride-and-the-groove-that-never-stops/) - From young lion to revered elderstatesman, Christian McBride has kept the music in the spotlight and his ego on a leash. By Michael Fagien https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOxdq4salbE When Christian McBride first hit the scene in the early 1990s, he wasn’t just a bassist — he was the bassist everyone was talking about. From the corridors of Verve’s
- [Auditions: Harold López-Nussa](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/auditions-harold-lopez-nussa/) - Harold López-Nussa Nueva Timba (Blue Note) The many talents of Cuban pianist, composer and arranger Harold López-Nussa are celebrated on Nueva Timba (Blue Note), a masterful blend of traditional and of-the-moment influences. As its title suggests, the release promises a new spin on the decades’ long effort dubbed “timba,” in an effort to inject the sizzle
- [Auditions: Nicholas Payton](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/auditions-nicholas-payton/) - Nicholas Payton Triune (Smoke Sessions) The term “power trio” is typically used in a rock context to describe acts that make a big noise with just three players. But today, there’s no triumvirate stronger than the one assembled for Triune. Together, trumpeter, keyboardist and primary composer Nicholas Payton, bassist and singer esperanza spalding and drummer
- [Auditions: Sarah Wilson](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/auditions-sarah-wilson/) - Sarah Wilson Incandescence (Brass Tonic) Composer and trumpeter Sarah Wilson’s fourth release as a leader is a life-affirming celebration, albeit one tinged with subtle melancholy. Wilson melds exuberant rhythms with shimmering melodies for a cinematic effect. She deftly leads the cohesive sextet both as a single creative entity and as a vehicle for individual expressions.
- [Auditions: Alexa Tarantino ](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/auditions-alexa-tarantino/) - Alexa Tarantino The Roar and the Whisper (Blue Engine) Alexa Tarantino has long played with a wisdom beyond her years. At 33, she’s quickly amassed an impressive body of work showcasing her lyrical straightahead style. Her latest release demonstrates even more bravado. Some of that derives from the diversity of material and textures. Although primarily
- [Auditions: Cécile McLorin Salvant](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/auditions-cecile-mclorin-salvant/) - Cécile McLorin Salvant Oh Snap (Nonesuch) Cécile McLorin Salvant using AutoTune? The much-lauded, multi-Grammy-and-poll-winning MacArthur “genius” Fellow, adored for her vocal command as much as for her conceptual daring? Fear not, this is McLorin Salvant through and through. Her first album of all original compositions, it mixes acoustic tracks with others that show her taste
- [Ledisi: Celebrating Dinah’s Dynasty](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/ledisi-celebrating-dinahs-dynasty/) - Revered among jazz, blues and pop fans of a certain age, Dinah Washington was dubbed “The Queen of the Jukeboxes,” her music a ubiquitous presence in nightspots where people wanted to dance and have a good time. Washington, who died in 1963, would have turned 100 in 2024, and her legacy is being celebrated by
- [Catch Live: Abdullah Ibrahim](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/catch-live-abdullah-ibrahim/) - Feeling the heat of an increasingly repressive apartheid regime, Abdullah Ibrahim fled his native South Africa in the early 1960s. Then going by the stage name Dollar Brand — his birth name is Adolph Johannes Brand — Ibrahim was living in Zurich when Duke Ellington took him under his wing, recording the young pianist and
- [Louis Armstrong: The Corona Collection](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/louis-armstrong-the-corona-collection/) - In the span of a few months, Louis Armstrong had divorced his third wife in Chicago, married his fourth wife, Lucille, in St. Louis, and moved into a cozy brick residence at 34-56 107th Street in Corona, Queens. The year was 1943, and Armstrong was in great demand. But when he wasn’t touring the country,
- [Catch Live: Paquito D'Rivera](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/catch-live-paquito-drivera/) - At the age of 77, with accolades and awards piled high, Paquito D’Rivera continues to dazzle with his instrumental virtuosity and impulse to create and perform. That’s evident to anyone who’s heard his latest release, La Fleur de Cayenne, with his Madrid-New York Connection Band, or been privileged to witness him on-stage blowing clarinet or
- [Critic's Pick: Gustavo Cortiñas](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/critics-pick-gustavo-cortinas/) - Each year, JAZZIZ asks its critics, contributors and editors to sift through the recordings they’ve listened to over the previous 12 months (give or take) and come up with a list of their 10 favorites. We also ask them to select one recording that rose above the rest and write a brief explanation of why
- [Requisite: Ornette Coleman](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-ornette-coleman/) - The Ornette Coleman Trio At the Golden Circle, Stockholm, Volume One (Blue Note), 1966 Ornette Coleman had burst into the public consciousness with his quartet, but for his two-week stint at Stockholm’s Golden Circle club in November and December 1965, he pared down to just three pieces. (It was with this group that Coleman would
- [The Startling Journey of Mulatu Astatke](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-startling-journey-of-mulatu-astatke/) - Fans of the 2005 Jim Jarmusch film Broken Flowers will likely recall the intricate, evocative soundtrack that accompanied Bill Murray’s character’s lonely journey. No doubt, it provided many audiences their first taste of “Ethio-jazz,” a genre pioneered by Ethiopian multi-instrumentalist Mulatu Astatke, whose recordings gained greater recognition outside his home in Addis Ababa thanks to
- [Jason Moran: Dukin' It Out](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jason-moran-dukin-it-out/) - Jason Moran likes to mix it up. In addition to performing on Charles Lloyd’s upcoming trio recording Figure in Blue, and with the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra on the July release Go to Your North, the pianist and composer continues to show love and reverence for the music of Duke Ellington with a solo concert at
- [Discovery: Roberto Restuccia](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/discovery-roberto-restuccia/) - Roberto Restuccia, “De Nada,” Hand 2 Heart (Trippin N Rhythm) Growing up in the U.K., Roberto Restuccia taught himself to play guitar, in part by watching concert videos of Guns N’ Roses and its top-hatted ax man Slash. His tastes expanded as the burgeoning guitarist discovered jazz guitar greats such as George Benson, Larry Carlton,
- [Critic's Pick: Sam Rivers](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/critics-pick-sam-rivers/) - Each year, JAZZIZ asks its critics, contributors and editors to sift through the recordings they’ve listened to over the previous 12 months (give or take) and come up with a list of their 10 favorites. We also ask them to select one recording that rose above the rest and write a brief explanation of why
- [Requisite: George Benson](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-george-benson/) - George Benson The Other Side of Abbey Road (A&M/CTI), 1970 Less than a month after The Beatles released Abbey Road, George Benson entered the Rudy Van Gelder Studios and began crafting a brilliant jazz tribute to the Fab Four’s final studio masterpiece. Under the direction of Creed Taylor, and armed with wide-ranging arrangements by Don
- [Joni Mitchell: The iconic singer-songwriter seen through a jazz lens](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/joni-mitchell-the-iconic-singer-songwriter-seen-through-a-jazz-lens/) - Is Joni Mitchell a jazz singer? One could make a convincing argument, especially after delving into the new four-disc/eight-LP collection Joni’s Jazz (Rhino), which was lovingly curated by Mitchell herself. Sixty-one tracks span multiple decades from throughout her remarkable career, beginning with 1968’s Song to a Seagull through her triumphant return to the stage at
- [Catch Live: Christian Sands](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/caught-live-christian-sands/) - Having come to prominence in Christian McBride’s big band and trio, and recently teaming up with Kurt Elling on volume three of the singer’s Wildflowers EP series, pianist Christian Sands may be seen as an invaluable sideman. However, he’s also a leader in his own right, as heard on his two-decade-long discography, which dates back
- [Discovery: Joe Alterman and Mocean Worker](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/discovery-joe-alterman-and-mocean-worker/) - Joe Alterman and Mocean Worker, “Yay Yay Yay,” Keep the Line Open (Mowo! Inc) Les McCann was one funky mofo. As a progenitor of soul jazz, the pianist and composer, who died in late 2023, made his bones in the 1960s with hard-driving acoustic jazz that could keep any party grooving. He would also explore
- [Jonathan Frakes: Trombone on Star Trek? He made it so](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jonathan-frakes-trombone-on-star-trek-he-made-it-so/) - By Michael Fagien Long before he served aboard the Starship Enterprise or sat in the director’s chair for episodes of the acclaimed television series and two of its major motion picture spin-offs, Jonathan Frakes was a trombone player in love with jazz. For millions of fans, he’s best known as Commander William Riker from Star Trek:
- [John McLaughlin Remembers Zakir Hussain](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/john-mclaughlin-remembers-zakir-hussain/) - The fusion guitar icon recalls a 50-plus year friendship with tabla drum master Zakir Hussain, and celebrates his legacy with the release of one final live album by Shakti, the band they co-founded. As the legend goes, fledgling Mississippi bluesman Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil at a local crossroads to attain success,
- [John McLaughlin: The Spirit in the Sound](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/john-mclaughlin-the-spirit-in-the-sound/) - John McLaughlin on Zakir Hussain, Miles, meditation and a life beyond genre. By Michael Fagien “Musicians never retire — they just decompose.” John McLaughlin says it with a chuckle, but the truth in it resonates. At 82, the legendary guitarist has technically stepped away from the stage. Yet his presence still looms large — in
- [Critic's Pick: Sun Ra at the Showcase (2024 release)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/critics-pick-sun-ra-at-the-showcase-2024-release/) - Sun Ra at the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977 (Jazz Detective) By Bob Weinberg The city of Chicago played a crucial role in the development of the Sun Ra Arkestra. However, during a 1973 performance at the Auditorium Theater, where the band was sharing the bill with Alice Coltrane, someone in the audience tossed an
- [Requisite: Cassandra Wilson](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-cassandra-wilson/) - Cassandra Wilson New Moon Daughter (Blue Note), 1995 Her second album with producer Craig Street, New Moon Daughter was the apotheosis of Cassandra Wilson’s signature blend of jazz and Americana. Her rich, velvety voice is rooted in the dark, loamy soil of her native Mississippi and as humid as a Deep South summer, while also
- [Auditions: Gonzalo, Chris, Eric, Larry](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/auditions-gonzalo-chris-eric-larry/) - Gonzalo, Chris, Eric, Larry First Meeting (5 Passion) First Meeting captures a thrilling 2022 performance by pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba and saxophonist Chris Potter, blowing freely and amply on their game, with the stellar rhythm section of bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Eric Harland. What results is a treasure of timeless relevance and heat. Recorded at
- [Catch Live: Jersey City Latin Jazz Festival](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/catch-live-jersey-city-latin-jazz-festival/) - The sounds of clave and congas will echo along the Hudson River waterfront as the Jersey City Latin Jazz Festival returns on September 5 and 6. Presented by Exchange Place Alliance and Riverview Jazz, the free celebration takes place on three stages in Exchange Place Plaza and presents a tantalizing lineup of Latin jazz veterans
- [Auditions: Jane Ira Bloom](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/auditions-jane-ira-bloom/) - Jane Ira Bloom Songs in Space (Outline) Saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom has long drawn inspiration from the cosmos. In 1988, she became the first musician commissioned by the NASA Arts Program, premiering a piece dedicated to the Space Shuttle Discovery at the John F. Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral. Somewhere out there, an asteroid
- [Auditions: Itai Kriss](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/auditions-itai-kriss/) - Itai Kriss Daybreak (Jojo) Flutist Itai Kriss has been a mainstay of the New York jazz scene for the past 20 years, working extensively with Latin, Afro-Cuban and Middle Eastern artists while also developing a recognized improvisational voice within the straightahead Western tradition. Daybreak features 10 originals that use the concept of a 24-hour cycle
- [Auditions: Allan Harris](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/auditions-allan-harris/) - Allan Harris The Poetry of Jazz: Live at Blue Llama (Love Productions) On The Poetry of Jazz, singer, guitarist and spoken-word artist Allan Harris pairs moving, sometimes theatrical readings of works by poets ranging from Shakespeare to Maya Angelou with jazz and R&B gems and original tunes. The gambit pays off handsomely, largely thanks to
- [Auditions: Nicole Glover](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/auditions-nicole-glover/) - Nicole Glover Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Savant) Tenor saxophonist Nicole Glover leads her working trio of bassist Tyrone Allen II and drummer Kayvon Gordon on an emphatic journey through 11 cuts of pure improvisatory jazz. The album’s liner notes explain several of the tunes’ deliberate allusions to the teachings of philosopher Carl Jung, but listeners on
- [Béla Fleck’s BEATrio: The Unexpected Harmony of Banjo, Harp and Drums](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/bela-flecks-beatrio-the-unexpected-harmony-of-banjo-harp-and-drums/) - By Michael Fagien What happens when you bring together a banjo virtuoso, a Colombian harpist and a powerhouse Latin jazz drummer? You get Béla Fleck’s latest project: the BEATrio, a genre-blurring, rhythm-forward ensemble that sounds as daring as it does inevitable. “On one level, it’s the most natural thing in the world,” Fleck tells me.
- [Festival of New Trumpet Music: Unalloyed Creativity](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/festival-of-new-trumpet-music-unalloyed-creativity/) - This year’s Festival of New Trumpet Music (FONT) is a brass lover’s fantasy. In addition to celebrating the centennial of esteemed trumpeter and composer Bill Dixon and recognizing the eclectic contributions of cornetist Olu Dara, the event’s 23rd edition also offers a preview of co-founder Dave Douglas’ excellent new recording Alloy (Greenleaf Music), as well
- [Requisite: Wynton Marsalis](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-wynton-marsalis/) - Wynton Marsalis Black Codes From the Underground (Columbia/CBS), 1985 As Miles Davis was making music that was embracing cutting-edge technology and pop sounds of the 1980s, Wynton Marsalis was making music similar to that which Miles had innovated in the 1960s. And making it extremely well. Little love was lost between these cross-generational jazz stars,
- [Catch Live: DC Jazz Festival](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/catch-live-dc-jazz-festival/) - Catch Live: DC Jazz Festival There’s a takeover on the streets of Washington, D.C., but one that should spark joy rather than fear. That would be courtesy of the 21st annual DC Jazz Festival, which will expand its footprint this year with performances in various neighborhoods from August 27 to 31. Stages will be set
- [Critic's Pick: Andrew Cyrille](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/critics-pick-andrew-cyrille/) - Each year, JAZZIZ asks its critics, contributors and editors to sift through the recordings they’ve listened to over the previous 12 months (give or take) and come up with a list of their 10 favorites. We also ask them to select one recording that rose above the rest and write a brief explanation of why
- [Kurt Elling Grows Another Wildflower](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/kurt-elling-grows-another-wildflower/) - Kurt Elling has been on a creative tear. In addition to releasing a new album with SuperBlue, his group with guitarist Charlie Hunter, earlier this year, the dazzlingly talented vocalist teamed up with pianist Christian Sands for the third edition of his Wildflowers series of EPs, which will be released August 22. Not to be
- [Catch Live: Eric Scott Reed](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/catch-live-eric-scott-reed/) - Jazz has long conjured a nocturnal milieu. Often slinky and sensual, its tones seem to find purchase long after the sun has set and the street lights have come up, particularly in an urban setting. It is this nighttime world that’s explored by Eric Scott Reed on his recent release Out Late (Smoke Sessions), the
- [Cyrus Chestnut: Forty Years of Surprises, One “Autumn Leaves”](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/cyrus-chestnut-forty-years-of-surprises-one-autumn-leaves/) - Covering jazz standards qualifies as low-hanging fruit for many recording artists, especially when a tune has already been covered by artists including Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Artie Shaw, Stan Getz, Duke Ellington, Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis, Vince Guaraldi, Bill Evans and Sarah Vaughan. But Baltimore-born pianist Cyrus Chestnut’s 40-year touring and recording
- [Requisite: Charlie Haden Quartet West](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-charlie-haden-quartet-west/) - Charlie Haden Quartet West Haunted Heart (Gitanes), 1992 Charlie Haden expressed his passion for vintage movies through several recordings he made with Quartet West. On 1992’s Haunted Heart, the bassist and composer constructed a love letter to the Hollywood of the 1940s and ’50s, reflecting both the glamor of movie stars and elegant nightspots and
- [Eric Alexander and Vincent Herring: No split lips in this Split Decision](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/eric-alexander-and-vincent-herring-no-split-lips-in-this-split-decision/) - With their extended displays of breath-defying virtuosity, saxophone battles have long appealed to jazz audiences, who also revel in the chance to crown an ultimate “winner.” Of course, there were plenty of players who eagerly engaged in this blood sport over the years — Illinois Jacquet versus Ben Webster, or Dexter Gordon versus Wardell Gray,
- [Critic's Pick: Sheila Jordan](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/prelude-sheila-jordan/) - JAZZIZ honors vocalist and bebop torchbearer Sheila Jordan, who died August 11 at the age of 96, with this interview about her final album, from March 2025. A Bebopper to Her Soul Sheila Jordan keeps pushing while maintaining standards set by Charlie Parker and Billie Holiday. Singing comes so naturally to Sheila Jordan — living
- [Rodney Jordan's Love Letter to Memphis](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/rodney-jordans-love-letter-to-memphis/) - Born and raised in Memphis, Rodney Jordan received a first-rate musical education — and not just in the classroom. Jazz and blues elders such as Calvin Newborn and James Williams called upon the bassist’s talents and regaled him with stories and lessons on the bandstand, while the ghost of W.C. Handy must have been singing
- [Gogo Penguin Throws Piano Trio for a Loop](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/gogo-penguin-throwing-piano-trio-for-a-loop/) - Manchester, England’s GoGo Penguin is bringing new meaning to the piano trio format. Pianist Chris Illingworth, bassist Nick Blacka and drummer Jon Scott employ not only acoustic instruments, but also modular synthesizers, a Moog Grandmother keyboard and breakbeats on their latest release, Necessary Fictions (XXIM). The resulting sounds are practically a blender filled with elements
- [Plainsong and Purpose: Fred Hersch’s Quiet Brilliance](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/fred-hersch-plainsong/) - If ever there were an artist and recording label that seemed destined to work together, it’s pianist Fred Hersch and ECM. Manfred Eicher’s imprint has long specialized in the pastoral, plaintive sounds that are Hersch’s trademark, and the prolific pianist’s 2024 solo ECM debut Silent, Listening and 2025 trio effort The Surrounding Green provide proof. The latter’s “Plainsong” opens
- [Donald Harrison: Quantum Leap Music Fest](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/a-quantum-leap-from-new-orleans-to-long-island/) - New Orleans-born saxophone icon Donald Harrison brings the Big Easy to the North Fork for his second annual Quantum Leap Music Festival. Donald Harrison comes by his title of Big Chief naturally. Like his father, Donald Harrison Sr., the 65-year-old alto sax master serves as Big Chief of the Congo Nation tribe. He's also chief
- [Critic's Pick: Angelica Sanchez Nonet](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/critics-pick-angelica-sanchez-nonet/) - Each year, JAZZIZ asks its critics, contributors and editors to sift through the recordings they’ve listened to over the previous 12 months (give or take) and come up with a list of their 10 favorites. We also ask them to select one recording that rose above the rest and write a brief explanation of why
- [Requisite: Black Orpheus soundtrack](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-black-orpheus-soundtrack/) - Various artists The Original Sound Track of the Movie Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro) (Epic), 1960 Although the film has been criticized for its overly sunny portrayal of life in the favelas (slums), there’s no denying the cultural importance of Orfeus Negro, or Black Orpheus, especially as it relates to its soundtrack. For many, director Marcel
- [Auditions: Etienne Charles](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/auditions-etienne-charles/) - Etienne Charles Gullah Roots (Culture Shock Music) Etienne Charles has long expressed an affinity for the music of his native Trinidad & Tobago, seamlessly weaving Afro-Caribbean traditions with jazz, including frequent nods to New Orleans sounds. For Gullah Roots, the Miami-based trumpeter-composer turns to the not dissimilar rootsy rhythms and textures of the Lowcountry, the
- [Auditions: Matthew Shipp](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/auditions-matthew-shipp/) - Matthew Shipp The Cosmic Piano (Cantaloupe Music) Though long considered an important figure in venturesome jazz circles, pianist Matthew Shipp has released his latest solo piano album,The Cosmic Piano, on the new-music and contempo-classical-oriented Cantaloupe Music label, home of the “indie-classical” Bang on a Can gang. It’s a fitting match, given the exploratory idiomatic cosmos
- [Auditions: NYO Jazz](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/auditions-nyo-jazz/) - NYO Jazz Live in Johannesburg (Platoon) NYO Jazz is the jazz arm of three National Youth Orchestra ensembles created by Carnegie Hall, the other two covering the classical realm. Since its inception in 2018, NYO Jazz’s 22 young members have toured internationally, but this is their first live recording, documenting the big band’s four-concert residency at
- [Auditions: Joshua Redman](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/auditions-joshua-redman/) - Joshua Redman Words Fall Short (Blue Note) It’s a strategy deployed by numerous band-leading composers including, of course, Duke Ellington: Write and arrange your music for the players at hand. Joshua Redman takes just that approach with Words Fall Short, building his new tunes around the young musicians who joined the tenor and soprano saxophonist
- [Auditions: Theo Croker](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/auditions-theo-croker/) - Theo Croker Dream Manifest (Dom Recs) As much a sound architect as a trumpeter, Theo Croker uses acoustic and electronic instruments with effects to create a wraparound, multi-genre soundscape. With his core group of pianist Michael King, bassist Eric Wheeler, drummer Shekwoaga Ode plus guests, Croker used ample studio time to allow each of the
- [The Long View: Joshua Redman on Sound, Serendipity and Staying True](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-long-view-joshua-redman-on-sound-serendipity-and-staying-true/) - Photo By: Jen Rosenstein With a new band and a new album on Blue Note, Joshua Redman doesn’t look back too often. But when he does, it’s with humility and reverence. By Michael Fagien “There were doors that were open that shouldn’t have been open in the first place — and they probably weren’t going
- [August 2025 Digital Flipbook](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/august-2025-digital-flipbook/)
- [Will Bernard, Everyband Guitarist](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/will-bernard-everyband-guitarist/) - Whether he's leading a rotating cast in his Indoor/Outdoor Ensemble or filling a sideman role in an all-star band, Will Bernard showcases his versatility in a number of musical situations. As our July Guitar Picks 2 issue comes to a close, we spotlight a guitarist deserving of wider recognition. Will Bernard started his career by casting a wide
- [Us3's Loop Back From the Brink](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/us3s-loop-back-from-the-brink/) - Producer Geoff Wilkinson, founder of British jazz-meets-hip-hop act Us3, offers a resurgent Soundtrack 22 years after "Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)." Even listeners who don't recognize the name Us3 likely remember the group's 1993 hit "Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)." The track was built upon a sample of keyboardist Herbie Hancock's 1964 Blue Note Records chestnut "Cantaloupe Island," complete with
- [Remembering Chuck Mangione](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/remembering-chuck-mangione/) - Flugelhornist Chuck Mangione scored a massive jazz instrumental hit in 1978 with "Feels So Good." The flugelhorn, a type of valved bugle developed in Germany in the early 19th Century, has since become more present in brass orchestras than in jazz, the lair of its cousin the trumpet. But Charles Frank "Chuck" Mangione brought that
- [New Biography Shows How Lee Berk Built Berklee](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-biography-shows-how-lee-berk-built-berklee/) - Berklee College of Music namesake and longtime president Lee Berk is profiled in a new biography. If the topic is non-classical musical higher education in the United States, and indeed the world, the first thought for many might be the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. And with good reason, since the school has produced
- [Critic's Pick: Hal Galper and the Youngbloods (2017)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/critics-pick-hal-galper-and-the-youngbloods-2017/) - JAZZIZ says farewell to pianist, composer and educator Hal Galper, who died July 18 at age 87, with this review from 2017. Hal Galper and the Youngbloods Live at the Cota Jazz Festival (Origin) Pianist Hal Galper and his quartet play melodic post-bop with a slippery rhythmic foundation. It’s music that surprises the listener at
- [Requisite: Duke Ellington and Ray Brown](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-duke-ellington-and-ray-brown/) - Duke Ellington and Ray Brown This One’s for Blanton (Pablo), 1975 Few practitioners have changed the way their instrument is played forever, but Jimmy Blanton ranks high among them. Playing with Duke Ellington’s band for just two years — he died of tuberculosis in 1941 at the age of 23 — the virtuoso bassist liberated
- [An Affordable, Eventful Late July at Lincoln Center](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/an-affordable-eventful-late-july-at-lincoln-center/) - New York City's jazz epicenter presents a couple of pay-what-you-choose concerts by its Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and an album release by one of its members to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its own recording label. Wynton Marsalis is one of the world's most recognizable jazz figures, and he's also musical director of one
- [Charlie Rosen's Audio Gamesmanship](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/charlie-rosens-audio-gamesmanship/) - The multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, producer and conductor's 33-65-piece 8-Bit Big Band releases its fifth album, Orchestrator Emulator. As evidence of how much the recording industry has changed in the Internet era, look no further than bandleader Charlie Rosen's New York City-based jazz-pops orchestra, The 8-Bit Big Band. The group has achieved fame by garnering nearly
- [The Afrocentric Cosmos of Stephen Lands](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-afrocentric-cosmos-of-stephen-lands/) - Stephen Lands Rearranging the Planets (self-released) For longer than recorded history, mankind has looked to the cosmos for answers and insights. Such astral projection provided rich material for composer Gustav Holst, whose masterwork The Planets premiered in 1918. And it is Holst’s seven-part suite that has inspired New Orleans trumpet player, composer and arranger Stephen
- [Percy Jones: From Brand X to PAKT](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/percy-jones-from-brand-x-to-pakt/) - The former Brand X fretless bass wizard and his four-year-old quartet PAKT prove that free improvisation deserves a plug. As Jaco Pastorius wowed audiences with Weather Report in the mid-1970s, another fretless electric bassist was comparatively obscured while doing the exact same thing with another jazz fusion group. And Percy Jones is doing so again
- [A Beast Unleashed From the Southeast](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/a-beast-unleashed-from-the-southeast/) - Beast Mode Trio features three powerful South Florida musicians, each with Grammy Awards and star connections, on its debut Something Like a Picture (Inner Cat). An Australian pianist, a Cuban bassist and an American drummer walk into a nightclub ... only this is no joke. The Beast Mode Trio features rising keyboard sensation Tal Cohen (whose
- [Critic's Pick: Tyreek McDole (recent release)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/critics-pick-tyreek-mcdole-recent-release/) - Tyreek McDole Open Up Your Senses (Artwork) Tyreek McDole fits beautifully within a continuum of revered baritone jazz singers. On his debut recording, the New York-based vocalist pays affectionate homage to Leon Thomas and Joe Williams, and spans generational influences that recall the likes of Andy Bey and José James. But the 25-year-old McDole puts
- [Billy Hart's Swim Through Jazz History](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/billy-harts-swim-through-jazz-history/) - Oceans of Time: The Musical Autobiography of Billy Hart (Cymbal Press) details the 84-year-old jazz drumming icon's career as told to Ethan Iverson. Billy Hart's career recording and performance credits read like a roadmap of jazz from the 1960s onward. He's one of a handful of drummers, all now in their 70s or 80s (including Billy
- [Requisite: John Coltrane and Rashied Ali](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-john-coltrane-and-rashied-ali/) - John Coltrane/Rashied Ali Interstellar Space (Impulse!), 1974 Rashied Ali didn’t know the session was going to be just drums and saxophone until John Coltrane arrived at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio and told him — no one else was coming. In subsequent years, according to Ben Ratliff’s 2007 book Coltrane: The Story of a Sound, the
- [Mike Keneally's Latest Musical "ProgJect"](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/mike-keneallys-latest-musical-progject/) - Drummer Jonathan Mover's ProgJect pays tribute to the subgenre of progressive rock that inspired both him and lead guitarist Mike Keneally. Tribute acts have become so popular that one of the world's great singing multi-instrumentalists and composers, Mike Keneally, joined one four years ago. Drummer Jonathan Mover (Joe Satriani, The Tubes, Aretha Franklin) got the
- [Joe Morris: Adventures in Sound](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/joe-morris-adventures-in-sound/) - An overdue meeting of improvisational guitar giants Joe Morris and Elliott Sharp opens up a world of sonic possibilities. By Bob Weinberg The concatenation of sounds is startling. The resonance of fingers on strings and the steely plink of guitar picks contrast with a litany of electronic effects that conjure echoes — sometimes industrial, sometimes
- [Rez Abbasi: Acoustic Dreams](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/rez-abbasi-acoustic-dreams/) - On his 17th album as a leader, the deeply personal Sound Remains, Rez Abassi expands his Acoustic Quartet to a quintet and finds new expression on his steel-string acoustic. By Bill Milkowski During the past 30 years of his remarkably productive career, New York-based guitarist, composer and arranger Rez Abbasi has explored a myriad of
- [Critic's Pick: Myra Melford](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/critics-pick-myra-melford/) - Each year, JAZZIZ asks its critics, contributors and editors to sift through the recordings they’ve listened to over the previous 12 months (give or take) and come up with a list of their 10 favorites. We also ask them to select one recording that rose above the rest and write a brief explanation of why
- [Requisite: Mel Tormé](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-mel-torme/) - Mel Tormé Comin’ Home Baby! (Atlantic), 1962 Not exactly a youngster at age 37, Mel Tormé had long established himself as a crooner and scat-singer extraordinaire by 1962. Nonetheless, Atlantic Records sought to freshen Tormé’s sound — and youthen his audience — with the LP Comin’ Home Baby!, the title song of which had a
- [Jazz Is in John Yarling's DNA](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jazz-is-in-john-yarlings-dna/) - The versatile South Florida drummer leads an open jam session in the studio of Miami jazz radio station WDNA 88.9-FM on July 11. Drummers are sometimes described as "musical" when they're popular music minimalists like Ringo Starr, Charlie Watts or Don Henley. But a truly musical drummer like John Yarling has made a career of
- [Montreal Jazz Fest: Rue Sainte-Catherine Rules](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/montreal-jazz-fest-rue-sainte-catherine-rules/) - Set along a few blocks of one downtown street, Rue Sainte-Catherine, the 45th annual Festival International de Jazz de Montreal featured sophistication indoors and a party atmosphere outdoors. One of the first things you notice about the annual Festival International de Jazz de Montreal, other than the realization that only a few nights among its
- [Critic's Pick: Franco Ambrosetti](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/critics-pick-franco-ambrosetti/) - Each year, JAZZIZ asks its critics, contributors and editors to sift through the recordings they’ve listened to over the previous 12 months (give or take) and come up with a list of their 10 favorites. We also ask them to select one recording that rose above the rest and write a brief explanation of why
- [Requisite: Budd Johnson](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-budd-johnson/) - Budd Johnson Blues à la Mode (Felsted), 1958 Tenor saxophonist Johnson was not one to reinvent the wheel. During a time when jazz was pushing in exciting new directions, the veteran bandstander assembled a crack group of associates for an old-school blowing session. And the results, recorded during two February 1958 sessions, offer plenty of
- [Django Festival Allstars: Truth in Advertising](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/django-festival-allstars-truth-in-advertising/) - Modern-day Quintette du Hot Club de France offers the fire of Paris, the soul of jazz, and the spirit of Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli during an East Coast tour in July. Following their July 4 performance (7 p.m.) in the elegant Theatre Jean-Duceppe at the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal, the Django Festival
- [Critic's Pick: Roy Hargrove's Crisol (2024)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/critics-pick-roy-hargroves-crisol-2024/) - Roy Hargrove’s Crisol Grande-Terre (Verve) Brilliant trumpeter Hargrove — who died in 2018, at age 49 — traveled to Cuba in 1996. His mind was blown, and he formed a new band, Crisol, including great Cuban players. In 1998, two months after accepting a Best Latin Jazz Performance Grammy for that band’s debut album, he
- [Requisite: Paul Bley](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-paul-bley/) - Paul Bley Turning Point (Improvising Artists Inc.), 1975 Paul Bley left behind a vast and varied catalog. The pianist and composer, whose long career included stints with Charlie Parker and Ornette Coleman, died in January 2016 at the age of 83. The music on 1975's Turning Point, released on Bley's own Improvising Artists imprint, comes
- [Jazz Guitar Roundup: Recent Releases](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jazz-guitar-roundup-recent-releases/) - From electronic collage to a Horace Silver salute, these guitar albums prick up the ears. While some jazz guitarists revel in the most sublime tones their instruments can produce, others are happiest exploring the outer edges of sonic expression. And an ever growing number split the difference, not completely eschewing dissonance, but hardly abandoning song
- [Jazz Guitar Essentials](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jazz-guitar-essentials/) - From pioneers of plugged-in to far-out fusion explorers, here are 10 albums that trace the evolution of the guitar’s role in jazz. By Bob Weinberg and Bill Meredith Little could Charlie Christian have envisioned the places jazz guitar would go when he plugged in and played alongside Benny Goodman and Lionel Hampton in the 1930s.
- [Dave Stryker's Stringed Cinematic Soundtrack](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/dave-strykers-stringed-cinematic-soundtrack/) - The veteran guitarist's 38th album, Stryker With Strings Goes to the Movies, covers film themes with his quartet, composer-arranger Brent Wallarab, an orchestra and a string quartet. To paraphrase a fitting film quote, 68-year-old guitarist Dave Stryker isn't in Nebraska anymore. The Omaha native — whose new release is titled Stryker With Strings Goes to the Movies
- [Critic's Pick: Carlos Henriquez](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/critics-pick-carlos-henriquez/) - Each year, JAZZIZ asks its critics, contributors and editors to sift through the recordings they’ve listened to over the previous 12 months (give or take) and come up with a list of their 10 favorites. We also ask them to select one recording that rose above the rest and write a brief explanation of why
- [Requisite: McCoy Tyner](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-mccoy-tyner/) - McCoy Tyner Tender Moments (Blue Note), 1967 Two years after his departure from John Coltrane’s quartet, pianist McCoy Tyner was still revealing facets of his musical persona. On his second release for Blue Note, 1967’s Tender Moments, Tyner assembled an estimable nonet to play his vibrant, color-filled compositions. The muscular support of rising-star peers —
- [Centro Stage With Copeland Davis](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/centro-stage-with-copeland-davis/) - The Florida-based pianist holds down a weekly three-night house gig with his trio following album releases, Las Vegas residencies and arranging for The Fifth Dimension. Veteran pianist Copeland Davis was born in Orlando, long before Disney World even existed, but he found his happy place when he ventured further south to study music at
- [Saratoga Jazz Festival: Off to the Races](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/saratoga-jazz-festival-off-to-the-races/) - The two-day, two-stage festival at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center runs with cutting-edge jazz, blues, funk and roots music. Known as one of horse racing's epicenters, the city of Saratoga Springs, New York, is also presenting its 48th annual Saratoga Jazz Festival from June 28 to 29. "As we approach nearly 50 years of our
- [Norah Jones and John Legend's Salute to Summer Lovin'](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/norah-jones-and-john-legends-salute-to-summer-lovin/) - From Bryan Hyland's tearstained "Sealed With a Kiss" ("Yes, it's gonna be a cold lonely summer") to the Beach Boys' raucous "Surfin' USA" ("We'll all be gone for the summer, we're on surfari to stay") to WAR's laid-back street celebration "Summer" ("Riding 'round town with all the windows down/Eight track playing all your favorite sounds"),
- [Jazz Ascona: A Big Easy Alpine Climb](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jazz-ascona-a-big-easy-alpine-climb/) - From June 26 to July 5, four stages in Ascona, Switzerland, offer more than 200 free concerts in the 41st presentation of the New Orleans-themed festival. Jazz was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, so a stop there is a requisite for fans traveling through the southeastern United States. But jazz is, if anything, appreciated just
- [Critic's Pick: Kris Davis' Diatom Ribbons](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/critics-pick-kris-davis-diatom-ribbons/) - Each year, JAZZIZ asks its critics, contributors and editors to sift through the recordings they’ve listened to over the previous 12 months (give or take) and come up with a list of their 10 favorites. We also ask them to select one recording that rose above the rest and write a brief explanation of why
- [Requisite: Geri Allen](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-geri-allen/) - Geri Allen Flying Toward the Sound (Motéma), 2010 As evidenced throughout her long discography, pianist Geri Allen was a treasured collaborator, shining brightly alongside Betty Carter, Ornette Coleman and Charles Lloyd on their respective projects, or leading sessions with brilliant rhythm players such as Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette. However, she also ventured into the
- [Frank Zappa's Visual Cheapness](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/frank-zappas-visual-cheapness/) - Archival rehearsal film Cheaper Than Cheep showcases the best band Frank Zappa may have ever had. Late trumpeter Miles Davis was universally regarded as the fusion godfather after bringing electric instruments into jazz in the late 1960s. But since fusion is a blend of jazz and rock styles, Frank Zappa (1940-1993) qualified as Robin to
- [A Mass of Variety at Jazz Aspen Snowmass Experience](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/a-mass-of-variety-at-jazz-aspen-snowmass-experience/) - Downtown Aspen's multi-venue festival presents jazz, blues, funk and world music from June 26 to 29. As Jimi Hendrix once asked, "Are you experienced?" The late sage's songwriting, guitar playing and vocals blended rock, blues, funk and even jazz-like chord voicings, and the latest installment of the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Experience involves all those styles
- [Critic's Pick: Hasaan Ibn Ali](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/critics-pick-hasaan-ibn-ali/) - Each year, JAZZIZ asks its critics, contributors and editors to sift through the recordings they’ve listened to over the previous 12 months (give or take) and come up with a list of their 10 favorites. We also ask them to select one recording that rose above the rest and write a brief explanation of why
- [Requisite: Joe Lovano](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-joe-lovano/) - Joe Lovano Trio Fascination, Edition One (Blue Note), 1997 Joe Lovano was well into his tenure with Blue Note when he recorded this loose-limbed trio session with bassist Dave Holland and drummer Elvin Jones in 1997. The saxophonist had jammed with Holland at Sam Rivers’ Studio Rivbea in New York City in the 1970s, and
- [Laura Anglade: The Art of Acting a Song](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/laura-anglade-the-art-of-acting-a-song/) - Vocalist Laura Anglade invests plenty of character into her hip, evocative readings of classic jazz and pop standards. From Bob Dorough and Blossom Dearie to Johnny Hartman and Carmen McRae, the best jazz vocalists have inhabited the characters whose points of view from which they sing. To hear Hartman convincingly portray a jaded nightlife denizen in
- [Montreal Jazz Festival: La Musique Magnifique](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/montreal-jazz-festival-la-musique-magnifique/) - Montreal Jazz Festival's 45th installment casts a wide net at multiple venues over 10 days. Festival International de Jazz de Montreal, as it's known in the shimmering city in the Canadian province of Quebec, is as well-known for its open-mindedness as is the welcoming city of Montreal itself. It's a festival so giving that it
- [NYO Jazz Youth Big Band Releases 'Live in Johannesburg'](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/nyo-jazz-youth-big-band-releases-live-in-johannesburg/) - Led by trumpeter, bandleader and artistic director Sean Jones, Carnegie Hall's 16-to-19-year-old youth big band NYO Jazz releases Live in Johannesburg on June 20. A common question that teenaged students face is, "What did you do on your summer vacation?" To co-opt a line from the Go-Go's pop hit "Vacation," the NYO Jazz ensemble's 2024 summer
- [Jazz, blues and gospel with Hart and Montague](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jazz-blues-and-gospel-with-hart-and-montague/) - Alto saxophonist Antonio Hart's quintet is joined by dynamic vocalist Antoinette Montague at Flushing Town Hall in New York. Instead of allowing public school music and arts budget cuts to derail his budding career, alto saxophonist Antonio Hart used education to make himself stronger. The 56-year-old Baltomore native was in ninth grade when those programs
- [Critic's Pick: Anna Webber](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/critics-pick-anna-webber/) - Each year, JAZZIZ asks its critics, contributors and editors to sift through the recordings they’ve listened to over the previous 12 months (give or take) and come up with a list of their 10 favorites. We also ask them to select one recording that rose above the rest and write a brief explanation of why
- [Requisite: Tina Brooks](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-tina-brooks/) - Tina Brooks True Blue (Blue Note), 1960 Tenorist Harold Floyd “Tina” Brooks was a valued session player in the Blue Note stable when he recorded this blues-drenched 1960 masterwork. In fact, just the week before the date, he had brilliantly accompanied Freddie Hubbard on his debut album, Open Sesame. The trumpeter returns the favor on
- [Nathan & Noah East Team Up with Eric Clapton in a Jazz Album for the Ages](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/nathan-noah-east-team-up-with-eric-clapton-in-a-jazz-album-for-the-ages/) - 🎙️ JAZZIZ Podcast | FATHER & SON: Nathan & Noah EastLegendary bassist. Rising star pianist. One unforgettable debut. In this special episode of the JAZZIZ Podcast, just in time for Father's Day, we sit down with internationally acclaimed bassist Nathan East and his 24-year-old son, pianist/organist Noah East, to discuss their deeply personal and musically
- [JAZZIZ Contributor Ted Drozdowski's Film Makes the Big Stream](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jazziz-contributor-ted-drozdowskis-film-makes-the-big-stream/) - Singer, songwriter and journalist Ted Drozdowski's crowdfunded film The River: A Songwriter's Stories of the South, is available on streaming networks and DVD. Ted Drozdowski might be best-known as a music journalist, considering he's a veteran contributor to publications like JAZZIZ, Musician and Rolling Stone, and is currently editorial director of Premier Guitar. But he's also the singer, guitarist and songwriter
- [Remembering Drummer Al Foster](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/remembering-drummer-al-foster/) - A groove master, Aloysius Tyrone Foster was best known for touring and recording with Miles Davis between 1972 and 1989. In the list of drummers who worked with Miles Davis, which includes marquee names Philly Joe Jones, Art Blakey, Tony Williams, Billy Cobham, Lenny White and Jack DeJohnette, Al Foster (1943-2025) occasionally got lost in
- [Critic's Pick: Tyshawn Sorey Trio](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/critics-pick-tyshawn-sorey-trio/) - Each year, JAZZIZ asks its critics, contributors and editors to sift through the recordings they’ve listened to over the previous 12 months (give or take) and come up with a list of their 10 favorites. We also ask them to select one recording that rose above the rest and write a brief explanation of why
- [Requisite: Andrew Hill](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-andrew-hill/) - Andrew Hill Passing Ships (Blue Note), 2003 One of pianist and composer Andrew Hill’s most alluring albums, Passing Ships sat on the shelf for 34 years. Rescued by Hill and producer Michael Cuscuna and released in 2003, the material revealed Hill’s brilliance as a writer and arranger for a nonet that beautifully realized his vision.
- [Wine Country Jazz in Healdsburg](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/wine-country-jazz-in-healdsburg/) - Healdsburg Jazz Festival's 27th installment includes performances by Dianne Reeves, Jason Moran, Terri Lyne Carrington, Jake Shimabukuro, Kenny Barron, Nicholas Payton and Donald Harrison June 13-22. Located 45 miles north of San Francisco, Healdsburg, California, is known for its good wine-sipping tastes in the northern part of the state. And for much of June, attendees
- [Brian Wilson Tribute](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/brian-wilson-tribute/) - Back in the ’90s, I launched a record label under the Verve Group with guitar impresario Lee Ritenour and jazz label executive Mark Wexler. I originally called it IndigoMusic—a name I thought was perfect—until PolyGram, Verve’s parent company at the time, politely informed me I’d have to change it. Apparently, Polygram, Sony and the Indigo
- [Song of the Day: "Time Shift" by Tim Jago](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/song-of-the-day-time-shift-by-tim-jago/) - Left-handed and well-traveled, Australia-turned-New York City guitarist Tim Jago offers fair warning with the title track to his latest recording, Time Shift (Bespoke Jazz ). Before he moved to the United States in 2010, guitarist Tim Jago grew up in the outback bush terrain of Perth, Western Australia, where his unorthodox ideas and oversized talents stood out.
- [A Sky-High San Francisco Jazz Festival](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/a-sky-high-san-francisco-jazz-festival/) - From June 13 to 15, the multi-venue festival features Charles Lloyd, Stanley Clarke, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Patrice Rushen, Kurt Elling, Dave Holland, Don Was, Lionel Loueke, Nicholas Payton and Kassa Overall. In its 42nd installment, the San Francisco Jazz Festival features an outdoor festival tent with four concerts per day and a street market with rotating
- [Susie Ibarra Wins the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Music](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/percussionist-composer-susie-ibarra-wins-the-2025-pulitzer-prize-in-music/) - The California-born Philippina-American artist nets a Pulitzer for Sky Islands, a musical tribute to rich and fragile ecosystems inspired by the rainforest habitats of Luzon, Philippines. Having premiered on July 18, 2024 at the Asia Society in New York City, drummer, percussionist and composer Susie Ibarra's Sky Islands certainly fits the bill for what The Pulitzer Prize website
- [Jazztopad Festival Brings Original, Improvised Works to New York](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jazztopad-festival-brings-original-improvised-works-to-new-york/) - The Polish jazz festival travels to New York City for the ninth time, stressing original commissioned works and global improvisers through Manhattan and Brooklyn. In a current musical climate that stresses nostalgic tributes over originality across all genres, the Jazztopad Festival has featured the opposite annually at the National Forum of Music in Wroclaw, Poland,
- [Critic's Pick: Eri Yamamoto](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/critics-pick-eri-yamamoto/) - Each year, JAZZIZ asks its critics, contributors and editors to sift through the recordings they’ve listened to over the previous 12 months (give or take) and come up with a list of their 10 favorites. We also ask them to select one recording that rose above the rest and write a brief explanation of why
- [Icons of an Era: Charles Mingus](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/icons-of-an-era-charles-mingus/) - Icons of an Era, Part 3 Charles Mingus Physically imposing and intensely committed to his craft, Charles Mingus was as volatile as his music might lead you to believe. Atlantic engineer Tom Dowd recalled a moment during the sessions for Mingus’ 1957 Atlantic recording, The Clown, in which the bassist, composer and bandleader was unsuccessfully
- [Requisite: Oscar Brown Jr.](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-oscar-brown-jr/) - Oscar Brown Jr. Sin & Soul (Columbia), 1960 Vocalist Oscar Brown Jr.’s 1960 masterpiece introduced listeners to the warm, witty, streetwise lyrics he penned for jazz tunes of the day. The Chicago singer and actor put words to Nat Adderley’s “Work Song,” Herbie Hancock’s “Watermelon Man” and Mongo Santamaria’s “Afro Blue,” adding narrative dimension and
- [The Centennial Club: Gunther Schuller](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-centennial-club-gunther-schuller/) - GUNTHER SCHULLER (1925-2015) A Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, French horn player, conductor, educator, author and historian, Gunther Schuller is likely best remembered as the leading proponent of the “Third Stream” movement — a term he coined in 1957 to describe a hybrid of jazz and classical music. It was Schuller who bravely introduced jazz into the
- [Join in Live @1PM EST! Nathan and Noah East](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/join-in-live-1pm-est-nathan-and-noah-east/) - Join us for a Subscriber only livestream recording of the JAZZIZ Podcast with Nathan and Noah East discussing their latest album "Father Son" https://www.youtube.com/live/hWeMqqz2BJ0
- [Label Mates, Song Mates, Soul Mates](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/label-mates-song-mates-soul-mates/) - Chicago-based duet partners on multiple levels, vocalist Joanie Pallatto and pianist Bradley Parker-Sparrow honor a late friend with "Jim De Jong" on their latest release, SONG (Southport). Not exactly a second city, Chicago has always been a music mecca with a personality all its own. And the Windy City's first couple of jazz -- vocalist Joanie
- [SFJAZZ Gala 2025 — Why Ask Was?](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/sfjazz-gala-2025-why-ask-was/) - The San Francisco Jazz Festival's pre-fest gala pays tribute to the 1980s pop star turned Blue Note Records president. The artist formerly known as Don Edward Fagenson might not be best-known for jazz, even though he's president of Blue Note Records, one of the preeminent jazz recording labels of all-time. Detroit, Michigan-born Don Was is
- [The Centennial Club: Cal Tjader](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-centennial-club-cal-tjader/) - CAL TJADER (1925-1982) Non-Latin bandleaders are uncommon in Latin music, Latin jazz in particular. But vibraphonist Cal Tjader, born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Swedish-American parents who were touring vaudeville performers, managed to carve out success in the genre. The Tjader family settled in the San Francisco peninsula town of San Mateo during Cal’s childhood,
- [Max Roach: To the Max](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/to-the-max/) - A century past his birth, Max Roach’s legacy grows. By Larry Blumenfeld In February, Tyshawn Sorey sat behind his drum set on the stage of Manhattan’s 92Y flanked by his trio mates, pianist Aaron Diehl and bassist Harish Raghavan. “This night is for Max Roach,” he said, “who will always be here.” Here was one
- [Critic's Pick: Tom Harrell](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/critics-pick-tom-harrell/) - Each year, JAZZIZ asks its critics, contributors and editors to sift through the recordings they’ve listened to over the previous 12 months (give or take) and come up with a list of their 10 favorites. We also ask them to select one recording that rose above the rest and write a brief explanation of why
- [Requisite: John Coltrane](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-john-coltrane/) - Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse!), 2014 John Coltrane has never been accused of lacking feeling in his playing. But performing before a modest hometown Philadelphia crowd at Temple University in November of 1966 seemed to elicit an emotional reaction, evident in both his highly charged blowing and his equally affecting wordless vocalizations. While bootleg
- [World Premieres by the PRISM Quartet and Its Guitar Heroes](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/world-premieres-by-the-prism-quartet-and-its-guitar-heroes/) - The Forward-thinking saxophone quartet collaborates with guitarists Leyla McCalla, Rez Abbasi and Steven Mackey in New York City and Philadelphia. Depending on the musical situation, the PRISM Quartet (saxophonists Matthew Levy, Timothy Mcallister, Zachary Shemon and Taimur Sullivan) effortlessly shifts between jazz and chamber, world, classical and improvisational music. Founded in 1984 by students of
- [Kandace Springs: Glad To Be Unhappy](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/glad-to-be-unhappy/) - Kandace Springs delves into the emotional truths of a Billie Holiday classic. By Lissette Corsa From the moment she released her eponymous debut EP in 2014, Kandace Springs has enchanted jazz audiences with her velvety voice and sonic malleability. Her 2016 debut album, Soul Eyes (Blue Note), cast an even wider spell. “I can go
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- [Song of the Day: "Dance On the Wire" by Silvano Monasterios](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/song-of-the-day-dance-on-the-wire-by-silvano-monasterios/) - The Venezuela-born pianist and his nonet ebb and flow throughout his latest album, the independently-released The River. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, 60-year-old pianist Silvano Monasterios has long blended the influence of his homeland with that of pianistic jazz forefathers like Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, McCoy Tyner, and Herbie Hancock. After studying and starting a professional career
- [Icons of an Era, Part 3: Ornette Coleman](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/icons-of-an-era-part-3-ornette-coleman/) - Icons of an Era, Part 3 Ornette Coleman Misunderstood, dismissed as insane and outright detested, Ornette Coleman nevertheless persisted and helped forge the future of jazz, or at least suggested an alternate direction. While they met with mixed reaction, the saxophonist and composer’s triptych of late 1950s releases — 1958’s Something Else!!! and 1959’s Tomorrow
- [Requisite: Gerald Wilson](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-gerald-wilson/) - Gerald Wilson The Artist Selects (Blue Note), 2005 Innovative bandleader Gerald Wilson, who died in 2014 at age 96, left behind a remarkable legacy. On this 2005 compilation, the longtime Californian selected 16 tracks that spotlight recordings from his 1961-’66 tenure with the Pacific Jazz label. Wilson, who hit the road with Jimmie Lunceford as
- [Critic's Pick: Lesley Mok](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/critics-pick-lesley-mok/) - Each year, JAZZIZ asks its critics, contributors and editors to sift through the recordings they’ve listened to over the previous 12 months (give or take) and come up with a list of their 10 favorites. We also ask them to select one recording that rose above the rest and write a brief explanation of why
- [The Free Jazz Festival With Clear Sight Lines](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-free-jazz-festival-with-clear-sight-lines/) - The six-night Vision Festival 2025 features Roscoe Mitchell, William Parker, Marilyn Crispell, Immanuel Wilkins, Matthew Shipp, Mary Halvorson and others in Brookyln. Jazz musicians get more expressive freedom than their classical and popular music counterparts, who are respectively bound by notated sheet music and often-rigid song structures. And perhaps no musicians get more rope, whether
- [Keith Jarrett: An Icon Looks at 80](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/keith-jarrett-an-icon-looks-at-80/) - The legendary pianist celebrated his 80th birthday this month with New Vienna (ECM), a live solo piano recording from his 2016 European tour to be released today. Like 85-year-old Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett is part of the lineage of great keyboardists who were in bands led by Miles Davis, including departed masters Bill Evans, Joe Zawinul
- [From Bomb Threat to Blue Note: Lee Ritenour in Honolulu](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/from-bomb-threat-to-blue-note-lee-ritenour-in-honolulu/) - Longtime JAZZIZ subscriber and ambassador Jeff Dashefsky and his wife set off from San Diego to Honolulu over Memorial Day weekend with plans to enjoy a special evening of music by guitar legend Lee Ritenour at the Blue Note Hawaii. But their trip took an unexpected turn before even leaving the ground. As their Hawaiian
- [Critic's Pick: Tumbao en Madrid (2020)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/critics-pick-tumbao-en-madrid-2020/) - Each year, JAZZIZ asks its critics, contributors and editors to sift through the recordings they’ve listened to over the previous 12 months (give or take) and come up with a list of their 10 favorites. We also ask them to select one recording that rose above the rest and write a brief explanation of why
- [Requisite: Oscar Pettiford](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-oscar-pettiford/) - Oscar Pettiford Another One (Bethlehem), 1955 Virtuoso bassist Pettiford’s third release as a leader for Bethlehem, 1955’s Another One, has become known by the title of the bluesy, swinging Quincy Jones tune that closes out the album. Yet the album title appears nowhere on the record’s label or jacket, which features Burt Goldblatt’s iconic amber-tinted
- [All-Star Lineups Bring the Fire of Miles to Smoke](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/all-star-lineups-bring-the-fire-of-miles-to-smoke/) - Over two weeks at Smoke Jazz Club in New York City, quintet and sextet lineups pay tribute to both the jazz and jazz/fusion legacies of Miles Davis. To commemorate what would have been Miles Davis' 99th birthday on May 26, Smoke Jazz Club in New York City is offering up two weeks of all-star tributes
- [Blue Note — Not Your Grandfather's Jazz Festival](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/blue-note-not-your-grandfathers-jazz-festival/) - The sprawling festival runs from May 27 to July 2 at multiple New York City venues and features both young and old pop as well as jazz stars. Jazz festival. It's become a relative term in which popular music artists with name recognition become headliners in order to draw additional audience members who might be,
- [JJA Awards Winners for the Ages](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jja-awards-winners-for-the-ages/) - The organization's annual winners included some of the usual younger suspects, but also musicians and journalists ages 79-100. Initially founded in 1988, and incorporated in 2004, the 250-member-deep Jazz Journalists Association recently named 29 North American musicians, educators and advocates as its 2025 Jazz Heroes, and published The Jazz Omnibus: 21st Century Photos and Writings
- [Requisite: Kenny Drew Jr. and Larry Coryell](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-kenny-drew-jr-and-larry-coryell/) - Kenny Drew Jr./Larry Coryell Duality (Random Act), 2011 Guitar icon Larry Coryell was among the many admirers of pianist Kenny Drew Jr., who died in 2014 at age 56. Knocked out by Drew’s prodigious chops, Coryell recorded this excellent 2011 duo album with his fellow Central Florida-based musician. Tonally, the pair sound as if they
- [Deborah Silver, Count Basie Orchestra Swing Rock Standards](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/deborah-silver-count-basie-orchestra-swing-rock-standards/) - The South Florida singer teams with the iconic Count Basie Orchestra, a parade of jazz all-stars and producer Steve Jordan on Basie Rocks! She's best-known for recording traditional jazz, adult contemporary and cabaret vocal duets with the likes of Freddy Cole, Jack Jones, Ann Hampton Callaway, Bill Medley and Ray Benson, but Deborah Silver has
- [Stanley Jordan's Solo Guitar for the Soul](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/stanley-jordans-solo-guitar-for-the-soul/) - The iconic, enigmatic guitarist performs solo shows at the Catalina Club in Los Angeles. Guitarist Stanley Jordan dispels stereotypes. Like the ones about his hometown of Chicago being primarily a blues town, or that every musical artist craves stardom or that solo guitar shows provide nothing more than background music. That's because his music, while
- [Critic's Pick: New release by Tom Zygmont](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/critics-pick-new-release-by-tom-zygmont/) - Tom Zygmont Lumina Way (Neckbone Music) After a multi-decade career as a busy multi-genre session and touring drummer, Tom Zygmont makes an emphatic first official statement as an artist with Lumina Way. Dynamic and stylistically eclectic, the collection displays various facets while pushing the limits of contemporary jazz — from smooth jazz and classic-styled jazz
- [Just Us: Bob James and Dave Koz Reimagine the Art of the Duo | JAZZIZ Podcast](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-hope-bob-james-and-dave-koz-reimagine-the-art-of-the-duo-jazziz-podcast/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuAjFRN1NoI In this exclusive episode of the JAZZIZ Podcast, legendary pianist Bob James and chart-topping saxophonist Dave Koz join us to discuss their intimate new collaboration, Just Us. Born out of a spontaneous idea before a live performance on the Dave Koz Cruise, the album blends original compositions and reimagined classics, captured with only piano
- [Requisite: Dexter Gordon](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-dexter-gordon/) - Dexter Gordon Dexter Calling (Blue Note), 1961 After more than a dozen years in California, tenor-sax icon Dexter Gordon returned to New York City in May 1961. Having just signed with Blue Note, he waxed a couple of albums at the label’s Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, studios, the second of which produced Dexter Calling. Gordon
- [Critic's Pick: New release by Hiromi's Sonicwonder](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/critics-pick-new-release-by-hiromis-sonicwonder/) - Hiromi's Sonicwonder OUT THERE (Telarc) Japanese keyboardist Hiromi Uehara wasn't yet on a first name basis with much of the world when she released her 2003 debut Another Mind (Telarc). But its first track "XYZ," which opened with an unpredictable avalanche of piano notes resembling a reincarnated Art Tatum, became a first impression that couldn't be ignored.
- [New Carlos Santana Book Illustrates His 60-Year Career](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-carlos-santana-book-illustrates-his-60-year-career/) - Carlos Santana: Love, Devotion, Surrender (Insight Editions) documents the guitarist's career through personal photos, memorabilia, correspondence, art, interviews and text by Jeff Tamarkin. If the question is whether or not Carlos Santana is a jazz musician, the answer is, well, complicated. But it's one that readers might ponder as they delve into Carlos Santana: Love, Devotion,
- [Wynton Marsalis, Against All Odds, Goes Silent](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/wynton-marsalis-against-all-odds-goes-silent/) - The often-outspoken trumpeter and artistic director for Jazz at Lincoln Center leads an all-star live ensemble to accompany the silent film LOUIS. When a musician is as accomplished as trumpeter, composer and jazz ambassador Wynton Marsalis, credentials are beside the point. The 63-year-old has, after all, earned two fistfuls of Grammy Awards and a Pulitzer
- [Requisite: Donald Harrison](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-donald-harrison/) - Donald Harrison Indian Blues (Candid), 1992 A subplot of the HBO series Treme (2010-2013) involved a young jazz artist’s attempts to record with his dad, a Mardi Gras Indian chief. Fans of New Orleans music may recognize the story’s real-life analog in saxophonist Donald Harrison. On the 1992 recording Indian Blues (Candid), Harrison and his
- [New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Fest: A Feast for the Ears and Eyes](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-orleans-jazz-heritage-fest-a-feast-for-the-ears-and-eyes/) - Over two weekends (April 24-May 4), 460,000 fans attended the 56th annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. They had gathered to hear premier artists from around the globe — including Seun Kuti from Nigeria and Youssou N’Dour from Senegal — along with a vast array of musical talent from New Orleans and greater Louisiana.
- [A Smooth South Florida Landing for Keiko Matsui](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/a-smooth-south-florida-landing-for-keiko-matsui/) - The Tokyo-born pianist plays three shows in Boca Raton in support of her latest release, Euphoria (Shanachie). Veteran Japanese keyboardist and composer Keiko Matsui's 30-album-deep recording career has mostly traversed New Age and smooth jazz sounds, as exemplified by her 2011 collaboration Altair & Vega (eOne) with fellow smooth piano practitioner Bob James. But look deeper and you'll
- [Vocalist José James' Audio/Visual '70s Salute](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/vocalist-jose-james-audio-visual-70s-salute/) - The singer's 17-minute short film premiere precedes his 2025 tour and new release. And now for something completely different. When Minneapolis-born vocalist, composer and guitarist José James' new album — 1978: Revenge of the Dragon (Rainbow Blonde) — is released on May 16, it will have been preceded not by a single release, but a short
- [Béla Fleck Join in LIVE Tuesday 5/6/25 11am EST](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/bela-fleck-join-in-live-tuesday-5-6-25-11am-est/) - Join us live this Tuesday 5/6 at 11am EST for our latest JAZZIZ Not What You Think Podcast episode with Béla Fleck The video below will update once we are live https://www.youtube.com/live/FZnduj2nn9A
- [Critic's Pick: New Release by Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda & Antonio Sánchez](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/critics-pick-new-release-by-bela-fleck-edmar-castaneda-antonio-sanchez/) - Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda & Antonio Sánchez BEATrio (Bela Fleck Productions/Thirty Tigers) Ever since he played through the 1980s with bluegrass act New Grass Revival, banjoist Béla Fleck has specialized in making everything he touches sound new — from the futuristic fusion of his Flecktones band through last year's recreation of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in
- [Chucho Valdés Extends His Tall Legacy With Irakere 50](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/chucho-valdes-extends-his-tall-legacy-with-irakere-50/) - Irakere returns, as its founding pianist leads the pioneering Afro-Latin jazz ensemble and a cast of next-generation Cuban players. At six-and-a-half feet tall, Chucho Valdés literally casts a long shadow. But the 83-year-old Cuban pianist has nonetheless been in the shadows of two other entities for most of his 60-plus-year career. One is his father
- [Essential Tracks by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orch Precede Essentially Ellington Competition](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/essential-tracks-by-the-jazz-at-lincoln-center-orch-precede-essentially-ellington-competition/) - Essentially Ellington: The JLCO Recordings, 1999-2025 (Blue Engine) features 166 anthology tracks by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. Blue Engine Records, Jazz at Lincoln Center's in-house record label, released Essentially Ellington: The JLCO Recordings, 1999-2025 on April 30, in celebration of International Jazz Day and to mark the 30th anniversary of the
- [Guitarist Stephane Wrembel's Festival Is All Things Django](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/guitarist-stephane-wrembels-festival-is-all-things-django/) - Called "perhaps the most creative improviser in Gypsy jazz today" by The New York Times, French guitarist Wrembel chases Reinhardt's ghost with the four-night Django a Gogo. Belgian native Django Reinhardt (1910-1953) led a short yet trail-blazing life, his unique acoustic playing style helping to take the guitar from obscurity to lead status in jazz —
- [Requisite: Joanne Brackeen](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-joanne-brackeen/) - Joanne Brackeen Popsicle Illusion (Arkadia), 2000 As definitively proven by Joanne Brackeen, solo piano albums don’t have to be wistful, introspective affairs. On her unaccompanied 2000 release Popsicle Illusion, the former Jazz Messenger injects great joy and color into a dozen tracks, displaying the charm, wit and virtuosity that brought her to Art Blakey’s attention.
- [Flutist Jamie Baum Puts the + Into Her Septet](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/flutist-jamie-baum-puts-the-into-her-septet/) - The New York City-based flutist and composer makes a four-show run with her septet and special guests through the Big Apple, Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Connecticut. If the term "jazz flute" conjures up images of actor Will Ferrell comically performing in the 2004 film Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, then the Jamie Baum Septet+ provides
- [Critics' Choice: Charles Lloyd](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/critics-choice-charles-lloyd/) - Each year, JAZZIZ asks its critics, contributors and editors to sift through the recordings they’ve listened to over the previous 12 months (give or take) and come up with a list of their 10 favorites. We also ask them to select one recording that rose above the rest and write a brief explanation of why
- [Reconsidering Pops in the '50s](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/reconsidering-pops-in-the-50s/) - Branford Marsalis and Ricky Riccardi dispel misconceptions about Louis Armstrong during a misunderstood era in his career. By Ted Panken During an interview in 1956 — and not for the first time — Louis Armstrong expressed frustration with, as he put it, “the man on the street or some cat that thinks he knows
- [2025 Next Jazz Legacy Cohort: No D.E.I. Hires Required](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/2025-next-jazz-legacy-cohort-no-d-e-i-hires-required/) - Eight emerging, improvising artists are paired with renowned bandleaders for apprenticeships through New Music USA and the Berklee Institute of Jazz & Gender Justice. They might be fire-starter words in modern politics, but diversity, equity and inclusion form the impetus of the Next Jazz Legacy program. Now in its fourth year, it's led by New
- [Contempo: Chet Baker Still Sings](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/contempo-chet-baker-still-sings/) - With a boost from lofi artist Ornithology, the tragic beauty of a ’50s jazz icon captivates a new generation. By Jonathan Widran Imagine a world where legendary jazz musicians whose drug habits often marred their genius and decades of influence were thought of only for the enduring beauty of what they brought us, rather than
- [Icons of an Era, Part 2: Miles Davis](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/icons-of-an-era-part-2-miles-davis/) - Miles Davis “Nineteen fifty had been the worst year of my life,” declared Miles Davis in his 1989 autobiography. “I figured there wasn’t nowhere for me to go but up. I was already on the bottom.” The lows would get lower, but the trumpet icon also attained some of his loftiest artistic heights in the
- [Icons of an Era, Part 2: Dave Brubeck](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/icons-of-an-era-part-2-dave-brubeck/) - Was there an unlikelier breakout jazz star than Dave Brubeck? Often attired in suit and tie and sporting thick black eyeglass frames, he looked more like a physics teacher or an accountant than a boundary-breaking jazz artist. And yet, throughout the 1950s, the California-born pianist and composer was the epitome of modernity for adventurous listeners.
- [The Centennial Club, Part 2: Oscar Peterson](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-centennial-club-part-2-oscar-peterson/) - OSCAR PETERSON (1925-2007) A Canadian who overachieved in an American art form, the Montreal, Quebec-born Peterson displayed a dazzling technique that would result in his reputation as one of the greatest jazz pianists of all-time. Influenced by disparate pianists such as Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson and Nat King Cole, Peterson fused his early classical training
- [The Centennial Club, Part 2: Mel Tormé](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-centennial-club-part-2-mel-torme/) - MEL TORME (1925-1999) Vocalist, composer, pianist, drummer, actor, author — Mel Tormé was versatility personified. Born in Chicago to Russian-Jewish immigrants, Tormé rose to fame on the smooth, mellow timbre of his singing voice, which earned him the nickname “The Velvet Fog.” An early bloomer, he sang professionally at age 4; performed on vaudeville stages...
- [Jazz Harpist To Perform in the "Home of Jazz"](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jazz-harpist-to-perform-in-the-home-of-jazz/) - Brandee Younger Trio's appearance in Queens follows the jazz harpist's 2025 Doris Duke Foundation Artist Award and precedes her June release Gadabout Season (Impulse!). On Saturday (May 3), Flushing Town Hall will bring the genre-defying sound of The Brandee Younger Trio to Queens. Known for her fusion of classical, jazz, soul and funk, Younger has redefined the harp
- [Frank Vignola's Guitar Night with Maria Muldaur and Pasquale Grasso](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/frank-vignolas-guitar-night-with-maria-muldaur-and-pasquale-grasso/) - Frank Vignola’s Guitar Night celebrates International Jazz Day with special guests Maria Muldaur and Pasquale Grasso at The Birdland Theater. In celebration of International Jazz Day, the iconic Birdland Theater presents Frank Vignola’s Guitar Night with an all-star lineup of jazz greats tonight (Wednesday, April 30 at 8:30; doors open at 7:30). The evening will present guitar virtuoso Vignola alongside
- [Critics' Picks: Wadada Leo Smith/Amina Claudine Myers](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/critics-picks-wadada-leo-smith-amina-claudine-myers/) - Each year, JAZZIZ asks its critics, contributors and editors to sift through the recordings they’ve listened to over the previous 12 months (give or take) and come up with a list of their 10 favorites. We also ask them to select one recording that rose above the rest and write a brief explanation of why
- [Requisite and RIP: Andy Bey](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-and-rip-andy-bey/) - JAZZIZ says farewell to vocal jazz giant Andy Bey, who has passed away at the age of 85, with this review from 2013. Andy Bey The World According to Andy Bey (HighNote) Veteran vocalist Andy Bey is at his most affecting when he’s alone at the piano. And that’s just how he’s heard on The
- [Red Baraat Lands Its North Indian Fusion Sound in Massachusetts](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/red-baraat-lands-its-north-indian-fusion-sound-in-massachusetts/) - The NPR-designated "best party band in years" performs at the Somerville Theatre on May 1. Global Arts Live presents Red Baraat on Thursday, May 1, 8 p.m. at the Crystal Ballroom at Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square, Somerville, Massachusetts. From Brooklyn, Red Baraat merges hard-driving North Indian bhangra with elements of hip-hop, funk, jazz and raw punk
- [Critics' Picks: Caroline Davis](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/critics-picks-caroline-davis/) - Each year, JAZZIZ asks its critics, contributors and editors to sift through the recordings they’ve listened to over the previous 12 months (give or take) and come up with a list of their 10 favorites. We also ask them to select one recording that rose above the rest and write a brief explanation of why
- [Sara Gazarek and Eastman, the Little Music School That Could](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/sara-gazarek-and-eastman-the-little-music-school-that-could/) - Gazarek brings experience and expertise as Associate Professor of Jazz Voice at the Eastman School of Music. When it comes to the reputation of producing successful jazz and popular music artists, there's a perceived Bermuda Triangle of sorts among American universities between the Northeast (Boston, New York City), south to Miami and west to North
- [Baltimore's Keystone Korner Presents Good Vibes for International Jazz Day](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/baltimores-keystone-korner-presents-good-vibes-for-international-jazz-day/) - A special Vibraphone Summit with Warren Wolf, Stefon Harris and Joe Locke also celebrates the Baltimore venue's sixth anniversary. For vibraphonist and Baltimore native and resident Warren Wolf, performing at Keystone Korner always qualifies as a homecoming. For the club's International Jazz Day celebration on April 30, the man that vibes legend Bobby Hutcherson called
- [Requisite: Wes Montgomery](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-wes-montgomery/) - Wes Montgomery Full House (Riverside), 1962 After Wes Montgomery’s string of successful studio albums on Riverside, label chief/producer Orrin Keepnews was champing at the bit to record the guitarist live on stage, the way he’d first heard him. All the stars aligned in June 1962. The Miles Davis Sextet was in San Francisco at the
- [TODAY Join us LIVE 2PM EST for JAZZIZ “Join-In” Podcast](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/youre-invited-to-the-premiere-of-the-jazziz-join-in-podcast/) - We’re thrilled to welcome you to the debut episode of the all-new JAZZIZ “Join-In” Podcast — an exclusive, subscriber-only experience that puts you in the room with today’s leading jazz artists. Part of our immersive JAZZIZ Discovery program, Join-In offers an intimate, interactive way to connect with the music and artists you love. Not only
- [Review: Kenny Wheeler Legacy](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-kenny-wheeler-legacy/) - Kenny Wheeler Legacy, featuring the Royal Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra and Frost Jazz Orchestra Some Days Are Better: The Lost Scores (Greenleaf Music) Jazz legend Kenny Wheeler (1930-2014) is best known as a distinctive trumpeter and flugelhornist who cut his teeth on the London jazz scene of the 1950s and ’60s. He was also
- [Big Chief Donald Harrison Headlines Charleston Jazz Festival](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/big-chief-donald-harrison-headlines-charleston-jazz-festival/) - Alto saxophonist and Big Chief of Afro-New Orleans cultural group leads his quartet through the fest's inaugural "Jazz Is Community" presentation during its final three days The inaugural edition of “Jazz is Community” will take place during the Charleston Jazz Festival (April 21-29), featuring the legendary Big Chief Donald Harrison Quartet from New Orleans.
- [Critics' Picks: Hamilton De Holanda and Gonzalo Rubalcaba](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/critics-picks-hamilton-de-holanda-and-gonzalo-rubalcaba/) - Each year, JAZZIZ asks its critics, contributors and editors to sift through the recordings they’ve listened to over the previous 12 months (give or take) and come up with a list of their 10 favorites. We also ask them to select one recording that rose above the rest and write a brief explanation of why
- [Critics' Picks: Hamilton De Holanda/Gonzalo Rubalcaba](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/critics-picks-hamilton-de-holanda-gonzalo-rubalcaba/) - Each year, JAZZIZ asks its critics, contributors and editors to sift through the recordings they’ve listened to over the previous 12 months (give or take) and come up with a list of their 10 favorites. We also ask them to select one recording that rose above the rest and write a brief explanation of why
- [Requisite: Nina Simone](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-nina-simone/) - Nina Simone In Concert (Philips), 1964 From the starkly emotional “I Loves You, Porgy” to the scathing “Mississippi Goddam,” this live 1964 concert album presents various facets of Nina Simone’s remarkable artistry. She’s a balladeer, a torch singer, a blues singer, a protest singer and one helluva pianist, as made plain by her unaccompanied read
- [International Jazz Day Comes to Abu Dhabi](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/international-jazz-day-comes-to-abu-dhabi/) - Helmed by Herbie Hancock, this year’s celebration takes place in the United Arab Emirates. By Bill Meredith Since 2011, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has recognized April 30 as International Jazz Day, to highlight jazz and its diplomatic role in uniting people worldwide. The annual date also serves as the culmination
- [Vermont Jazz Center's Solo Jazz Piano Festival](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/vermont-jazz-centers-solo-jazz-piano-festival/) - The Vermont Jazz Center's ninth annual Solo Jazz Piano Festival (April 18-19) spotlights the development of piano styles and techniques throughout the evolution of jazz. During the weekend, a half dozen pianists will perform and discuss their musical aspirations and the expansion of their approaches to the instrument. Featured headliners include Luther Allison (not to
- [Late Drummer's New Release Re-defines Kool Jazz](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/late-drummers-new-release-re-defines-kool-jazz/) - George Brown, founding drummer for funk/R&B icons Kool & the Gang, displays his jazz and multi-instrumental talents on a second posthumous solo release. Drummer George "Funky" Brown (1949-2023) earned that well-deserved nickname as the founding drummer for Kool & the Gang, co-writing hits from the band's early funk classic "Jungle Boogie" through later R&B vehicles
- [Review: Ambrose Akinmusire](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-ambrose-akinmusire/) - Ambrose Akinmusire honey from a winter stone (Nonesuch) As evidenced by his singularly unformulaic discography, trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire is a restless innovator. His ninth release, honey from a winter stone, is no exception. Here Akinmusire draws inspiration from composer Julius Eastman and crafts an urgently relevant reflection of our times. Utilizing both a string quartet
- [Benny Green: Solo Piano Concerts](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/benny-green-solo-piano-concerts/) - A master of swing, bop, stride and more, Benny Green plays piano with power, sophistication, sensitivity, imagination, precision and passion. Green, a Grammy-nominee who's drawn comparisons to Bud Powell and Oscar Peterson, will be performing solo concerts this Friday and Saturday (April 18-19) at The Jazz Forum in Tarrytown, New York. Allmusic.com ranks the pianist
- [Pat Metheny To Make News at Jazz Foundation of America Gala](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/pat-metheny-to-make-news-at-jazz-foundation-of-america-gala/) - NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt will present Metheny with the JFA's Charlie Christian Award for a lifetime of creative guitar brilliance. At its 2025 Spotlight Jazz Concert Gala, the Jazz Foundation of America will present two headliners representing jazz's past, present and future at City Winery in New York City on April 17. Vocalist Samara
- [Song of the Day: Dan Moretti & Brazilia, "Black Nile"](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/song-of-the-day-dan-moretti-brazilia-black-nile/) - Saxophonist Dan Moretti & Brazilia channel the Latin side of Wayne Shorter on Live at the Pump House Music Works (Roots Grooves). A 2017 inductee into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame, tenor saxophonist Dan Moretti is also nearing his 30-year anniversary as a professor at the renowned Berklee College of Music in Boston.
- [Record Store Day 2025: Don't Call It a Comeback](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/record-store-day-2025-dont-call-it-a-comeback/) - International independent record store releases will include albums by Charles Mingus, Bill Evans, Freddie Hubbard, Vince Guaraldi and more on April 12. Vinyl albums have outlasted everything from reel-to-reel, 8-track and cassette tapes to CDs, iPods and streaming services in the minds and ears of many audiophiles. And the latest installment of the 21st Century
- [Vocalists on Vocalists](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/vocalists-on-vocalists/) - Six of today’s finest jazz singers discuss their 1950s favorites. By Ted Panken While the ecosystem of jazz- and jazz-adjacent singing in the 1950s contains too many layers to be unpacked here, six high-level practitioners of the idiom spoke to JAZZIZ about specifically inspirational artists, albums and tracks from that era. Their remarks reveal some
- [Review: Steve Sandberg Trio](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-steve-sandberg-trio/) - Steve Sandberg Trio Live at Soapbox Gallery (self-released) Live albums are more honest than their meticulously crafted studio counterparts, capturing the tightrope-without-a-net experience that musicians brave in concert. And to be sure, the Steve Sandberg Trio showcases honest instrumental dialogue on Live at Soapbox Gallery. On stage at the Brooklyn venue, the threesome deftly interprets
- [Jason Moran, Gordon Parks and Audio/Visual Ellington](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jason-moran-gordon-parks-and-audio-visual-ellington/) - The pianist combines his interpretations with Gordon Parks' photography to salute Duke Ellington at the Apollo Theater. Pianist and composer Jason Moran's Ellington in Focus performance, at the historic Apollo Theater in New York City on April 11, is a one-night-only event that actually pays tribute to two great African American artists: Duke Ellington and Gordon Parks.
- [CRITICS' PICKS: ISAIAH COLLIER & THE CHOSEN FEW](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/critics-picks-isaiah-collier-the-chosen-few/) - Each year, JAZZIZ asks its critics, contributors and editors to sift through the recordings they’ve listened to over the past 12 months (give or take) and come up with a list of their 10 favorites. We also ask them to select one recording that rose above the rest and write a brief explanation of why
- [Four Shades of Kenny Barron from SFJAZZ](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/four-shades-of-kenny-barron-from-sfjazz/) - The legendary pianist plays with an all-star quintet, solo, orchestra and quartet on consecutive nights. As its 2024-2025 season winds down, SFJAZZ offers pianist and 2010 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Kenny Barron in four very different settings from Thursday through Sunday (April 10- 13). Each concert will be held at Miner Auditorium.
- [Requisite: Bebo Valdés](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-bebo-valdes/) - Bebo Valdés Bebo de Cuba (Calle 54), 2005 A titan of Cuban jazz, Bebo Valdés had been living in exile in Sweden for decades when he came to New York in November 2002 to record the music on this sprawling two-disc collection. The first disc features the pianist, composer and arranger’s Suite Cubana, a joyous
- [Icons of an Era, Part 1: Thelonious Monk](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/icons-of-an-era-part-1-thelonious-monk/) - Thelonious Monk With his splayed-finger piano style and herky-jerky rhythms, Thelonious Monk seemed an unlikely candidate for canonization early on. He wasn’t a fire-breathing virtuoso like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie or Bud Powell, but rather an individualistic player and composer whose contributions were frequently overshadowed by his bebop brethren. But as jazz listeners’ ears became
- [Icons of an Era, Part 1: Charlie Parker](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/icons-of-an-era-part-1-charlie-parker/) - Arguably no jazz artist shaped the 1950s like Charlie “Yardbird” Parker, although he only lived through half of it. His innovations in the 1940s had set the template for the bold new jazz vocabulary known as bebop, which influenced nearly every player — particularly saxophonists — who followed. Of course, some of his influence would
- [Centennial Club, Part 1: Jimmy Smith](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/centennial-club-part-1-jimmy-smith/) - JIMMY SMITH (1925-2005) An outlier among the musicians in our Centennial Club, Hammond organist Smith is not only the lone player who needed to plug in his instrument, but the only one whose birth date is disputed. (Many sources list it as 1928). The ahead-of-his-time Smith has electrified every Hammond organist since, including in the
- [Centennial Club, Part 1: Roy Haynes](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/centennial-club-part-1-roy-haynes/) - ROY HAYNES (1925-2024) Literally a drummer for the ages, Haynes was recording and performing near full capacity into his 90s, coming up only four months short of 100 years old before dying last year. Born in the integrated Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, the self-taught Haynes became so busy as a professional musician in his mid-teens
- [Requiem for a Hard Bop Hero](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requiem-for-a-hard-bop-hero/) - After a brilliant start in the 1950s, Gigi Gryce slipped into obscurity. His centennial offers a chance for a fresh appraisal. By Bob Weinberg Attired in a dark suit and tie, a fedora pulled low on his brow, the owlishly bespectacled Gigi Gryce stands at the far left border of one of jazz’s most iconic
- [Homage to Horace Silver](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/homage-to-horace-silver/) - Eldad Tarmu reconfigures the music of Horace Silver for vibraphone trio. By Michael Roberts Vibraphonist Eldad Tarmu isn’t interested in taking the easy way out. His recent trio recording — Silver on Aluminum, a tribute to legendary pianist and composer Horace Silver — is a case in point. While Silver had recorded early on with
- [Aruán Ortiz Receives American Academy of Arts and Letters Fellowship](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/aruan-ortiz-receives-american-academy-of-arts-and-letters-fellowship/) - Aruán Ortiz is labeled one of two "composers of extraordinary gifts" by the honor society. On March 11, Cuban-born pianist and composer Aruán Ortiz was awarded a Goddard Lieberson Fellowship of $15,000 from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York City. Along with Nigerian American classical composer and conductor Shawn Okpebholo, Ortiz
- [Review: Jason Palmer](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-jason-palmer/) - Jason Palmer The Cross Over: Live in Brooklyn (Giant Step Arts) Inquisitive melodies. Tight two-horn harmonies and unison lines. Loose-limbed grooves and probing, frequently surprising improvisations. These all define trumpeter Jason Palmer’s latest recording as a leader. Palmer’s quartet — with frequent collaborator Mark Turner on tenor sax, bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Marcus Gilmore
- [Requisite: Betty Carter](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-betty-carter/) - Betty Carter The Audience With Betty Carter (Bet-Car), 1980 Even in 1980, it took an incredible amount of chutzpah for a vocalist to stretch out a song for an entire side of an LP. But Betty Carter was no ordinary vocalist. For 25 minutes, she holds listeners spellbound with her dazzling improvisatory craft, as she
- [Review: Charles Tolliver Music Inc.](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-charles-tolliver-music-inc/) - Live at the Captain’s Cabin Charles Tolliver Music Inc. (Reel to Real) A hard-bop trumpeter on par with Freddie Hubbard and Woody Shaw, Charles Tolliver seldom receives his due. Following stints with era giants such as Jackie McLean and Max Roach, Tolliver settled into a high-octane quartet format. In June 1973, Tolliver and his touring
- [Bobby Broom and the Chicago Jazz Orchestra remember Wes](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/bobby-broom-and-the-chicago-jazz-orchestra-remember-wes/) - Guitarist Bobby Broom and the Chicago Jazz Orchestra combine to show their love for Wes Montgomery. By Bill Meredith Tribute recordings and live performances have stunted musical creativity, yet some are legitimate enough to avoid resembling low-hanging audio fruit. Veteran guitarist Bobby Broom saluting the late, great Wes Montgomery — complete with the Chicago
- [Review: Out of/Into](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-out-of-into/) - Out Of/Into Motion I (Blue Note) Assembled for Blue Note’s 85th anniversary, this all-star collective features five of the brightest contemporary musicians on the scene. The group developed the seven pieces on this debut album during a lengthy tour, which explains why a relaxed quality permeates even the knottiest passages. The twisting melody of pianist
- [Song of the Day: Domenic Cicchetti, "Jump to It"](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/song-of-the-day-domenic-cicchetti-jump-to-it/) - Keyboardist Domenic Cicchetti blends traditional and contemporary jazz sounds on Candy Apple (Nyack Records). Influenced by Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock, and instructed by the heralded Madame Margaret Chaloff at the Berklee College of Music, veteran keyboardist and composer Domenic Cicchetti displays elements of all three on his latest release, Candy Apple. From the downbeat
- [Branford Marsalis Revisits a Keith Jarrett Classic](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/branford-marsalis-revisits-a-keith-jarrett-classic/) - On its Blue Note debut, The Branford Marsalis Quartet interprets a Keith Jarrett gem from the '70s. By Bill Meredith For decades, saxophonist Branford Marsalis has displayed an uncanny ability to creatively pay homage to material by other composers without giving it a face lift, as evidenced by his interpretations of jazz giants like John
- [Celebrating Gene Bertoncini](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/celebrating-gene-bertoncini/) - By Bill Meredith Every Wednesday is Frank Vignola Guitar Night at the Birdland Theater in New York City, which allows the stellar guitarist (for the likes of Ringo Starr, Donald Fagen, Joey DeFrancesco, Jane Monheit, the New York Pops and more) to display all facets of his instrument within jazz. Tonight (March 26),
- [Jazz at Lincoln Center Celebrates Jazz Appreciation Month](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jazz-at-lincoln-center-celebrates-jazz-appreciation-month/) - Jazz at Lincoln Center salutes Jazz Appreciation Month with multiple shows in April. No entity knows that April is Jazz Appreciation Month more than Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City. Artistic director and trumpeter Wynton Marsalis has guided the organization for nearly 40 years, and has several events scheduled in multiple rooms
- [Spirited, Precise Piano: Fresh and Timeless](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/critics-picks-2024/) - Kenny Barron Beyond This Place (Artwork) This intergenerational outing, led by distinguished pianist-composer and NEA Jazz Master Barron, swings hard and maintains a razor’s edge, thanks in large part to the 80-year-old’s energized young charges — alto saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins, vibraphonist Steve Nelson, bassist Kiyoshi Kitagawa and drummer Johnathan Blake. It’s an organic blending of
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- [Whipping Father Time](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/whipping-father-time/) - Pushing 90, Herb Alpert is embarking on a tour with Tijuana Brass and celebrating the 60th anniversary of his best-known album. By Bill Meredith For most people lucky enough to reach their 90th birthday, the highlight of the celebration might be a piece of cake. Herb Alpert, on the other hand, plans to add whipped
- [The Godfather of British Blues](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-godfather-of-british-blues/) - Spanning 30 discs, 25 years and three continents, a new collection spotlights the live magic of John Mayall and his brilliant bandmates. By Bill Meredith Like the Rolling Stones and The Animals, distinctive-voiced British singer, guitarist and harmonica player John Mayall played an integral role in introducing younger white audiences to the American musical art
- [A Sabra Looks at 50](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/a-sabra-looks-at-50/) - Anat Cohen celebrates a milestone birthday with concerts at Jazz at Lincoln Center. By Bill Meredith For her 50th birthday (March 31), Grammy Award-nominated clarinetist, saxophonist and composer Anat Cohen plans to celebrate in style. Anat Cohen: Journeys — A 50th Birthday Celebration will feature the versatile musician and bandleader with her ensemble during four
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- [Farewell to The Godfather of Neo-Soul](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/farewell-to-the-godfather-of-neo-soul/) - Composer and vibraphonist Roy Ayers leaves a genre- and generation-spanning legacy that resonates through jazz, funk, R&B and hip-hop. By Bill Meredith Roy Ayers, the vibraphonist and vocalist best-known for the 1976 hit “Everybody Loves the Sunshine” by Roy Ayers Ubiquity, died on March 4 in New York City after a long illness. He was
- [Big Easy’s Jazz Fest](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/big-easys-jazz-fest/) - The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, affectionately known as Jazz Fest, is an annual celebration of the rich musical and cultural heritage of New Orleans and Louisiana. Established in 1970 by George Wein, the festival has grown from its humble beginnings into a world-renowned event that attracts thousands of visitors each year. The
- [Pre-eminent Soul Singer of his Generation](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/a-requisite-on-ray-charles-genius-soul/) - Ray Charles Genius + Soul = Jazz (Impulse!), 1961 With his recordings for Atlantic, Ray Charles established himself as the pre-eminent soul singer of his generation. And while he’d performed some bluesy jazz for the imprint — dig Soul Brothers, his 1957 team-up with vibraphonist Milt Jackson — it’s telling that one of his early
- [Improvisation and Audience Interaction](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/catch-live-martin-kohlstedt-live/) - After more than a decade on stage, over 500 concerts, and six albums, iconic German composer, pianist, and producer Martin Kohlstedt introduces his first live album 'LIVE', out on November 15 via Edition Kohlstedt. Recorded during his 2023 European tour, 'LIVE' is a curated best-of from over 400 recordings, taking listeners on an 80-minute journey
- [The Year of Alice](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-year-of-alice/) - Alice Coltrane’s legacy is being celebrated with a performance and exhibition at UCLA, and a push to open a museum at the Coltrane home in Dix Hills, New York. By Bill Meredith Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda (1937-2007), the widow of saxophone titan John Coltrane (1926-1967), enjoyed a lengthy and impactful career of her own as a
- [Review: R*Time with Doug Hammond](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-rtime-with-doug-hammond/) - R*Time It’s Now: R*Time Plays Doug Hammond (ESP-Disk) Even in an age of anything-goes sonic exploration, this album’s opening strains — full-throated trombone shot through with distorted shards of electric guitar — should jolt the ears. Jean-Paul Bourelly is the guitar insurrectionist in trombonist Reut Regev’s edgy quartet, which also stars her husband, Igal Foni,
- [Review: Sun Ra Arkestra](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-sun-ra-arkestra/) - Sun Ra Arkestra Under the Direction of Marshall Allen Lights on a Satellite (In + Out) A supersized Sun Ra Arkestra, led by 100-year-old alto saxophonist Marshall Allen, crowded into New York’s Power Station last June to honor the legacy of Allen and the group’s late founder. Idiosyncratic pianist and composer-arranger Sun Ra, variously appreciated
- [Chick Corea’s Continuing Adventure](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/chick-coreas-continuing-adventure/) - A posthumous trio release provides another chance to hear a beloved jazz icon at a mature peak of his artistry. By Bill Meredith When keyboardist, composer and 28-time Grammy Award winner Chick Corea (1941-2021) died, a chapter in jazz history came to a close. Fortunately, the prolific pianist left behind more music for his worldwide
- [JAZZIZ Discovery: Winter 2025](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jazziz-discovery-winter-2025/) - "Shifting Sky” Yosef Gutman From the Album: The World and its People Purchase Album Returning to music after a long hiatus, Yosef Gutman has been on a creative streak. The bassist and composer has released a string of spiritually infused albums on his own Soul Song label, one of which features guitarist and former Berklee...
- [John Scofield: The Whole Sco and Nothing but the Sco](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/john-scofield-the-whole-sco-and-nothing-but-the-sco/) - John Scofield boldly goes where no album in his long, diverse discography has gone before: solo. Over the course of a nearly five-decade career, there’s little left that John Scofield hasn’t done. His leader discography is extensive and wide-ranging, veering from swinging straightahead jazz to slick, synth-laden fusion to raucous funk and trippy psychedelia, all
- [Publisher's Letter: Guitar Picks](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/publishers-letter-guitar-picks/) - Blame it on my being born in New Jersey in the 1950s, but I seemed to gravitate to the musical instrument that was indigenous to the time and place of my youth — the guitar. From George Harrison to Jimi Hendrix in the ’60s, to Peter Frampton and the iconic guitar solos of Santana, Queen,
- [Michael Varverakis: A World of Wonder](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/michael-varverakis-a-world-of-wonder/) - Exploring the 12-tone technique opened up a plethora of possibilities for Michael Varverakis.
- [Paul Mehling: Hot Club in the Old Town Tonight](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/paul-mehling-hot-club-in-the-old-town-tonight/) - Paul Mehling swings Gypsy jazz from the Golden Gate. Paul Mehling was on the bandstand with Dan Hicks & the Acoustic Warriors and about to launch into a speedy instrumental he had written for the group. “I’m about to count it off and the violin player [Paul Godchaux] says to me under his breath, ‘Don’t
- [George Benson, ‘The Other Side of Abbey Road’ (A&M/CTI, 1970) | Requisite](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/george-benson-the-other-side-of-abbey-road-am-cti-1970-requisite/) - Less than a month after The Beatles released Abbey Road, George Benson entered the Rudy Van Gelder Studios and began crafting a brilliant jazz tribute to the Fab Four’s final studio masterpiece. Under the direction of Creed Taylor, and armed with wide-ranging arrangements by Don Sebesky and a remarkable cast of sidemen — including keyboardists
- [Calvin Keys: Keys to the Kingdom](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/calvin-keys-keys-to-the-kingdom/) - Lessons learned on countless bandstands infuse Calvin Keys’ jazz with soul.
- [Grant Geissman: Mad About the Blues](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/grant-geissman-mad-about-the-blues/) - With a bluesy new album under his belt, Grant Geissman talks vintage guitars and comic books.
- [Gordon Grdina: Double-Sided String Theory](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/gordon-grdina-double-sided-string-theory/) - Playing both guitar and oud, Gordon Grdina finds a middle ground between composition and improvisation.
- [Julian Lage: A View From the Bridge](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/julian-lage-a-view-from-the-bridge/) - Julian Lage discusses the influences of Bill Frisell, John Zorn, spirituality and the vintage instruments that capture his imagination.
- [Vernon Reid and His Search for Six-String Transcendence](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/vernon-reid-and-his-search-for-six-string-transcendence/) - Inspired by Jimi Hendrix, Ronald Shannon Jackson and other adventurous players, guitar superhero Vernon Reid continues his sonic excursions into the cosmos.
- [Jeff Parker: Breaking Sound Barriers](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jeff-parker-breaking-sound-barriers/) - Jeff Parker explores a variety of sonic possibilities, following only the compass of rigorous individualism.
- [Bobby Broom: Harmonic Convergence](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/bobby-broom-harmonic-convergence/) - Bobby Broom dispels the notion that guitar and piano can’t get along on the bandstand.
- [Bobby Watson, ‘Back Home in Kansas City’ (Smoke Sessions) | Review](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/bobby-watson-back-home-in-kansas-city-smoke-sessions-review/) - Back Home in Kansas City, the latest recording by saxophonist Bobby Watson, gets better as it goes along, but not because there’s anything subpar about the opening tracks. Instead, the reason can be attributed to a realization likely to dawn on listeners as the album progresses: It’s great to be in the hands of professionals.
- [Carmen Lundy, ‘Fade to Black’ (Afrasia) | Review](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/carmen-lundy-fade-to-black-afrasia-review/) - In 2021, as she celebrated 35 years as a recording artist, vocalist, pianist and songwriter Carmen Lundy was at last honored with a Grammy nomination (Best Jazz Vocal Album for her extraordinary 2019 work Modern Ancestors). A year and a half later, it seems safe to say that her latest collection, the even more epic,
- [Takuya Kuroda, ‘Midnight Crisp’ (First World) | Review](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/takuya-kuroda-midnight-crisp-first-world-review/) - On his seventh album, Midnight Crisp, Japanese trumpet alchemist Takuya Kuroda continues to effortlessly meld post-bop with hip-hop, funk, neo soul, electronica, Afrobeat and fusion to arrive at a sublime place of his creation. The trumpeter is accompanied by kindred spirits — trombonist Corey King, saxophonist Craig Hill, keyboardist Takahiro Izumikawa, drummer Adam Jackson, bassist
- [Angelica Sanchez Trio, ‘Sparkle Beings’ (Sunnyside) | Review](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/angelica-sanchez-trio-sparkle-beings-sunnyside-review/) - Pianist Angelica Sanchez and her trio make a show-stopping entrance with the opening track of her seventh album as a leader. “A Fungus Amungus,” penned by Mary Lou Williams and recorded by the late pianist as a solo performance in 1964, was daring in its time and remains just as compelling today. Sanchez charges headlong
- [Rufus Reid, ‘Celebration’ (Sunnyside) | Review](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/rufus-reid-celebration-sunnyside-review/) - At the top of this disc, you hear the enormous, singing sound of Rufus Reid’s bass, a known quantity after his six-decade career backing legacy giants and leading his own bands. But you may not expect what comes next — the translucent splendor of strings courtesy of the Sirius Quartet, and then solos from violinist
- [Connie Han, ‘Secrets of Inanna’ (Mack Avenue) | Review](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/connie-han-secrets-of-inanna-mack-avenue-review/) - Pianist Connie Han’s third Mack Avenue release is inspired by Sumerian mythology from ancient Mesopotamia and focuses on the tales of Inanna, the goddess of love, beauty and war. With strong contributions from bassist John Patitucci and tenor saxophonist Rich Perry, and appearances by Katisse Buckingham on alto flute and piccolo on the opening and
- [Auditions Roundup: When the Spirit Moves](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/auditions-roundup-when-the-spirit-moves/) - Jazz artists reach for transcendence in a variety of ways.
- [Memories of Pat Martino](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/memories-of-pat-martino/) - I’m writing this just a few weeks before a celebration of the life and legacy of the late, great guitarist Pat Martino, who passed away on Nov. 1, 2021, at age 77. A bevy of great guitarists will be on hand for this four-day event in Somers Point, New Jersey, which I will be emceeing,
- [Winter 2022 JAZZIZ On Disc: Annotated Playlist](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/winter-2022-jazziz-on-disc-annotated-playlist/) - Disc One: Guitar Picks https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6tg9n7XA5ocSv2w3wy2apE?si=61d9cae3b2e54e81 Kurt Rosenwinkel continues to surprise. During the past year, the distinctive jazz guitarist has released a solo piano album, as well as a collection of classical music played with a quartet. The latter recording, The Chopin Project (Heartcore), presents a program of music by the canonical Polish composer as arranged
- [Caroline Davis: 'Portals, Volume 1: Mourning' (Sunnyside)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/caroline-davis-portals-volume-1-mourning-sunnyside/) - Caroline Davis always does her homework. As a grad student at Northwestern University in the early 2000s, the alto saxophonist instituted an oral history of nearby Chicago’s jazz scene, which years later evolved into her acclaimed 2015 album Doors. In early 2019, driven by the sudden passing of her father, and armed with a doctorate
- [Brandee Younger: 'Somewhere Different' (Impulse!)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/brandee-younger-somewhere-different-impulse/) - Genre-defying harpist and composer Brandee Younger is a singular voice on the modern music scene. After five superb releases, Younger ups the ante on her major-label debut, Somewhere Different. This soulful batch of eight originals, with its polished sound, showcases Younger’s mature writing and her confident playing maintains its thrilling spontaneity throughout. Overlapping refrains open
- [Adonis Rose and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra featuring Cyrille Aimée: 'Petite Fleur' (Storyville)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/adonis-rose-and-the-new-orleans-jazz-orchestra-featuring-cyrille-aimee-petite-fleur-storyville/) - Teaming Adonis Rose’s New Orleans Jazz Orchestra with the French-born Cyrille Aimée seemed like a good excuse to emphasize the ties between New Orleans and France. At least that was the original concept. However, the results, while rewarding, come closer to the type of vocal albums of the 1960s that found the Count Basie Orchestra
- [Outside the Lines: Arturo O’Farrill Expands the Boundaries of What’s Typically Regarded as Latin jazz.](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/outside-the-lines-arturo-ofarrill-expands-the-bundaries-of-whats-typically-regarded-as-latin-jazz/) - On his latest album, the celebrated pianist and composer Arturo O’Farrill leads his Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble, a considerably smaller offshoot of the similarly named big band that he created in the early 2000s. But despite its subtle affinity with aspects of Cuban music, anyone taking a spin with the new … dreaming in lions
- [The Best Party You Never Knew About: An Intrepid Journalist Documents the World of Cuba’s Changüí](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-best-party-you-never-knew-about-an-intrepid-journalist-documents-the-world-of-cubas-changui/) - I remember sitting next to Gianluca Tramontana at Havana’s Mella Theater in December 2016, for a concert by pianist Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra within Cuba’s annual jazz festival. I was ending a reporting trip for a story about O’Farrill’s explorations of his Cuban roots, set against the backdrop of then-normalizing relations, embargo notwithstanding,
- [Redemption Song: How Irakere provided an Opportunity for Chucho Valdés to Bring a New Cuban Sound to the World and to Reunite with His Father](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/redemption-song-how-irakere-provided-an-opportunity-for-chucho-valdes-to-bring-a-new-cuban-sound-to-the-world-and-to-reunite-with-his-father/) - The following is an excerpt of a chapter from the unpublished Mambo Influenciado: The Memoirs of Chucho Valdés by Chucho Valdés with Fernando González. González is a longtime contributor to and former editor of JAZZIZ magazine. Three Pianos, Two Guitars and a Band From Cuba The Newport Jazz Festival at Carnegie Hall on June
- [Saints Alive!: Chucho Valdés Unveils a New Work That Celebrates the African Cultural and Spiritual Roots of Cuban Music](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/saints-alive-chucho-valdes-unveils-a-new-work-that-celebrates-the-african-cultural-and-spiritual-roots-of-cuban-music/) - Having just celebrated his 80th birthday, a time when many people would choose to sit back and enjoy the fruits of their labor, Cuban pianist, composer and bandleader Jesús “Chucho” Valdés is pushing forward with the most ambitious work of his career. La Creación (The Creation) — commissioned by the Adrienne Arsht Center for the
- [Mambo Suave: Guitarist Ray Obiedo Returns with Another Helping of Sultry Latin Grooves](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/mambo-suave-guitarist-ray-obiedo-returns-with-another-helping-of-sultry-latin-grooves/) - Even back when he was a Billboard charting artist, Ray Obiedo’s music was too eclectic to fit snugly into any single genre. In 1989, as the radio format that would eventually evolve into smooth jazz was exploding, the veteran Bay Area guitarist signed to Windham Hill and launched a prolific decade of recording that included
- [So Far So Good: Personal Loss and Physical Separation Couldn’t Dim the Spirit of The Dominican Jazz Project](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/so-far-so-good-personal-loss-and-physical-separation-couldnt-dim-the-spirit-of-the-dominican-jazz-project/) - Every bit as remarkable as the vibrant, passionate music on Desde Lejos (Summit), the latest recording by the Dominican Jazz Project, is the mere fact of its existence. The myriad challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic were daunting enough, especially given that assorted participants lived in different countries and couldn’t travel. But the crew was
- [Rumble From the Bronx: Carlos Henriquez Summons the City Streets of His Youth and the Maestros Who Mentored Him Along the Way](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/rumble-from-the-bronx-carlos-henriquez-summons-the-city-streets-of-his-youth-and-the-maestros-who-mentored-him-along-the-way/) - Perhaps the most demanding function in today’s jazz ecosystem is the bass chair in the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, which Carlos Henriquez assumed in 2002, when he was 22. His job description, as outlined by JLCO Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis, is as follows: “You’ve got to understand the band’s tradition and know the tradition
- [Cinco by Cinco: Five Jazz Artists Discuss Five Latin Jazz Recordings That Left an Indelible Impression](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/cinco-by-cinco-five-jazz-artists-discuss-five-latin-jazz-recordings-that-left-an-indelible-mpression/) - If searching for the holy grail of Latin jazz, look no further than the cultural melting pot that was New York City in 1943 and the genre-defining recording of “Tangá” by Machito and his Afro-Cubans big band. Written by the group’s Afro-Cuban arranger and multi-instrumentalist Mario Bauzá, the work represents the first time jazz harmony
- [Elias Through the Looking Glass: Eliane Elias Puts Her Best Foot Forward on Duets with Chick Corea and Chucho Valdés](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/elias-through-the-looking-glass-eliane-elias-puts-her-best-foot-forward-on-duets-with-chick-corea-and-chucho-valdes/) - The timeworn adage “the show must go on” was Eliane Elias’ watchword at her September 15th concert at Manhattan’s City Winery in support of Mirror Mirror (Candid), a new release on which she performs an exhilarating suite of piano duets with Chick Corea and Chucho Valdés. “Two weeks ago, I canceled the date,” Elias says
- [A Spark in the Dark: Negroni’s Trio Generates Light, Heat and Hope for Better Days Ahead](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/a-spark-in-the-dark-negronis-trio-generates-light-heat-and-hope-for-better-days-ahead/) - In whatever language you speak, esperanza — “hope” in English — has been in distressingly short supply of late, between the turmoil of political divisiveness and the tragedy of a rampaging global virus. But that’s precisely why Negroni’s Trio decided to christen their vibrant 11th album Esperanzas (Sony Latin). “We started recording this album in
- [Publisher's Letter: The Spanish Tinge](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/publishers-letter-the-spanish-tinge/) - Here in South Florida, we’re somewhat spoiled when it comes to Latin music. As the Gateway to the Americas, our region has long attracted musicians from Latin America and the Caribbean, from the mambo craze of the 1940s and ’50s to the Latin-pop explosion spearheaded by Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine in the
- [Bebo Valdés: 'Bebo de Cuba' (Calle 54)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/bebo-valdes-bebo-de-cuba-calle-54/) - A titan of Cuban jazz, Bebo Valdés had been living in exile in Sweden for decades when he came to New York in November 2002 to record the music on this sprawling two-disc collection. The first disc features the pianist, composer and arranger’s Suite Cubana, a joyous big-band romp through original compositions that affectionately salute
- [SOUNDBITES: Winter 2021](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/soundbites-winter-2021/) - Eric Hofbauer/Dylan Jack, Period Pieces (Creative Nation Music) This Boston quartet has conjured up a triumph. Hofbauer’s slurry acoustic guitar, Jerry Sabatini’s intrepid trumpet work, Tony Leva’s acoustic bass and trippy electronics, and Jack’s wonderfully musical drumming meld into a flowing suite of improvised pieces that move through spacey free improv, smoldering funk, warped bop,
- [Manhattan Island Serenade: Gonzalo Rubalcaba Reconnects with the Colleagues and the City That Helped Him Realize His Dream](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/manhattan-island-serenade-gonzalo-rubalcaba-reconnects-with-the-colleagues-and-the-city-that-helped-him-realize-his-dream/) - Gonzalo Rubalcaba first glimpsed the New York skyline in 1993, when he was granted permission to travel from his native Cuba to attend a memorial service for Dizzy Gillespie. Ironically, Gillespie had been angling to bring the young pianist to the U.S. to tour with him, but had been repeatedly denied the proper permits. A
- [Winter 2021 JAZZIZ On Disc: Annotated Tracklist](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/winter-2021-jazziz-on-disc-annotated-tracklist/) - Disc 1: Passion https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5xpRknMklcze619q1cVWAq?si=aad6d1b1e3dd4b12 For more than 20 years, saxophonist Will Vinson has been an integral player on the New York City jazz scene, establishing himself as a sideman and leader with a distinctive sound. Among the musicians who hold him in high esteem, pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba recruited the London-born Vinson for his quartet, recording
- [Soundtracks of Our Lives ](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/soundtracks-of-our-lives/) - Back in the pre-CD era, I used to collect movie soundtracks on vinyl. While my “soundtrack” collection technically started with a handful of ’60s Beatles’ movies (A Hard Days Night, Help!, Yellow Submarine, Magical Mystery Tour and Let It Be), by the ’80s my stash grew in parallel to my jazz LP library — everything from FM (with the Steely Dan classic “FM (No
- [The Happiest Music in Existence: A new documentary chronicles Herb Alpert’s remarkable career](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-happiest-music-in-existence-a-new-documentary-chronicles-herb-alperts-remarkable-career/) - Herb Alpert has plenty to smile about. Having turned 85 in March, the trumpeter continues to play music on his own terms as evidenced by his timely and heartbreaking rendition of the Charlie Chaplin-penned standard “Smile,” which was released as a single and a video this summer. Alpert has another connection to Chaplin: His A&M
- [Requisite: Charlie Haden Quartet West 'Haunted Heart' (Gitanes, 1992). ](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-charlie-haden-quartet-west-haunted-heart-gitanes-1992/) - Charlie Haden expressed his passion for vintage movies through several recordings he made with Quartet West. On 1992’s Haunted Heart, the bassist and composer constructed a love letter to the Hollywood of the 1940s and ’50s, reflecting both the glamor of movie stars and elegant nightspots and the dark heart of the city as exposed
- [Settling the Score: Seth MacFarlane Chooses Five Favorite Film Soundtracks ](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/settling-the-score-seth-macfarlane-chooses-five-favorite-film-soundtracks/) - Long before he was an Emmy-winning animator or GRAMMY-nominated vocalist, Seth MacFarlane was a movie-obsessed kid growing up in Kent, Connecticut. In fact it was movies — and film scores, especially — that first revealed to MacFarlane the power of the screen to captivate, gratify, enlighten and challenge. MacFarlane was enamored by the lush orchestrations of
- [Border Song: Fandango at the Wall peers through the barriers that divide us. ](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/border-song-fandango-at-the-wall-peers-through-the-barriers-that-divide-us/) - For the documentary film Fandango at the Wall, director Varda Bar-Kar followed pianist-composer Arturo O’Farrill and producer-writer Kabir Sehgal, as they prepared to record a live album at the U.S.-Mexico border wall in 2018. The project was inspired by the annual Fandango Fronterizo Festival, which unites people on both sides of the Tijuana-San Diego border each year, and features son jarocho,
- [The Triumph and Tragedy of Kenny Kirkland: Noah Haidu explores a piano hero’s legacy](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-triumph-and-tragedy-of-kenny-kirkland-noah-haidu-explores-a-piano-heros-legacy/) - In the still-developing documentary Doctone, a film about shooting-star jazz pianist Kenny Kirkland, guitarist Rodney Jones describes how he was passing by a building in a Manhattan neighborhood when he heard a sound that stopped him his tracks: Someone was playing the hell out of the piano. Determined to find out who it was, he climbed several flights
- [A Journeyman’s Journey: Tom Ranier finds creative expression beyond the Hollywood studios](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/a-journeymans-journey-tom-ranier-finds-creative-expression-beyond-the-hollywood-studios/) - Upon earning his degree in Music Composition from Cal State Fullerton, Tom Ranier found himself at the proverbial fork in the road with a major creative decision to make. The classically trained pianist, who’s also a skilled clarinetist and saxophonist, could follow his greatest passion and immerse himself in the pursuit of a full-time jazz
- [The Heart and the Hips of a City: Films consider New Orleans culture through its groove.](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-heart-and-the-hips-of-a-city-films-consider-new-orleans-culture-through-its-groove/) - What gives New Orleans music its singular sound and unmatched allure? Many films have addressed this question. Few answer as compellingly as Always for Pleasure, Les Blank’s 1978 love letter of a documentary. As plot, that film follows second-line parades and other processions that run like river currents through city streets, punctuated with private revelations. Trumpeter
- [The Search for the Real Lady Day: Documentarian James Erskine Unspools a Stunning Narrative About Billie Holiday](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-search-for-the-real-lady-day-documentarian-james-erskine-unspools-a-stunning-narrative-about-billie-holiday/) - Originally published on November 25, 2020. By Bill Milkowski Feature films about jazz artists frequently get it wrong. Take, for example, Clint Eastwood’s darkly maudlin Charlie Parker biopic, Bird, which played up the womanizer and drug addict at the expense of the alto saxophonist genius within. Documentaries, on the other hand, strive for accuracy above all.
- [What’s the Big Idea? Social commentary and musical innovation enliven large ensembles ](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/whats-the-big-idea-social-commentary-and-musical-innovation-enliven-large-ensembles/) - Jazz big band culture remains the lingua franca of American music academies as well as state-funded ensembles in Europe. Traditional repertoire and approaches aside, adventurism and rethinking are well underway within the large ensemble universe, as demonstrated by recently released maverick models. Among the fresh facets is an integration of social commentary, a timely touch. One of
- [Black and White and Shades of Gray](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/black-and-white-and-shades-of-gray/) - Larry Vuckovich’s love affair with the movies began in his native Yugoslavia. The California-based jazz pianist, 84, recalls joyfully watching productions such as Wintertime, a 1943 musical romp featuring ice-skating Olympian Sonja Henie and performances by the Woody Herman band, and 1944’s Bathing Beauty, which starred swimming champ Esther Williams and swung young Larry’s socks off when the
- [Talkin’ Pictures: Jazz musicians discuss their experiences in and at the movies](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/talkin-pictures-jazz-musicians-discuss-their-experiences-in-and-at-the-movies/) - Feature photo courtesy of Universal Music The fact that musicians love film should come as no surprise, nor should the fact that so many filmmakers spend so much time finding the right music for their work. Film and music — and especially jazz, with its emphasis on unreproducible immediacy — are both time arts. They
- [The Movie Maestro: How Terence Blanchard creates cinematic musical magic](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-movie-maestro-how-terence-blanchard-creates-cinematic-musical-magic/) - When I last spoke with Terence Blanchard, in 2015, I asked him to discuss the synergy between the detailed, painstaking process of composing movie soundtracks and the no-holds-barred approach to improvising he’s projected during a 38-year career as one of the world’s most esteemed jazz trumpeters and bandleaders. “My jazz background allows me to think quickly
- [Download the Winter 2019-20 Issue](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/download-the-winter-2019-20-issue/) - FEATURES The Swingin' 60s Five artists recollect the London jazz scene during the 1960s. By Bob Weinberg London Rising Checking in on six young artists reshaping the sound of London jazz. By Brian Zimmerman PLUS… A brief glance at 10 noteworthy London-centric albums and a guide to London's vibrant club scene. PRELUDE Author Con Chapman
- [Shelter from the Storm: Guitarist Gilad Hekselman Finds Peace in Chaos](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/shelter-from-the-storm-guitarist-gilad-hekselman-finds-peace-in-chaos/) - All was calm when I arrived at Gilad Hekselman’s Brooklyn apartment on a sunny August day. The place was immaculate and quiet (aside from the occasional rumble of a nearby train) while the 35-year-old guitarist sat, relaxed and barefoot, sipping water at a table near the window. A few hours later at Smalls Jazz Club
- [Pure Poetry: Luciana Souza Sets Music to the Work of Leonard Cohen and Other Poets](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/pure-poetry-luciana-souza-sets-music-to-the-work-of-leonard-cohen-and-other-poets/) - Vocalist Luciana Souza laughs as she describes how she convinced singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen to let her adapt several of his poems, including the four that appear on The Book of Longing, her luminous new album, which shares its name with a collection he penned. In her words, “There’s this thing about having to ask Jewish
- [Review: Melissa Aldana, ‘Echoes of the Inner Prophet’ (Blue Note)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-melissa-aldana-echoes-of-the-inner-prophet-blue-note/) - By Josef Woodard Tenor saxophonist, composer and bandleader Melissa Aldana is one of the most rewarding and evolving new artists in jazz. Well, she’s not all that new, given that the striking and subtle Echoes of the Inner Prophet is her seventh album to date and her second for Blue Note. Just as her 2022
- [Review: Troy Roberts, ‘Green Lights’ (Toy Robot Music)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-troy-roberts-green-lights-toy-robot-music/) - By James Rozzi Green Lights, Troy Roberts’ latest of 16 leader dates, illuminates an ongoing affinity for straightahead jazz. Following a quantity of genre-bending releases, this lengthy 10-song set of the Australian-born, New York-based saxophonist’s originals navigates innumerable twists and turns capable of riveting the most jaded jazz connoisseur. A first listen highlights the beauty
- [Review: Brian Bromberg, ‘LaFaro’ (Be Squared Productions)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-brian-bromberg-lafaro-be-squared-productions/) - By Philip Booth Brian Bromberg is no stranger to releases celebrating his musical heroes. Known for his virtuoso-level chops and extraordinary improvisational abilities on both upright bass and bass guitar, he’s recorded tributes to Jaco Pastorius, Jimi Hendrix and Antonio Carlos Jobim. For LaFaro, Bromberg sticks to double bass, applying his immaculate tone, monster technical
- [Review: KJ Denhert, ‘The Evening News’ (self-released)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-kj-denhert-the-evening-news-self-released/) - By Jonathan Widran Those familiar with KJ Denhert from her 25-year run at The 55 Bar in the West Village need no formal introduction to the urban folk and jazz singer. But for those of us new to her vibrant, husky vocals and intoxicating phrasing, The Evening News serves as a splendidly eclectic, artfully swinging
- [Review: Omar Sosa, ‘Omar Sosa’s 88 Well-Tuned Drums’ (Otá)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-omar-sosa-omar-sosas-88-well-tuned-drums-ota/) - By Lissette Corsa Soren Sorensen’s award-winning documentary, Omar Sosa’s 88 Well-Tuned Drums, tells the enthralling story of pianist, composer and bandleader Omar Sosa’s musical and life’s journey, from his humble beginnings in Camagüey, Cuba, to becoming one of the most vibrantly versatile and forward-looking jazz musicians of our times. Sosa’s story is made all the
- [Review: Christian McBride/Edgar Meyer, ‘But Who’s Gonna Play the Melody?’ (Mack Avenue)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-christian-mcbride-edgar-meyer-but-whos-gonna-play-the-melody-mack-avenue/) - By Bill Meredith In an era where gimmickry usually wins over musicality, bassists Christian McBride and Edgar Meyer flip the script with But Who’s Gonna Play the Melody? A gimmick right down to its title, the album nonetheless displays the compositional, improvisational, arranging and technical talents of two of the most revered upright acoustic bassists
- [Review: Jacky Terrasson, ‘Moving On’ (Earth Sounds/Naïve)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-jacky-terrasson-moving-on-earth-sounds-naive/) - By Jon Garelick Jacky Terrasson’s first album in five years — and the first on his own label, recorded in New York and Pompignan, France — finds him working with various piano trio combinations on 12 of its 15 tracks, plus a couple of spots for singers and the harmonica virtuoso Grégoire Maret. All the
- [Review: Shabaka, ‘Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace’ (Impulse!)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-shabaka-perceive-its-beauty-acknowledge-its-grace-impulse/) - By Asher Wolf As the saxophonist and driving force behind the bands Sons of Kemet, Shabaka and the Ancestors and The Comet Is Coming, Shabaka Hutchings is among the most culturally relevant jazz musicians of his generation — particularly for younger audiences outside the jazz sphere. Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace, his outstanding debut
- [Review: Marta Sánchez Trio, ‘Perpetual Void’ (Intakt)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-marta-sanchez-trio-perpetual-void-intakt/) - By Hrayr Attarian Pianist and composer Marta Sánchez follows her superb 2022 release SAAM with the equally imaginative Perpetual Void. Joined here by multifaceted bassist Christopher Tordini and intrepid drummer Savannah Harris, Sánchez crafts pieces that range from fiery and energetic to languid and introspective. The passionate “3:30 AM” opens with collective percussive beats. Out
- [Review: Charles Lloyd, ‘The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow’ (Blue Note)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-charles-lloyd-the-sky-will-still-be-there-tomorrow-blue-note/) - By Sascha Feinstein NEA Jazz Master Charles Lloyd released The Sky Will Be There Tomorrow on March 15, his 86th birthday, and the recording is a celebratory present for us all. Available as a double CD or double LP, the album solidifies Lloyd’s presence as one of our most spiritual and artistically satisfying musicians. Featured
- [A Shot of Pops](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/a-shot-of-pops/) - By Ricky Riccardi Do you remember where you were on March 21, 2020? The odds are you were probably home, as the United States wasn’t even 10 days into a shutdown caused by the COVID-19 global pandemic. In the middle of all that panic and uncertainty, Todd Stoll, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Vice President of
- [Ian Carey: Composing an Artistic Legacy](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/ian-carey-composing-an-artistic-legacy/) - Ian Carey expands his palette and honors his artist father’s aesthetic.
- [Auditions Roundup: Trumpets Triumphant](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/auditions-roundup-trumpets-triumphant/) - The state of jazz trumpet is in fine fettle, even as players foray into surprising new territories.
- [Dave Douglas and the Perpetual Conversation](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/dave-douglas-and-the-perpetual-conversation/) - With his trumpet, his compositions and his stewardship of the Greenleaf label, Dave Douglas engages in a fascinating, decades-long dialogue with listeners.
- [Graham Haynes: The Griot’s Further Footsteps](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/graham-haynes-the-griots-further-footsteps/) - Graham Haynes makes use of disparate elements on his continuing journey of self-expression.
- [Summer Camargo: The Promise of Summer](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/summer-camargo-the-promise-of-summer/) - Summer Camargo has dazzled her heroes and peers. With her debut album, the rest of the world will hear why.
- [Requisite: Freddie Hubbard, ‘Sky Dive’ (CTI, 1972)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-freddie-hubbard-sky-dive-cti-1972/) - By Bob Weinberg Freddie Hubbard could play anything. Among the most gifted trumpet players of a generation that produced giants, he played hard bop on his early recordings for Blue Note, even harder bop on his recordings with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, and avant-garde jazz on recordings with John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman.
- [Steph Richards: My Brave Face](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/steph-richards-my-brave-face/) - Steph Richards triumphed over a painful ailment that almost ended her career. A rigorous new release finds her in full command.
- [Riley Mulherkar: A Breath of Fresh Air](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/riley-mulherkar-a-breath-of-fresh-air/) - Riley Mulherkar puts a decidedly modern spin on jazz tradition.
- [Julien Knowles: Body and Soul](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/julien-knowles-body-and-soul/) - Corporeal and spiritual elements intertwine in the multifaceted music of Julien Knowles.
- [Miles and Diz](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/miles-and-diz/) - By Michael Fagien As we were putting together this special issue celebrating trumpet players, I had a flashback (almost a panic attack) from the ’80s — the first decade of JAZZIZ. Longtime readers no doubt remember the iconic photography that we assigned for our magazine covers back then, both for living legends and future jazz
- [Stolen Moment: Lee Morgan](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/stolen-moment-lee-morgan/) - Lee Morgan ranks high among the definitive hard bop trumpet players, his sound all but defining an era. The Philadelphia native was just 18 when he recorded his first album under his own name for Blue Note. While he made a vivid impression alongside John Coltrane on the saxophonist’s 1957 classic Blue Train, it was
- [Ambrose Akinmusire: Play It Forward](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/ambrose-akinmusire-play-it-forward/) - Ambrose Akinmusire imparts to younger musicians the knowledge and wisdom he’s gleaned during a remarkable career that’s still unfolding in surprising ways.
- [Etienne Charles: King Creole](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/etienne-charles-king-creole/) - Integrating Caribbean roots with exuberant swing, Etienne Charles showcases seasoned skills as a writer, arranger and trumpet player on his first-ever big band recording.
- [Keyon Harrold: In the Pink](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/keyon-harrold-in-the-pink/) - Through trumpet and voice, Keyon Harrold opts for peace and positivity on "Foreverland."
- [Michael Leonhart: Normyn Conquest](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/michael-leonhart-normyn-conquest/) - By Jonathan Widran Michael Leonhart expresses grief and catharsis through a pair of new suites dedicated to a beloved four-legged companion. Though best known for his quarter-century-plus stint as trumpeter and arranger for Steely Dan and Donald Fagen, Michael Leonhart added a fascinating new distinction to his résumé with the release of The Normyn Suites
- [Requisite: Ray Charles, ‘Genius + Soul = Jazz’ (Impulse!, 1961)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-ray-charles-genius-soul-jazz-impulse-1961/) - By Bob Weinberg With his recordings for Atlantic, Ray Charles established himself as the pre-eminent soul singer of his generation. And while he’d performed some bluesy jazz for the imprint — dig Soul Brothers, his 1957 team-up with vibraphonist Milt Jackson — it’s telling that one of his early recordings for the ABC label offshoot
- [Review: Angel Bat Dawid, ‘Requiem for Jazz’ (International Anthem)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/angel-bat-dawid-requiem-for-jazz-international-anthem-review/) - Originally published on June 22, 2023. By Neil Tesser Angel Bat Dawid — clarinetist, pianist, poet, vocalist — produces hard-to-categorize works on an operatic scale, and not only musically. Dawid’s sprawling, episodic albums tackle grand themes, in this case the place and role of Black folk in America. Dawid says she is exploring “new Afro
- [Jane Bunnett and Maqueque, ‘Playing With Fire’ (Linus Entertainment) | Review](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jane-bunnett-and-maqueque-playing-with-fire-linus-entertainment-review/) - By Lissette Corsa In 2013, soprano saxophonist, flutist, bandleader and composer Jane Bunnett formed the all-female Afro-Cuban jazz ensemble Maqueque. Bunnett’s many years immersed in Cuban music gave her an insider’s view into women’s disproportionate underrepresentation in male-dominated music circles on the island. With Maqueque, the Toronto-based jazz artist sought to change that. Comprised of
- [Mingus at 100: Six Musicians Testify to Charles Mingus' Life-Changing Impact](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/mingus-at-100-six-musicians-testify-to-charles-mingus-life-changing-impact/) - Versatile, volatile and extraordinarily gifted, Charles Mingus left a musical legacy as compelling and complex as the man himself. Six musicians testify to his life-changing impact. A transformative figure during his lifetime (April 22, 1922-January 5, 1979), which roughly tracked the history of pre-postmodern jazz, Charles Mingus continues to fascinate us in his centennial year.
- [Let Yourself In: Michael Bisio Feels the Force of Creative Music and Follows Its Flow](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/let-yourself-in-michael-bisio-feels-the-force-of-creative-music-and-follows-its-flow/) - Bassist Michael Bisio feels the force of creative music and follows its flow. In the middle of MBefore (Tao Forms), bassist Michael Bisio’s recent quartet album, there’s a version of “I Fall in Love Too Easily,” a song composed in 1944 by Jule Styne with lyrics by Sammy Cahn. Here, this ballad, made indelible across
- [The Raining Champ](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-raining-champ/) - I first encountered Charles Mingus in 1972, when he brought his band to the Brown Shoe, a funky nightclub in Chicago that briefly housed Joe Segal’s Jazz Showcase. It had rained steadily that day, and by showtime, the water on the roof had found a seam in the ceiling and began to trickle onto the
- [Or Bareket: At the Gates of Dawn](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/or-bareket-at-the-gates-of-dawn/) - Recommitting himself to his instrument, Or Bareket crafts an artful, personal album steeped in family roots. In the summer of 2019, bassist Or Bareket was at a coffee shop in Paris with pianist Yaron Herman, his friend who lives there, wondering what it would feel like, after years of 150-200 annual dates of whirlwind touring
- [Dave Holland: What Goes Around](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/dave-holland-what-goes-around/) - Dave Holland remembers Mingus and discusses his own long and varied path as one of the jazz world’s most revered bass players. World-renowned bassist, composer, bandleader and independent label owner Dave Holland has, over the course of five decades, tackled a dizzying array of diverse projects, a testament to his remarkable open-mindedness, musical flexibility and
- [Candidly Mingus: Charles Mingus Quartet Reissue Finds Him at His Uncompromising Best](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/candidly-mingus-charles-mingus-quartet-reissue-finds-him-at-his-uncompromising-best/) - A reissue of a classic quartet recording finds Charles Mingus at his uncompromising best. “Good evening, ladies and gentleman,” Charles Mingus gruffly but politely addresses the audience, instructing them on the conduct he expects before The Jazz Workshop band’s performance would commence. “If you must applaud, wait until the end of the set, and it
- [Publisher’s letter: God Must Be a Boogie Man](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/publishers-letter-god-must-be-a-boogie-man/) - Charles Mingus was larger than life in every sense of the phrase. His heft seemed perfectly suited to his instrument, the double bass, which he wielded like a weapon, literally and figuratively. Towering talents, as both a player and composer, were matched by an explosive temper, which he legendarily unleashed on his sidemen. Mingus’ tempestuous
- [Requisite: Duke Ellington, ‘This One’s for Blanton!’ (1975, Pablo)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-duke-ellington-this-ones-for-blanton-1975-pablo/) - Originally published on June 3, 2022. By Bob Weinberg Few practitioners have changed the way their instrument is played forever, but Jimmy Blanton ranks high among them. Playing with Duke Ellington’s band for just two years — he died of tuberculosis in 1941 at the age of 23 — the virtuoso bassist liberated the double
- [Ron Carter: The Distributor](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/ron-carter-the-distributor/) - For most of his 85 years, bassist Ron Carter has held firm to the beat and to his accumulated musical wisdom, sharing that wealth with generations of fellow players. In late March, Ron Carter stood on the stage of Manhattan’s Blue Note jazz club flanked by guitarist Russell Malone and pianist Donald Vega. They all
- [James Singleton: Beyond the Astral Plane](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/james-singleton-beyond-the-astral-plane/) - Inspired by Mingus, bassist James Singleton ventures out to the edge. Along with his ongoing work in Astral Project, the modern jazz quartet that has been a New Orleans institution for more than 40 years, veteran bassist-composer James Singleton has racked up innumerable credits with Crescent City icons such as James Booker, Johnny Adams, Alvin
- [Gut Reaction: Christian McBride Reflects on the Mingus Legacy](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/gut-reaction-christian-mcbride-reflects-on-the-mingus-legacy/) - It was a good night for bass players. Not only did Christian McBride collect a Grammy Award — his eighth — during the April 3 ceremony, but so did Esperanza Spalding (for Best Jazz Vocal Album) and Ron Carter (with Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Jack DeJohnette for Best Jazz Instrumental Album). McBride’s big band release For
- [Nduduzo Makhathini, "In the Spirit of Ntu" (Blue Note)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/nduduzo-makhathini-in-the-spirit-of-ntu-blue-note/) - An exemplar of the vibrant South African jazz scene, 39-year-old pianist-composer Nduduzo Makhathini has issued an ambitious and largely successful 69-minute opus, his 10th album and second for Blue Note. Makhathini operates in a space where spirituality, culture and politics converge with the jazz traditions of America (largely Coltrane, Tyner) and his home country (Abdullah
- [Eri Yamamoto/Chad Fowler/William Parker/Steve Hirsh, "Sparks" (Mahakala)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/eri-yamamoto-chad-fowler-william-parker-steve-hirsh-sparks-mahakala/) - Four stalwarts of contemporary creative music came together on an autumnal afternoon for the entirely improvised collaborative session captured on Sparks. Although they had never played in this formation before, pianist Eri Yamamoto and bassist William Parker had recorded together, as had drummer Steve Hirsh and saxophonist Chad Fowler. The resulting two-disc set, which Fowler
- [Flora Purim, "If You Will" (Strut)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/flora-purim-if-you-will-strut/) - Nearly 60 years after she waxed her first recording in her native Rio de Janeiro, vocal stylist extraordinaire Flora Purim returns to the studio following a decade-long hiatus. The results are a sizzling nine-track set that leaves no doubt: Her reputation as the queen of Brazilian fusion remains unassailable. If You Will offers an aural
- [Cécile McLorin Salvant, "Ghost Song" (Nonesuch)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/cecile-mclorin-salvant-ghost-song-nonesuch/) - Cécile McLorin Salvant remains one of the jazz world’s most compelling vocalists, in part because she refuses to be strictly defined by the j-word. With her Nonesuch Records debut, Ghost Song, she once again finds inventive yet soulful ways to stitch together the musical ingredients she’s made of. That list includes, but is not limited
- [Carlos Averhoff Jr., "Together: Honoring My Father" (Sunnyside)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/carlos-averhoff-jr-together-honoring-my-father-sunnyside/) - On Together: Honoring My Father, saxophonist Carlos Averhoff Jr. not only pays tribute to his father, the late Cuban saxophonist and educator Carlos Averhoff, but resumes an interrupted conversation. Relations between father and son were strained when the elder Averhoff left Cuba and settled in Miami in 1997. The pair eventually reconciled and worked on
- [SOUNDBITES: Summer 2022](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/soundbites-summer-2022/) - Black Flower, Magma (SDBAN) What a welcome find. This Belgian quintet stirs together a compelling mix of trance-y loops, idiosyncratic percussion and, best of all, cheesy-toned organ (courtesy of guest artist John Ghost), which adds the primal flavor of Ethiopian jazz. An unmistakable African vibe courses through the music. A flute flutters and soars, trumpets
- [Sweet Sistine: Michelangelo’s masterpiece fired the creative passion of pianist Yoonmi Choi](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/sweet-sistine-michelangelos-masterpiece-fired-the-creative-passion-of-pianist-yoonmi-choi/) - Pianist and composer Yoonmi Choi traces the roots of 7 Days (Next Level), her majestic, genre-bending new trio album, back more than seven years, to an Italian vacation that included a visit to the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel. Before her arrival at the famous church, she had no plans to pen and perform a musical variation on the Biblical story
- [Giving It Another Whirl: Mehmet Ali Sanlikol embraces his roots with vigor](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/giving-it-another-whirl-mehmet-ali-sanlikol-embraces-his-roots-with-vigor/) - The three big-band records from Turkish-born composer Mehmet Ali Sanlikol feature little of his piano playing, but it makes sense that this side of the former prodigy would eventually emerge on record. On An Elegant Ritual (Dünya), he not only goes back to his first instrument, he also digs deeper into his roots, part of a continuing and career-altering
- [Requisite: The Ornette Coleman Trio, 'At the Golden Circle, Stockholm, Volume One' (Blue Note) ](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-the-ornette-coleman-trio-at-the-golden-circle-stockholm-volume-one-blue-note/) - Ornette Coleman had burst into the public consciousness with his quartet, but for his two-week stint at Stockholm’s Golden Circle club in November and December 1965, he pared down to just three pieces. (It was with this group that Coleman would bookend a three-year hiatus beginning in 1962.) Accompanied by bassist David Izenzon and drummer Charles Moffett,
- [Chambers in Session: Joe Chambers returns to Blue Note](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/chambers-in-session-joe-chambers-returns-to-blue-note/) - Joe Chambers is the first to admit it: He messed up big. Having participated in recording sessions for some of Blue Note’s most forward-looking artists of the 1960s — Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Joe Henderson, Andrew Hill — the drummer-composer was offered a deal of his own with the venerable jazz label. He turned it
- [No Jackets Required: Russell Ferrante steps out of his Yellowjackets role with a trio debut](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/no-jackets-required-russell-ferrante-steps-out-of-his-yellowjackets-role-with-a-trio-debut/) - At some point while they were recording Inflexion, the long-in-the-making debut album by the Russell Ferrante Trio, drummer Steve Schaeffer reminded the pianist and Yellowjackets co-founder about the first session they ever did together. It was in the early-’80s, some years after they first met through mutual friend and original Jackets guitarist Robben Ford. Both showed up
- [Slow Burns and Raging Fires: The trios of Paul Motian and Sam Rivers showcased their brilliance](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/slow-burns-and-raging-fires-the-trios-of-paul-motian-and-sam-rivers-showcased-their-brilliance/) - Nothing in modern music has managed to sound quite like the trio drummer Paul Motian led with guitarist Bill Frisell and tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano for some 30 years. Little within the deep and brilliant catalogs of Lovano or Frisell — or of Motian himself, for that matter — embodies that trio’s oddly entrancing logic,
- [Dream Weavers:  Joe Lovano, Marilyn Crispell and Carmen Castaldi explore moody and meditative songscapes](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/dream-weavers-joe-lovano-marilyn-crispell-and-carmen-castaldi-explore-moody-and-meditative-songscapes/) - Joe Lovano’s 2019 album, eponymously titled Trio Tapestry, opens with unhurried saxophone against an assortment of bells, gongs and cymbals, the tintinnabulations strewn with seeming randomness throughout the track. A Zen-temple duet, it immediately signals the outlier nature of this music within Lovano’s discography. And that’s saying something: A defining saxophonist of 21st-century jazz, he has
- [The Gospel of Matthew:  Matthew Shipp discusses the mystery at the heart of the artistic process](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-gospel-of-matthew-matthew-shipp-discusses-the-mystery-at-the-heart-of-the-artistic-process/) - “Underdocumented” is not an adjective that applies to pianist Matthew Shipp, who turned 60 last December. As an example, The Unidentifiable, a Fall 2020 release on ESP-Disk, is Shipp’s 14th date helming a piano-bass-drums trio since 1992, and his fourth with bassist Michael Bisio and drummer Newman Taylor Baker since 2015. Since that unit’s previous album
- [Holy Trinities: Essential Trio Recordings](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/holy-trinities-essential-trio-recordings/) - There’s an architectural principle that the triangle is the strongest shape: Three sides and three angles bear weight evenly, dispersing compression, sharing tension, transferring force. The same can be said for the jazz trio. There’s something magical that happens as soon as company becomes a crowd. Trios have been behind some of the greatest recordings
- [A Factor of Three: With his new trio, Vijay Iyer addresses troubled times with a glimmer of hope](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/a-factor-of-three-with-his-new-trio-vijay-iyer-addresses-troubled-times-with-a-glimmer-of-hope/) - “The history of ‘creative music’ is kind of like the history of storming places,” Vijay Iyer told me five years ago. Then, he was seated at a piano in a gallery of the Met Breuer, a five-story hulk of a building that was being inaugurated as the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new outpost for modern and
- [James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet: Jesup Wagon (Tao Forms)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/james-brandon-lewis-red-lily-quintet-jesup-wagon-tao-forms/) - The innate cry of James Brandon Lewis’ tenor saxophone is the primal force that drives his splendid sixth album, Jesup Wagon, a reverently crafted homage to Black renaissance man Dr. George Washington Carver. Lewis’ cry traces back to slave songs and early country blues, with a more direct linkage to the groundbreaking tenor work of
- [Charles Lloyd & the Marvels: Tone Poem (Blue Note)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/charles-lloyd-the-marvels-tone-poem-blue-note/) - In the context of Charles Lloyd’s storied musical life, the Marvels might be viewed as a late-breaking “party band” venture. Contrasting the revered veteran’s long-standing format of a Coltrane-ish acoustic quartet, the Marvels finds Lloyd in cahoots with tasteful electric guitar maestro Bill Frisell, pedal steel guitarist Greg Leisz, Reuben Rogers often opting for electric
- [Alexa Tarantino: Firefly (Posi-Tone)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/alexa-tarantino-firefly-posi-tone/) - The most striking thing about Alexa Tarantino is her alto saxophone sound — not because of any radical innovations or signature quirks, but rather for her ability to shade it just enough to fit a range of material without altering its essence. Diving into up-tempo cookers on her new release, Firefly, like her knuckle-busting “Surge
- [Charlie Sepúlveda & the Turnaround: This Is Latin Jazz (HighNote)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/charlie-sepulveda-the-turnaround-this-is-latin-jazz-highnote/) - Since forming his group the Turnaround three decades ago, Puerto Rican trumpeter, bandleader, and composer Charlie Sepúlveda has been an unwavering disciple of Latin jazz in its most elemental form — the bracing mixture of Afro-Cuban rhythms and bebop-rooted melodies and improvisations that evolved in the late 1940s. Over many years, stylistic variants spawned throughout
- [SOUNDBITES: Summer 2021](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/soundbites-summer-2021/) - Ches Smith Path of Seven Colors (Pyroclastic) https://youtu.be/JtL21ZegdvM?t=1898 Drummer-composer Smith, who has immersed himself in Haitian vodou music for nearly two decades, delivers a sublime magnum opus. Seven Colors blends traditional songs — sung in earthy call-and-response by four Haitian vocalist-percussionists — with jazz compositions and solos. Pianist Matt Mitchell and alto saxophonist Miguel Zenón not only contribute stirring work,
- [Strings and Things: Diverse recordings employ a panoply of plucked, picked and strummed instruments ](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/strings-and-things-diverse-recordings-employ-a-panoply-of-plucked-picked-and-strummed-instruments/) - Whether invoking ancestral tradition or innovating modern sounds, string musicians strive for a connection with listeners that seems sui generis to their craft. Here are some recent examples. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF7s5-NAXO0 Kôrôlén (World Circuit) captures a historic meeting between kora master Toumani Diabaté and the London Symphony Orchestra. The Mandinka word for “ancestral,” Kôrôlén consists of six delightful pieces and is the first recording of kora (a
- [Chick Corea’s Trio Legacy ](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/chick-coreas-trio-legacy/) - Originally published on May 28, 2021. By Bill Milkowski It’s tough to accept the passing of a boyhood hero. I was 19 when I met Chick Corea backstage in 1974 at my first Return to Forever concert. He was 33 then, exactly half my current age. Seems like multiple lifetimes ago. I would go on
- [Three for the Funk: The original Garage a Trois releases their first album in 22 years](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/three-for-the-funk-the-original-garage-a-trois-releases-their-first-album-in-22-years/) - Charlie Hunter, Skerik and Stanton Moore of Garage a Trois (Photo: Courtesy the artists) When the three members of Garage a Trois hauled their gear into Studio Litho in Seattle for a hastily arranged recording session, they soon encountered an issue that most musicians would consider a serious problem. “A headphone amp wasn’t working right,” says Charlie
- [Upon Reflection: Raul Midón Considers Matters Great and Small on "The Mirror"](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/upon-reflection-raul-midon-considers-matters-great-and-small-on-the-mirror/) - Fifteen years after the release of his Arif and Joe Mardin-produced Manhattan Records debut, State of Mind, singer/songwriter/guitarist Raul Midón is beyond the point of trying to figure out his audience demographic or ascertaining the nature of his specific brand. When he launched his solo career, he and roster mates like Amos Lee were soft-spoken
- [The Hit Maker's Tale: New Biography Explores Tommy LiPuma's Winning Ways](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-hit-makers-tale-new-biography-explores-tommy-lipumas-winning-ways/) - Tommy LiPuma lived a fascinating life. As detailed in The Ballad of Tommy LiPuma (Nardis Books), a biography penned by longtime friend and musician Ben Sidran, the influential record mogul’s saga reads like a sprawling work of fiction. Over the past four or five years of LiPuma’s life — he died in 2017 — Sidran
- [The GroundUP Music Festival Thrives in Miami Beach](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-groundup-music-festival-thrives-in-miami-beach/) - The fourth annual edition of the GroundUP Music Festival, which took place at the North Beach Bandshell in Miami Beach over a three-day weekend in mid-February, was a smartly curated showcase of creative music in a beautiful setting and a relaxed, low-key atmosphere. The festival was created and is produced by Paul Lehr, CEO of
- [Gregory Porter - All Rise (Blue Note)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/gregory-porter-all-rise-blue-note/) - Released, purely coincidentally but quite serendipitously, during a crazy and fearful moment in modern history, Gregory Porter’s All Rise takes soul and jazz to church in energizing, uplifting ways. Buoyed by the London Symphony Orchestra Strings — a lush through-line from his last release, the tribute album Nat King Cole & Me — a fiery
- [Auditions Roundup: Out of Africa](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/auditions-roundup-out-of-africa/) - Originally published on May 24, 2020. It’s a given that African musical influences are deeply embedded in the DNA of jazz and its related musical languages. A handful of new releases bears witness to the richness of jazz-related music coming out of Africa via her historical legacies and contemporary currents. Saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings, of British
- [Download the Summer 2020 Issue](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/download-the-summer-2020-issue/) - FEATURES A brief history of fusion. By Shaun Brady An interview with Chick Corea. By Bill Milkowski PLUS… Ten albums that rocked jazz to its foundation. By Bob Weinberg PRELUDE Drummer Ted Poor steps into the fore as a leader. Sara Serpa explores a dark chapter in Portuguese history. As he approaches 60, pianist Matthew
- [Download the Fall 2020 Issue](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/download-the-fall-2020-issue/) - FEATURES Tale of the Tape: ‘Pressed for All’ Time peeks into the studio for jazz’s most important recording sessions. By Michael Jarrett Sound Design: What makes an album cover immortal? Five contemporary illustrators weigh in. By Brian Zimmerman PLUS… One Notion Under a Groove: Jazz artists have used concept albums to pay tribute, spin stories
- [The Fusion Moment: A Conversation with Chick Corea](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-fusion-moment-a-conversation-with-chick-corea/) - Originally published on February 11, 2019. By Bill Milkowski Celebrated keyboardist-composer Chick Corea has had his hand in many styles of music: bebop, post-bop, avant-garde, Latin and straight-ahead jazz, flamenco and classical. He’s also famously carved out a place for himself in music history as a prominent explorer and innovator of fusion. A participant in
- [By George, He's Still Got It!: A Conversation with George Benson](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/by-george-hes-still-got-it-a-conversation-with-george-benson/) - Few careers have been as rich and variegated as that of 76-year-old guitarist extraordinaire George Benson. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he cut his first record at age 10, singing sweetly on a catchy R&B single titled “She Makes Me Mad.” In 1964, at 21, he recorded The New Boss Guitar, his debut album
- [Download the Summer 2019 Issue](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/download-the-summer-2019-issue/) - FEATURES By George, He's Still Got It! A conversation with George Benson. PLUS… Christian Scott walks a fine line between old and new on Ancestral Recall; artist Andres Chaparro follows his jazz muse; saxophonist Dave Liebman shows no signs of slowing down; Joshua Redman embraces life's challenges; and Moppa Elliott releases his most ambitious project
- [Download the Fall 2019 Issue](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/download-the-fall-2019-issue/) - FEATURES All of Me Jazzmeia Horn expresses herself fully on her much-anticipated sophomore recording. By Bob Weinberg Art Appreciation On the 100th Anniversary of Art Blakey's birth, those who knew him best remember the life of a jazz giant. By Brian Zimmerman PLUS… Pianist Fabian Almazan's latest album documents his return to Cuba; a conversation
- [Gili Lopes: The Bottom of His Heart](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/gili-lopes-the-bottom-of-his-heart/) - Bassist Gili Lopes incorporates world influences, but remains rooted in the Brazilian sounds on which he was raised.
- [Hermeto Pascoal: Earth, Wind and Water](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/hermeto-pascoal-earth-wind-and-water/) - Nature has been Hermeto Pascoal’s greatest teacher and Jovino Santos Neto his most avid student.
- [Jeanfrançois Prins, ‘Blue Note Mode’ (GAM) | Review](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jeanfrancois-prins-blue-note-mode-gam-review/) - By Josef Woodard In some ways, jazz musicians with a deeper and more obsessive appreciation of jazz history and lore arrive on American shores from afar, armed with an outsider’s yearning and research. For Belgian guitarist Jeanfrançois Prins, who spent time living, playing and teaching in both New York City and Berlin, the sense of
- [Ron Horton, ‘A Prayer for Andrew’ (Newvelle) | Review](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/ron-horton-a-prayer-for-andrew-newvelle-review/) - By James Rozzi Pianist and composer Andrew Hill (1931-2007) was a leader in the second wave of avant-garde jazz who never received his due. Some of Hill’s classic Blue Note albums have been reissued, but without the reflective buzz one might expect. Recorded in 2016, veteran New York-based trumpeter, composer and arranger Ron Horton’s A
- [Adam Schroeder & Mark Masters, ‘CT!’ (Capri) | Review](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/adam-schroeder-mark-masters-ct-capri-review/) - By Scott Yanow Clark Terry (1920-2015) was a brilliant musician, originally on trumpet before switching to flugelhorn. A humorous and lovable personality, he was an enthusiastic and creative improviser based in swing and bop. Terry had the happiest sound in jazz and was instantly recognizable within a note or two. Baritone saxophonist Adam Schroeder wanted
- [Mina Cho’s Grace Beat Quartet, ‘Beat Mirage’ (International Gugak Jazz Institute) | Review](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/mina-chos-grace-beat-quartet-beat-mirage-international-gugak-jazz-institute-review/) - By Michael Roberts Pianist-composer Mina Cho, a native of Seoul based in Boston, is among the most cerebral of jazz artists, and the ideas behind Beat Mirage suggest deep forethought. Yet, while the new work’s blending of Korean rhythms with robust, emotive jazz invites analysis, it can also be enjoyed simply as a vivid listening
- [Willie Morris, ‘Attentive Listening’ (Posi-Tone) | Review](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/willie-morris-attentive-listening-posi-tone-review/) - By Philip Booth Last year’s Conversation Starter, the debut album from Willie Morris, played the role suggested by its title, successfully introducing the saxophonist and composer to a wider audience. The leader, on tenor, was joined by alto saxophonist Patrick Cornelius and a rhythm trio led by pianist Jon Davis for a set of music
- [Béla Fleck, ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ (self-released) | Review](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/bela-fleck-rhapsody-in-blue-self-released-review/) - By Bill Meredith Béla Fleck continues to ride a musical wave uniquely his own. Having redefined jazz-fusion in the ’90s with his Flecktones band, the master banjoist has since recorded and toured in a duo with jazz icon Chick Corea; made the 2008 documentary Throw Down Your Heart about the banjo’s African roots; and worked
- [Abdullah Ibrahim, ‘3’ (Gearbox) | Review](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/abdullah-ibrahim-3-gearbox-review/) - By Lissette Corsa 3, the new double album by revered South African pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim, is a live recording of his sold-out show last summer at London’s Barbican Centre, preceded by six original tracks — a mix of old and new — recorded minus an audience. In both settings, the 89-year-old pianist leads
- [Amanda Gardier, ‘Auteur’ (self-released) | Review](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/amanda-gardier-auteur-self-released-review/) - By Hrayr Attarian Saxophonist and composer Amanda Gardier’s enchanting 2018 debut album Empathy revealed her as an artist with a distinctive voice and vision. Since then, she has developed a mature, confident style as demonstrated on her third release, Auteur. Her most thematically unified album to date, it draws inspiration from the films of idiosyncratic
- [Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, ‘Open Me, A Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit’ (Spiritmuse) | Review](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/kahil-elzabars-ethnic-heritage-ensemble-open-me-a-higher-consciousness-of-sound-and-spirit-spiritmuse-review/) - By Jon Garelick Chicago percussionist and former AACM chairman Kahil El’Zabar founded the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble with a simple, endlessly variable concept: “two horns and a drum.” This 50th anniversary recording expands that concept slightly by adding a couple of string players, but the basic musical approach remains consistently spare and elemental. West African percussive
- [Vijay Iyer Trio, ‘Compassion’(ECM) | Review](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/vijay-iyer-trio-compassionecm-review/) - By John Frederick Moore Everything Vijay Iyer does is grounded on a foundation of considered thought and intention. As the pianist explains in the liner notes for his new trio record, Compassion, the common thread running through the dozen pieces on his new album is “inspiration.” Several of the originals were commissioned for earlier projects,
- [Reflections on Bossa Brilliance](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/reflections-on-bossa-brilliance/) - Antonio Adolfo pays loving homage to the music of Carlos Lyra and Roberto Menescal.
- [Requisite: Various Artists, 'The Original Soundtrack From the Film Black Orpheus' (Fontana, 1959)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-various-artists-the-original-soundtrack-from-the-film-black-orpheus-fontana-1959/) - By Bob Weinberg Although the film has been criticized for its overly sunny portrayal of life in the favelas (slums), there’s no denying the cultural importance of Orfeus Negro, or Black Orpheus, especially as it relates to its soundtrack. For many, director Marcel Camus’ movie — which was awarded the Palme d’Or at Cannes in
- [Lee, Dave and Brazil](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/lee-dave-and-brazil/) - By Michael Fagien In our second year, circa 1985, JAZZIZ ran a cover story on Lee Ritenour who was at the time releasing a few of his Japanese recordings in the U.S. on Bruce Lundvall’s short-lived and eclectic Elektra/Musician label. A 10-foot replica of the magazine’s cover, featuring a photo of Lee playing his SynthAxe
- [An Aussie Goes Carioca](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/an-aussie-goes-carioca/) - Inspired by her warm reception in Rio — and the music of Jobim — Sarah McKenzie recorded a love letter to Brazilian jazz.
- [Falcon’s Cry of Joy](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/falcons-cry-of-joy/) - Violinist Ted Falcon flies high with a celebration of the Brazilian musical style known as choro.
- [A Very Personal Songbook](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/a-very-personal-songbook/) - Eliane Elias reconnects with the bossa nova sounds of home.
- [Orchestrating Ivan](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/orchestrating-ivan/) - Having long beguiled jazz artists, Ivan Lins enlisted a symphony orchestra to play lesser-known treasures from his songbook. The results netted him his first Grammy nomination.
- [The Motta Chronicles](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-motta-chronicles/) - From cop shows and film-noir to Bill Evans and Steely Dan, Ed Motta spills the tea about his major influences.
- [Brazilian Music on the Fours](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/brazilian-music-on-the-fours/) - By Scott Adams If past is prologue, 2024 should be a banner year for Brazilian music. How do I know? Because years that end in “four” have provided some of the most significant moments in the music’s history. For example, this year marks the 50th anniversary of the seminal recording of “Águas de Março,” or
- [Women on Top](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/women-on-top/) - Since the birth of bossa nova, Brazilian women vocalists have ignited the imaginations of listeners worldwide. Now a new generation holds sway.
- [In Search of Tenório](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/in-search-of-tenorio/) - An animated film reveals the glory of a Brazilian pianist’s music and the horror of his fate. Larry Blumenfeld Sitting at a desk at his home in Madrid, Spain, Fernando Trueba describes via Zoom the moment he grew entranced by a solo from pianist Francisco Tenório Júnior, a leading light of Brazil’s thriving bossa nova
- [Auditions Roundup: Suggested Pairings](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/auditions-roundup-suggested-pairings/) - A roundup of jazz duo recordings that reveal the magic of well-matched partners.
- [Publisher’s Letter: Binary Brilliance](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/publishers-letter-binary-brilliance/) - The pairing came about by accident, really. Both invited to play a jazz festival in Munich with their respective bands, Chick Corea and Gary Burton were the only roster artists to agree to play a jam session on the final night of the event. During a soundcheck, Corea taught Burton his song “La Fiesta,” and
- [A Combo Plate of Soul Jazz: Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis and Shirley Scott](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/a-combo-plate-of-soul-jazz-eddie-lockjaw-davis-and-shirley-scott/) - Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis and Shirley Scott share a sizzling synergy on 'Cookbook' classics.
- [Requisite: Clifford Brown and Max Roach, ‘At Basin Street’ (EmArcy, 1956)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-clifford-brown-and-max-roach-at-basin-street-emarcy-1956/) - This article was originally published in the Spring 2023 issue of JAZZIZ Magazine By Bob Weinberg Great excitement followed the announcement that trumpeter Clifford Brown was joining forces with drummer Max Roach in 1954. Bebop royalty, Roach had made his bones alongside Charlie Parker and took part in the epic Jazz at Massey Hall concert
- [Rachael & Vilray: Two Cool for the Old School](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/rachael-vilray-two-cool-for-the-old-school/) - Rachael & Vilray expertly evoke an era when jazzy popular music ruled the roost.
- [Dual Combustion: Richie Goods and Chien Chien Lu](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/dual-combustion-richie-goods-and-chien-chien-lu/) - Richie Goods and Chien Chien Lu strike sparks with their music and their message.
- [Ivo Perelman and the Art of Spontaneous Conversation](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/ivo-perelman-and-the-art-of-spontaneous-conversation/) - Ivo Perelman has long embraced the improvised duo format — except with other saxophonists. With a sprawling guest list, his recent boxed set makes up for lost time.
- [Fred Hersch, Party of Two](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/fred-hersch-party-of-two/) - A pair of recent releases deepen pianist Fred Hersch’s passion for and ingenuity within the duo format.
- [One Plus One: Jazz Duos Are Often More Than the Sum of Their Parts](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/one-plus-one-jazz-duos-are-often-more-than-the-sum-of-their-parts/) - Among the 36 recordings that trumpeter Louis Armstrong and pianist Earl “Fatha” Hines made together in 1927 and 1928 are “West End Blues,” perhaps Armstrong’s single greatest documented performance, and “Weather Bird,” which is not the first jazz duet ever recorded but is the best one I’ve ever heard. Gunther Schuller explained the musicological and
- [The Boys From Brooklyn: Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-boys-from-brooklyn-dave-liebman-and-richie-beirach/) - Longtime friends Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach reflect on a connection that’s stronger than ever.
- [Michael League and Bill Laurance: Off the Leash](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/michael-league-and-bill-laurance-off-the-leash/) - Michael League and Bill Laurance have enjoyed making music together for nearly 20 years. When the opportunity to record as a duo arose, they leapt at the chance.
- [3D Jazz Trio, ‘9 to 5’ (DIVA Jazz) | Review](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/3d-jazz-trio-9-to-5-diva-jazz-review/) - Formed in 2014, the 3D Jazz Trio is a synergistic ensemble of virtuoso musicians: drummer Sherrie Maricle, leader of the pioneering, all-women DIVA orchestra; versatile bassist Amy Shook; and award-winning pianist Jackie Warren. The group’s fourth release, 9 to 5, is a celebration of the members’ favorite songs spanning various genres and styles. An accomplished
- [Auditions Roundup: Legends and Love Letters](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/auditions-roundup-legends-and-love-letters/) - Tribute albums done right put a new shine on the jazz canon.
- [Mike LeDonne and Eric Alexander: Heavy Mettle](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/mike-ledonne-and-eric-alexander-heavy-mettle/) - Mike LeDonne and Eric Alexander assembled a crack squad of jazz stars with shared history and stellar chops. Tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander understands the challenges facing an elite ensemble like The Heavy Hitters, whose eponymous debut album was released on the Cellar Music label in January. “An all-star band is usually a disaster, because you’ve
- [Spring 2023 JAZZIZ On Disc: Annotated Playlist](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/spring-2023-jazziz-on-disc-annotated-playlist/) - Disc One: Duos https://open.spotify.com/playlist/15HIx8pIKY7AgsqbC0klGO?si=9e35a348db8c4066 In the aftermath of pandemic restrictions, musicians have become increasingly adept at long-distance recording sessions. But, as pianist Dan Costa and trumpet legend Randy Brecker prove conclusively, when the participants are in harmonious alignment, the results can be as rewarding as if they were in the same room. Such was the
- [Derrick Gardner & the Jazz Prophets, ‘Pan Africa’ (Impact Jazz) | Review](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/derrick-gardner-the-jazz-prophets-pan-africa-impact-jazz-review/) - Veteran trumpeter Derrick Gardner took his long-standing Jazz Prophets sextet on a five-week tour through the West African country of Ghana last summer. The trip provided the inspiration and thematic basis for the band’s current release, Pan Africa. There’s little aural evidence, however, of concrete African influence in the album’s nine tracks, five of which
- [Cheryl Ann Spencer, ‘Serendipity in Venice’ (self-released) | Review](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/cheryl-ann-spencer-serendipity-in-venice-self-released-review/) - Cheryl Ann Spencer is a modern jazz pianist from Singapore. She earned a degree in banking and finance and for a period worked as a banker while raising two young children. In recent times, she earned a second degree in jazz and pursued her love of music, leading her regularly working Evolution Quartet. Serendipity in
- [Auditions Roundup: A Celebration of Sound](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/auditions-roundup-a-celebration-of-sound/) - An improvisational master marks his 65th birthday with three disparate releases.
- [Fernando García, ‘Behique’ (self-released) | Review](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/fernando-garcia-behique-self-released-review/) - On his 2018 release Guasábara Puerto Rico, Fernando García cemented his wonderfully nuanced interpretation of a sound created at the crossroads of bomba, the African-rooted rhythm of his native Puerto Rico, and jazz. On his latest outing, Behique (the Taino word for “healer”), the percussionist/composer/arranger broadens his aesthetic by infusing contemporary jazz elements into bomba,
- [The Resilient Hart Beat: Billy Hart Remains a Vital Part of the Jazz Conversation](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-resilient-hart-beat-billy-hart-remains-a-vital-part-of-the-jazz-conversation/) - By June 2020, the red double doors to the Village Vanguard, New York’s oldest continuously operated jazz club, had been locked since mid-March. Back then, jazz fans needed no clearer reminder of the music’s arrested state of affairs since the COVID-19 crisis hit. That’s when the Vanguard began opening its doors to musicians and a
- [A Blue Note Reboot: Makaya McCraven Refreshes Classic Jazz Grooves for a New Generation](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/a-blue-note-reboot-makaya-mccraven-refreshes-classic-jazz-grooves-for-a-new-generation/) - Makaya McCraven’s renown as a sound visionary and innovative “beat scientist” would seem to be encoded in his family’s DNA. His dad is jazz drummer Stephen McCraven, whose expansive résumé includes Yusef Lateef, Freddie Hubbard and years playing with Archie Shepp, and his mom is Hungarian singer Agnes Zsigmondi of the band Kolinda, whose boundary-pushing
- [Rhythm Changes: The History of Jazz (Seen from the Drummer’s Seat) in 22 Recordings.](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/rhythm-changes-the-history-of-jazz-seen-from-the-drummers-seat-in-22-recordings/) - Historians may quibble over the exact origins of jazz. But few will doubt that, at its inception, jazz emerged from a rhythmic impulse. From that union of traditional African rhythms with European military percussion sprang a drumming discourse that has taken various shapes and guises over the years. From swing to bebop, avant-garde to fusion,
- [Pulses and Pathways: Marcus Gilmore, One of the Most Multi-Faceted Drummers in Jazz Today](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/pulses-and-pathways-marcus-gilmore-one-of-the-most-multi-faceted-drummers-in-jazz-today/) - It’s hard to think of an under-40 drummer who manifests experimental imperatives and idiomatic mastery of a global array of rhythmic codes and admixtured dialects — call it Afro-Cuban meets Carnatic meets North African meets second line meets swing — more elegantly, efficaciously and bodaciously than Marcus Gilmore. Gilmore, 35, started working with Steve Coleman
- [The Orchestra Is His Drum Set: Adam Rudolph's Ensemble Approach Relies on Color, Texture and the Sound of Surprise](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-orchestra-is-his-drum-set-adam-rudolphs-ensemble-approach-relies-on-color-texture-and-the-sound-of-surprise/) - Though he ultimately settled on the more poetic Resonant Bodies, Adam Rudolph half-seriously considered calling the second album by his Go: Organic Guitar Orchestra How To Play the Guitar. It’s a provocative suggestion given the near absence of anything resembling conventional guitar playing by the nine axmen that make up percussionist/composer/conductor’s inventive ensemble. But it
- [A Continuing Conversation of Trumpet and Drum: Wadada Leo Smith Marches to the Beat of a Different Drummer (...Four, in Fact)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/a-continuing-conversation-of-trumpet-and-drum-wadada-leo-smith-marches-to-the-beat-of-a-different-drummer-four-in-fact/) - In the year leading up to his 80th birthday this past December, the ageless trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith released no less than three multi-disc boxed sets — including The Chicago Symphonies, a much-heralded four-CD set with his Great Lakes Quartet (featuring Henry Threadgill) — and two single discs, one of which, A Love Sonnet for
- [Publisher's Letter: Fascinating Rhythms](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/publishers-letter-fascinating-rhythms/) - It was wood blocks rather than drums that powered the earliest jazz recordings. Not that drummers such as Baby Dodds and Zutty Singleton weren’t lighting up their snares and bass drums with the bands of Papa Celestin and Fate Marable in the early part of the 20th century, only that the technology hadn’t caught up:
- [John Coltrane: Interstellar Space (Impulse!, 1974)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/john-coltrane-interstellar-space-impulse-1974/) - Rashied Ali didn’t know the session was going to be just drums and saxophone until John Coltrane arrived at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio and told him — no one else was coming. In subsequent years, according to Ben Ratliff’s 2007 book Coltrane: The Story of a Sound, the drummer said he wished he’d known in
- [SOUNDBITES: Spring 2022](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/soundbites-spring-2022/) - Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Disasters Vol. 1 (Hot Cup) Bassist Moppa Elliott’s MOPDtK has good fun turning the piano-trio format on its ear. The central conceit here is drummer Kevin Shea’s frenetic transitions between grooves and wildly free barrages that underpin the relatively straight, often blues-based work by Elliott and pianist Ron Stabinsky.
- [No Energy Crisis: Hard-Bop Icon Louis Hayes Still Brings the Heat](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/no-energy-crisis-hard-bop-icon-louis-hayes-still-brings-the-heat/) - The pandemic has weighed heavily on the mind of Louis Hayes. It’s no accident that the 84-year-old drummer and session vet named his recent quintet album Crisis (Savant), nor that it contains tunes titled “Creeping Crud” and “Oxygen.” However, he says, a lovely read of “I’m Afraid the Masquerade Is Over,” movingly sung by Camille
- [Evolution of Expression: Jorge Rossy Continues to Refine His Sophisticated Sound on Vibraphone and Marimba](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/evolution-of-expression-jorge-rossy-continues-to-refine-his-sophisticated-sound-on-vibraphone-and-marimba/) - In September 2020, Jorge Rossy, then 56, recorded Puerta, his first leader album for ECM. As on all his leader albums since the mid-2010s, Rossy plays vibraphone and marimba. Robert Landferman, most widely known for a long association with German pianist Pablo Held’s trio, plays bass. On drums is Jeff Ballard, who, in 2005, replaced
- [Motian Pictures: Filmmaker Michael Patrick Kelly Provides a Window Into a Modern Jazz Master](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/motian-pictures-filmmaker-michael-patrick-kelly-provides-a-window-into-a-modern-jazz-master/) - Paul Motian’s was a singular voice in the jazz world. Going back to his work with the Paul Bley Trio in the early 1960s or with the Keith Jarrett Quartet through the 1970s, Motian proved a drummer of extraordinary color and sensitivity, and a composer whose canon was as unique as his playing. Later albums,
- [Andrew Cyrille/William Parker/Enrico Rava: “2 Blues for Cecil” (TUM)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/andrew-cyrille-william-parker-enrico-rava-2-blues-for-cecil-tum/) - On New Year’s Eve 2020, drummer Andrew Cyrille, double bassist William Parker and flugelhornist Enrico Rava played at a Paris festival under the moniker “Tribute to Cecil Taylor.” But the bracing, beguiling 2 Blues for Cecil, which was culled from that performance, is a tribute album in the most unconventional sense, and its lack of
- [Gui Duvignau: “Baden” (Sunnyside)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/gui-duvignau-baden-sunnyside/) - Although he came on the scene in Brazil in the late 1950s — at the same time as a youthful group of talented contemporaries was creating what became known as bossa nova — virtuoso guitarist and composer Baden Powell was something of a stylistic outlier. Unlike iconic bossa pioneers such as Antônio Carlos Jobim, Roberto
- [Júlio Resende: “Fado Jazz” (ACT Music & Vision)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/julio-resende-fado-jazz-act-music-vision/) - Portuguese pianist Júlio Resende intentionally obscures the line between his homeland’s deeply rooted fado music and jazz on his latest release, the aptly titled Fado Jazz. Bleeding into each other across nine tracks of mostly original material, the two genres pulsate and barrel forward, birthing something new in the process. The bandleader evocatively substitutes the
- [Adam Berenson: “Assemblages” (Dream Play)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/adam-berenson-assemblages-dream-play/) - If you haven’t heard of pianist Adam Berenson, it’s not for lack of his trying. Since the mid-’90s, he has released more than 20 albums, three of which feature this trio: bassist Scott Barnum and the veteran drummer Bob Moses, whom Berenson met while studying with Paul Bley at the New England Conservatory of Music.
- [Spring 2022 JAZZIZ On Disc: Annotated Tracklist](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/spring-2022-jazziz-on-disc-annotated-tracklist/) - Disc One: The Drum Thing As a quartet that expanded to a quintet with the addition of a second horn, Mostly Other People Do the Killing generated a buzz in the early 2000s with its attention-grabbing moniker and daringly original music. The band’s reputation spread with recordings that simultaneously spoofed and honored classic jazz album
- [Tips from Q](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/tips-from-q/) - Over the years, I’ve written about my admiration for Quincy Jones on a personal level. Like legendary jazz producers Bruce Lundvall and Tommy LiPuma, Quincy was already legendary when we met. And as I did with Lundvall and LiPuma, I felt honored whenever I received a call, invite or request from him and even more so
- [Requisite Listening: Gill Scott-Heron, 'Small Talk at 125th and Lenox'](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-listening-gill-scott-heron-small-talk-at-125th-and-lenox/) - Gil Scott-Heron Small Talk at 125th and Lenox (Flying Dutchman), 1970 On his debut recording, Gil Scott-Heron channeled the anger and disgust of Black America in startling, sometimes bitingly humorous verse, laying out a blueprint for the rappers who would follow a decade later. Accompanied by a pair of conga players, the 20-year-old Scott-Heron rhythmically recited his
- [Jazz Spoken Here : Archie Shepp bridges generations of poetic expression](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jazz-spoken-here-archie-shepp-bridges-generations-of-poetic-expression/) - Decades before Public Enemy and NWA, Archie Shepp was electrifying audiences with his gritty urban poetry. “Where tracks is, the money ain’t/It’s all in them tracks,” the saxophonist recited on “Scag,” a performance captured on a recording of his landmark concert at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1965. The arco drone of Barre Phillips’ bass strings, the anxious
- [The Loading Doc: David Zheng fills a prescription for groove with his genre-blurring debut album](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-loading-doc-david-zheng-fills-a-prescription-for-groove-with-his-genre-blurring-debut-album/) - Having recently received his Master’s in Jazz Piano Performance from Manhattan School of Music, David Zheng is fully aware that the more traditional-minded folks in the jazz community might hear the boundary-pushing, electronica-and-beats-based fusion he stirs up on his debut album Loading … (Ropeadope) and wonder, as he muses, “What the hell is this?” Just as the
- [When Biggie Met Big Chief: Donald Harrison played a pivotal role in the development of a hip-hop legend](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/when-biggie-met-big-chief-donald-harrison-played-a-pivotal-role-in-the-development-of-a-hip-hop-legend/) - Donald Harrison first met Biggie Smalls on a stoop in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn. Harrison, then in his early 20s, was playing alto saxophone in drummer Art Blakey’s band at the time, having moved to New York City from his native New Orleans. His was the arc of a rising star, among a cadre
- [Playing Jazz in the Hip-Hop Era: Morgan Guerin, Joel Ross and Immanuel Wilkins discuss how hip-hop shaped their music](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/playing-jazz-in-the-hip-hop-era-morgan-guerin-joel-ross-and-immanuel-wilkins-discuss-how-hip-hop-shaped-their-music/) - What was it like for a devoted jazz aspirant from Gen Y or Gen Z to grow up in a milieu where hip-hop culture — and hip-hop music — globally and intersectionally influenced the worlds of media, fashion, technology, education, art and entertainment? To explore that question, JAZZIZ approached three ready-for-prime-time practitioners, individualists who have much in common. Each left his
- [The Secret Life of a Backpack Jazz Producer: Drummer Kassa Overall takes center stage](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-secret-life-of-a-backpack-jazz-producer-drummer-kassa-overall-takes-center-stage/) - When I catch up with Kassa Overall on the final day of 2020, he’s holed up in Seattle, Washington. Both he and his girlfriend, the writer and scholar Lauren Du Graf, grew up there. Now they’re back, riding out the pandemic, “laying low and keeping safe.” That gives Overall plenty of time to return to the
- [Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger: 'Force Majeure' (International Anthem)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/dezron-douglas-brandee-younger-force-majeure-international-anthem/) - In the history of jazz harp — from Casper Reardon and Adele Girard to Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane — there have been occasional harp-bass-drums trios, but virtually no duet albums of harp and string bass. At least until now. Bassist Dezron Douglas and harpist Brandee Younger, both of whom are normally rather busy in
- [Mara Rosenbloom Trio: 'Respiration' (Fresh Sound/New Talent)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/mara-rosenbloom-trio-respiration-fresh-sound-new-talent/) - While it can often seem like the piano-trio format is all wrung-out, very occasionally a recording drops that introduces new dimensions. Mara Rosenbloom’s Respiration does not reinvent the configuration so much as unsettle it. For starters, the Wisconsin-raised, New York-based Rosenbloom shows a resolute fondness for her instrument’s lower and middle registers, and no interest
- [The Warriors of the Wonderful Sound: 'SoundPath' (Clean Feed)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-warriors-of-the-wonderful-sound-soundpath-clean-feed/) - Saxophonist Bobby Zankel first convened this Philadelphia-based big band almost 20 years ago, and here the lineup boasts a slew of heavy hitters. Only a handful would count as jazz-household names — among them trumpeter Josh Evans, cornetist Graham Haynes, trombonist Steve Swell, bassist Michael Formanek and drummer Chad Taylor — although the entire band
- [Elina Duni/Rob Luft: 'Lost Ships' (ECM)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/elina-duni-rob-luft-lost-ships-ecm/) - The lovely, twilight-moody Elina Duni/Rob Luft album Lost Ships is a wanderer — in spirit, lyrical reference and geo-cultural terms. Albanian-Swiss vocalist Elina Duni, empathically abetted by British guitarist Rob Luft, freely traverses cultures and languages, from her native tongue to English, Italian and French songs. Stylistically, as well, the landscape shifts from haunting folk
- [Soundbites: Spring 2021 Album Roundup](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/soundbites-spring-2021-album-roundup/) - The Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Outtakes: Previously Unreleased Takes From the Original 1959 Sessions (Brubeck Editions) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xaBMKDQov4 Regardless of how you regard Time Out on the masterpiece scale, it’s illuminating — and fun — to hear these early versions of tunes that have become stamped into the jazz canon. Upon hearing the nervous, unfocused initial
- [Hip to Bop: The Essential Jazz Rap Albums](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/hip-to-bop-the-essential-jazz-rap-albums/) - Jazz and hip-hop are dialects of the same language. Put them together and the conversation can be sublime. From jazz artists with hip-hop sensibilities to rappers versed in the rhythms of jazz, here are 15 albums that bridge the gap. The Last Poets The Last Poets (Douglas), 1970 The link between jazz and spoken-word poetry
- [Jazz Re-Generations: Five artists explore the intersections of jazz and hip-hop](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jazz-re-generations-five-artists-explore-the-intersections-of-jazz-and-hip-hop/) - Back around the turn of the 21st century, commentators trying to situate the hip-hop movement within American music — and particularly as part of the African-American timeline — came up with the phrase “from bebop to hip-hop.” It didn’t fare particularly well: Many hip-hop artists had yet to work their way back to bebop, and
- [Publisher's Letter: I'm Here for You](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/publishers-letter-im-here-for-you/) - The phrase “I’m here for you” can sound a bit patronizing. But one of the things that I love most about regularly communicating with subscribers via email is that it allows me to do just that — to be here for you. Though a lot of digital technology goes into creating the analog print magazines
- [Dopolarians - Garden Party (Mahakala Music)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/dopolarians-garden-party-mahakala-music/) - In an age of strictly defined stylistic directions in jazz, Dopolarians ventures into decidedly “inside-outside” territory. The innovative yet organic intergenerational group — bassist William Parker, tenor saxophonist Kidd Jordan, vocalist Kelley Hurt, drummer Alvin Fielder, pianist Chris Parker and alto saxophonist/saxello player Chad Fowler — is onto something fresh and contextually revitalizing. Garden Party,
- [The DIVA Jazz Orchestra - DIVA + The Boys  (MCG Jazz)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-diva-jazz-orchestra-diva-the-boys-mcg-jazz/) - Although the DIVA Jazz Orchestra only began recording for the MCG Jazz label in 2014, the hard-swinging all-female ensemble boasts a history that dates back nearly 30 years. The inspiration came from Stanley Kay, one-time manager and relief drummer for Buddy Rich, who was conducting a band featuring Sherrie Maricle on drums. Blown away by
- [Within a Room of Gold: Michele Rosewoman](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/within-a-room-of-gold-michele-rosewoman/) - Standing on the tiny stage of Manhattan’s Zinc Bar in November, the dozen or so musicians in Michele Rosewoman’s New-Yoruba ensemble were packed in tight. In celebration of a new release, Hallowed (Advance Dance Disques), Rosewoman and her group played sections of “Oru de Oro,” an extended work based on sacred Yoruba rhythms played on
- [Securing the Vote: Karrin Allyson](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/securing-the-vote-karrin-allyson/) - In December, at a private event in Singapore, former President Barack Obama said, “I’m absolutely confident that, for two years, if every nation on earth was run by women, you would see a significant improvement across the board on just about everything.” His point echoed the final words that veteran jazz vocalist Karrin Allyson wrote
- [Pureum Jin: Keeping It Real](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/pureum-jin-keeping-it-real/) - Just off Barcelona’s bustling commercial strip known as La Rambla sits the Plaza Real, a charming square in the heart of the city’s centuries-old Gothic Quarter. Tucked into this historic landmark is the seemingly anomalous Jamboree, a jazz club dating back to 1960 that hosted the likes of Dexter Gordon, Kenny Drew, Chet Baker and
- [Bobby Watson, Gary Bartz and Vincent Herring: Chairmen of the Bird](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/bobby-watson-gary-bartz-and-vincent-herring-chairmen-of-the-bird/) - Vincent Herring’s concept for the live recording Bird at 100 (Smoke Sessions) was simple: gather three generations of alto saxophonists to pay homage to Charlie Parker on the cusp of his centennial year. Actually, he wanted four and settled for three, but that’s a different story. And so, Herring, 55, called on fellow altoists Bobby
- [Artemis Shines Bright at Carnegie Hall](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/artemis-shines-bright-at-carnegie-hall/) - By the time Artemis, an all-star ensemble, dug deep into the blues while trading solos during an encore performance of Billie Holiday’s “Fine and Mellow,” most of the Carnegie Hall audience was on their feet, cheering on the band. Each of these seven musicians — pianist Renee Rosnes, clarinetist Anat Cohen (who also played soprano
- [Charles Lloyd: Rolling Right Along](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/charles-lloyd-rolling-right-along/) - On March 15, 2018, Charles Lloyd celebrated his 80th birthday with an epic yet intimate concert at the historic, adobe-brick Lobero Theatre near his home in Santa Barbara, California. The Memphis-born saxophonist, flutist and composer marked his eighth decade by performing songs from throughout his era-spanning discography, accompanied by his quintet, guest organist Booker T.
- [Download the Winter 2019-20 Issue](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/download-the-winter-2019-20-issue-2/) - PRELUDE Sergio Mendes collaborates in The Key of Joy. Charles Lloyd celebrates his eighth decade with a new concert release. Lakecia Benjamin offers a fresh tribute to John and Alice Coltrane. Nduduzo Makhathini finds a home on Blue Note Records. Plus lots more. BIRD AT 100 Does Charlie Parker Still Matter? By Neil Tesser CHAIRMEN OF THE BIRD Gary Bartz,
- [Download the Spring 2020 Issue](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/download-the-spring-2020-issue/) - FEATURES Does Charlie Parker Still Matter? By Neil Tesser Gary Bartz, Vincent Herring and Bobby Watson discuss the primacy of Charlie Parker. By Bob Weinberg PLUS… A guide to the best of Charlie Parker's recordings; six artists share their thoughts on Charlie Parker; observations and insights by Charlie Parker and others. PRELUDE Sergio Mendes collaborates
- [Joe Fiedler: Swinging Down Sesame Street](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/joe-fiedler-swinging-down-sesame-street-private/) - Joe Fiedler knows better than anyone that there’s more than one way to get to Sesame Street. The trombonist began his career playing in Cecil Taylor’s large ensemble, and has since worked with everyone from Andrew Hill and Charles Tolliver to Eddie Palmieri and Celia Cruz. He’s created his own out-of-the-box sounds with the Joe
- [Download the Spring 2019 Issue](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/download-the-spring-2019-issue/) - Download the Spring 2019 issue for use offline. Click the link below to launch your issue. FEATURES 35 YEARS OF ART FOR YOUR EYES AND EARS Our focus on visual excellence attracted a talented assemblage of contributing writers, illustrators, designers and editors, all of whom helped to mold this publication into what it is today.
- [JAZZIZ Not What You Think: Carlos Santana](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jazziz-not-what-you-think-carlos-santana/) - The guitarist, 71, first rose to fame nearly five decades ago as the leader of the rock group Santana, through which he pioneered a brand of driving psychedelic rock that fused sounds from American rock 'n' roll, funk, jazz, blues and the traditional music of South America, Africa and the Caribbean.
- [EXCLUSIVE: Watch a New Music Video from Cindy Blackman Santana featuring John McLaughlin](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/exclusive-watch-a-new-music-video-from-cindy-blackman-santana-featuring-john-mclaughlin/) - Drum roll, please: Cindy Blackman Santana — the acclaimed jazz drummer and wife of guitarist Carlos Santana — will release a new album, Give The Drummer Some, on September 18, 2020. Three years in the making, the record has been called a "rapturous testament to Blackman Santana’s unparalleled musicianship and compositional mastery." It features 17
- [A Love Supreme: Carlos Santana and Cindy Blackman Santana on Coltrane, Miles and Making Music Together](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/a-love-supreme-carlos-santana-and-cindy-blackman-santana-on-coltrane-miles-and-making-music-together/) - Drummer Cindy Blackman Santana and her husband, guitarist Carlos Santana, make their best music where the currents of jazz, rock, funk, blues and world music converge. That’s certainly the case for the latest album featuring this married musical duo, Give The Drummer Some. It’s a leader project by Cindy featuring Carlos on guitar on eight
- [Into the Multiverse](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/into-the-multiverse/) - This feature originally published in the Fall 2018 edition of JAZZIZ. By Larry Blumenfeld With Emanon, Wayne Shorter realizes his dream of exploring nameless reaches. When Wayne Shorter was in his early teens, living with his parents in the Ironbound section of Newark, New Jersey, he was fascinated by science-fiction and comic books. He drew
- [Wayne Shorter: Giant Footprints](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/wayne-shorter-giant-footprints/) - By Michael Fagien Zero Gravity, a film about Wayne Shorter, plumbs the depths of the man behind the legend. Terence Blanchard and Dorsay Alavi discuss the movie and the major role Wayne played in their lives. MICHAEL FAGIEN: Hello, everyone. We are here today with Terence Blanchard and Dorsay Alavi to talk about this
- [Saluting the Master: Wayne Shorter](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/wayne-shorter-at-80/) - This feature was originally published in the Spring 2013 edition of JAZZIZ. By Ted Panken Six admirers salute the master. Over the phone from his music room in Los Angeles, surrounded, he says, by manuscripts for various forthcoming, large-scale projects, Wayne Shorter, who turns 80 in August, was discussing Without a Net, his first release
- [Portrait of Eric: Mary LaRose Offers a Fresh Take on an Avant-Garde Legend](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/portrait-of-eric-mary-larose-offers-a-fresh-take-on-an-avant-garde-legend/) - Many musicians have shown real talent in the visual arts: Tony Bennett, Miles Davis and Joni Mitchell come immediately to mind. But few have attempted the simultaneous release of a CD and a book of paintings, as vocalist and accomplished painter Mary LaRose did this fall. On Out Here (Little i Music), featuring a starry
- [JD Allen - Queen City (Savant)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jd-allen-queen-city-savant/) - JD Allen and Sonny Rollins embraced the art of the solo saxophone for different reasons. In the late 1950s, Rollins stepped out of the spotlight after skyrocketing to jazz fame to focus on lifting his music to an even higher level — a goal he sought while playing alone at night on the Williamsburg Bridge.
- [Mario Pavone The Tampa Quartet - Isabella (Clean Feed)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/mario-pavone-the-tampa-quartet-isabella-clean-feed/) - Bassist Mario Pavone, who died in May at age 80 after a 17-year battle with carcinoid cancer, made his bones in New York’s avant-garde loft scene during the late ’60s and early ’70s. Just to be heard behind caterwauling horn players required him to play his unamplified double bass with as much muscle and aggression
- [Matthew Whitaker - Connections (Resilience Music Alliance)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/matthew-whitaker-connections-resilience-music-alliance/) - Matthew Whitaker’s inspiring personal story makes it hard for anyone to be fully objective about the multi-talented pianist-composer’s prolific output. The headline of an article 60 Minutes ran in conjunction with its on-air profile prepares us for a lifetime of big stuff from the 20-year-old who, at 13, was the youngest player ever endorsed by
- [Compassion Flowers: The Jazz World Unites During a Time of Unparalleled Crisis](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/compassion-flowers-the-jazz-world-unites-during-a-time-of-unparalleled-crisis/) - There’s never been a project like Relief. The compilation of tracks by Herbie Hancock, Esperanza Spalding, Jon Batiste and other stellar artists is a fundraiser for the Jazz Foundation of America. One hundred percent of the net proceeds will go toward the JFA Musicians’ Emergency Fund, created in March 2020 during the nascent days of
- [Adi Meyerson - I Want To Sing My Heart Out in Praise of Life (self-released)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/adi-meyerson-i-want-to-sing-my-heart-out-in-praise-of-life-self-released/) - Attending an exhibition by Japanese abstract artist Yayoi Kusama several years ago proved to be much more than just a pleasant Manhattan afternoon for bassist and composer Adi Meyerson. The painter’s bold palette overwhelmed the musician’s senses in ways virtually incomprehensible to other gallery patrons — the Israeli-born Meyerson has synesthesia, a rare condition in
- [Bobby West - Leimert Park After Dark (Soulville Sound)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/bobby-west-leimert-park-after-dark-soulville-sound/) - Los Angeles has its share of jazz musicians deserving wider recognition, many of whom were denied the high profile more readily available in Gotham’s jazz epicenter. Horace Tapscott, John Carter and Bobby Bradford spring to mind. Add to that list the sleek, understated pianist Bobby West, as evidenced by the jazz veteran’s ear-friendly new trio
- [Loft Scenes and Big Apple Dreams](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/loft-scenes-and-big-apple-dreams/) - Veteran jazz journalist and longtime JAZZIZ contributor Bill Milkowski takes a deep dive into the life and times of a beloved and influential saxophonist with the newly published Ode to a Tenor Titan: The Life and Times and Music of Michael Brecker (Backbeat Books). The following is an excerpt, edited for space, from the book’s
- [Ode to a Tenor Titan](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/ode-to-a-tenor-titan/) - He was a generational talent. After John Coltrane, there was no more revered and profoundly influential saxophonist on the planet than Michael Brecker. For those of us coming of age in the 1970s, during that transitional decade when the boundaries between rock and jazz had begun to blur, Brecker stood as a transcendent figure. He
- [Detroit Jazz Festival Embraces the Changes with Shift to Digital Format](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/detroit-jazz-festival-embraces-the-changes-with-shift-to-digital-format/) - The weather in Detroit was perfect for a festival crowd this Labor Day weekend. Unfortunately, the threat of the Delta variant and ongoing construction in the festival’s usual home of Hart Plaza forced the Detroit Jazz Festival to go virtual for the second year in a row. Credit thorough contingency planning or the experience garnered
- [WATCH: Eric Clapton Joins Pedrito Martinez  for "My Father's Eyes"](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/watch-eric-clapton-joins-pedrito-martinez-for-my-fathers-eyes/) - A certified blues legend makes a Latin percussion legend in the making. Today brings the release of a special lyric video of a reimagined duet version of Eric Clapton’s “My Father’s Eyes” – featuring a collaborative performance with the guitar icon himself and rising star percussionist Pedrito Martinez. Having the opportunity to work closely with
- [Reading Jazz: Five Essential Nonfiction Books](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/reading-jazz-five-essential-nonfiction-books/) - In today’s episode, we’ll explore five essential books of nonfiction that provide unique insights into the history of jazz. Photo of Wynton Marsalis with Crouch, New York City, circa 1991 (Credit: Frank Stewart) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwQ7EDZdwHo ORDER COPIES HERE:
- [The Royal Bopsters’ Amy London: Keeper of the Vocalese Flame](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-royal-bopsters-amy-london-keeper-of-the-vocalese-flame/) - An unprecedented summit of jazz vocal pioneers convened at New York’s Birdland in September 2015. Jon Hendricks and Bob Dorough were nonagenarians. Annie Ross and Sheila Jordan were in their 80s; Andy Bey (subbing for an ailing Mark Murphy) was the youngster of the group at 75. They were founding fathers and mothers of vocalese,
- [Time Warp: Four New Guitar Albums Offer Blasts from the Past](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/time-warp-four-new-guitar-albums-offer-blasts-from-the-past/) - Longtime Herbie Hancock sideman Lionel Loueke pays tribute to his employer and mentor on HH (Edition Records), his collection of solo guitar interpretations of classic Hancock tunes. Playing primarily a seven-string solo acoustic guitar with a low B string and minimal effects, the Benin-born Loueke re-imagines “Butterfly” as a 6/8 number, singing the haunting wordless
- [The Voice: With His Latest Project, Seth MacFarlane Explores Great Songs from the Stage and Screen](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-voice-with-his-latest-project-seth-macfarlane-explores-great-songs-from-the-stage-and-screen/) - Seth MacFarlane became one of the youngest executive producers in television history when Fox premiered his brilliantly irreverent animated series, Family Guy, in January 1999. He was 24 years old, freshly matriculated from the Rhode Island School of Design. And while it can be considered a gamble for any studio to hedge its bets on
- [Architect of Thought: New Recordings from Keith Jarrett Document a Spectacular Creative Journey](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/architect-of-thought-new-recordings-from-keith-jarrett-document-a-spectacular-creative-journey/) - Ever wonder why each of the 20 solo piano albums by Keith Jarrett since Facing You, his 1971 ECM debut, has documented a live concert performance? In a 2001 conversation, Jarrett explained the reason. “I hate studios,” he told me. “There’s too many wires, too many light-stands, too much metal. The control room and the speakers
- [Regina Carter, ‘Swing States: Harmony in the Battleground’ (Tiger Turn/eOne)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-regina-carter-swing-states-harmony-in-the-battleground-tiger-turn-eone/) - Violinist Regina Carter follows in the politically conscious footsteps of drummer Max Roach and bassist Charles Mingus with Swing States: Harmony in the Battleground. She offers a message of peace, as well as an entreaty for mutual respect and an appeal to make a difference at the ballot box. Interspersed with spoken-word snippets, the album
- [Jazz Destinations: Aspen](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jazz-destinations-aspen/) - The city of Aspen, Colorado, recently wrapped up its biggest musical event of the year: the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Experience. For its 2019 edition, this marquee event attracted the likes of Weezer, John Mayer and Sting to a mountain-ringed stage in nearby Snowmass, where a heavenly combination of stunning vistas, pop-up boutiques and
- [A Life in Music: Remembering Harold Mabern](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/a-life-in-music-remembering-harold-mabern/) - Harold Mabern, a pianist whose warm, soul-infused playing was a glowing reminder of the indelible bond between jazz and blues, died suddenly on Tuesday, September 17, in New Jersey. He was 83 years old.
- [My Gig Bag: Saxophonist Noah Preminger Shares His Touring Essentials](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/my-gig-bag-saxophonist-noah-preminger-shares-his-touring-essentials/) - At just 32 years old, the saxophonist Noah Preminger has already racked up an impressive array of accolades, including being named a Rising Star-Tenor Saxophonist by DownBeat Magazine in 2017. A whipsmart conceptualist with an earthy tone and a keen melodic sense, he's recorded over 12 critically acclaimed albums as a leader, the most recent
- [Pat Metheny Called Him 'The Best Guitar Player I've Heard.' Watch Pasquale Grasso Perform 'Over the Rainbow'](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/pat-metheny-called-him-the-best-guitar-player-ive-heard-watch-pasquale-grasso-perform-over-the-rainbow/) - Pasquale Grasso may not be on your jazz radar on the moment, but the 30-year-old Italian guitarist is certainly getting noticed by the right people. In an interview with Vintage Guitar magazine, Pat Metheny called Grasso “the best guitar player I’ve heard in maybe my entire life," adding that "he’s the most significant new guy I’ve
- [From the JAZZIZ Vault: Jazz Meets Classical Playlist](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/from-the-jazziz-vault-jazz-meets-classical-playlist/) - Over the course of its 35-year history, JAZZIZ Magazine would occasionally run exclusive issues dedicated to a single artist, genre or event. Often, those issues would be paired with a special-edition CD featuring music to accompany the theme. In January 2001, JAZZIZ explored the historical bonds between jazz and classical music in an issue called
- [Watch the Music Video for Miles Davis' "Moon Dreams," Celebrating 70 Years of Cool](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/watch-the-music-video-for-miles-davis-moon-dreams-celebrating-70-years-of-cool/) - In honor of the 70th anniversary of this groundbreaking album, which helped give rise to the cool jazz moment, Universal Music Enterprises in association with Ingenuity Studios has created a brand new video interpretation of one of the album's most enduring tracks: “Moon Dreams.”
- [JAZZIZ Not What You Think: Steve Tyrell](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jazziz-not-what-you-think-steve-tyrell/) - Joining JAZZIZ Publisher Michael Fagien on the podcast today is Steve Tyrell, a record producer and vocalist whose soulful interpretations of jazz standards, Disney tunes, holiday classics and R&B anthems have gained him a wide and passionate fan base the world over. Born in Texas in 1944, Tyrell got his start in the music early
- [Graphically Miles](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/graphically-miles/) - By Bob Weinberg Graphic novelist Dave Chisholm takes readers on an eye-popping excursion through the musical and personal evolution of Miles Davis. In the opening pages of Miles Davis and the Search for the Sound (Z2), a new graphic novel by artist and author Dave Chisholm, the groundbreaking trumpeter is literally trying to come to
- [Jazz and Comics: A Brief History](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jazz-and-comics-a-brief-history/) - By Bob Weinberg Once considered “low-brow” entertainment, jazz and comics have each attained high art status. For fans, their pairing is a match made in heaven. Though it may sound counterintuitive, jazz and comic books share plenty of common ground. Both art forms are uniquely American, innovated by minorities (namely, Blacks and Jews) who largely
- [Terri Lyne Carrington: Covenant of the Matriarch](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/terri-lyne-carrington-covenant-of-the-matriarch/) - While they’re often overlooked, Terri Lyne Carrington keeps the focus on women who’ve contributed to the jazz songbook.
- [JD Allen, 'Americana Vol. 2' (Savant) | Review](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jd-allen-americana-vol-2-savant-review/) - On two of his previous albums, Americana (2016) and Barracoon (2019), tenor saxophonist JD Allen purposefully evoked the blues. On Americana Vol. 2, he gets right down to the nitty-gritty, playing the blues in quartet and trio formats, stripping his tenor work to the studs, eschewing technical gymnastics in favor of raw expression. It’s not
- [Carmen Lundy: Composing With Compassion](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/carmen-lundy-composing-with-compassion/) - From the socio-political to the personal, Carmen Lundy stresses the need for human connection during difficult times.
- [Karolina Strassmayer and Drori Mondlak, ‘Quiet Fortitude’ (Lilypad Music) | Review](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/karolina-strassmayer-and-drori-mondlak-quiet-fortitude-lilypad-music-review/) - During the course of two decades, flutist and alto saxophonist Karolina Strassmayer and drummer Drori Mondlak have maintained a dynamic partnership. Their camaraderie and shared creative vision with like-minded musicians has resulted in a uniformly superb discography. Quiet Fortitude, their ninth release, documents a live, mostly improvised, cohesive set where each piece logically progresses to
- [Judith Owen: Bold Female Declarations, Without Apology](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/judith-owen-bold-female-declarations-without-apology/) - Singer Judith Owen honors musical heroines with joy and New Orleans flavor. Seated before the audience at Preservation Hall in the French Quarter of New Orleans on a balmy October night, singer and pianist Judith Owen thought back to her deepest joy while growing up in London — her father’s record collection. She recalled finding,
- [A Legend Before His Time: Newly discovered Hasaan Ibn Ali recordings illuminate his genius](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/a-legend-before-his-time-newly-discovered-hasaan-ibn-ali-recordings-illuminate-his-genius/) - It seems premature, if not downright presumptuous, to add the sobriquet “legendary” to an artist’s name on his debut album — especially when the artist in question is an unknown pianist from Philadelphia sharing the marquee with a bona fide legend such as Max Roach. But the legend of Hasaan Ibn Ali, whose debut (and,
- [A Winter Ball: Ed Palermo helms a bluesy big band salute to ’70s rock icon Edgar Winter](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/a-winter-ball-ed-palermo-helms-a-bluesy-big-band-salute-to-70s-rock-icon-edgar-winter/) - Singer and multi-instrumentalist Edgar Winter is best known as the man behind 1970s rock hits “Frankenstein” and “Free Ride” and as the brother of late blues guitarist Johnny Winter. But to saxophonist and big band auteur Ed Palermo, whose latest album is the incredibly entertaining I’ve Got News for You: The Music of Edgar Winter
- [Value Added: Helen Sung’s 'Quartet +' is a winning combination](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/value-added-helen-sungs-quartet-is-a-winning-combination/) - Known for her “as serious as your life” approach to musical production since she moved to New York in 1999, pianist Helen Sung is not averse to punning on her name when she titles albums. An early example is Helenistique, a romping straightahead 2005 trio date with Derrick Hodge and Lewis Nash on which Sung
- [Growing Up Ira: Ira Sullivan was a legend in the jazz world, but to Brev Sullivan, he was Dad.](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/growing-up-ira-ira-sullivan-was-a-legend-in-the-jazz-world-but-to-brev-sullivan-he-was-dad/) - Attired in a shredded black muscle T and tight leather pants, long blonde hair framing his face, guitarist Brev Sullivan joyfully digs in on 1980s rock hits by the likes of Starship, Journey and Guns N’ Roses. Holding court on the stage at the Hard Rock Cafe in Hollywood in mid-October, Sullivan’s Skin City Angels
- [Still Cookin’ : Billy Harper enjoys a late-career awakening with The Cookers](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/still-cookin-billy-harper-enjoys-a-late-career-awakening-with-the-cookers/) - Jazz history is rife with brilliant musicians who never received their proper due. Some became bitter, some fell prey to bad lifestyle habits, some died young, some even consigned their instrument to the closet. Many, however, simply forged on — like Billy Harper, 78, a volcanic tenor saxophonist who has carved out a satisfying, if
- [Count Basie Orchestra: 'Live at Birdland' (Candid)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/count-basie-orchestra-live-at-birdland-candid/) - To build on an old saying, there are three things that one can always depend on: death, taxes and the Count Basie Orchestra. Basie formed his first big band in 1934 and it became an influential force that defined swing. But while the “Old Testament” band of 1934-49 had brilliant soloists and spontaneous-sounding riff tunes,
- [Henry Threadgill Zooid: Poof (Pi)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/henry-threadgill-zooid-poof-pi/) - Composer and woodwind player Henry Threadgill won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2015 masterpiece In for a Penny, In for a Pound, featuring his longest running group, Zooid. Poof is his first release since then with the same quintet. In the intervening years, Threadgill had recorded with other superb ensembles yet, unsurprisingly, he sounds most
- [Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O: 'Umdali' (Mushroom Hour Half Hour)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/malcolm-jiyane-tree-o-umdali-mushroom-hour-half-hour/) - South African trombonist, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Malcolm Jiyane is best known among American audiences for his graceful piano playing as part of the group SPAZA on UPRIZE!, the stellar soundtrack to the 2017 Soweto student protest documentary of the same name. But he’s a veteran of his home country’s jazz scene, and this experience elevates
- [The Cookers: 'Look Out!' (Gearbox)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-cookers-look-out-gearbox/) - The Cookers is an apt moniker for a septet of all-star players who often worked as sidemen to the marquee names of the jazz world. The contributions of pianist George Cables, drummer Billy Hart, trumpeter Eddie Henderson, bassist Cecil McBee and tenor saxophonist Billy Harper have amounted to a centering force in jazz for more
- [Dr. Lonnie’s Wild Ride: Remembering a Jazz Organ Legend](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/dr-lonnies-wild-ride-remembering-a-jazz-organ-legend/) - The scene was positively trippy. In a dimly lit chamber of centuries-old stone, cannons hanging decoratively from walls they once defended, Dr. Lonnie Smith pulled otherworldly sounds from his Hammond B-3 organ. Helming a trio with guitarist Peter Bernstein and drummer Allison Miller, the Doc held court at 12:30 each night in the subterranean fortifications
- [GuitArtistry: Gregg Belisle-Chi Refracts the Music of Tim Berne Through a Solo Lens](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/guitartistry-gregg-belisle-chi-refracts-the-music-of-tim-berne-through-a-solo-lens/) - Cutting edge saxophonist-composer-bandleader Tim Berne has long been known for this dense, challenging compositions that feature him playing alto over lengthy, through-composed movements, usually backed by such like-minded musicians as drummers Jim Black and Ches Smith, guitarists David Torn, Ryan Ferreira and Marc Ducret, bassists Michael Formanek and , pianist Matt Mitchell, clarinetist Oscar Noriega
- [A Yellowjacket Looks at 40: Q&A with Russell Ferrante](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/a-yellowjacket-looks-at-40-qa-with-russell-ferrante/) - To commemorate their 25th recording, the Yellowjackets decided to do something extra special. Joining forces with one of Europe’s premier large ensembles, the WDR Big Band of Cologne, Germany, they reimagined classic Jackets tunes spanning the group’s history on Jackets XL, with enhanced orchestrations courtesy of the band’s longtime saxophonist, bass clarinetist and EWI specialist
- [The Lonely Bull: Herb Alpert Discusses Making Art on his Own Terms](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-lonely-bull-herb-alpert-discusses-making-art-on-his-own-terms/) - In the documentary Herb Alpert Is…, which was released in theaters and on Watch @ Home platforms on October 1, drummer Questlove of The Roots describes the artistry of the film's titular trumpet player as "The happiest music in existence." That's certainly an apt description for Alpert's signature brand of instrumental pop music, and it
- [Elegy for A Side Man: Remembering Cornetist Peter Ecklund](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/elegy-for-a-side-man-remembering-cornetist-peter-ecklund/) - It’s been over six months since the great cornetist Peter Ecklund died at age 74, though it seems that few outside the traditional jazz world know it. His death was not COVID-realted, and it happened amidst the first wave of the virus in New York City, when people here could think of little else. There
- [Tom Albach, Producer and Founder of Nimbus Records, Dies at 95](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/tom-albach-producer-and-founder-of-nimbus-records-dies-at-95/) - Tom Albach, a true jazz patron, has died. He began his Nimbus records specifically to record and document pianist, composer and bandleader Horace Tapscott. Albach’s efforts sustained Tapscott (1934-1999), and alerted the world outside of Los Angeles to his music. Albach was 95 and succumbed to the effects of pneumonia at the University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque.
- [JAZZIZ Dinner and a Playlist Special Edition: The Best of Jonathan Butler](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jazziz-dinner-and-a-playlist-special-edition-the-best-of-jonathan-butler/) - South African guitarist and vocalist Jonathan Butler has just released a new holiday album, Christmas Together, on Mack Avenue Records. It's a celebration of family and friends
- [Jazz Destinations: Nashville](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jazz-destinations-nashville/) - Nashville may be known as the country music capital of America, but if you look just beyond the juke joints, blues spots and honky-tonk bars of Nashville's downtown landscape you'll find a thriving jazz scene. Here, we present the best spots for jazz-themed entertainment, food and nightlife in Music City, U.S.A. Where To Listen Rudy's
- [From the JAZZIZ Vault: Blues, Vol. 2 Playlist](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/from-the-jazziz-vault-blues-vol-2-playlist/) - Over the course of its 35-year history, JAZZIZ Magazine would occasionally run exclusive issues dedicated to a single artist, genre or event. Often, those issues would be paired with a special-edition CD featuring music to accompany the theme. We've re-created those issues as playlists, taken directly "from the vault." In August 2004, JAZZIZ paid respect
- [Prequel to a King's Tale: Illuminating Nat King Cole's Musical Origins](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/prequel-to-a-kings-tale-illuminating-nat-king-coles-musical-origins/) - Nat King Cole, the world thought it knew thee. Presently enjoying a renewed spotlight in his centennial year, Cole (1919-1965) seemingly needs no introduction, as a pianist-singer who gloriously married jazz and pop sensibilities and enjoyed both popular and critical success on an epic scale in the ‘50s and ‘60s. The love and lingering influence
- [Three Perfect Days in New York, the World’s Undisputed Jazz Capital](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/three-perfect-days-in-new-york-the-worlds-undisputed-jazz-capital/) - New York is so heavily saturated with jazz musicians that, on any given night, you can catch a great show and still feel as if you’ve missed out on dozens of others. That’s great for locals, but it can be overwhelming for out-of-town visitors who are unfamiliar with the city’s jazz terrain. With that in
- [Empire of the Sun](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/empire-of-the-sun/) - This article originally published in the spring 2017 edition of JAZZIZ. Sun Ra’s visionary music continues to transport listeners to worlds beyond. By Bob Weinberg “I am Ra, the living simplicity of an angel visiting Planet Earth,” intones an insistent voice on “Along Came Ra/The Living Myth,” a polyrhythmic Sun Ra performance captured live during
- [Clearing Space](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/clearing-space/) - This article originally published in the spring 2017 edition of JAZZIZ. Author Paul Youngquist explores the enigma of Sun Ra. By Bob Weinberg Paul Youngquist came late to the music of Sun Ra. In the mid-’90s, he was preparing to teach a course on free jazz at Penn State University and down the rabbit hole
- [It’s Always Sunny in Chicago](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/its-always-sunny-in-chicago/) - As captured on an exhilarating collection of unreleased music, the Sun Ra Arkestra made a triumphant return to the city of its origins. By Bob Weinberg The city of Chicago played a crucial role in the development of the Sun Ra Arkestra. However, during a 1973 performance at the Auditorium Theater, where the band —
- [Sun Ra: Exploring the Cosmos](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/sun-ra-exploring-the-cosmos/) - By Matt Micucci A journey through the cosmic legacy of Sun Ra in five tracks. "Enlightenment" (1959) "Enlightenment," co-written by Sun Ra and trumpeter Hobart Dotson, debuted on the 1959 album Jazz in Silhouette. This track was recorded during a historic 1959 session, which marked the end of Sun Ra's straight-ahead jazz period and
- [Editor’s Note](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/editors-note/) - Welcome to this month's JAZZIZ Digital Edition, where we celebrate the legacy of Sun Ra, in honor of his 110th birthday anniversary. On this day, May 22, in 1914, Herman Poole Blount, famously known as Sun Ra, was born in Birmingham, Alabama. While conventional biographies suggest he grew up in Alabama and relocated to Chicago
- [The Wanderer and Company: Singer Dion Returns with a Star-Studded Blues Album](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-wanderer-and-company-singer-dion-returns-with-a-star-studded-blues-album/) - This article was originally published on July 1, 2020. Dion has released a new album, Blues with Friends, featuring Paul Simon, Jeff Beck, Samantha Fish, Billy Gibbons, Bruce Springsteen, John Hammond, Joe Louis Walker, Joe Bonamassa and others. The Bronx-born singer Dion forged his sterling reputation as a rock’n’roll and doo-wop hit-maker in the late
- [Geoff Muldaur: Letters From the Past](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/geoff-muldaur-letters-from-the-past/) - Geoff Muldaur combines blues, jazz and folk with chamber music for a rich reimagining of American song.
- [Taj Mahal: Blues Goes Uptown](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/taj-mahal-blues-goes-uptown/) - Taj Mahal puts his stamp on jazzy tunes from a golden era of American song. For six decades, Taj Mahal has established himself as a master of blues and roots idioms. His distinctively rough-hewn vocals and deft picking on guitar and banjo are fueled by an encyclopedic knowledge of the music that pre-dated him, some
- [Taj Mahal Playlist](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/taj-mahal-playlist/) - Since the late-’60s, Taj Mahal has established himself as one of the foremost interpreters of blues and roots music. Whether he’s helming a full band or alone with just a guitar or banjo, Taj masterfully evokes the spirit of his blues forebears, many of whom he had the opportunity to study up close. On Savoy,
- [Charlie Gabriel: The Stardust of a Song](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/charlie-gabriel-the-stardust-of-a-song/) - Charles Mingus is but one of the many jazz stars who crossed paths with Charlie Gabriel during his long career. That history resonates on his long-overdue debut record. Given that his recent release for Sub Pop Records is titled Eighty Nine, also his age when he cut the album, saxophonist and clarinetist Charlie Gabriel isn’t
- [Jessy J: Spinnin' the Blues](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jessy-j-spinnin-the-blues/) - Jessy J returns to the funky blues, jazz and R&B grooves of her youth. Growing up in a big Mexican-American family in Southern California, Jessy J enjoyed a childhood full of rambunctious family gatherings accompanied by an ongoing soundtrack of Latin, jazz and pop music. The multifaceted saxophonist has mastered those genres throughout a professional
- [GuitArtistry, May 2022: Kevin Eubanks, Mary Halvorson & Will Bernard](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/guitartistry-may-2022-kevin-eubanks-mary-halvorson-will-bernard/) - It’s a Philly Thing: Guitarist Kevin Eubanks goes from pretty to gritty on his duo project with pianist Orrin Evans. I remember doing the first story that appeared in national print on guitar marvel Kevin Eubanks. This was back in 1983. His debut album on Bruce Lundvall’s newly activated Elektra-Musician label, Guitarist, had just come
- [Robert Glasper, “Black Radio III” (Loma Vista/Concord)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/robert-glasper-black-radio-iii-loma-vista-concord/) - The third installment in Robert Glasper’s jazz-meets-hip-hop series arrives a full 10 years after the first, and serves as a stark reminder of how much a culture can evolve over the course of a decade. When Black Radio was released in 2012, it stoked no small amount of controversy within more tradition-minded jazz circles. Ten
- [Charlie Gabriel, "Eighty Nine" (Sub Pop)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/charlie-gabriel-eighty-nine-sub-pop/) - The title Eighty Nine refers to saxophonist and clarinetist Charlie Gabriel’s age at the time the record was cut, and his vintage makes him easily the oldest signee to Sub Pop, a Seattle imprint known for nurturing the grunge movement beginning in the late 1980s, not its devotion to jazz. Still, the match makes sense.
- [Steven Lugerner, “It Takes One To Know One” (Slow and Steady)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/steven-lugerner-it-takes-one-to-know-one-slow-and-steady/) - The session was a serendipitous once. Veteran drummer Albert “Tootie” Heath, 82 at the time, was set to travel from his home in Santa Fe to Los Angeles in 2017 to perform music written for him with a large ensemble led by Richard Sears. Multi-instrumentalist Seven Lugerner, who played in the ensemble, asked Heath if
- [Blue Lab Beats, “Motherland Journey” (Blue Note)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/blue-lab-beats-motherland-journey-blue-note/) - Despite earning a Grammy nomination for their work on Angelique Kidjo’s 2021 album Mother Nature and a MOBO (Music of Black Origin) nod for “Best Jazz Act,” Blue Lab Beats’ website bio makes no mention of these accolades. Clearly, the British jazz-tronica duo cares more about the wildly eclectic and spirited tunes and beats they’re
- [Julieta Eugenio, “Jump” (Greenleaf)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/julieta-eugenio-jump-greenleaf/) - Argentinean tenor sax player Julieta Eugenio is adding a distinctly fresh voice to New York City’s still vibrant jazz scene. In 2021, Eugenio joined friends Matt Dwonszyk and Jonathan Barber — a bassist and drummer respectively — in Connecticut to hike, hang out, play music, and escape city life as the musicians struggled to eke
- [Roxy Coss, “Disparate Parts” (Outside In Music)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/roxy-coss-disparate-parts-outside-in-music/) - On Disparate Parts, her sixth disc, saxophonist Roxy Coss turns a corner and finds herself in a vibrant new neighborhood. Over the past five years, she has steered her quintet into a sleekly modern lane of the jazz mainstream. But on the four-part suite that spurred this album’s title, she heartily embraces electronics — in
- [Bill Frisell: An Open Book](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/bill-frisell-an-open-book/) - Bill Frisell discusses pandemic isolation, the hardships of touring and the experience of granting full access to biographer Philip Watson for a comprehensive new biography. When I interviewed Bill Frisell in March 2019, the renowned guitarist was in a North Carolina hotel, preparing to drive through the Blue Ridge Mountains for a gig in Knoxville,
- [Pat’s Peak: A Select Group of Guitarists Gathered to Honor Guitar Great Pat Martino](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/pats-peak-a-select-group-of-guitarists-gathered-to-honor-guitar-great-pat-martino/) - A select group of guitarists gathered to honor Pat Martino, a treasured influence and mentor whose lessons resonated beyond the amplifier’s echo. On a winter day in early 2021, one guitarist after another entered the Figure 8 Recording studio in Brooklyn, there to perform a couple of tracks each, with a versatile rhythm section chosen
- [Piano Paradigms: How Mack Avenue Keyboardists Are Changing the Face of Jazz](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/piano-paradigms-how-mack-avenue-keybaordists-are-changing-the-face-of-jazz/) - This article features new albums from Mack Avenue Records. To order Aaron Diehl's latest release, The Vagabond, click here. To order Emmet Cohen's new album, Future Stride, click here. To order Connie Han's Iron Starlet, click here. To order Cameron Graves' Seven, click here. To order Christian Sands' Be Water, click here. Jazz pianism today — in all of
- [Alfredo Rodriguez: Que Será](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/alfredo-rodriguez-que-sera/) - "Que Será," the new single by Alfredo Rodriguez, is an airy confection with an optimistic message set to a bouncy, Caribbean feel. For the talented Cuban pianist and composer, the intention behind it was simple. "Put out good vibes. That's it," said Rodriguez in a recent conversation in Spanish, in Miami, where he has been
- [Joy Ride: Bassist Brian Bromberg's New Album is a Musical Evolution](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/joy-ride-bassist-brian-brombergs-new-album-is-a-musical-evolution-2/) - As we look for silver linings in the maddening year that was 2020, it’s heartening to see prolific artists like bassist Brian Bromberg on a freewheeling creative roll, releasing a remixed and remastered version of his 2012 album Bromberg Plays Hendrix, gracing us with his first-ever Christmas album and recording his festive, funky, forward-thinking (and
- [Brother Mister: Christian McBride’s New Imprint on Mack Avenue Records Feels Like Family](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/brother-mister-christian-mcbrides-new-imprint-on-mack-avenue-records-feels-like-family/) - This article features new albums from Mack Avenue Records. To order Dan Wilson's new album, Vessels of Wood and Earth, click here. To order Christian McBride's 2018 album New Jawn click here. To browse the entire Mack Avenue store, click here. To call Christian McBride a jack of all trades is a gross understatement. The GRAMMY Award-winning bassist,
- [Duke University: A Crash Course in the Songs That Helped Establish the Ellington Legacy](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/duke-university-a-crash-course-in-the-songs-that-helped-establish-the-ellington-legacy/) - "At least one day out of the year, all musicians should just put their instruments down and give thanks to Duke Ellington," jazz legend Miles Davis once famously said. In this piece, we present a curated selection of music that provides insight into the genius of Duke Ellington. This collection features a blend of his
- [The Louis Armstrong Museum Takes Its Entire Collection Online](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-louis-armstrong-museum-takes-its-entire-collection-online/) - The Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona, Queens, is the largest museum dedicated to a single jazz artist. And it just got larger. As of November 28, every item in the Louis Armstrong Museum Collection has been scanned and digitized and can now be viewed by anyone in the world via the museum’s website. Comprising
- [Jazztopad Fest Offers Vivid Glimpse Into Polish Jazz Scene](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jazztopad-fest-offers-vivid-glimpse-into-polish-jazz-scene/) - The Jazztopad Festival in Wrocław derives its name from Listopad, the Polish word for November. This wide-ranging 10-dayer has now reached its 16th edition, centered around the newly built National Forum For Music since 2015. This is a monumental edifice that revolves around its main concert hall, with the smaller Red Hall deep down below
- [JAZZIZ Backstage Pass: Confidentially L.A. with Aubrey Logan](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jazziz-backstage-pass-confidentially-l-a-with-aubrey-logan/) - Our guest on the podcast today is trombonist and vocalist Aubrey Logan. Aubrey is a frequent guest of Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox and is currently on the road with saxophonist Dave Koz as part of his Summer Horns tour. She has just released a new album on Resonance Records, Where The Sunshine Is Expensive, a
- [In Memoriam: Jazz Artists We Lost in 2019](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/in-memoriam-jazz-artists-we-lost-in-2019/) - The final days of 2019 offer a moment to reflect on the year in jazz. At JAZZIZ, we take great pleasure in looking back on the wealth of music that was released in months past, which is why we're only too happy to share with you our annual Best Songs of the Year list and
- [5 Reasons to Visit the Tucson Jazz Festival](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/5-reasons-to-visit-the-tucson-jazz-festival/) - With 350 days of sunshine, Tucson, Arizona, is the place to be this winter for the annual HSL Properties Tucson Jazz Festival held each January. The two-weeks long festival (2020 dates are 1/10-1/20), is highlighted by the free daylong Downtown Jazz Fiesta on MLK day featuring two outdoor stages and performances at multiple venues in
- [House of Glass: Aaron Diehl Interprets the Work of Philip Glass on New Album 'The Vagabond'](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/house-of-glass-aaron-diehl-interprets-the-work-of-philip-glass-on-new-album-the-vagabond/) - Back in the late ‘60s, it wasn’t unusual for jazz fans to own an album by hypnotic minimalist composer Terry Riley, but, overall, there has not been a lot of crossover between jazz and minimalism. That’s why it’s especially noteworthy that pianist Aaron Diehl has chosen to include a jazz trio version of minimalist Philip
- [Jazz Travelogue: Exploring Identity at Jazzfest Berlin](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jazz-travelogue-exploring-identity-at-jazzfest-berlin/) - Identity and jazz, for me, go hand in hand. Much of my own discovery of this music was shaped by racial and familial-like ties to its artists, many of whom became the mothers and fathers I never had. But the connection goes far deeper than I had imagined.
- [Billy Cobham Revisits a ‘70s Classic with Crosswinds Project](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/billy-cobham-revisits-a-70s-classic-with-crosswinds-project/) - As part of his year-long 75th birthday celebration, super-drummer Billy Cobham rolled into New York’s Blue Note for a week-long residency back in September in the midst of a barnstorming tour with his Crosswinds Project that took the fusion juggernaut all over the U.S. “It’s been an adventure, these 75 years that I have been
- [Jazz Travelogue: Exploring Identity at Jazzfest Berlin](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jazz-travelogue-exploring-identity-at-jazzfest-berlin-2/) - Identity and jazz, for me, go hand in hand. Much of my own discovery of this music was shaped by racial and familial-like ties to its artists, many of whom became the mothers and fathers I never had. But the connection goes far deeper than I had imagined.
- [Joy Ride: Bassist Brian Bromberg's New Album is a Musical Evolution](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/joy-ride-bassist-brian-brombergs-new-album-is-a-musical-evolution/) - As we look for silver linings in the maddening year that was 2020, it’s heartening to see prolific artists like bassist Brian Bromberg on a freewheeling creative roll, releasing a remixed and remastered version of his 2012 album Bromberg Plays Hendrix, gracing us with his first-ever Christmas album and recording his festive, funky, forward-thinking (and
- [In Memoriam: Jazz Artists We Lost in 2020](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/in-memoriam-jazz-artists-we-lost-in-2020/) - The final days of 2020 offer a moment to reflect on the year in jazz. This year has been an especially tough one to reckon with. One the one hand, we take pleasure in looking back on the wealth of music that was released in months past, which is why we're only too happy to
- [A Love Supreme Electric, A Salvo Inspired by John Coltrane: A Love Supreme & Meditations (Cuneiform)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/a-love-supreme-electric-a-salvo-inspired-by-john-coltrane-a-love-supreme-meditations-cuneiform/) - Don’t tread here lightly. An ad hoc quintet of seemingly odd bedfellows plays A Love Supreme and Meditations back to back over the course of one hour and 48 minutes. The band respects the original compositions, then detonates them. The music is intense, sometimes scary, occasionally annoying and often sublime. Saxophonist Vinny Golia, 74, acts
- [Maria Grand, Reciprocity (Biophilia)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/maria-grand-reciprocity-biophilia/) - Swiss-raised, New York-based tenor saxophonist María Grand’s second album is a gem, the product of a nimble working trio that includes bassist Kanoa Mendenhall and drummer Savannah Harris. The 13 originals manage an artful balance of the cerebral and the visceral, moving gracefully between free rhythms, pulses and pronounced grooves, often within the same piece.
- [George Coleman Quintet, 'In Baltimore' (Reel To Real)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/george-coleman-quintet-in-baltimore-reel-to-real/) - From the vaults comes an album that aptly chronicles the kind of club dates that ace jazz musicians such as George Coleman were playing in the spring of 1971. With straight-ahead hard bop relegated to relic status by the larger public, the tenor saxophonist schlepped down to Charm City with four seasoned but unheralded players
- [Miguel Zenon & Luis Perdomo, 'El Arte de Bolero' (Miel Music)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/miguel-zenon-luis-perdomo-el-arte-de-bolero-miel-music/) - Although there’s no official record, El Arte Del Bolero could well be the first album sourced from a live stream during the pandemic. Alto saxophonist Zenón and pianist Perdomo, long-time collaborators, got together for a duo session on September 28 at the Jazz Gallery in New York City. They were so pleased with the results
- [Doug Carn, 'Jazz Is Dead: Volume 5' (Jazz Is Dead)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/doug-carn-jazz-is-dead-volume-5-jazz-is-dead/) - One of the unheralded figures of the 1970s jazz-funk movement, keyboardist Doug Carn emerges from obscurity with his debut album on the new Jazz is Dead label, founded by producer/composer/instrumentalists Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge. These three form a creative team that time-trips us back five decades or so with a set of mostly
- ['Closest To Who I Am': Cécile McLorin Salvant Reflects on Musical Opportunities Ahead](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/closest-to-who-i-am-ccile-mclorin-salvant-reflects-on-musical-opportunities-ahead/) - Cécile McLorin Salvant is feeling lucky – and grateful. Like the vast majority of singers and musicians, the 31-year-old, multiple Grammy-winning singer lost just about all her gigs in 2020 as the pandemic shuttered concert halls, clubs, and curtailed international travel. But - and it’s a big but – last fall, she also won, in
- [Getting It Right: 'Sylvie's Love' and 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' Strive for Jazz Authenticity](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/getting-it-right-sylvies-love-and-ma-raineys-black-bottom-strive-for-jazz-authenticity/) - Call me nerdy or OCD, but I get aggravated at movies that botch locations imprinted in my DNA. As an example, it’s a dealbreaker when a film set in downtown Manhattan, where I grew up, shows traffic on Third Street running east when it should go west, brings the A-train to the wrong subway station,
- [The Torchbearers: Young Jazz Leaders for 2021](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-torchbearers-young-jazz-leaders-for-2021/) - The next generation of jazz leaders does not hesitate to push past artistic boundaries. From their positions of increasing visibility, these up-and-coming musicians expand our notions of jazz through their appreciation of roots traditions, genre fluency, and multi-cultural expression. Somi, composer/vocalist Growing up in Zambia, Somi thought that she’d become a medical anthropologist, a scientist
- [The Jazz Year: How Emmet Cohen Improvised Solutions to the 2020 Lockdowns](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-jazz-year-how-emmet-cohen-improvised-solutions-to-the-2020-lockdowns/) - Like all of his brother and sister jazz musicians, pianist Emmet Cohen has had to improvise a path through the new ecosystem that emerged on March 11th, when the World Health Organization officially designated the COVID-19 virus a pandemic. On that day, Cohen had just arrived in Winnipeg to meet his working trio –bassist Russell
- [A Gesture of Release: Pianist Matthew Whitaker Performs Live at the South Beach Jazz Festival](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/a-gesture-of-release-pianist-matthew-whitaker-performs-live-at-the-south-beach-jazz-festival/) - When pianist and organist Matthew Whitaker closed his concert at the South Beach Jazz Festival in Miami Beach on January 8 with Kool & The Gang's "Celebration," for a moment, months of fear and isolation seemed to dissipate. A few in the properly distanced, limited-numbered audience at the open-air North Beach Bandshell got up and
- [Remembering Pianist and Composer Stanley Cowell](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/remembering-pianist-and-composer-stanley-cowell/) - Pianist, composer and bandleader Stanley Cowell has passed away at 79-year-old in Dover, Delaware. Excessive blood loss from health issues brought about a fatal hypovolemic shock. A modal and modern writer, his compositions and his playing looked to the future but drew on the music’s traditions. Cowell gave the jazz repertory a standard, “Equipoise,” but
- [Wadada’s Sound of Love](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/wadadas-sound-of-love-wadada-leo-smith-enters-his-81st-year-on-a-creative-high/) - Originally published on January 3, 2022. By Neil Tesser Wadada Leo Smith enters his 81st year on a creative high. In a career that spans seven decades, starting in 1967 when he moved to Chicago and met saxophonist Anthony Braxton and violinist Leroy Jenkins, Wadada Leo Smith has compiled a vertiginous tower of work: Solo
- [Charles in Charge: Melanie Charles inventively updates vault classics by some of jazz’s greatest women vocalists](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/charles-in-charge-melanie-charles-inventively-updates-vault-classics-by-some-of-jazzs-greatest-women-vocalists/) - Singer-flutist-beatmaker Melanie Charles’ major-label debut, Ya’ll Don’t (Really) Care About Black Women, dares the listener to accept and confront a universal truth, which is that traditionally, Black women, by the very nature of their race and gender, have been and continue to be overlooked, undervalued and overburdened. Approached by Verve with an offer to be
- [Stryker and Strings: 'As We Are' presents Dave Stryker as he never was before - with a string quartet](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/stryker-and-strings-as-we-are-presents-dave-stryker-as-he-never-was-before-with-a-string-quartet/) - “I’m really excited about this one,” guitarist-composer Dave Stryker says of As We Are, a gorgeous new release on his Strikezone imprint. “It’s something different from what I’ve done in the past.” Given that As We Are is Stryker’s 34th album as a leader since his 1988 debut, First Strike, coming up with a completely
- [Streaming Cecil: How an unissued performance by an avant-garde giant found new life](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/streaming-cecil-how-an-unissued-performance-by-an-avant-garde-giant-found-new-life/) - Released in 1974, the Cecil Taylor Unit’s Spring of Two Blue-J’s captured the second set of a November 1973 concert at New York’s Town Hall, one that marked the pianist’s return to live performance after a long hiatus. One side of the album comprised a brilliant example of Taylor’s sui generis solo piano, while the
- [Rich Halley: 'Boomslang' (Pine Eagle)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/rich-halley-boomslang-pine-eagle/) - There’s something especially appealing about a piano-less jazz quartet comprising two horns, bass and drums. Whether it was the Gerry Mulligan-Chet Baker group of the early 1950s or the Ornette Coleman Quartet with Don Cherry later in the decade, the setting emphasizes interplay between the horns while the bassist and drummer are free to create
- [Sara Schoenbeck: 'Sara Schoenbeck' (Pyroclastic)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/sara-schoenbeck-sara-schoenbeck-pyroclastic/) - As an improvising bassoonist, Sara Schoenbeck is definitely a rarity. She has also forged a singular style that reflects the extent of her diverse influences. Her eponymous release, on the Pyroclastic label, showcases her uniqueness with nine stimulating duets, each with a different musician, that redefine creative spontaneity. The cinematic “Sand Dune Trilogy” pairs Schoenbeck
- [Sara Serpa and Emmanuel Iduma: 'Intimate Strangers' (Biophilia)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/sara-serpa-and-emmanuel-iduma-intimate-strangers-biophilia/) - Vocalist-composer Sara Serpa’s latest album, Intimate Strangers, which teams her with Nigerian author Emmanuel Iduma, flows beautifully from its predecessor. In 2020, Serpa released Recognition: Music for a Silent Film, an emotional exploration of Portuguese oppression in Angola, where her parents grew up. But while African settings are also central to the new recording, the
- [Abdullah Ibrahim: ‘Solotude’ (Gearbox)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/abdullah-ibrahim-solotude-gearbox/) - There’s nothing quite like an Abdullah Ibrahim solo piano concert, especially in the golden late-life era of the now 87-year-old master. In concert, as evidenced on this glorious new solo album, the South African-born pianist seems to traipse and gently dance through his decades-deep repertoire of songs, without excess fanfare or hubris, falling into a
- [Tower of Power’s Emilio Castillo: Celebrating 50 Years of Hipness](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/emilio-castillo-50-years-with-tower-of-power/) - To celebrate its Golden Jubilee, Tower of Power, America’s preeminent soul-funk-R&B horn band for half a century, held a gala in June 2018 on their home turf of Oakland, California. Billed as 50 Years of Funk & Soul: Live at the Fox Theater, the concert had the current incarnation of the band, featuring alumni guests,
- [Bill Ortiz: Smooth Transition](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/bill-ortiz-smooth-transition/) - After 16 years with Santana, trumpeter Bill Ortiz releases a sizzling Afro-Cuban-flavored jazz album that affectionately embraces the Seventies. In the late 1990s, the life of Bay Area trumpet player Bill Ortiz took a took a dramatic, career-altering turn when he was tapped to record a single track on a recording by local legend Carlos
- [Carlos Santana and Michael Shrieve: Caravanserai at 50](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/carlos-santana-and-michael-shrieve-caravanserai-at-50/) - Carlos Santana and Michael Shrieve look back at the album Clive Davis told them was “career suicide.” Michael Fagien leads a freewheeling conversation about the times and influences that produced a Santana classic. Michael Fagien: Hi, we’re here with Carlos Santana and Michael Shrieve — two artists that need no introduction — in celebration of
- [JAZZIZ Backstage Pass: Around the World with Chick Corea](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jazziz-backstage-pass-around-the-world-with-chick-corea/) - Originally published on Feb. 11, 2021. By Brian Zimmerman Today's guest is internationally acclaimed, 22-time Grammy-winning pianist Chick Corea, one of the most recognizable artists in modern jazz. JAZZIZ spoke with Chick backstage before his performance at the Concord Jazz Festival in Concord, California, where he and the members of his newly assembled Spanish Heart
- [Readers Remember Chick Corea: Your Stories, Memories and Favorite Albums](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/readers-remember-chick-corea-your-stories-memories-and-favorite-albums/) - Originally published on Feb. 22, 2021. By Brian Zimmerman The passing of keyboardist Chick Corea on February 9 left a hole in the jazz world, the size of which we'll never truly know. But in the days and weeks since the announcement of his death, we've taken heart in knowing that his legacy will carry
- [Chick Corea’s Elektric, Eclectic Legacy](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/chick-coreas-elektric-eclectic-legacy/) - By Bob Weinberg The Candid label plugs into Chick Corea’s fusion output with his Elektric Band, and premieres his orchestral celebration of Mozart and Gershwin. During his long and accomplished career, Chick Corea prioritized his desire to connect with listeners. However, the pianist and composer, who died in 2021, also pushed boundaries with his inaugural
- [Chick Corea: Milestones Along the Way](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/chick-corea-milestones-along-the-way/) - This story originally appeared in the Summer 2011 edition of JAZZIZ. By Bob Weinberg As Chick Corea celebrates his 70th birthday, we offer 70 good reasons to celebrate Chick Corea. Seeming rested and relaxed, Chick Corea strode on-stage at the Miniaci Performing Arts Center in November. The rare South Florida solo performance served as a
- [Track By Track: Fabian Almazan's 'This Land Abounds With Life'](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/track-by-track-fabian-almazans-this-land-abounds-with-life/) - Fabian Almazan has long harbored a connection to nature. Born in Cuba and raised in Miami, Florida, the 35-year-old pianist comes from a strong line of farmers, and a passion for conservation seems to run in his blood. "My father says I'm very similar to my grandfather, even down to his mannerisms," said Almazan. "He
- [The Foodie's Guide to the Newport Jazz Festival](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-foodies-guide-to-the-newport-jazz-festival/) - Most of these are places that won’t strain the budget, and don’t require (or even take) reservations. All of them are only-in-Newport experiences that have become staples of my own festival itinerary, whatever else changes from one year to the next.
- [Music from the Magazine Playlist: July 2019](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/music-from-the-magazine-playlist-july-2019/) - Our July 2019 digital issue, which is available to subscribers now, is chock full of some of the coolest summer reading around.
- [JAZZIZ Last Call: Jon Anderson of Yes](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jazziz-last-call-jon-anderson-of-yes/) - Jon Anderson singer-songwriter is best known as the lead vocalist of the progressive rock band Yes. He chats with JAZZIZ Founder and Publisher Michael Fagien about his new album ‘1000 Hands,’ which features cameos from jazz artists Jean-Luc Ponty, Chick Corea and Billy Cobham. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KIfnldYfN4
- [Tales of ‘Sco: Guitarist John Scofield on His Fusion Origins & His New Album, 'Swallow Tales'](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/tales-of-sco-guitarist-john-scofield-on-his-fusion-origins-his-new-album-swallow-tales/) - Guitarist John Scofield discusses his new album Swallow Tales on ECM Records, which features compositions by his friend Steve Swallow (holding acoustic bass guitar, top). Drummer Bill Stewart (left) rounds out the trio. John Scofield has been a leading voice in jazz guitar since the 1970s, when, fresh out of the Berklee School of Music,
- [Streaming into the Future with the Bluesound PowerNode 2i](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/streaming-into-the-future-with-the-bluesound-powernode-2i/) - Digital music streaming is barely a decade old, but it is clear that the platform has matured and grown beyond expectations; very few formats have ever commanded such a large market share or offered so much choice this quickly. My 72-year-old mother streams music via her iPhone to a wireless Bluesound Pulse Flex 2i portable
- [Jazz Musicians Remember Freddy Cole and Johnny Mandel](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jazz-musicians-remember-freddy-cole-and-johnny-mandel/) - The jazz world lost two pillars of the American musical tradition this weekend with the passing of vocalist Freddy Cole, a pianist and composer who, along with his brother Nat "King" Cole, perfected a lush and radiant approach to jazz standards; and composer Johnny Mandel, whose contributions to the jazz canon include "The Shadow of
- [Dig In: The Essential Jazz Guitar Playlist](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/dig-in-the-essential-jazz-guitar-playlist-2020/) - Join us on a journey through the evolution of jazz guitar, starting with early pioneers like Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt and continuing through to modern masters like Pat Metheny, John Scofield and Julian Lage.
- [GuitArtistry: A Tale of Two Rising Six-String Stars](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/guitartistry-a-tale-of-two-rising-six-string-stars/) - Six years ago, in 2015, I had the honor of being on a panel of judges for the first Wes Montgomery International Guitar Competition. While the five finalists who played that October day, backed by Pat Martino’s organ trio of Hammond B-3 ace Pat Bianchi and drummer Carmen Intorre, were all very accomplished young players
- [Still Part of the 'In' Crowd: Ramsey Lewis Keeps Grooving with a Saturday Night Tradition](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/still-part-of-the-in-crowd-ramsey-lewis-keeps-grooving-with-a-saturday-night-tradition/) - Ramsey Lewis can tell you the precise moment he knew it was time to quit the road. “I was about 80, 81, and the limo pulled up in front of O’Hare [Airport] and the skycap asked us what gate we were going to,” recalls the pianist, now 86. “And my wife said, ‘Whatever you do,
- [We Need His Voice Now More Than Ever: Gil Scott-Heron's Biographer](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/we-need-his-voice-now-more-than-ever-gil-scott-herons-biographer/) - Marcus Baram is the author of the Gil Scott-Heron biography Pieces of a Man (November 2014, St. Martin's Press) Systemic racism. Police brutality. Endemic poverty. Corrupt politicians. Environmental degradation. The hollowness of society and consumer culture. Today’s issues mirror the problems faced by Americans a half-century ago, when Gil Scott-Heron took pen to paper and fingers
- [The Revolution Will Be Jazz: Vocalist Giacomo Gates Revisits His Homage to Gil Scott-Heron](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-revolution-will-be-jazz-vocalist-giacomo-gates-revisits-his-homage-to-gil-scott-heron/) - It was 2008, in Toronto, Canada, when Mark Ruffin asked me if I dug Gil Scott-Heron. I responded, “Of course, I remember when he first hit.” He said, “I want to produce a recording of Gil’s tunes, and I want you to sing it.” Solid. Mark is a huge fan of Gil, and sends me
- [Call It Mourning: Mark Ruffin Remembers Gil Scott-Heron on the 10-Year Anniversary of the Poet's Death](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/call-it-mourning-mark-ruffin-remembers-gil-scott-heron-on-the-10-year-anniversary-of-the-poets-death/) - I woke up on Saturday morning May 28, 2011, totally feeling my jazz life oats. I had been living in New York for just under four years after accepting a dream job as Program Director of Real Jazz at Sirius XM. After producing some records in my hometown of Chicago, the first album I produced
- [George Cables: 'Too Close for Comfort' (HighNote)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/george-cables-too-close-for-comfort-highnote/) - It’s easy to take George Cables for granted. The pianist has been so consistent throughout his career — performing in his swinging and personal post-bop style while never making a recording that was less than very good — that he’s often overlooked, particularly in the U.S., except by his fellow musicians. While he’s been a
- [JAZZIZ Travel Diary: Five Days in California Wine Country with Saxophonist Mindi Abair](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jazziz-travel-diary-five-days-in-california-wine-country-with-saxophonist-mindi-abair/) - It’s been said about wines — even the very best wines — that so much of the enjoyment comes from where you’re drinking them, and who you’re drinking them with. The house red can rival a Margaux, Mouton or La Tâche when poured between lifelong friends, or sipped at the corner table a thousand miles
- [John Daversa Jazz Orchestra featuring Justin Morell: 'All Without Words, Variations Inspired by Loren' (Tiger Turn Productions)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/john-daversa-jazz-orchestra-featuring-justin-morell-all-without-words-variations-inspired-by-loren-tiger-turn-productions/) - During the past few years, veteran trumpeter, bandleader and educator John Daversa has drawn on his expansive vision and musical resources to boldly address two defining issues of our times — DACA (via his three-time Grammy-winning American Dreamers: Voices of Hope, Music of Freedom) and the pandemic (stripping down to a quintet for Cuarantena: With
- [Oscar Rossignoli: 'Inertia' (Self-Released)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/oscar-rossignoli-inertia-self-released/) - The phrase “New Orleans pianist” instantly calls to mind keyboard kings such as Professor Longhair, Fats Domino, James Booker and other greats, as well as a rollicking style that has produced good times across myriad genres for generations. And while this geographic label can also be applied to Oscar Rossignoli, he doesn’t settle for merely
- [Still Part of the ‘In’ Crowd: Ramsey Lewis Keeps Grooving with a Saturday Afternoon Tradition](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/still-part-of-the-in-crowd-ramsey-lewis-keeps-grooving-with-a-saturday-night-tradition-exclusive/) - Ramsey Lewis can tell you the precise moment he knew it was time to quit the road. “I was about 80, 81, and the limo pulled up in front of O’Hare [Airport] and the skycap asked us what gate we were going to,” recalls the pianist, now 86. “And my wife said, ‘Whatever you do,
- [Tyshawn Sorey: Detour Ahead](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/tyshawn-sorey-detour-ahead/) - Tyshawn Sorey takes an unexpected turn as he brings his aesthetic rigor to an acoustic piano trio playing jazz standards and classics
- [Brandon Seabrook: Have Banjo, Will Travel](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/brandon-seabrook-have-banjo-will-travel/) - From punk and klezmer to African-inspired and ambient soundscapes, Brandon Seabrook has developed a singular voice in the jazz world.
- [Kim Nalley and Houston Person: Grown Folks Music](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/kim-nalley-and-houston-person-grown-folks-music/) - Kim Nalley and Houston Person team up on a bluesy set of old-school jazz and R&B favorites.
- [Requiem for a Hawaii Jazz King: Remembering Gabe Baltazar](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requiem-for-a-hawaii-jazz-king-remembering-gabe-baltazar/) - Remembering Gabe Baltazar, a pioneering Asian American jazz artist (1929-2022).
- [REVIEW: Joey Alexander, 'Origin' (Mack Avenue)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-joey-alexander-origin-mack-avenue/) - Alexander’s brilliance as an improviser remains intact while he continues to develop his individual sound.
- [REVIEW: The Margaret Slovak Trio, 'Ballad for Brad' (self-released)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-the-margaret-slovak-trio-ballad-for-brad-self-released/) - On her fourth release as a leader, the intimate Ballad For Brad, Slovak presents entirely original material penned in celebration of various life events and people close to her.
- [REVIEW: Alune Wade, 'Sultan' (Enja)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-alune-wade-sultan-enja/) - An intoxicating blend of undulating grooves and flickering textures build on seamlessly integrated keyboards, horns, string instruments, rhythm sections, and vocals — sometimes wordless, sometimes spoken in tongues of many nations.
- [REVIEW: Esthesis Quartet, 'Esthesis Quartet' (Orenda)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-esthesis-quartet-esthesis-quartet-orenda/) - The Esthesis Quartet was formed during the COVID-19 pandemic, when many of its initial sessions had to be conducted over Zoom. That’s hardly ideal for establishing band chemistry — particularly in jazz, which has traditionally been about musicians learning to make magic together while packed into tight spaces, where each movement, gesture or glance can
- [REVIEW: Anthony Fung, 'What Does It Mean To Be Free?' (self-released)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-anthony-fung-what-does-it-mean-to-be-free-self-released/) - The question posed by the name of drummer-composer Anthony Fung’s latest recording is provocative and vital, and so is the music he and his group of gifted accompanists deliver.
- [REVIEW: Sonic Liberation Front/Oliver Lake, 'Justice: The Vocal Works of Oliver Lake' (High Two)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-sonic-liberation-front-oliver-lake-justice-the-vocal-works-of-oliver-lake-high-two/) - Think of it, loosely speaking, as a way station between Swingle Singers and A New Perspective-era Donald Byrd.
- [REVIEW: Andrea Brachfeld & Insight, 'Evolution' (Origin)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-andrea-brachfeld-insight-evolution-origin/) - Allowing her message to evolve organically rather than imposing it with a heavy hand, Brachfield introduces a spiritual theme on several tracks, paying homage to native peoples and their traditions and making a plea for global harmony.
- [The Roots of a Rugged Individual: Adam Rudolph and Bennie Maupin Celebrate Yusef Lateef](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-roots-of-a-rugged-individual-adam-rudolph-and-bennie-maupin-celebrate-yusef-lateef/) - Adam Rudolph and Bennie Maupin pay loving homage to mentor Yusef Lateef by evoking his aesthetic rather than imitating his sound.
- [Walk Spirit, Talk Spirit: How South African Pianist Nduduzo Makhathini Won Over Wynton Marsalis and the World](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/walk-spirit-talk-spirit-how-south-african-pianist-nduduzo-makhathini-won-over-wynton-marsalis-and-the-world/) - Originally published on May 5, 2020 Against a background of full-throated endorsement by Wynton Marsalis and more compliments from the rest of the American counterparts, South African Jazz pianist Nduduzo Makhathini has certainly earned a self-congratulatory fist pump. For jazz musicians, even the slightest shout-out by Marsalis is can launch a career. Imagine, if you
- [Veterans Day Special: Jazz Musicians Who Served in the U.S. Military](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jazz-musicians-who-served-in-the-u-s-military-2020/) - Originally published on November 11, 2020. Jazz musicians have a distinguished record of serving in the U.S. military. To commemorate Veterans Day, we're bringing you the stories of six jazz musicians who dedicated a portion of their careers to serving their country. All were music legends. But perhaps more importantly, all were heroes off the
- [Jon De Lucia: Reviving a Hidden Brubeck Legacy](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jon-de-lucia-reviving-a-hidden-brubeck-legacy/) - By Matt Micucci Driven by a deep curiosity for the hidden corners of jazz history, alto saxophonist Jon De Lucia brings new life to a pivotal yet overlooked era with The Brubeck Octet Project, his latest release under his own Musæum Clausum Recordings label. This album features De Lucia and his octet reimagining the arrangements
- [Brubeck Living Legacy Prize: Kasper Rietkerk](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/brubeck-living-legacy-prize-kasper-rietkerk/) - The inaugural Brubeck Living Legacy Prize was awarded to London-based alto saxophonist Kasper Rietkerk. As part of the prize, Rietkerk, who earned a master’s degree from the Royal Academy of Music in 2023 and released his debut album that same year, will receive funding and other support to record an album for the Ubuntu Music
- [Editor’s Note](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/editors-note-2/) - On July 1, we celebrated the 65th anniversary of the all-time biggest-selling jazz song, "Take Five." To mark this significant milestone, we're excited to present a special Digital Monthly dedicated to the legacy of Dave Brubeck. This edition brings together a curated selection of new articles and highlights from the JAZZIZ archive, offering a comprehensive
- [Echoes of Dave Brubeck](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/echoes-of-dave-brubeck/) - By Matt Micucci Rediscover Dave Brubeck’s legacy through four hidden gems from the great pianist, his longtime collaborator Paul Desmond, and a towering figure in Latin jazz. Tito Puente, "Take Five" Paul Desmond's "Take Five" first appeared on the Dave Brubeck Quartet's seminal 1959 album, Time Out, and quickly became one of the most
- [Darius Brubeck: Playing the Changes](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/darius-brubeck-playing-the-changes/) - By Matt Micucci A new documentary explores how Darius Brubeck, son of jazz legend Dave Brubeck, has forged his own influential path while honoring his father's legacy. In the world of jazz, legacies can be both a gift and a challenge. For Darius Brubeck, the eldest son of the legendary Dave Brubeck, this legacy has
- [Q&A with Boney James: A Smooth Jazz Icon's 'Solid' Sound Stands the Test of Time](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/qa-with-boney-james-a-smooth-jazz-icons-solid-sound-stands-the-test-of-time/) - True to the title of his new album Solid, Boney James and his soulful, urban-driven silk and funk adventures have been among smooth jazz’s surest bets for nearly 30 years.
- [A Musical Boost: 5 Phono Pre-Amplifiers That Will Make Listening to Vinyl Better When Working Remotely](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/a-musical-boost-5-phono-pre-amplifiers-that-will-make-listening-to-vinyl-better-when-working-remotely/) - We’re all looking for an escape right now, and vinyl is a fabulous drug when done properly. So which phono pre-amplifier should you buy?
- [The Ultimate Bob James Playlist](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-ultimate-bob-james-playlist/) - Bob James is best known as a progenitor of smooth jazz. A two-time GRAMMY Award-winner, he is a founding member of the contemporary jazz group Fourplay, and he has been called the "Godfather of hip-hop" because his songs are often sampled by rap producers. During this quarantine period, he has also been live-streaming daily concerts
- [The Sound and the Vision: A Conversation with Bob James](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-sound-and-the-vision-a-conversation-with-bob-james/) - The following interview is derived from a conversation between Bob James and JAZZIZ Editor and Publisher Michael Fagien, which originally took place via a live stream video on jazziz.com. The excerpt below has been edited for length and clarity. Michael Fagien: For those of you who know Bob James, you know what a legend he
- [A Very Strange, Enchanted Tale: The Story of the “Nature Boy”](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/a-very-strange-enchanted-tale-the-story-of-the-nature-boy/) - The story of the eccentric character behind one of Nat King Cole’s biggest hits is the stuff of legends. “When legend becomes fact, print the legend.” That line, lifted from John Ford’s masterpiece Western The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, is often applied when it comes to music journalism. But often times the facts are
- [Dr. John: The Doctor’s Still In](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/dr-john-the-doctors-still-in/) - Dr. John records a hip record with The Black Keys’ Dan Auebach.(From Jazziz, summer 2012) Ain’t no one hipper than Dr. John, the Night Tripper. From street-hustling junkie and psychedelic shaman to revered New Orleans R&B elder statesman and spokesman for the city that’s endured Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill, the good Doctor
- [Rickie Lee Jones and Russ Titelman: In Good Company](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/rickie-lee-jones-and-russ-titelman-in-good-company/) - Rickie Lee Jones and Russ Titelman reunite on a new album of songbook standards. Read all about it in our exclusive interview with the artists.
- [Rickie Lee Jones Playlist](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/rickie-lee-jones-playlist/) - A 24-year-old boho beatnik chick with pals like Tom Waits and Chuck E. Weiss, Rickie Lee Jones burst on the pop music scene with her self-titled debut record of 1979. The sunny, streetwise sounds of the radio hit “Chuck E’s in Love” made everyone fall for the singer with the tough yet coquettish voice who
- [Russ Titelman Playlist](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/russ-titelman-playlist/) - As a teeanger growing up in early-’60s Los Angeles, Russ Titelman had the opportunity to observe the mad genius of Phil Spector up close, working in Spector’s studio as a session guitarist and vocalist. Later moving to New York, Titelman collaborated with Ry Cooder and Randy Newman on a tune for the Mick Jagger movie
- [Tom Waits, ‘The Heart of Saturday Night’ (Elektra/Asylum, 1974) | Requisite](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/tom-waits-the-heart-of-saturday-night-elektra-asylum-1974-requisite/) - Before he started beating bus lockers with two-by-fours and working with avant guitarist Marc Ribot, Tom Waits was a Beat-inspired songwriter with a jazzy bent. On 1974’s Heart of Saturday Night, his second album, Waits inhabits an eternal nocturnal milieu where neon signs buzz, pool balls roll and some poor schlemiel at the bar worries
- [About the Cover](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/about-the-cover-2/) - The last time Rickie Lee Jones appeared on the cover of JAZZIZ was 1990. For that cover, JAZZIZ hosted the photo session in L.A. When photographer Jeff Sedlik began instructing Rickie to adopt certain poses, true to form, Ms. Jones replied, "Don't ask me to do anything. You do your thing and I'll do my
- [Digitizing Pops: The Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens welcomes visitors, at the door and via a new app](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/digitizing-pops-the-louis-armstrong-house-museum-in-queens-welcomes-visitors-at-the-door-and-via-a-new-app/) - COVID-19 has presented one challenge after another to cultural institutions, and the Louis Armstrong House Museum, located in Queens, New York’s Corona neighborhood, is no exception. The lovely site was off-limits for around 18 months before reopening last July. But during the interim, executive director Regina Bain and her staff, including director of research operations
- [An Indestructible Bond: Chucho Valdés and Paquito D’Rivera have maintained a decades-long musical friendship](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/an-indestructible-bond-chucho-valdes-and-paquito-drivera-have-maintained-a-decades-long-musical-friendship/) - After 40 years of distance and silence, old friends and bandmates Paquito D’Rivera and Chucho Valdés have reunited, recorded a new album, and are readying to perform together again. “I’m so proud,” says alto saxophonist, clarinetist and composer D’Rivera in a conversation at Valdés’ house following the final rehearsal for the recording sessions in January.
- [Tony Malaby’s Sabino: 'The Cave of Winds' (Pyroclastic)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/tony-malabys-sabino-the-cave-of-winds-pyroclastic/) - Over three decades, the protean saxophonist Tony Malaby has shown himself adept at playing all styles of jazz — inside, outside and everything in between, from an early stint with organist Joey DeFrancesco to Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra and the Mingus Big Band to Fred Hersch’s Walt Whitman project to bands led by Paul
- [David Viñolas: '5et' (Microscopi)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/david-vinolas-5et-microscopi/) - Catalan drummer David Viñolas is a musical omnivore. Merging his early Western classical education with self-taught forays into various popular genres, Viñolas developed a unique and dynamic sound that is solidly based in mainstream jazz. The exciting 5et makes this quite apparent, as the drummer leads a quintet through six of his original compositions and
- [Cory Weeds: 'What Is There To Say?' (Cellar Music)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/cory-weeds-what-is-there-to-say-cellar-music/) - Violins have been part of jazz since the early New Orleans days. But while string sections and hot violin soloists have been used on jazz recordings since the 1920s, the idea of a soloist joined by strings did not become popular until Charlie Parker’s Bird With Strings recordings of 1949-50. Since then, it has been
- [OGJB Quartet: 'Ode to O' (TUM)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/ogjb-quartet-ode-to-o-tum/) - OGJB is an acronym of the members’ first names: Oliver Lake (alto and soprano saxophones), Graham Haynes (cornet, electronics), Joe Fonda (double bass) and Barry Altschul (drums). All in all, an estimable lineup of musicians, well credentialed in avant-garde jazz. But the music they make on Ode to O does not live up to their
- [Roswell Rudd and Duck Baker: 'Live' (Dot Time)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/roswell-rudd-and-duck-baker-live-dot-time/) - From the annals of jazz liaisons yet to be fully appreciated and documented comes this gleaming treasure of a duet recording by trombonist Roswell Rudd and fingerstyle guitarist Duck Baker. Singular trombonist and musical thinker Rudd, who died in 2017, was a slippery devil of an avant-traditionalist virtuoso, while Baker adapted to the shifting terrain
- [Spiritual Connection: Saxophonist Javon Jackson and poet Nikki Giovanni Make Jazz Poetry](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/spiritual-connection-saxophonist-javon-jackson-and-poet-nikki-giovanni-make-jazz-poetry/) - The impact of jazz on the worlds of literature and poetry, both stylistically and as subject matter, is well documented across the diverse works of numerous influential authors — Jack Kerouac, Toni Morrison, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Baldwin, and the list goes on. On The Gospel According to Nikki Giovanni (Solid Jackson), a new album
- [Farewell, Mr. 335: In the midst of a farewell tour, Larry Carlton reminisces about his signature sound](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/farewell-mr-335-in-the-midst-of-a-farewell-tour-larry-carlton-reminisces-about-his-signature-sound/) - Since 1971, when his sweetly tantalizing bent-string lick on the Crusaders’ hit “Put It Where You Want It” first embedded itself on our collective consciousness, guitarist Larry Carlton has possessed the most delicious and instantly identifiable finger vibrato in the business. Since then, Carlton has placed his signature singing tone in a variety of settings,
- [A Hug for Your Ears: Azar Lawrence offers a soulful musical balm for a pandemic-weary world](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/a-hug-for-your-ears-azar-lawrence-offers-a-soulful-musical-balm-for-a-pandemic-weary-world/) - Azar Lawrence doesn’t recall specifically when and where this incident occurred, but the memory’s stuck with him all these years later. Sometime during the five whirlwind years in the ’70s, when he recorded and toured extensively as McCoy Tyner’s saxophonist, the two were hanging out after a show somewhere in Europe. A fan approached the
- [Postcards From More Than One Edge: Phil Freeman’s new book captures stolen glimpses of multiple futures](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/postcards-from-more-than-one-edge-phil-freemans-new-book-captures-stolen-glimpses-of-multiple-futures/) - At the start of his new book, Ugly Beauty: Jazz in the 21st Century (Zero), Phil Freeman reflects on how he felt in October 2020. The last jazz performance he’d attended was eight months earlier, before the pandemic shut things down. “I expected to spend 2020 as I’d spent every previous year,” he writes, “going
- [Remembering Pianist, Composer, Teacher and Author Junior Mance (1928-2021)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/remembering-pianist-composer-teacher-and-author-junior-mance-1928-2021/) - The durable Chicago pianist Junior Mance--who sparked many postwar jazz bands, recorded prolifically, and was an influential teacher--has passed away at his home in Manhattan. He’d been suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease, but had experienced a brain hemorrhage a month earlier. Mance was 92. His playing was buoyant and sprightly. Mance had large measures of blues
- [Ivo Perelman/Nate Wooley, 'Polarity' (Burning Ambulance)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/ivo-perelman-nate-wooley-polarity-burning-ambulance/) - Tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman is a bold and prolific innovator who excels in collaborative ensembles. On Polarity, his first release for the new Burning Ambulance imprint, he joins forces with the equally idiosyncratic trumpeter Nate Wooley for an absorbing and dynamic set of improvisations. Each musician follows his own stream of consciousness. Yet they neither
- [Diego Piñera, 'Odd Wisdom' (ACT)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/diego-pinera-odd-wisdom-act/) - Drummer Diego Piñera’s latest recording is a rhythmic treat that’s trickier than it seems at first listen. The playing by Pinera and his gifted crew of collaborators — saxophonist Donny McCaslin, guitarist Ben Monder and bassist Scott Colley — is progressive yet accessible, and the quirky cadences are so delightfully playful that a listener may
- [Melody Gardot, 'Sunset in the Blue' (Verve International/Decca)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/melody-gardot-sunset-in-the-blue-verve-international-decca/) - Melody Gardot’s lush, intimate and multi-lingual Sunset in the Blue is a warmly inviting, sensual and ultra-dreamy musical massage to soothe pandemic-weary souls. A tenderly arranged orchestral sweep through her passions for jazz, bossa nova and pop music, the singer’s fifth studio album was recorded with a socially distanced Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Studio One
- [Ben Wendel, 'High Heart' (Edition) ](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/ben-wendel-high-heart-edition/) - Tenor saxophonist Ben Wendel uses the eight self-composed tracks on his fifth session as a leader to muse about a theme that undoubtedly perplexes many jazz musicians: In an increasingly impersonal time, how does one create art that’s unerringly personal? His bracing answer is a session that veers calculatingly between the light of reflective, ethereal
- [Various artists, 'Outside in Music Live at Pinch Recording Volume 2' (Outside in Music)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/various-artists-outside-in-music-live-at-pinch-recording-volume-2-outside-in-music/) - Plenty happens on the latest Outside in Music compilation. Live at Pinch Recording Volume 2 offers an introduction to a slew of the label’s signees — a taste of what each has to offer, adding up to a full, varied meal. But rather than submitting a track of past efforts, the assorted musicians gathered at
- [Chris Pattishall, 'Zodiac' (self-released)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/chris-pattishall-zodiac-self-released/) - Throughout a 55-year career that started in the 1920s, Mary Lou Williams always sounded modern in her playing and writing, evolving with the times without losing her musical personality. She first recorded one of her most intriguing works, the 12-part Zodiac Suite, on June 29, 1945, as a piano soloist and with her trio. On
- [Times Will Get Better: How Vocalist Elise Morris Keeps the Music Playing](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/times-will-get-better-how-vocalist-elise-morris-keeps-the-music-playing/) - As a singer, pianist, and bandleader, Elise Morris has played with, or been musical director for, everyone from British jazz-rocker Joe Jackson to pop icon Ronnie Spector to Broadway legend Cy Coleman. An accomplished composer and songwriter, she has written for off-Broadway musicals and international dance troupes and won prestigious awards, including a New York
- [Five Essential Astor Piazzolla Albums](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/five-essential-astor-piazzolla-albums/) - Piazzolla has an extensive discography, complicated by reissues, licensing deals, and deceptive titles. (Read an essay on the 100th anniversary of his birth here.) Here are five favorites to get started. I have not included here any live albums. To hear how this music sounded like live, pick any live recording by Piazzolla and his
- [Tales from the Sixth String: New Music from Michael Gregory Jackson & More](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/tales-from-the-sixth-string-new-music-from-michael-gregory-jackson-more/) - Michael Gregory Jackson is among a generation of guitarists who forged their own path on the instrument in the wake of Jimi Hendrix. No less an authority than Pat Metheny said, “I have always considered him to be one of the most significantly original guitarists of our generation” while Bill Frisell opined, “I believe he’s
- [The Storyteller: New Book, Boxset Reveal Genius of William Parker](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-storyteller-new-book-boxset-reveal-genius-of-william-parker/) - “Summational” immediately comes to mind as a descriptor for William Parker’s first release of the 2020s, titled Migration Of Silence Into And Out Of The Tone World (AUM Fidelity). The 10-CD extravaganza comprises ten separate projects, all composed recently, with separate personnels and sonic environments. Each episode shows Parker, 69, full in control of his
- [Astor Piazzolla at 100](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/astor-piazzolla-at-100/) - Argentine composer, musician and bandleader Astor Piazzolla, the creator of New Tango, would have been celebrating his 100th birthday this March 11. He died in 1992 at the age of 71. But by then, his music — which rewrote of the rules of tango by drawing from sources as disparate as jazz, European classical music
- [5 Reasons To Check Out the 2020 St. Lucia Jazz Fest](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/5-reasons-to-check-out-the-2020-st-lucia-jazz-fest/) - The island of Saint Lucia is one of the best-kept secrets in the Caribbean and building on the success of the 2019 Jazz Festival, organizers have planned another spectacular Collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Center which will take place May 7-9, 2020. This year’s Jazz Festival will feature performances by world-renowned and local artists in
- [Welcome to Miami: Maria Schneider Debuts as Artistic Director of Frost School's Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/welcome-to-miami-maria-schneider-debuts-as-artistic-director-of-frost-schools-henry-mancini-institute-orchestra/) - The concert debut of composer, arranger, and conductor Maria Schneider as Artistic Director of the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music Henry Mancini Institute on January 25 was as much a musical event as a statement of purpose. The first-half program comprised three of Schneider’s signature orchestral jazz pieces, featured her long time collaborator
- [Get Back To Where You Once Belonged: Al Di Meola Pays The Beatles A Second Visit](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/get-back-to-where-you-once-belonged-al-di-meola-pays-the-beatles-a-second-visit/) - Al Di Meola was just nine years old when the Beatles performed on the Ed Sullivan show in 1964. Seeing the band changed his life. “That brought a lot of people to want to learn how to play the guitar,” said Di Meola, known for his lickety-split jazz-rock fusion lines with Return to Forever and
- [A Tale of Two Scotts: Former Tribal Tech Bandmates Forge Different Paths on New CDs](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/a-tale-of-two-scotts-former-tribal-tech-bandmates-forge-different-paths-on-new-cds/) - As members of Tribal Tech, the most potent and pyrotechnic fusion band of the 1990s, keyboardist Scott Kinsey and guitarist Scott Henderson blazed through six inventive albums together, flaunting an adventurous jam-to-tape approach both in the studio and on live gigs. The two subsequently went their separate ways — Henderson appearing in more stripped-down trio
- [Prog-Jazz Powerhouse MoonJune Records Celebrates Its 100th Release](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/prog-jazz-powerhouse-moonjune-records-celebrates-its-100th-release/) - As head of MoonJune Records, Leonardo Pavkovic is constantly on the go, recruiting artists to his roster from as far away as Indonesia, Italy and Belgium while also presiding over recording sessions at La Casa Murada in Catalonia and accompanying his artists on worldwide tours.
- [Forward Vision: Artists to Watch in 2020](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/forward-vision-artists-to-watch-in-2020/) - By Jared Proudfoot & Samuel Ngahane Jazz had another bumper year in 2019 with the London contingent continuing to flourish, adding raw energy to the music, and another jazz mecca to the map, alongside mainstays like Chicago, New York, and L.A. 2020 seems to be following a similar trajectory with a number of U.K acts
- [Walter Smith III: Houston, We Have an Album](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/walter-smith-iii-houston-we-have-an-album/) - On his latest recording, all but one of Walter Smith III’s quartet mates hail from H-Town. Shared roots make for a compelling result, but the non-Texan may be the secret weapon.
- [John Escreet: It Starts With an Earthquake](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/john-escreet-it-starts-with-an-earthquake/) - A move to the West Coast helped John Escreet shake things up, as reflected on his new release, which adds another voice to his established trio.
- [Nasheet Waits: Moon Dreams on the Hudson](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/nasheet-waits-moon-dreams-on-the-hudson/) - Nasheet Waits offers a nuanced look at the charms and challenges of life in Gotham.
- [Bob Baldwin: One for Daddy-O](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/bob-baldwin-one-for-daddy-o/) - Bob Baldwin returns to his roots with a reimagining of jazz classics on which he was raised.
- [Ryan Truesdell: What If They All Wrote String Quartets?](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/ryan-truesdell-what-if-they-all-wrote-string-quartets/) - Three discs, four strings and 15 composers make Ryan Truesdell’s latest project a winning equation.
- [Lakecia Benjamin: Phoenix Rising](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/lakecia-benjamin-phoenix-rising/) - Lakecia Benjamin’s fiery expression comes to the fore on a live quartet recording. Her journey to jazz stardom has been anything but straight ahead.
- [Stolen Moment: Charles Lloyd](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/stolen-moment-charles-lloyd/) - Charles Lloyd has received raves for his latest Blue Note release, The Sky Will Still Be Here Tomorrow. At the helm of his quartet — with pianist Jason Moran, bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Brian Blade — the saxophonist, flutist and composer remains a “Defiant Tender Warrior” (the album’s lead-off track), his sound radiating the
- [The Quartet Album That Started It All](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-quartet-album-that-started-it-all/) - By Michael Fagien It was Chick Corea that got me into jazz. I was an insufferable prog rocker in high school, sporting blue jeans with a Yes logo embroidered on the back pocket. But the moment I heard Chick’s iconic Return to Forever album Romantic Warrior, my jazz jones was born. I kicked my prog
- [Ivanna Cuesta Gonzalez: World on Fire](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/ivanna-cuesta-gonzalez-world-on-fire/) - Ivanna Cuesta Gonzalez and her quartet play thoughtfully edgy music for the apocalypse.
- [Mute: Speaking Volumes](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/mute-speaking-volumes/) - With its singular approach to jazz and its cultural references, Mute says plenty.
- [Jared Hall: Hall of Heroes](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jared-hall-hall-of-heroes/) - Fronting a stellar quartet, Jared Hall salutes the trumpet voices that ignited his passion.
- [Requisite: The Ornette Coleman Quartet, ‘This Is Our Music’ (Atlantic, 1960)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-the-ornette-coleman-quartet-this-is-our-music-atlantic-1960/) - By Bob Weinberg Talk about truth in advertising! Who but the idiosyncratic Ornette Coleman sounded like this in 1960? The unapologetically titled This Is Our Music followed previous works titled The Shape of Jazz To Come and Change of the Century, which may have been prophetic but at the time managed to piss off critics,
- [Auditions Roundup: Tour de Fours](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/auditions-roundup-tour-de-fours/) - As heard on these diverse releases, the quartet remains a sturdy construct for improvisational music.
- [Fours To Be Reckoned With](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/fours-to-be-reckoned-with/) - By Zev Feldman I’ve always been enamored by the quartet setting in jazz. A multitude of musical statements can be made from that configuration, whether it’s a guitar with piano trio, like Grant Green with Sonny Clark, Sam Jones and Louis Hayes; or a horn with piano trio, where I think of John Coltrane with
- [Wayne Escoffery: The Unexpected Benefits of Solitude](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/wayne-escoffery-the-unexpected-benefits-of-solitude/) - Wayne Escoffery’s latest release reflects on a lonely time in his life, but he’s in superb musical company.
- [Review: Linda Sikhakane, ‘iLadi’ (Blue Note)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-linda-sikhakane-iladi-blue-note/) - By Asher Wolf South African saxophonist Linda Sikhakhane’s new album iLadi is a relaxed and refined collection of originals in the style of mid-period John Coltrane. Perhaps the most notable difference is that where Coltrane’s quartet is fierce, probing and expansive in its spiritual forays, Sikhakhane’s is calmer and more grounded, cultivating an introspective sense
- [Review: Harry Skoler, ‘Red Brick Hill’ (Sunnyside)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-harry-skoler-red-brick-hill-sunnyside/) - By Hrayr Attarian A sense of poetry permeates the entirety of clarinetist Harry Skoler’s superb Red Brick Hill. This is not only because of the music’s melancholic lyricism or the intimacy of the performances. Rather, this cohesive suite, dedicated to the memory of a departed friend, is akin to a narrative in verse consisting of
- [Review: Bria Skonberg, ‘What It Means’ (Cellar Music)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-bria-skonberg-what-it-means-cellar-music/) - By Scott Yanow Since her debut recording in 2002, trumpeter and vocalist Bria Skonberg has been an important force in the pre-bop world of classic jazz, Dixieland and swing. Not sticking exclusively to early jazz tunes on her recordings, Skonberg has proven that she can swing anything with her hot trumpet and quietly expressive voice.
- [Review: Milton Suggs, ‘Pure Intention’ (Imani)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-milton-suggs-pure-intention-imani/) - By Philip Booth “Flowing out of my heart there is a song/I’m going to sing it out loud, clear and strong,” Milton Suggs sings, applying his original lyrics to saxophonist Kenny Garrett’s composition “Sing a Song of Song,” the opening track on the vocalist’s album Pure Intention. Suggs’ voice, a rich baritone instrument that’s as
- [Review: Papo Vázquez Mighty Pirates Troubadours, ‘Songs del Yucayeke’ (Picaro)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-papo-vazquez-mighty-pirates-troubadours-songs-del-yucayeke-picaro/) - By Michael Roberts Papo Vázquez is more than four decades into a stellar career that’s earned him a raft of honors, including a master artist designation from the National Endowment for the Arts. But as evidenced by Songs del Yucayeke — the latest recording by his Mighty Pirates Troubadours — the Philadelphia-born, Puerto Rico-raised trombonist
- [Review: Charlie Kohlhase’s Explorers Club, ‘A Second Life’ (Mandorla Music)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-charlie-kohlhases-explorers-club-a-second-life-mandorla-music/) - By Jon Garelick There are many ways to play free jazz. For multi-reed player and composer Charlie Kohlhase, a longtime bandleader and mainstay of the Boston scene, that has meant a tantalizing tension between form and freedom, arrangements that meld attractive song forms and grooves with stretches of free improvisation. Among his various projects over
- [Review: Julius Rodriguez, ‘Evergreen’ (Verve)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-julius-rodriguez-evergreen-verve/) - By Lissette Corsa Julius Rodriguez’s sophomore album, Evergreen, finds the Los Angeles-based, New York City-bred multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer on a mind-expanding, electro-acoustic journey into the outermost realms of contemporary jazz. His head-spinning 2022 debut, Let Sound Tell All, hinted at an otherworldly evolution. On Evergreen, Rodriguez delves deeper into the creation of a distinct
- [Review: Nduduzo Makhathini, ‘uNomkhubulwane’ (Blue Note)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-nduduzo-makhathini-unomkhubulwane-blue-note/) - By John Frederick Moore South African pianist and composer Nduduzo Makhathini has specialized in integrating bop, blues and gospel with African folk traditions. With Makhathini’s ensemble pared down to a trio, his latest effort, comprising a three-movement, 11-track suite, is a more mellow affair than his two previous Blue Note releases. It’s also more moving. The
- [Review: Conrad Herwig, ‘The Latin Side of McCoy Tyner’ (Savant)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-conrad-herwig-the-latin-side-of-mccoy-tyner-savant/) - By James Rozzi Trombonists always seem to get the short end of the stick. While improvising, their telescopic slide puts them at a distinct technical disadvantage over a key or valve wind instrument. Yet, Conrad Herwig’s seemingly boundless technique makes that notion as obscure as his name outside of jazz circles. Perennial leader and sideman
- [Review: Tarbaby, ‘You Think This America’ (Giant Step Arts)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-tarbaby-you-think-this-is-america-giant-step-arts/) - By Bill Meredith Pianist Orrin Evans, bassist Eric Revis and drummer Nasheet Waits form the nucleus of Tarbaby, the veteran acoustic group with five previous albums that feature guest appearances by the diverse likes of saxophonist Oliver Lake and trumpeter Nicholas Payton. Obviously looking to make a statement on its sixth release, You Think This
- [Peter Erskine’s Legendary Beats Fuel Weather Report and Steely Dan Grooves](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/peter-erskines-legendary-beats-fuel-weather-report-and-steely-dan-grooves/) - For this episode of the Jazziz podcast, we sit down with legendary drummer Peter Erskine to explore the rhythm and soul behind his iconic career. From his groundbreaking work with the fusion powerhouse Weather Report to laying down grooves for Steely Dan, Erskine's drumming has fueled some of the most memorable moments in modern jazz
- [Tom Guarna, ‘Reimagine’ (Spirit Science) | Review](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/tom-guarna-reimagine-spirit-science-review/) - By Neil Tesser On eight previous albums, guitarist Tom Guarna has worked almost exclusively with piano, bass and drums; this album revisits the organ trio format of his 2005 debut. Reimagine won’t make waves or induce shocks, but it brims with solid, often excellent work from all concerned. Guarna plays with a full, rounded tone
- [Kurt Elling and Charlie Hunter, ‘SuperBlue: The Iridescent Spree’ (Edition) | Review](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/kurt-elling-and-charlie-hunter-superblue-the-iridescent-spree-edition-review/) - By Michael Roberts There’s nothing sexier than confidence, and Kurt Elling’s overflowing with it. Having long since established his place among the preeminent jazz vocalists of his generation, he knows he can take any kind of artistic risk and the results will be cool, simply because he’s the one doing it — which is one
- [A Woman’s Place](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/a-womans-place/) - By Michael Fagien The respective occupations of a man and woman have been disputed since Adam and Eve. For more than 40 years, JAZZIZ editors have also debated the pros and cons of producing an entire issue dedicated to women. However, we always rationalized that it’s necessary to emphasize the many great women players that
- [Requisite: Alice Coltrane, ‘A Monastic Trio’ (Impulse!, 1968)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requisite-alice-coltrane-a-monastic-trio-impulse-1968/) - By Bob Weinberg Almost a year had passed since John Coltrane died when his widow, Alice Coltrane, and his former bandmates, bassist Jimmy Garrison and drummer Rashied Ali, recorded the tracks that make up A Monastic Trio. (One track, “Ohnedaruth,” featuring Pharoah Sanders on bass clarinet and Ben Riley on drums, had been recorded earlier
- [Dorothy Ashby: She Made the Harp Swing](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/dorothy-ashby-she-made-the-harp-swing/) - By Larry Blumenfeld Celebrated with a new boxed set, Dorothy Ashby’s legacy resonates more clearly than ever. “If It’s Magic” is the gentlest of tracks on Stevie Wonder’s 1976 opus Songs in the Key of Life. Back in high school, when this expansive and propulsive album first took hold of me, I didn’t know what
- [Claire Daly: That VuVu That You Do So Well](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/claire-daly-that-vuvu-that-you-do-so-well/) - By Bob Weinberg Claire Daly honors a 98-year-old jazz fan and the New York City scene that nurtures her. In advance of a Streamyard conversation in late June, Claire Daly emails her interviewer that she’ll be on the link shortly. But first she must attend to a bit of business: moving her car. “A NYC
- [Cecilia Smith: Vibin' for Mary Lou](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/cecilia-smith-vibin-for-mary-lou/) - By Bob Weinberg Cecilia Smith hammers home the historical import of a jazz matriarch. Cecilia Smith wasn’t deeply familiar with Mary Lou Williams when she was approached to perform a concert of the jazz matriarch’s music in 2000. A friend, who was a member of Our Lady of Victory Church in Brooklyn, proffered the invitation
- [Kris Davis: The Leading Edge](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/kris-davis-the-leading-edge/) - By Ted Panken With nods to Messaien and Dolphy, Kris Davis and like-minded colleagues unfurl a tantalizing aural tapestry at a storied jazz proving ground. It’s the first day of summer and Kris Davis is speaking with JAZZIZ by Zoom from her home office-studio in Boston to discuss the September 1 release of Live at
- [Sofia Goodman: Reflections in the Waves](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/sofia-goodman-reflections-in-the-waves/) - By Jonathan Widran Sofia Goodman finds a depth of expression in her musical explorations of sea and shore. If not for the fire that destroyed her Boston flat, the most impactful moment in Sofia Goodman’s development as a versatile, risk-taking progressive jazz drummer would be having her mind blown by John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme
- [Mothers of Invention](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/mothers-of-invention/) - By Bob Weinberg Women musicians may have been scarce on the bandstand, but their influence had an outsize impact on the jazz world and beyond. The jazz world today brims with innovative and authoritative women players. Any discussion of the top musicians in the field, gender be damned, might include guitarist Mary Halvorson, saxophonist Ingrid
- [Emma Rawicz: The Nearness of Hue](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/emma-rawicz-the-nearness-of-hue/) - By Michael Roberts Emma Rawicz’s tonal colors are influenced by the actual colors she sees while playing and listening to music. Many jazz musicians try to create sounds capable of producing specific images in the mind of a listener. But London-based saxophonist Emma Rawicz has a head start on this process. The 21-year-old’s vibrant new
- [Anthony Hervey, ‘Words From My Horn’ (Outside In Music) | Review](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/anthony-hervey-words-from-my-horn-outside-in-music-review/) - By Scott Yanow A major new talent, trumpeter Anthony Hervey, who recorded with the Christian McBride Big Band in 2019, makes his recording debut as a leader with Words From My Horn. On this modern hard-bop set, Hervey is joined by the fiery young alto saxophonist Sarah Hanahan, pianist Isaiah J. Thompson, bassist Philip Norris
- [Magos Herrera: Breathing Lessons](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/magos-herrera-breathing-lessons/) - By Lissette Corsa Magos Herrera found solace in family and nature during the pandemic, and she’s eager to share the healing. The story of Aire (Sunnyside), Magos Herrera’s latest release, is partly steeped in the central highlands of Mexico, an area known as the bajío mexicano that is filled with rich, mystical allure and tradition.
- [Senri Oe, ‘Class of ’88’ (PND) | Review](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/senri-oe-class-of-88-pnd-review/) - By Jonathan Widran Innovative jazz musicians and arrangers have enjoyed a long, fruitful history of reimagining popular songs with their own flair. On his latest release, Class of ’88, Japanese-born, New York-based pianist-composer Senri Oe turns the concept of re-invention on himself, applying the expansive jazz artistry he’s cultivated in middle age to souvenirs of
- [Meshell Ndegeocello: Keeping It Real](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/meshell-ndegeocello-keeping-it-real/) - By Shannon J. Effinger For Meshell Ndegeocello, honest expression is everything. Her debut album for Blue Note more than delivers on that score. Meshell Ndegeocello challenged what a Black, queer female artist could look and sound like long before there was ever a mandate or a crusade. The multi-instrumentalist has made an entire career out
- [A World of Women’s Voices](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/a-world-of-womens-voices/) - By Josef Woodard Around the globe, women are singing the international language of jazz. A stubborn myth, or at least a half-truth, has it that jazz vocalizing is an almost categorically American art form. In fact, jazz singing is an international and ever-evolving language involving a broad constellation of dialects. Even beyond the self-evident foundation
- [Ember, ‘August in March’ (Imani) | Review](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/ember-august-in-march-imani-review/) - By Hrayr Attarian A dynamic collaborative trio, Ember consists of saxophonist Caleb Wheeler Curtis — here playing stritch, reed trumpet and trumpet — bassist Noah Garabedian and drummer Vincent Sperrazza. The ensemble’s third release, the imaginative August in March, consists of 11 originals by all three musicians and highlights the group’s creative energy and seamless
- [Regarding Henry: Steven Bernstein Remembers Henry Butler](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/regarding-henry-steven-bernstein-remembers-henry-butler/) - Steven Bernstein remembers friend and bandmate Henry Butler with a Hot 9 tribute. In 1984, Steven Bernstein was a free-thinking trumpeter, not yet 23 years old, steeped in jazz tradition but only as a starting place for unbound musical explorations. As a listener, he was fixated on “Code M.D.,” the third song on Decoy, the
- [Requiem for the ’80s](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/requiem-for-the-80s/) - Between the network of nightclubs that stayed open till the wee hours, the nonstop buzz the scene provided and the endless lines of cocaine readily available (part of the fabric of the late-night hang in the early ’80s), I probably saw the sunrise every morning before going to bed through at least the early part
- [Jimmy Haslip: Arcs and Angles](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jimmy-haslip-arcs-and-angles/) - From Jaco to the Yellowjackets and beyond, Jimmy Haslip keeps reaching for creative freedom. The way Jimmy Haslip remembers it, the strong encouragement and casual mentorship he received from his idol Jaco Pastorius, during his formative years in the mid-’70s, meant everything to him. It helped set him on course to become an elite bassist,
- [Marcus on Miles: Marcus Miller Remembers Miles Davis](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/marcus-on-miles-marcus-miller-remembers-miles-davis/) - Miles Davis devotees are celebrating Sony’s most recent archaeological dig into its vast archive of Davis’ musical production between 1955 and 1985, when, for motives that are still unclear, he severed his relationship with the Warner Bros. label. Titled The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7: That’s What Happened, the 28-track, three-disc deep dive into its Miles
- [Reinventing Miles: Miles Davis in the 1980s](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/reinventing-miles-miles-davis-in-the-1980s/) - Not for the first time, Miles Davis changed his music and changed the jazz world in the 1980s. Here are some of the albums that defined an era and divided listeners. It’s been said there are three topics you should avoid in polite conversation: politics, money and religion. In jazz circles, we may well add
- [There When It Happened: Mike Stern, Vince Wilburn, Bill Evans and John Scofield on Making Music With Miles Davis](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/there-when-it-happened-mike-stern-vince-wilburn-bill-evans-and-john-scofield-on-making-music-with-miles-davis/) - It’s impossible to convey the sense of anticipation and giddiness, mixed with maybe a slight sense of butterflies and dream-like euphoria, we all felt when Miles Davis took the stage with his comeback band at Avery Fisher Hall in New York on July 5, 1981. Dean of jazz critics Leonard Feather of the Los Angeles
- [Auditions Roundup: Alone Again, Naturally](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/auditions-roundup-alone-again-naturally/) - Solo releases reveal a bright future for jazz piano. The state of jazz piano is in very good hands — or scores of good hands — with technically and creatively adroit artists spanning a broad stylistic gamut. This set of recent releases exemplifies the riches of the inherently challenging and self-defining genre of solo piano
- [Paul Winter: Consorting With Nature](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/paul-winter-consorting-with-nature/) - After 40 years of concerts at a New York cathedral, Paul Winter held his summer solstice celebration at a new location: a barn in Connecticut. Concert in the Barn, the transporting new offering by the Paul Winter Consort, represents the latest chapter in an annual series of concerts celebrating the summer solstice. Yet the 2021
- [Publisher’s Letter: The Man With the Horn](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/publishers-letter-the-man-with-the-horn/) - The jazz scene of the 1980s was transformative. The music biz was in a state of flux, with so many changes and moving parts that most industry insiders didn’t see the train coming down the track. It was just a couple of years since I had started writing about jazz for a few magazines and
- [Darrell Grant: In the Shadow of Tall Trees](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/darrell-grant-in-the-shadow-of-tall-trees/) - Darrell Grant flourished in mid-’80s New York, a time and place that forged his mettle. For the past 26 years, Darrell Grant has made his home in the verdant Pacific Northwest, leading the jazz studies program at Portland State University while also composing, performing and releasing recordings on his own Lair Hill imprint. The pianist’s
- [REVIEW: Chucho Valdés & Paquito D’ Rivera Reunion Sextet ‘I Missed You Too!’ (Sunnyside)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-chucho-valdes-paquito-d-rivera-reunion-sextet-i-missed-you-too-sunnyside/) - Afro-Cuban jazz legends Chucho Valdés and Paquito D’Rivera pay tribute to their deeply rooted friendship on the long-awaited reunion album I Missed You Too! and it’s every bit the momentous, heartfelt, richly nuanced journey that audiences could expect. The album marks the pair’s first formal outing since their years together as founding members of Cuba’s
- [REVIEW: Joy Lapps, ‘Girl in the Yard’ (self-released)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-joy-lapps-girl-in-the-yard-self-released/) - Once upon a time, steel pan recordings accessible to American listeners tended to be split between folkloric explorations captured by preservationists and low-fidelity quickies musicians sold to memento-seeking tourists. Today, however, a fresh generation of artists is proving that the instrument is as versatile as it is evocative. And Joy Lapps, a Toronto-based steel pan
- [REVIEW: Jon Irabagon, ‘Rising Sun’ (Irabbagast)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-jon-irabagon-rising-sun-irabbagast/) - When COVID struck, saxophonist Jon Irabagon fled locked-down New York City for the much less constrictive landscape of South Dakota. The wide open spaces agreed with him, yielding last year’s Bird With Streams, a solo album recorded in a reverberant canyon on the outskirts of Black Hills National Forest. For his follow-up, Rising Sun, Irabagon
- [REVIEW: Frank Catalano, ‘Live at Birdland’ (Ropeadope)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-frank-catalano-live-at-birdland-ropeadope/) - The sunnily ferocious tenor saxophonist Frank Catalano is the subject of a recent film documentary titled Sugar Jazz. But while his first discs — recorded in his 20s, in the early 2000s — might have veered toward jazz treacle, those days have passed. No less energetic, only slightly less histrionic, Catalano has matured significantly in
- [REVIEW: Robert Lee, ‘Cha-Ran’ (Three Pines)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-robert-lee-cha-ran-three-pines/) - Toronto bassist-composer Robert Lee set an incredibly difficult challenge for himself with Cha-Ran. His goal was to adapt a series of Korean folk tales with the depth and wisdom he associates with Studio Ghibli films such as Spirited Away — a seemingly impossible task he somehow manages to achieve more often than not. The title
- [REVIEW: JoVia Armstrong, ‘The Antidote Suite’ (Black Earth Music)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-jovia-armstrong-the-antidote-suite-black-earth-music/) - Percussionist and composer JoVia Armstrong, a Detroit native, matured as an artist on the fertile Chicago music scene. She has performed with musicians as varied as flutist Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Ensemble and Malian singer Babani Koné, as well as with the genre-defying JC Brooks Band. Armstrong brings this versatility to her captivating debut, The
- [REVIEW: Caleb Wheeler Curtis, ‘Heatmap’ (Imani)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-caleb-wheeler-curtis-heatmap-imani/) - When Caleb Wheeler Curtis’ alto saxophone doesn’t make an entrance until three minutes into the opening title tune, it’s clear that he’s a musician who plays by his own rules. He butts in with a couple of rude phrases amid pianist Orrin Evans’ solo. The two then tangle for another three minutes, turning the temperature
- [REVIEW: Ethan Philion, ‘Meditations on Mingus’ (Sunnyside)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-ethan-philion-meditations-on-mingus-sunnyside/) - Chicago bassist Ethan Philion opens this album of Mingus compositions with the lesser-known “Once Upon a Time There Was a Holding Corporation Called America,” and I’ll risk heresy by declaring it the best version on disc. Actually, not so risky: Mingus recorded this difficult work only once under this title, at a 1965 concert, where
- [This Could Be the Start of Something Big](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/this-could-be-the-start-of-something-big/) - I’ve spent some time recently listening to vocalist Roseanna Vitro’s very first album, Listen Here — or rather, re-listening: Vitro reissued the album on CD this year. I still have the original vinyl, released in 1984 on her one-and-done Texas Rose label, back when the CD was still an exotic newcomer. She has since released
- [Maria Grand - Reciprocity (Biophilia)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/maria-grand-reciprocity-biophilia-2/) - Saxophonist and composer Maria Grand has an original creative outlook coupled with a unique style. Since moving to New York 10 years ago, she has become entrenched in the city’s improvised music milieu and quickly developed into a seasoned leader in her own right. Her sophomore, digital-only release, the entrancing Reciprocity, showcases Grand’s talents in
- [A Profound Hush: Sachal Vasandani Speaks Volumes with a Sublimely Quiet Recording](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/a-profound-hush-sachal-vasandani-speaks-volumes-with-a-sublimely-quiet-recording/) - The setting is so intimate you can hear him breathe. Like the dry clack of a saxophonists’ fingers on the keys or the slippery squeak of a guitarist’s fingers on the fingerboard, Sachal Vasandani’s audible respiration adds a deeply human dimension to the vocalist’s performance on Midnight Shelter, his recent duo recording with pianist Romain
- [Celebrating Sade: Bill Kwan Delves into the Music of a Beloved Vocal Icon](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/celebrating-sade-bill-kwan-delves-into-the-music-of-a-beloved-vocal-icon/) - A legendary quote from Audrey Hepburn adorns the home page of Bill Kwan’s dermatology practice web site. It’s clearly aimed at his patients, but also artfully sums up a philosophy that has served the San Francisco physician well in his other profession as a jazz singer: “Beauty is being the best possible version of yourself
- [Taylor Eigsti - Tree Falls (GSI)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/taylor-eigsti-tree-falls-gsi/) - There is no easy way to describe Tree Falls, pianist Taylor Eigsti’s first album as a leader in more than a decade. Using the “needle drop” sampling method across its diverse tracks doesn’t help much in clarifying a neat stylistic through line, except to deliver the album’s ultimate message of honest eclecticism and remaining true
- [Jazz Vocal Essentials](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jazz-vocal-essentials/) - This article was originally published in the Fall 2021 print issue of JAZZIZ Magazine. By Bob Weinberg No musician in the jazz world seems to connect with listeners as viscerally as the vocalist. While saxophonists Coleman Hawkins and John Coltrane could stir deep emotions, and pianists Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett could wring tears from
- [SOUNDBITES: Fall 2021](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/soundbites-fall-2021/) - Cochemea, Vol. II: Baca Sewa (Daptone) Cochemea Gastelum has forged his own brand of transcendental groove music. Baca Sewa celebrates his indigenous Mexican heritage with 10 tribal-style tunes, the driving force of which is the irresistible percolation of a large drum ensemble. Cochemea plays alto saxophone (laced with electronic effects) and flute over the top.
- [Alchemy Sound Project - Afrika Love (ARC)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/alchemy-sound-project-afrika-love-arc/) - This third disc from Alchemy Sound Project revels in flow, but it opens with a stutter: a staggered melodic motif, written by bassist David Arendt, amplified by the stark stereo image (two horns squarely in each speaker). The evolving theme echoes that motif, building walls of sound that give way to a freely improvised solo
- [Resonant Voices for Turbulent Times: Fay Victor, Sara Serpa and Jen Shyu Sing Truth to Power](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/resonant-voices-for-turbulent-times-fay-victor-sara-serpa-and-jen-shyu-sing-truth-to-power/) - Bessie Smith’s blues moan. Billie Holiday’s searing rendition of “Strange Fruit.” Abbey Lincoln’s riveting directness and, on We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite, her screams. Ella Fitzgerald’s definitive bebop scat. Betty Carter’s extension of that language. Shirley Horn’s whisper. Cassandra Wilson’s blend of country feel and cutting-edge intent. Throughout jazz history, women’s voices have
- [Season the Moment: Gregory Porter Shares Culinary Gifts from His Kitchen](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/season-the-moment-gregory-porter-shares-culinary-gifts-from-his-kitchen/) - The COVID-19 pandemic inspired untold thousands to take a trip to what, for many, was an unfamiliar destination — their kitchen, where they set out to learn about the joy of cooking. But while jazz vocalist and master songwriter Gregory Porter wound up in the same location, his journey was quite different. Already an accomplished
- [Publisher's Letter: Voices of the Ages](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/publishers-letter-voices-of-the-ages/) - Maybe it was your parents’ worn copy of Ella and Louis. Or maybe it was your older sister’s copy of Joni Mitchell’s Mingus. Or, possibly, it was the first time you heard Diana Krall or Norah Jones. But somewhere along the line, jazz singing crept into your consciousness and set up camp, leaving you hungry
- [Voicing Opinions: Lauren Henderson and Camille Thurman](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/voicing-opinions-lauren-henderson-and-camille-thurman/) - During their formative years, neither Lauren Henderson nor Camille Thurman anticipated that singing would be anything but an avocational activity. Both shifted course. On her self-released, bilingual eighth album, Musa (Brontosaurus), Henderson presents a program comprising six of her own songs and five covers of various provenance, with an eye toward expressing her Afro-Latinx heritage.
- [Cassandra Wilson, "New Moon Daughter" (Blue Note, 1995)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/cassandra-wilson-new-moon-daughter-blue-note-1995/) - Her second album with producer Craig Street, New Moon Daughter was the apotheosis of Cassandra Wilson’s signature blend of jazz and Americana. Her rich, velvety voice is rooted in the dark, loamy soil of her native Mississippi and as humid as a Deep South summer, while also bearing the sophistication of a singer who had
- [Wake-Up Call: Ledisi Is Feeling Good About the Legacy of Nina Simone](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/wake-up-call-ledisi-is-feeling-good-about-the-legacy-of-nina-simone/) - Starting with two sold-out performances with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in 2017, Ledisi has built upon her formidable two-decade R&B/jazz legacy — which includes a 2021 Grammy win for Best Traditional R&B Performance (“Anything for You”) after 12 previous nominations — by honoring and celebrating the music of iconic singer, songwriter
- [Arturo O’Farrill Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra - Virtual Birdland (Zoho)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/arturo-ofarrill-afro-latin-jazz-orchestra-virtual-birdland-zoho/) - It may take years before music scholars can fully access how the pandemic that began in 2020 turned a vibrant music scene on its head. Among the most prominent footnotes, however, will undoubtedly be the example of how pianist, composer and arranger Arturo O’Farrill turned adversity into opportunity. On this 10-track program, O’Farrill uses digital
- [Vincent Herring - Preaching to the Choir (Smoke Sessions)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/vincent-herring-preaching-to-the-choir-smoke-sessions/) - Alto saxophonist Vincent Herring nearly canceled the in-studio recording sessions for Preaching to the Choir, his latest release, after contracting COVID-19 and suffering the continued excruciating after-effects of debilitating rheumatoid arthritis. But Herring, who’s chalked up lengthy sideman gigs and recordings with Nat Adderley, Cedar Walton and Louis Hayes, and has more than 20 leader
- [Fall 2021 JAZZIZ On Disc: Annotated Track List](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/fall-2021-jazziz-on-disc-annotated-track-list/) - Disc One The Jazz Singers https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Kvqa0zcVM1pFGysMfV9eT?si=1a630aedaf764868 On her self-titled debut recording for the Whirlwind imprint, Samara Joy interprets songs that were golden oldies when her grandparents were courting. But, at the age of 21, Joy displays maturity beyond her years as she pages through the Great American Songbook and invests each tune with fresh vigor.
- [ Q&A with Don Was: Zen and the Art of Audio Production](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/qa-with-don-was-zen-and-the-art-of-audio-production/) - The first time most people caught a glimpse of musician and producer Don Was, he was the high-haired cat in sunglasses playing a leopard-print bass on the Was (Not Was) video for the 1988 dance hit “Walk the Dinosaur.” He’d parlay the success of that song into high-profile gigs with Bonnie Raitt and The B-52s, producing their
- [Call of the Wild: For Ike Sturm and Jesse Lewis, the world is their studio](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/call-of-the-wild-for-ike-sturm-and-jesse-lewis-the-world-is-their-studio/) - For guitarist Ike Sturm and bassist Jesse Lewis, who comprise the New York-based acoustic duo Endless Field, the beauty and mystery of the music heard on Alive in the Wilderness, their beguiling new album on the Biophilia label, is directly connected to the circumstances under which it was made — on location in the wilds of
- [Setting the Record Straight: Rosetta Reitz fought for women’s place in jazz history](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/setting-the-record-straight-rosetta-reitz-fought-for-womens-place-in-jazz-history/) - Originally published in the Fall 2020 edition of JAZZIZ Magazine. By Bob Weinberg The picturesque Dutch city of Leiden seems an unlikely place to find a tribute to a Jewish jazz and blues impresaria from New York. About 30 miles southwest of Amsterdam, it’s the birthplace of Rembrandt and boasts a centuries-old university and cathedral
- [The Magnificent Seven: Artemis, a true supergroup, releases its debut](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-magnificent-seven-artemis-a-true-supergroup-releases-its-debut/) - In the year of COVID-19, where once-thriving festivals and live music events are becoming increasingly distant memories, the story of how seven internationally acclaimed female jazz stalwarts joined forces to create the band Artemis stands out as a poignant triumph of will and spirit. Having first discovered and demonstrated their powerful chemistry on festival stages
- [Sound Design: What makes an album cover immortal? Five contemporary illustrators weigh in](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/sound-design-what-makes-an-album-cover-immortal-five-contemporary-illustrators-weigh-in/) - It’s a sensation familiar to many jazz fans: An album catches your eye from a record store window, or from a crate at a yard sale, or from the bookshelf of a music-loving friend. It’s almost magic, the way it invites you in and beckons to be played before you’ve heard a single note. If
- [Moving the Needle: The art of the album transcends technology](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/moving-the-needle-the-art-of-the-album-transcends-technology/) - In April of 1923, King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band filed into the tiny Gennett recording studio in Richmond, Indiana, and waxed the first recordings to ever feature Oliver’s protégé and second cornetist, Louis Armstrong. According to Laurence Bergreen in his book Louis Armstrong, An Extravagant Life, the facilities were less than ideal. Little more than
- [Freedom in the Margins: Avant-garde jazz remains vital if overlooked](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/freedom-in-the-margins-avant-garde-jazz-remains-vital-if-overlooked/) - Kidd Jordan (Photo: Courtesy the artist) Despite its relative marginalization in terms of mainstream visibility, avant-garde and free-jazz notions are alive, well and enjoying both healthy mutation and a legacy of a “tradition” dating back to the 1960s. Small, sometimes artist-run labels and festivals tend to stoke the music’s fires and serve a small but
- [Publisher's Letter: That's Not Jazz, Or Is It?](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/publishers-letter-thats-not-jazz-or-is-it/) - I’ve always enjoyed the array of responses our editorial content inspires — especially lately with the addition of our weekly subscriber newsletters, to which readers can respond instantly. A recent newsletter included a link to a podcast our online editor, Brian Zimmerman, hosted with Steve Van Zandt, a songwriter, producer and actor who’s most famously known as
- [From Mr. Rogers to Milton Nascimento: How Esperanza Spalding’s Creative Energy Is Redefining Music and Inspiring Today’s and Tomorrow’s Legends](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/from-mr-rogers-to-milton-nascimento-how-esperanza-spaldings-creative-energy-is-redefining-music-and-inspiring-todays-and-tomorrows-legends/) - “Esperanza has an old soul and a young heart. She embodies the past, present, and future of jazz.” – Quincy Jones Dive into the extraordinary journey of Esperanza Spalding, the genre-defying artist reshaping the boundaries of music. From the heartwarming inspiration of Mr. Rogers to the rich cultural legacy of Milton Nascimento, discover how Esperanza
- [Publisher’s Letter Quincy Jones](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/publishers-letter-quincy-jones/) - The following is the Publisher’s Letter appearing in the winter print edition of JAZZIZ. The piece is dedicated to Quincy Jones, who died on November 3 at the age of 91. We don’t usually deviate editorially from the theme of the issue — in this case “alternative strings” — in this space. But due to
- [Editors Note: Bono on Q](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/editors-note-bono-on-q/) - Originally published in JAZZIZ December 2008 The Incredible Quincy Jones Reflections on a stunningly prolific career. By Editor With the recent publication of The Complete Quincy Jones: My Journey and Passions (Insight Editions), we thought now would be an opportune time to look back on one of the most singularly remarkable, adventurous and well-documented careers
- [Bono On Q](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/bono-on-q/) - Originally published in JAZZIZ December 2008, with permission from Insight Editions Introduction to The Complete Quincy Jones: My Journey & Passions By Bono Quincy Jones was too cool for cool … so he reinvented the whole concept … made aloof engaged, made elitist get off the bus and press the flesh. His rebirth of the
- [Remembering David Sanborn: A Musical Legacy that Transcends Time 1945-2024](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/remembering-david-sanborn-a-musical-legacy-that-transcends-time-1945-2024/) - Sunday afternoon, May 12th, 2024, marks the passing of a true musical titan, David Sanborn. With a career spanning six decades, Sanborn's name became synonymous with innovation, virtuosity, and a boundless passion for music. From his humble beginnings in St. Louis, Missouri, where he found solace and inspiration in the blues, to his meteoric rise
- [Back to the Blues](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/back-to-the-blues/) - This article originally appeared in the summer 2010 issue of JAZZIZ. Saxophonist David Sanborn has covered a lot of ground in his career. But on his most recent work, he’s happily returned to his roots. By Bob Weinberg This was not the kind of music one expects to hear in the daylight. Attired all in
- [Sanborn on Sanborn](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/sanborn-on-sanborn/) - This article originally appeared in the summer 2010 issue of JAZZIZ. By Bob Weinberg David Sanborn is like the Zelig of jazz and pop music, his varied career touching on several cultural milestones. Here are a few of his thoughts and reminiscences. On playing Woodstock with the Butterfield Blues Band: “We were there on the
- [As Nancy And Beth, Megan Mullally and Stephanie Hunt Pay Tribute to Dinah Washington](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/as-nancy-and-beth-megan-mullally-and-stephanie-hunt-pay-tribute-to-dinah-washington/) - Before she was slaying audiences and snagging up Emmys as the character Karen Walker on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace, actor and comedian Megan Mullally was digging through jazz bins in her native Oklahoma City, seeking out gems by her idol, Dinah Washington.
- [Sounds of the Century Club](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/sounds-of-the-century-club/) - By Matt Micucci and Brian Zimmerman Here is a collection of well-known tracks and hidden treasures, along with a historic album, from some of the jazz artists whose centennial we’re celebrating this year. Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt with Jack McDuff, “Tubby" (1962) Soul Summit marked the dynamic collaboration between Gene Ammons and Sonny
- [Editor’s Note](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/editors-note-3/) - Our latest Digital Edition assembles a curated selection of articles from the JAZZIZ archive in celebration of some of the jazz greats whose centennials we commemorate this year. Among the luminaries featured are the vibraphonist Terry Gibbs, known for his lightning-fast mallets, and the velvet crooner Jackie Paris. We pay homage to the bebop pioneer
- [Finding Jackie Paris](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/finding-jackie-paris/) - Traditions column, originally published April 2009 By Bob Weinberg Why didn’t Jackie Paris become a bigger star? Documentarian Raymond De Felitta offers some insight. By the accounts of many in a position to know, Jackie Paris was destined for greatness. Not only was the vocalist and guitarist darkly handsome and charismatic, but he possessed undeniable
- [Terry Gibbs: Living Room](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/terry-gibbs-living-room/) - Traditions column, originally published summer 2017 By Bob Weinberg Nonagenarian Terry Gibbs is still kickin’ out the jams. In early January 2016, Terry Gibbs held an informal jam session at his home in Sherman Oaks, California. At 91, Gibbs, one of the most explosive vibraphonists of the bop era, was semi-retired, occasionally performing on-stage with
- [Béla Fleck and the Flecktones at the 2018 Montreal Jazz Fest](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/bela-fleck-and-the-flecktones-at-the-2018-montreal-jazz-fest/) - Originally published on July 5, 2018. By Brian Zimmerman Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, Theatre Maisonneuve – Place des Arts, July 1 Béla Fleck and the Flecktones’ performance at the Montreal Jazz Festival on July 1 was exceptional on several fronts. First and foremost, it featured the quartet in its original 1989 iteration, with Fleck
- [Béla Fleck: A Freedom Fighter for the Banjo](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/bela-fleck-a-freedom-fighter-for-the-banjo/) - By Michael Fagien Béla Fleck sees no boundaries for the banjo, as he continues his exploration of jazz, fusion, world music and the bluegrass that first fired his imagination. A new album with Edgar Meyer and Zakir Hussain fits right in with his eclectic oeuvre. https://youtu.be/5hnEuG5Wfp0 Michael Fagien: I’m here with Béla Fleck, best known
- [Banjo Plus Tabla: A Musical Appointment Fulfilled](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/banjo-plus-tabla-a-musical-appointment-fulfilled/) - Original story from November 2009. By Bob Weinberg Béla Fleck and Edgar Meyer could have chosen anyone as the third member of their commissioned trio. Zakir Hussain topped both their wish lists. With no more than smiles and nods to greet the Miami audience, the musicians assumed their places on the Olympia Theater stage and
- [The Flecktones Defy Gravity on Rocket Science](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-flecktones-defy-gravity-on-rocket-science/) - From JAZZIZ on Disc Summer 2011 By Bob Weinberg Banjoist Béla Fleck has been a busy lad. His omnivorous musical appetites have compelled him toward collaborations with Melody of Rhythm cohorts Edgar Meyer and Zakir Hussain; indigenous African musicians; and modern-jazz icon Chick Corea. But Fleck also continues to work with Béla Fleck & the
- [Béla Fleck Crosses Another Imaginary Divide](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/bela-fleck-crosses-another-imaginary-divide/) - From JAZZIZ on Disc Fall 2012 By Bob Weinberg Master banjoist Béla Fleck has made a career out of disregarding boundaries. He not only invented his own brand of funky bluegrass fusion, but he’s collaborated with everyone from Chick Corea to Zakir Hussain to traditional African musicians. So, when he had an opportunity to work
- [Ronnie Foster: The Return of the Two Headed Freap](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/ronnie-foster-the-return-of-the-two-headed-freap/) - In 1972, Blue Note Records unleashed Two Headed Freap, a debut album by organist-composer Ronnie Foster filled with soulful, swinging music as irresistible as its title. Now, a half-century later, Foster has gone back to the future by way of Reboot, an equally enjoyable showcase for his mastery of the Hammond B3 issued under the
- [REVIEW: Melissa Stylianou, “Dream Dancing” (Anzic)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-melissa-stylianou-dream-dancing-anzic/) - A set of nine standards and one original, Dream Dancing features the intimate trio of vocalist Melissa Stylianou, guitarist Gene Bertoncini and bassist Ike Sturm. Sturm introduced Stylianou — one-third of the vocal trio Duchess — to veteran guitarist Gene Bertoncini (now 85) back in 2008, and the musical connection was immediate. The three have
- [REVIEW: Lizz Wright, “Holding Space: Lizz Wright Live in Berlin” (Blues & Greens)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-lizz-wright-holding-space-lizz-wright-live-in-berlin-blues-greens/) - Lizz Wright’s first-ever live album launches the jazz and gospel vocalist’s indie label, Blues & Greens Records. After nearly 20 years and six albums on Verve and Concord, she’s designed an artist-friendly business model for herself and emerging artists she plans to develop. The alternately explosive and intimate Holding Space, the label’s debut release of
- [REVIEW: George Lernis, “Between Two Worlds” (Dünya)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-george-lernis-between-two-worlds-dunya/) - This experiment in Eastern modes-meet-and-embrace-Western jazz traditions is, in a word, charming. Listeners with even the slightest thirst for adventure will be quickly seduced by the swelling rhythms and high-spirited melodies created by Cyprus native George Lernis for a program of improvisation-grounded performances blended with traditional Middle Eastern and Mediterranean music influences. Lernis, a drummer,
- [There When It Happened: Mike Stern, Vince Wilburn, Bill Evans and John Scofield on Making Music with Miles Davis in the ’80s](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/there-when-it-happened-mike-stern-vince-wilburn-bill-evans-and-john-scofield-on-making-music-with-miles-davis-in-the-80s/) - It’s impossible to convey the sense of anticipation and giddiness, mixed with maybe a slight sense of butterflies and dream-like euphoria, we all felt when Miles Davis took the stage with his comeback band at Avery Fisher Hall in New York on July 5, 1981. Dean of jazz critics Leonard Feather of the Los Angeles
- [Margaret Slovak: Detoured, Not Deterred (GuitArtistry)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/margaret-slovak-detoured-not-deterred/) - Margaret Slovak battled back from debilitating injuries and continues to craft warm-toned, deeply personal guitar jazz. Following a terrible car accident in 2003, Margaret Slovak must’ve had thoughts of never being able to play the guitar again. Prior to that career-threatening event — which occurred while she was living in Portland, Oregon — Slovak had
- [Billy Drummond: The Writers’ Drummer](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/billy-drummond-the-writers-drummer/) - Billy Drummond dips into the songbooks of Carla Bley, Jackie McLean, Tony Williams and Stanley Cowell on his first album in 26 years. One of the signal releases this summer is Billy Drummond’s Valse Sinistre (Cellar Live). It’s the drum set master’s first leader date since 1996, when Criss Cross issued his third leader date,
- [Sasha Berliner: Crystallized Expression](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/sasha-berliner-crystallized-expression/) - Vibraphonist Sasha Berliner refines her aesthetic vision with the darkly sparkling "Onyx."
- [Leon Lee Dorsey: 'Freedom Jazz Dance' (Jazz Avenue 1)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/leon-lee-dorsey-freedom-jazz-dance-jazz-avenue-1/) - The fourth in a series of trio albums from the Jazz Avenue 1 label, Freedom Jazz Dance features bassist Leon Lee Dorsey, pianist Manuel Valera and drummer Mike Clark. All of the releases thus far have been tributes — Monk’s Time with guitarist Greg Skaff; Play Sgt. Pepper, featuring pianist Michael Wolff; and Thank You
- [Emma-Jean Thackray: 'Yellow' (Warp)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/emma-jean-thackray-yellow-warp/) - “To listen is to know and to know is to love,” Emma-Jean Thackray intones near the start of her inaugural full-length release, Yellow — and the line neatly sums up the appeal of the exciting music throughout. The youthful British trumpeter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist exudes confidence and panache as she joyously ignores genre boundaries, merging
- [GuitArtistry: Setting New Standards](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/guitartistry-setting-new-standards/) - While old guard guitarists like Kenny Burrell, Jim Hall, Joe Pass, Grant Green and Tal Farlow may have set the standard for playing standards, there’s a new guard of guitarists who are taking up that mantle and putting their own slant on tunes from the Great American Songbook in the process. Perhaps the most audacious
- [REVIEW: Lyle Mays, 'Eberhard' (self-release)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-lyle-mays-eberhard-self-release/) - This 13-minute tribute to German bassist-composer Eberhard Weber features Lyle Mays’ elegiac piano supported by the soaring wordless vocals of his niece Aubrey Johnson, along with contributions from a cast of all-stars: marimba-vibraphone player Wade Culbreath, guitarist Bill Frisell (barely discernible here), saxophonist Bob Sheppard, bassists Jimmy Johnson and Steve Rodby, drummers Alex Acuña and
- [Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trios: 'Songs From My Father' (Whaling City Sound)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/gerry-gibbs-thrasher-dream-trios-songs-from-my-fathe-whaling-city-sound/) - Multiple layers of jazz history, and tendrils of legacies, radiate from the ambitious new project by drummer and bandleader Gerry Gibbs, including one unfortunate twist: This project is now officially the final recording date of Chick Corea, who died in February. Corea was enticed into the project after hearing Gibbs’ impressive 2020 album Emotional Pandemic,
- [The Legacy of Lyle Mays Is on Display in Eberhard, His Final Recording](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-legacy-of-lyle-mays-is-on-display-in-eberhard-his-final-recording/) - In the spectrum of jazz, with well-considered composition on one end of the continuum and free jazz on the other, Lyle Mays, the late pianist, keyboard whiz and composer, was a proponent of classical principles: “a champion of structure, organization, deep rational thought, philosophical rigor and order,” as he once told an interviewer. And he
- [JAZZIZ Conversations: John McLaughlin (Podcast)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jazziz-conversations-john-mclaughlin-podcast/) - A living legend of improvised music, with a career now spanning more than five decades, John McLaughlin is no stranger to translating tumultuous moments into compelling, thoughtful audio art. Witness his searing contributions to Miles Davis’s infamous Jack Johnson sessions, the explosively pioneering rock/jazz hybrid he helped create as a member of the first edition
- [Spotlight Jazz All-Star Event: For Many Musicians, Jazz Foundation Concert Marks a Return to the Scene](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/spotlight-jazz-all-star-event-for-many-musicians-jazz-foundation-concert-marks-a-return-to-the-scene/) - Editor's Note: The Jazz Foundation of America will present a live stream of the SPOTLIGHT JAZZ All-Star event on Wednesday, August 18, at 9 p.m. ET. The streaming event will feature performances by Brandee Younger and Dezron Douglas, Robert Randolph, Davell Crawford, Clifton Anderson, Chris Bruce, Emmet Cohen, Rahsaan Cruz, Steve Davis, Robin Eubanks, Joe
- [Sing a Song of Six Strings: A Jazz Guitar CD Roundup](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/sing-a-song-of-six-strings-a-jazz-guitar-cd-roundup/) - With a string of groundbreaking releases through the 1970s, beginning with 1976’s Bright Size Life and continuing with 1977’s Watercolors, Pat Metheny almost single-handedly created a new sound and vocabulary for jazz guitar.
- [REVIEW: Immanuel Wilkins, 'Omega' (Blue Note)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/review-immanuel-wilkins-omega-blue-note/) - As much as we try to dodge the bias of ageism, some sense of wonder underscores the experience of Omega, Immanuel Wilkins’ striking debut release. How is it that the alto saxophonist-composer-bandleader has marshaled such a strong, true and mature artistic statement at age 22? What’s more, Wilkins wrote the centralizing four-part suite on the
- [Bold As Love: Bassist Brian Bromberg Honors the Jazz Legacy of Jimi Hendrix](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/bold-as-love-bassist-brian-bromberg-honors-the-jazz-legacy-of-jimi-hendrix/) - Before bassist Brian Bromberg received his first GRAMMY nomination, before he had a single hit in the Billboard Smooth Jazz Charts, before he had taken his first tour with saxophone legend Stan Getz (a friendship that would result in a nearly 20-year creative partnership), he was a young music fan in Tuscon, Arizona, with an
- [Re-Connected: Charles Tolliver Releases His First Album in More than a Decade](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/re-connected-charles-tolliver-releases-his-first-album-in-more-than-a-decade/) - Charles Tolliver was a relative unknown when jazz scenester Jim Harrison first heard him during a jam session at the Blue Coronet in Brooklyn. Harrison, the president of saxophonist Jackie McLean’s fan club, urged the young trumpeter to get in touch with McLean, who was so impressed with Tolliver that he put him on his
- [Talking Miles, Coltrane & Woodstock with Carlos Santana & Cindy Blackman Santana](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/talking-miles-coltrane-woodstock-with-carlos-santana-cindy-blackman-santana/) - Carlos Santana's wife, drummer Cindy Blackman Santana, will release a solo album, Give the Drummer Some, on September 18. The 17-track collection will feature Cindy on vocals and drums, with guitars by Carlos on eight tracks. Other guests include Metallica's Kirk Hammett, Living Colour's Vernon Reid and jazz-fusion great John McLaughlin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piwjYkGoaCI
- [Listening Across Distances: Audio Products for the Remote Audiophile](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/listening-across-distances-audio-products-for-the-remote-audiophile/) - Millions of us have spent the past several months working remotely from home, and there is no question that the desire for live music has never been stronger. But in all likelihood, it isn’t happening anytime soon. In its place, desktop audio and personal audio have taken center stage. Headphones and entry-level products have continued
- [Billie Holiday: Echoes of Elegance](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/billie-holiday-echoes-of-elegance/) - By Matt Micucci Exploring the Timeless Charms of Billie Holiday's Musical Legacy in Four Songs "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" (1937) The legendary Irving Berlin penned some of the most iconic winter songs, with "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" standing prominently among them. Originally penned for the 1937
- [The Twilight of Lady Day](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-twilight-of-lady-day/) - By Paul Alexander A new book chronicles the woes and wins of Billie Holiday’s final year. Billie Holiday’s heartbreaking tale is a familiar one for jazz lovers. Born Eleanora Fagan in 1915, Holiday survived a hardscrabble, harrowing childhood and adolescence to become one of the most celebrated jazz singers of all time. However, even as
- [Jean-Luc Ponty: The Bowed and the Beautiful](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jean-luc-ponty-the-bowed-and-the-beautiful/) - Having worked with Frank Zappa, John McLaughlin and Chick Corea, Jean-Luc Ponty has brought his unlikely instrument to the summit of the jazz fusion arena. Through his rich career (as Jean-Luc puts it, “I’m 20 again for the fourth time”), Ponty shares great stories about Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett, Jack DeJohnette and … Elton John.
- [Auditions Roundup: The Strength of Strings](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/auditions-roundup-the-strength-of-strings/) - From violin to banjo to guitar orchestra, strings add zing to jazz recordings.
- [Karl Berger: Fire on the Mountain](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/karl-berger-fire-on-the-mountain/) - Editor’s note: Karl Berger was among the most open-minded of jazz artists. As a vibraphonist, pianist, bandleader and educator, he forged a new approach to playing and learning to play jazz at his Creative Music Studio campus in Woodstock, New York. He and Ornette Coleman founded CMS in 1971 and attracted the cream of the
- [A Developing Interest: Danilo Pérez Strives to Play a Better World Into Existence](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/a-developing-interest-danilo-perez-strives-to-play-a-better-world-into-existence/) - Crisálida, the new recording by Panamanian pianist and composer Danilo Pérez, is among his most ambitious projects. It addresses broad, complex and emotional social issues utilizing various musical tools and strategies and interdisciplinary work while referencing an assortment of musical traditions interpreted by an unusual ensemble. It is not an easy listen — and perhaps
- [A Family Affair: A Multi-National, Multi-Generational Roster of Musicians Combats Racial Injustice with Love, Hope and the Refusal to Remain Silent](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/a-family-affair-a-multi-national-multi-generational-roster-of-musicians-combats-racial-injustice-with-love-hope-and-the-refusal-to-remain-silent/) - Music has long been a driving force behind movements for social justice and racial equality. Hymns, gospel music and spirituals, collectively known as freedom songs, were central in the struggle for civil rights. Black American popular music helped frame the movement for the rest of the nation. Who can forget the stirring anguish of Nina
- [GuitArtistry: Samo Salamon Salutes the Genius of Eric Dolphy with an Ambitious Solo-Guitar Project](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/guitartistry-samo-salamon-salutes-the-genius-of-eric-dolphy-with-an-ambitious-solo-guitar-project/) - Slovenian guitarist Samo Salamon has been incredibly prolific throughout his career, having released 40 albums as a leader to date, ranging from adventurous contemporary fusion with New Yorkers such as trombonist Josh Roseman, alto saxophonist David Binney, bassist Mark Helias and drummer Gerald Cleaver (2007’s Government Cheese); to edgier fare like 2005’s Two Hours with
- [Ronnie's Specter: In His Recent Documentary, Director Oliver Murray Explores the Mystery of the Man Behind a Cherished London Jazz Club](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/ronnies-specter-in-his-recent-documentary-director-oliver-murray-explores-the-mystery-of-the-man-behind-a-cherished-london-jazz-club/) - All that was written on the label of the 16 mm film can was “jazz trumpet player, Ronnie Scott’s.” Fortunately, Oliver Murray, writer and director of the recent documentary Ronnie’s — which takes a deep dive into the venerable London jazz club and the complex personality of its namesake — decided to spend the time
- [The Secret Sauce: With "Take Me to the River: New Orleans," Director Martin Shore Shows How Drums and Love Keep a Storied City’s Culture Fresh](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-secret-sauce-with-take-me-to-the-river-new-orleans-director-martin-shore-shows-how-drums-and-love-keep-a-storied-citys-culture-fresh/) - Five drummers sitting around talking. That’s the heart — the master shot sequence — of director Martin Shore’s new documentary about New Orleans music, the second in his Take Me to the River series. The film will have a weeklong run at The Broad Theater in New Orleans beginning April 22, and then open at
- [Myra Melford and All-Star Ensemble Craft Music Inspired By the Power and Possibility of Cy Twombly’s Singular Works of Art](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/myra-melford-and-all-star-ensemble-craft-music-inspired-by-the-power-and-possibility-of-cy-twomblys-singular-works-of-art/) - While serving as a cryptographer in the U.S. Army during the early 1950s, the artist Cy Twombly made a practice of drawing in the dark, a variation on the surrealists’ automatic writing technique. It became a way for Twombly to shake loose the rules he’d been taught at institutions like Boston’s School of the Museum
- [A Ritual of Transformation: Kurt Rosenwinkel Turns His Hand to the Piano](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/a-ritual-of-transformation-kurt-rosenwinkel-turns-his-hand-to-the-piano/) - Since his mid-30s, Kurt Rosenwinkel, now 51, has held quasi-guitar god stature among connoisseurs of the instrument, jazz-oriented or otherwise. That’s one reason why Plays Piano, Rosenwinkel’s recent solo piano recital on his label, Heartcore, is so intriguing to contemplate and listen to. Throughout this recital of 10 original works, Rosenwinkel presents a compelling pianistic
- [Melissa Aldana, "12 Stars" (Blue Note)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/melissa-aldana-12-stars-blue-note/) - Tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana’s star has been rising for years, building on an advancing artistic promise. She delivers fully on that promise with her Blue Note debut 12 Stars, a thing of intelligence, beauty and expressive probity. 12 Stars is also a prime example of work carefully honed during, and partly due to, pandemic forces.
- [Binker & Moses, "Feeding the Machine" (Gearbox)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/binker-moses-feeding-the-machine-gearbox/) - Nearly everything about Feeding the Machine feels unexpected, and that may be the best thing about it. Saxophonist Binker Golding and drummer Moses Boyd have earned a reputation for their forward-thinking, boundary-ignoring approach to the brand of modern jazz that’s emanated from London in recent years. But this thrilling new salvo is their best yet.
- [Marta Sanchez, "Spanish American Art Museum (SAAM)" (Whirlwind)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/marta-sanchez-spanish-american-art-museum-saam-whirlwind/) - Madrid-born and New York-based Marta Sanchez outdoes herself as both a composer and a pianist on her fourth release, the captivating Spanish American Art Museum (SAAM). This elegant and cohesive work showcases Sanchez’s expanded palette of harmonic colors and musical motifs, as well as her superlative pianism and adroit leadership. The passionate title track opens
- [Eugenie Jones, "Players" (Open Mic)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/eugenie-jones-players-open-mic/) - Even during more normal times, Eugenie Jones’ goal would have been difficult to achieve. The singer wanted to record with four different all-star groups, one apiece in each area of the U.S. (New York, Dallas, Chicago and Seattle). Somehow she managed to pull it off in the middle of a pandemic. While she has only
- [Eugenie Jones: A Soulful Journey Through Jazz Tradition and Contemporary Elegance](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/eugenie-jones-new-album-eugenie/) - Eugenie Jones Eugenie (Open Mic) “I sing because I breathe, giving harmony to everything around me,” Eugenie Jones declares in the self-penned lyrics to “Why I Sing,” the slinky opener of Eugenie, her sixth recording. “The two most important days of your life,” she continues, are “the day you were born,” and “the day you
- [Joe Elefante #Songbook Series](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/song-of-the-day-joe-elefante-songbook-series/) - [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] Joe Elefante Listen Here: #SongbookSeries (self-released) Emotions conveyed in songbook standards are, by definition, timeless. Masters such as Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart, Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer tapped into universal sentiments and crafted melodies and lyrics that continue to speak to the human condition, in some cases, nearly a century after they
- [Mark Winkler and David Benoit: Friends Indeed](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/mark-winkler-and-david-benoit-friends-indeed/) - Much has been made of the fact that during the pandemic, many of us have been urged to stay apart, socially distanced from family members and dear friends outside our immediate households. Fortunately, longtime pals and musical compadres, jazz singer Mark Winkler and multiple GRAMMY-nominated pianist David Benoit – whose shared writing and recording history
- [Stacey Kent, Jim Tomlinson, and Kazuo Ishiguro “Wish They Could Go Travelling Again”](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/stacey-kent-jim-tomlinson-and-kazuo-ishiguro-wish-they-could-go-travelling-again/) - The singer Stacey Kent and her husband/musical director Jim Tomlinson have been riding out the pandemic in style from their mountain retreat in Colorado, elevation 7,000 feet, complete with home studio and picture windows looking out on the hills and valley below. They’re counting their blessings. “There’s immense suffering out there,” Kent told me recently
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- [Russ Lossing: 'Metamorphism' (Sunnyside)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/russ-lossing-metamorphism-sunnyside/) - Front-rank pianist Lossing, who deserves much wider acclaim, follows up a string of impressive trio albums with an outstanding quartet effort that adds alto/soprano saxophonist Loren Stillman. Lossing is the kind of artist who can release a straightforward set of standards (Changes), an elegiac tribute to his long-time bandleader (Motian Music) and an impressionistic collection
- [Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas Soundprints: 'Other Worlds' (Greenleaf)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/joe-lovano-dave-douglas-soundprints-other-worlds-greenleaf/) - The third album by this star-studded quintet, conceived in 2015 as a loose homage to Wayne Shorter, features 10 finely crafted originals — five each by tenor man Lovano and trumpeter Douglas — most of which bear Wayne’s fingerprints. The tunes act as launching pads for inspired solos and band interplay throughout a generous 70
- [Gretchen Parlato: 'Flor' (Edition)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/gretchen-parlato-flor-edition/) - Flor has been touted as vocalist Gretchen Parlato’s Brazilian-inspired project, and that’s true enough. But don’t expect a series of breezy bossa novas. The 45-year singer/composer has routinely strived for next-level creativity, and Flor (“flower” in Portuguese) is no exception. Bossas and sambas are present, yes, but so is a waltz-time ballad (“What Does a
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- [Alan Gowen/Hugh Hopper with Nigel Morris: 'Bracknell-Bresse Improvisations' (Cuneiform)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/alan-gowen-hugh-hopper-with-nigel-morris-bracknell-bresse-improvisations-cuneiform/) - On paper, two British prog-rock musicians playing fully improvised live sets might have the makings of a dud. With no tricky melodies or riffs or heady chord changes to guide them, how could they possibly manage? As it turns out, keyboarist Alan Gowen (National Health, Gilgamesh) — who died of leukemia at age 33 in
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- [Stephanie Nilles: 'I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag — the White Flag' (Sunnyside)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/stephanie-nilles-i-pledge-allegiance-to-the-flag-the-white-flag-sunnyside/) - Bassist Charles Mingus was an ingenious composer whose socially conscious music was rooted in both Black American heritage and Western classical tradition. On the vibrant I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag — the White Flag, solo pianist Stephanie Nilles interprets 10 of Mingus’ works as well as saxophonist John Coltrane’s “Alabama.” Nilles does justice to
- [Nortonk: 'Nortonk' (Biophilia)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/nortonk-nortonk-biophilia/) - The quartet of twenty-something jazz hellions collectively known as Nortonk describe their music as chordless because the lineup doesn’t include an instrument along the lines of piano or guitar. But that doesn’t mean the work feels as if it’s lacking anything. Indeed, the combo’s self-titled debut is very much a maximal experience, thanks to a
- [Scott DuBois: ‘Summer Water’ (Watertone Music)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/scott-dubois-summer-water-watertone-music/) - Though the seasons and natural world are generally associated with the works of new age artists, versatile composer-guitarist Scott DuBois — a onetime semi-finalist in the Thelonious Monk Jazz Competition — has made them the inspirational cornerstone of his eclectic two-decade career in jazz. Technically, Summer Water, his latest brilliant and sonically intricate piece of
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- [Jason Moran: Blurring the Timeline](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/jason-moran-blurring-the-timeline/) - By Ted Panken From the earliest days of jazz to its modern cutting edge, Jason Moran shares his affection for and fascination with the music and its creators. Jason Moran wants to convey something more than notes and tones when he performs From the Dancehall to the Battlefield, his 15-piece, multi-media meditation on transformative African-American
- [The Santiago Big Band & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, ‘Santiago Brooklyn Santiago’ (Zoho) | Review](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/the-santiago-big-band-the-afro-latin-jazz-orchestra-santiago-brooklyn-santiago-zoho-review/) - By Mark Holston After a contemplative prelude crafted by Arturo O’Farrill’s solo piano, this nostalgia-drenched release roars off at a torrid pace, updating some hallowed Cuban repertoire while offering some zesty contemporary creations in the Afro-Cuban mode. The date features O’Farrill’s Brooklyn-based Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra and Cuba’s Santiago Big Band, fronted by pianist and
- [Glimpses of Geri](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/glimpses-of-geri/) - By Larry Blumenfeld Gone too soon, Geri Allen continues to reveal her genius. Released in November, the duo recording from pianist Geri Allen and guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel, A Lovesome Thing (Motéma), was recorded at a Paris concert in 2012. It is, hopefully, not the last posthumous document we’ll receive of Allen’s music. Allen and Rosenwinkel
- [Emmet Cohen: Conversing With the Elders](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/emmet-cohen-conversing-with-the-elders/) - By Bob Weinberg Emmet Cohen communes with jazz giants past and present. Adjusting his headphones, Emmet Cohen makes his way down the five flights of stairs from his Edgecombe Avenue apartment in Harlem, apologizing to his interviewer for the brief silence on the phone line while he attends to this task. “Sometimes I do a
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- [Chien Chien Lu, 'Built In System (Live in New York)' (Giant Step Arts) | Review](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/chien-chien-lu-built-in-system-live-in-new-york-giant-step-arts-review/) - By Michael Roberts The title and subtitle of vibraphonist-composer Chien Chien Lu’s latest release seem contradictory. But if Built In System suggests a project that closely conforms to a blueprint, and Live in New York evokes spontaneity, Lu bridges this theoretical gap with brio. On just her second album as a leader (her self-titled debut
- [Mark Turner Quartet, 'Live at the Village Vanguard' (Giant Step Arts) | Review](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/mark-turner-quartet-live-at-the-village-vanguard-giant-step-arts-review/) - By Josef Woodard The new album from tenor sax master Mark Turner is something of a sequel to and an expansion upon last year’s bold ECM release, Return From the Stars, from which much of the new album’s material is drawn. Turner’s simple yet loaded album title, Live at the Village Vanguard, bristles with a
- [Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society, ‘Dynamic Maximum Tension’ (Nonesuch) | Review](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/darcy-james-argues-secret-society-dynamic-maximum-tension-nonesuch-review/) - By Lissette Corsa While seven years have passed since their last album together, composer Darcy James Argue and his 18-piece Secret Society orchestra are in peak form on this new double-disc tour de force. In many ways, Dynamic Maximum Tension is a culmination of Argue’s idiosyncratic journey, even as he continues to find fresh perspectives
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- [Angelica Sanchez: The Iconoclast](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/angelica-sanchez-the-iconoclast/) - By Neil Tesser With her latest release, written for and performed by a nonet, Angelica Sanchez continues to defy — and exceed — preconceived notions. Dedicated listeners will associate Angelica Sanchez with the striking clarity of her piano improvisations, heard mainly in small-group recordings that generate rave reviews the way a storm cell generates lightning.
- [Bob James: Spirit Fingers](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/bob-james-spirit-fingers/) - By Jonathan Widran On Jazz Hands, Bob James balances the smooth with the rough, the classic with the contemporary. Out of sheer appreciation for the loyal fans who flock to see him perform, Bob James admits that he feels obligated to play his ubiquitous “greatest hits” — “Angela (Theme from Taxi),” “Westchester Lady” and sometimes
- [Rachel Eckroth: Chasing Her Muse](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/rachel-eckroth-chasing-her-muse/) - By Shaun Brady A restless artistic nature keeps Rachel Eckroth on the move, even as she finds her way back to acoustic jazz expression. Opened in late 2017, the Los Angeles jazz club Sam First touts itself as being only a few minutes’ walk from the terminals at LAX. As a gathering place for the
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- [Going Places](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/going-places/)
- [Johannes Faber’s Consortium](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/johannes-fabers-consortium/) - Johannes Faber was born in Munich in 1952 and studied trumpet and composition in Munich, Graz and Boston. He is a recognized solo trumpeter, composer and arranger, as well as founder of the rock jazz formation CONSORTIUM with Billy Cobham dr, Christof Lauer sax, Joerg Reiter p and Dave King b and has played among
- [Dear Cleveland](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/dear-cleveland/) - Dimitri Nassar is a pianist and composer whose music and mission are rooted in the cultural legacy of East Cleveland, Ohio. Introduced to the piano by his father, a professional tuner, Dimitri grew up immersed in sound—eventually studying at the Cleveland Music School Settlement, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and later under the mentorship of
- [African and Other Jazz Passions](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/african-and-other-jazz-passions/) - Gregory Golub is a composer, pianist, and independent artist whose work spans jazz, contemporary, world-inspired, and modern instrumental styles. Born in the USSR and based in Israel, Golub has developed a personal improvisational language shaped by expressive phrasing, rhythmic cross-cultures, and a strong melodic identity. His music is available on all major streaming platforms, and
- [Wicked Demon](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/wicked-demon/)
- [Stories We Tell](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/stories-we-tell/)
- [Live At The Cutting Room, NYC](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/live-at-the-cutting-room-nyc/) - 2014: Having played in the high-energy, free-wheeling Gil Evans Orchestra for 15 years through the '70s and '80s, keyboardist Pete Levin was missing Gil, the band, the musicians, the life-long friends and colleagues. On a whim, he called 10 alumni of the '70s edition of Gil's band, got a set's-worth of charts together, and booked
- [The Art of Letting Go](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/the-art-of-letting-go/) - Suzan Veneman is undoubtedly a rising star on the jazz firmament. Besides her trumpet playing, she also stands out as a composer and arranger. Comfortable in many genres of modern music, she can be seen playing with a wide variety of bands, including the Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam Art Orchestra (Marike van Dijk),
- [Alternate Route](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/alternate-route/)
- [Live at FTH Theatre, NYC](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/live-at-fth-theatre-nyc/)
- [Latent Info: sea sessions (EP)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/latent-info-sea-sessions-ep/) - Petros Klampanis is an award-winning bassist, composer, and producer known for blending jazz improvisation with cinematic orchestrations and Greek folk elements. Based between Athens and New York, he has performed at venues including Carnegie Hall and the Blue Note Jazz Club, and collaborated with artists such as Arooj Aftab, Greg Osby, Oded Tzur, Anoushka Shankar,
- [Frank Songs, My Way](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/frank-songs-my-way-2/) - Frank Lamphere has been honing his swinging style during his 25+ year singing career, in the specialized genre nowadays referred to as traditional pop and jazz. A style that he learned or more likely "absorbed" from the giants of American pop music (post World War II - 1970): Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Jack Jones, Buddy
- [Jazz in Four Seasons: Spring, Vol. 1](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/jazz-in-four-seasons-spring-vol-1/) - British-Australian vocalist Hetty Kate launches Jazz in Four Seasons: Spring, Vol. 1, the first of a four-album global project recorded with Czech jazz musicians in Prague, featuring violin, flute, and the a traditional instrument of the region, a cimbalom. Known for her precision, poise, and adventurous approach to rhythm and harmony, Hetty Kate reimagines standards
- [Spectaculous](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/spectaculous/) - Spectaculous is the collision of Atlanta and Madison — the explosive meeting point between Dequadray White, an Atlanta-based vocalist, producer, and community advocate, and the Madison trio Mr. Chair: pianist Jason Kutz, bassist Ben Ferris, and percussionist Mike Koszewski. Their debut album blends hip-hop’s narrative power with jazz’s improvisational fire, creating a sound that’s cosmic,
- [Extended Daydream](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/extended-daydream/)
- [El Pajarero](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/el-pajarero/) - Peter Louis Octet is a working jazz and Latin group in the New York City area. We feature original compositions and arrangements, and top instrumentalists. Come hear us! Enjoy our CD. In addition, there are 2 prior CD releases under the name Peter Louis (On the Avenue, Ring Shadows)
- [Return of the Light](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/return-of-the-light/)
- [Comprovisation](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/comprovisation/)
- [Galactic Rivers](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/galactic-rivers/)
- [BILLIE AND TRANE](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/billie-and-trane/) - Tony Adamo; (vocals, sing-speak, programming); Chris Pemental (guitar); Barry Schiffman (recording engineer. Northern Lights Studio. Sanata Rosa, CA) The great Gil Scott-Heron recorded and released this selection as Lady Day and John Coltrane on what was later to became a critically acclaimed album, Pieces of a Man (Flying Dutchman, 1971). With it, Scott-Heron had moved
- [Beyond The Silk Road](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/beyond-the-silk-road/) - Japanese pianist and composer Hiroko MINA unveils her latest album, Beyond The Silk Road, an extraordinary sonic journey released August 25. Inspired by the legendary cultural route that connected East and West, the album blends ancient traditions, contemporary composition, and world-class jazz performance into one breathtaking experience. One of the album’s most remarkable moments comes
- [Not Live And Nowhere Special](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/not-live-and-nowhere-special-2/) - Based on the picturesque South Coast of New South Wales, Australia, Justin Fitzgerald is a distinguished pianist and composer who seamlessly bridges the worlds of jazz, classical, and solo piano music. Drawing inspiration from legendary artists such as Bill Evans, John Coltrane, and Oscar Peterson, Justin cultivates a unique musical style that pays homage to
- [A Centennial Salute to Tito & Tito](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/a-centennial-salute-to-tito-tito/) - For nearly 15 years the Steven Oquendo Latin Jazz Orchestra (SOLJO) has been one of the most precious hidden treasures of the Bronx, NYC’s majority Hispanic borough. SOLJO was founded by trumpeter-educator Oquendo, who has performed alongside Celia Cruz, Rubén Blades, Eddie Palmieri, Cuco Peña, Wynton Marsalis, & many others. It started as a rehearsal
- [Tito & Tito - A Centenniel Salute to Tito & Tito](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/tito-tito-a-centenniel-salute-to-tito-tito/) - For nearly 15 years the Steven Oquendo Latin Jazz Orchestra (SOLJO) has been one of the most precious hidden treasures of the Bronx, NYC’s majority Hispanic borough. SOLJO was founded by trumpeter-educator Oquendo, who has performed alongside Celia Cruz, Rubén Blades, Eddie Palmieri, Cuco Peña, Wynton Marsalis, & many others. It started as a rehearsal
- [Armando Mi Conga](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/armando-mi-conga/) - Born in Veracruz, raised in the Gulf of Mexico, Irving Flores was immersed in the Afro-Cuban rhythms. Dancing in the kitchen with his grandmother to her collection of danzón records, Flores constantly breathed the sounds of Cuba. His father, founder of the Tampico Orchestra and leader of his own big band, toured the U.S., Central
- [Mission Statement](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/mission-statement/)
- [Get It Down](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/get-it-down/) - The last summer single of 2025! 2x JUNO Award Nominees Alex Bird & The Jazz Mavericks in collaboration with Latin GRAMMY Award Winner, Cheo. Over the last few years, ALEX BIRD has become one of the most exciting names on the Canadian Jazz scene. With praise from around the globe and alongside songwriting & piano
- [Midsummer Lullaby](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/midsummer-lullaby/) - Midsummer Lullaby blends jazz with singer-songwriter storytelling — the two musical worlds I’ve always lived between — finally brought together in one sound. Initially created as my final project at NYU in 2021, this album has become a true expression of my craft. It is a reflection of the musical voice I’ve shaped throughout my
- [Divine Apology](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/divine-apology/) - Saku Mantere is a Finnish-born, Montréal-based jazz vocalist and composer, whose music explores the borderlands between jazz, poetry, and storytelling. His debut album Upon First Impression (2022, Orchard of Pomegranates) received acclaim for its narrative lyricism, stylistic range, and elegant arrangements. Mantere’s supple, story-driven vocal style has drawn comparisons to Kurt Elling and Leonard Cohen,
- [Aqui, Oh!](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/aqui-oh/) - Brazilian jazz icons Flora Purim and Airto Moreira join forces with musician-producer Ricardo Bacelar on “Aqui, Oh!”, out August 29 worldwide. Recorded at Jasmin Music Studio in Fortaleza, Brazil, the vibrant track blends Flora’s unmistakable voice, Airto’s masterful percussion, and Bacelar’s rich arrangements. The single is a preview of their upcoming 2026 album and an
- [Haunted Melody](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/haunted-melody/)
- [Be It Known](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/be-it-known/) - “Be It Known" marks the long-anticipated debut of bassist and composer Wink Winkelmann—a bold and genre-defying statement from an artist whose musical path has been anything but conventional. After a 15-year hiatus spent studying medicine and practicing dermatologic surgery, the Venice, California–based Winkelmann quietly cultivated his sound as a self-taught composer. His breakthrough moment came
- [Only Love](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/only-love/)
- [8.0 Test](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/8-0-test/) - Test Bio
- [TEST](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/test-4/) - test Bio
- [Not Everyone Can Go](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/not-everyone-can-go/) - Braxton Cook - Not Everyone Can Go Bio by Marcus J. Moore When the vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Braxton Cook first started working on the album that would become Not Everyone Can Go, his life was going through a number of transitions that he just couldn’t ignore. Last year, Cook spent lots of time on the
- [Modern Times](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/modern-times/) - Mike Di Lorenzo’s new album Modern Times delivers a sleek fusion of smooth jazz, soul, and modern R&B textures with the initial title track single having received over 500,000 streams in it's first 4 months. Featuring UK vocalist Sonna Rele and soul singer Anna Moore, this uplifting album creates a soundscape that’s both contemporary yet
- [Bremer/McCoy – Kosmos – The European Tour 2025](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/bremer-mccoy-kosmos-the-european-tour-2025/) - Danish jazz duo Bremer/McCoy are hitting the road this fall for a highly anticipated European tour, bringing the intimate, meditative spirit of their latest album Kosmos to venues across the UK, Germany, and beyond. Since forming in 2012, bassist Jonathan Bremer and keyboardist/sound designer Morten McCoy have become renowned for their unique blend of jazz,
- [Detect Classic Festival 2025](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/detect-classic-festival-2025/) - Detect Classic Festival returns to Schloss Bröllin, Northern Germany, from August 8–10, 2025, exploring the intersections of jazz, classical, electronic, and experimental music. With over 80 artists blending tradition and innovation, the festival explores the theme “The Meaning of Live”: asking what live music means today amid streaming and digital culture. Featured jazz acts include
- [IN.SIGHT](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/in-sight/) - Acclaimed composer, saxophonist, and conductor Fabia Mantwill, together with GroundUP Music, announces the upcoming release of her new album, IN.SIGHT, featuring the Fabia Mantwill Orchestra, mixed both in stereo and Dolby Atmos. IN.SIGHT is set for release on GroundUP Music on July 25, 2025 across digital platforms and in physical formats (CD and LP). Fabia
- [Analog Theory](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/analog-theory/) - Skinny Hightower is an internationally recognized jazz artist, mutli-instrumentalist, and music producer. He as also the founder of Edify Sound Enterprises LLC and a founding member of the group BREADSTATE OF MIND alongside Eli B Breadstate. Hightower is also the first artist to sign with CastOver Records. During the course of his career, he has
- [Prelude To A Kiss](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/prelude-to-a-kiss-2/) - Lenore Raphael is an internationally renowned jazz pianist, Steinway artist, radio host and jazz teacher and has been critically acclaimed as one of the best pianists in the jazz mainstream today. Critics, jazz hosts and jazz lovers all agree that she is one of the most SWINGING mainstream pianists. Influenced by Oscar Peterson, Bud Powell
- [Prelude To A Kiss](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/prelude-to-a-kiss/) - Lenore Raphael is an internationally renowned jazz pianist, Steinway artist, radio host and jazz teacher and has been critically acclaimed as one of the best pianists in the jazz mainstream today. Critics, jazz hosts and jazz lovers all agree that she is one of the most SWINGING mainstream pianists.  Influenced by Oscar Peterson, Bud
- [Between Mountains Festival 2025](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/between-mountains-festival-2025/) - A new festival is coming to the Swiss cultural map. Between Mountains launches July 19th with a 24h program that bridges jazz, classical, electronic, and experimental music in the Jura foothills. Between Mountains is the Swiss counterpart to Germany’s Detect Classic Festival, adapted with its own identity, landscape, and artistic focus. The festival aims to
- [Time Without Disasters](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/time-without-disasters/) - "Tangerine's music is not only colorful and unpredictable, it is also wholsome and deeply human" - Edwin Hofman (Wrriten in Music) 'Time Without Disasters' is the debut EP of Tangerine. It was born out of sporadic musical encouters which led to the creation of this album. Time spent with this music is a “Time Without
- [Many Moons](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/many-moons/) - Trumpeter Markus Rutz brings a bluesy, soulful style to his music, with a tone that has been described as “gorgeous.” A dedicated performer, composer, and educator based in Chicago, Markus has made significant strides in his mid-career, earning both local and national recognition for his work. In 2019, Markus released Blueprints Figure One: Frameworks, an
- [Test](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/test-3/)
- [Moments In My Notebook](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/moments-in-my-notebook/)
- [Gilded & Silver](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/gilded-silver/)
- [Stage Magic](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/stage-magic/) - Mike Prigodich is a trailblazing jazz fusion pianist, composer, and bandleader whose music defies genre boundaries and embraces complexity with unflinching clarity. Based in Oregon, Prigodich draws inspiration from artists like Chick Corea, Dave Grusin, Yellowjackets, and others, but his sound is unmistakably his own—melding jazz with Latin, rock, and global influences to create emotionally
- [What Goes Around Comes Around](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/what-goes-around-comes-around/) - Arnab Sengupta is a contemporary singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer based in Bangalore, India. With a musical journey spanning over three decades, Arnab’s work stands at the confluence of lyrical sensitivity, jazz-rooted sophistication, and deeply personal storytelling. Drawn to music with quiet intensity from a young age, Arnab immersed himself in the study of Western contemporary
- [Echoes of the Western Sky](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/echoes-of-the-western-sky/)
- [Come In Funky (Deluxe Edition)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/come-in-funky-deluxe-edition/) - Come In Funky starts off with legendary bassist Ron Carter knocking on his standup bass as if wanting to enter. Once the door opens, funky tunes flow from all directions. This album is funk in many forms: old school big band funk, experimental duet etudes, quartet funk, original fusion funk and clever funk covers, even
- [Para Sayo](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/para-sayo/)
- [Sixteen Sonic Solos](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/sixteen-sonic-solos/) - Jonathan L. Segal is a pianist, singer, entertainer, songwriter, and music educator. The product of two Juilliard students, one an aspiring Broadway-style composer and the other an opera singer, he has been playing the piano since he was five years old. He’s had a diverse career. He has written music for television, including themes and
- [Frank Songs, My Way](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/frank-songs-my-way/)
- [Candombe](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/candombe/) - Latin Grammy-nominated artist Julieta Rada will bring her signature fusion of Afro-Uruguayan rhythms and global sounds to Nublu in New York City on June 4, 2025 at 7pm, in a special album release concert for her newly released fourth studio album, Candombe. A vibrant tribute to her roots, Candombereimagines Uruguayan musical tradition through a modern
- [Tchapalo](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/tchapalo/) - Yakou Daniel N’GUESSAN is a versatile percussionist originally from Côte d’Ivoire, now making his mark in Atlanta, GA. Starting his musical journey in church choral societies, he earned a master's in Contemporary Jazz and Music Production from INSAAC in 1999. With a unique fusion of African folk rhythms and various global music genres, Yakou has
- [Lejos De Ti](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/lejos-de-ti/)
- [We Probably Wouldn't Get Along](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/we-probably-wouldnt-get-along/)
- [Get Out of Town](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/get-out-of-town/) - The best standards tell a story, one that is unique enough to ring true while remaining universal enough to join the ranks of those timeless songs that live on from generation to generation. On her striking new album Get Out of Town, French-American vocalist Laura Anglade weaves a grander, cinematic story of love and self-discovery
- [A Bad Rep in the Rubber City](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/a-bad-rep-in-the-rubber-city/) - Nominated as Cleveland's "best jazz" for 2024 by the Cleveland Music Awards, explosive fusion supergroup Matthew Alec and The Soul Electric bring old school swagger to their fresh, exciting, and innovative blend of jazz, pop, and funk. Led by All About Jazz's #19 "Favorite Living Jazz Saxophonist" for 2024 Matthew Alec, the 7-piece collective is
- [Gravitations](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/gravitations/) - Berlin-based double bassist and composer Haggai Cohen-Milo returns with Gravitations, a new album that pushes classical repertoire into uncharted territory. Out June 13, 2025, and recorded live at Hamburg’s Laeiszhalle, the project features original compositions sparked by works from Mahler, Verdi, and Debussy. But rather than arranging or quoting them, Haggai Cohen-Milo uses these pieces
- [In Between](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/in-between/)
- [I Am Doing My Best](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/i-am-doing-my-best/) - Curtis Nowosad is a JUNO-nominated, NYC-based jazz drummer, composer, educator and recording artist. Having made his home in NYC for over a decade, the native of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada has established himself as an integral part of the NYC and international jazz scene, both as a bandleader and a sideperson. Curtis has played in the
- [Still Crossing](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/still-crossing/) - Guitarist Jorge Garcia's intense passion for his instrument is immediately visible and equally audible through his soulful original compositions. Impeccable, melodic solos and supportive, rhythmic guitar work are Garcia's trademarks and are always a joy to experience. Jorge Garcia has performed with great talent the likes of: Tony Bennett, Richie Cole, Patti Page, Andrea Bocelli,
- [Heart Music](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/heart-music/) - The George Crotty Trio (GC3) makes multicultural chamber music that is both cinematic and conversational. About their 2022 release, “Chronotope”, All About Jazz wrote: “Cellist George Crotty excels at blending various elements into a unique musical brew. On Chronotope, a cross-cultural mix of South American, Arabic, Indian, and contemporary jazz idioms amount to a stream
- [Rain Bather](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/rain-bather/) - TOBIN MUELLER has remastered nine tracks from his award winning album, RAIN BATHER, and the result displays his effortless compositional style and marvelous arranging chops. Mueller is the band leader on B3 organ, but he lets his players take the spotlight, highlighting each musician's unique talents. Three tracks feature his 9-piece ensemble, while the others
- [Song](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/song/) - SONG - Duets for Voice and Piano. These twelve tracks of Original Music and Lyrics from Vocalist-Composer Joanie Pallatto and Pianist-Composer Bradley Parker-Sparrow create a mood of intimacy, improvisation and reflection. Their personal songs of Harmonizing Energy are presented as the first duet recording from Southport Records released by Chicago's renowned couple, featuring gentle songs,
- [Rearranging the Planest](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/rearranging-the-planest/) - Hailing from the city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Steve has been swaying stages, clubs, bars, Museums, Houses-of-worship, and studios the world over for almost 2 decades now. He’s got the kind of skill that can only be gained from both a truly curious mind and from working with great artists from all walks of life!
- [Solomon Diaries: Vol. IV and V](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/solomon-diaries-vol-iv-and-v/)
- [Heart of Mine](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/heart-of-mine/) - Drummer and composer, Chris Parker, has dug deep into his musical history to honor composers, he grew up with including Ralph Burns, Nat Adderley, Bobby Timmons, Lalo Schiffrin, Thelonious Monk and Bob Dylan too, with the Quartet’s version of the title track, “Heart Of Mine.” For nearly fifteen years, the connection and empathy has grown
- [Solo: Miniatures & Tales](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/solo-miniatures-tales/) - Marking an important milestone in his career and stepping in a new direction, celebrated jazz pianist and composer Shai Maestro is set to release his first solo piano recording, "Solo: Miniatures & Tales", via the French label Naïve Records on May 2nd. The album captures Shai Maestro’s growth as both a composer and an improviser,
- [DIG WHAT I SAY](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/dig-what-i-say/) - Tony Adamo has established himself as a distinctive and significant figure in contemporary jazz music. His unique musical style, which masterfully blends elements of soul-jazz, funk, and spoken word, has carved out a notable niche within the genre. His pioneering work in the "HipSpokenWord" subgenre demonstrates his innovative approach and willingness to push creative boundaries.
- [XJAZZ! 2025 – Berlin's Iconic Jazz Festival Returns](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/xjazz-2025-berlins-iconic-jazz-festival-returns/) - The iconic Berlin jazz festival, XJAZZ!, returns to the popular Kreuzberg neighborhood this May, running from the 14th to the 18th. Since its launch in 2014, XJAZZ! has become one of Germany’s leading jazz festivals, earning Festival of the Year honors in 2022 and attracting around 20,000 attendees annually from all over the world. XJAZZ!
- [Wie Tanzt Man Eigentlich Zu Jazz?](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/wie-tanzt-man-eigentlich-zu-jazz/)
- [Calamari Fantasy](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/calamari-fantasy/)
- [Fino "all alba" (Until the Dawn) – Official Anthem of Milano Cortina 2026](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/fino-all-alba-until-the-dawn-official-anthem-of-milano-cortina-2026/) - The official Games song, titled Fino all’alba (Until the Dawn), was composed by Francesco Marrone and Giulio Gianni, members of the youth music group La Cittadina of San Pietro Martire in Seveso, in collaboration with Italian soul vocalist and celebrated actress Arisa, under the artistic direction of Maestro Peppe Vessicchio. The song was chosen for
- [Cosmic Cliffs](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/cosmic-cliffs/) - Whispering Worlds, is an electronic-acoustic ensemble that connects four musicians and two AbletonLive systems to deliver global music that stretches from the depths of ambient landscapes, to Raga-based compositions, to interactive experimental Jazz. The quartet’s unique sound seamlessly integrates looping/live processing/sampling with the compelling melodic development found in Raga and the music of the shakuhachi.
- [Dialectics](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/dialectics/)
- [Sketches](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/sketches/)
- [Flying Broken Form](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/flying-broken-form/)
- [In Between Revisited - Jazzanova Live](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/in-between-revisited-jazzanova-live/)
- [Live in Berlin](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/live-in-berlin/)
- [America in the Key of Black](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/america-in-the-key-of-black-3/) - Dimitri Nassar is a pianist, composer, and educator with a lifelong dedication to jazz and music education. Born in East Cleveland, Ohio, he began playing piano at the age of five, studying at the Cleveland Music School Settlement and the Cleveland Institute of Music under jazz educator Cliff Habian. He later earned degrees in music
- [Level Up](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/level-up/)
- [Tactile](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/tactile/) - Defined by the critic "A brilliant artist, curious and versatile, as well as one of the most interesting talents that has emerged on the Italian jazz scene", Italian pianist and composer Luca Dell’Anna blends jazz tradition with global influences, creating a versatile sound that spans both leadership and collaboration. His acclaimed discography includes Brian Had
- [The Wherewithal](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/the-wherewithal/) - Yellow Couch Music, helmed by drummer, musician, and producer Layton Weedeman, is a collaborative music project that brings together a diverse collective of like-minded musicians and artists. At its core, Yellow Couch Music embodies Layton's vision of community and culture, seamlessly blending elements of hip-hop, jazz, R&B, rock, and world music. Experimenting with sound and
- [Eyes Wide Open](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/eyes-wide-open/)
- [Smoke Gets In Your Eyes](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/smoke-gets-in-your-eyes/)
- [Here to Stay](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/here-to-stay/)
- [We Two](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/we-two/)
- [Zahria Sims Collective](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/zahria-sims-collective/)
- [Coming Home To You](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/coming-home-to-you/)
- [Sweet Dreams](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/sweet-dreams-2/) - KRISTIN KORB BRINGS NEW LIFE TO EURYTHMICS CLASSICS! Step back into the iconic sounds of the 80s with American jazz vocalist/bassist Kristin Korb's eagerly anticipated Eurythmics tribute album Sweet Dreams, set to drop on October 25, 2024. REIGNITING THE 80s MTV and the innovative sounds of Eurythmics provided the soundtrack to Kristin Korb's teen years.
- [Istansand](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/istansand/)
- [Stängt](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/stangt/)
- [First Light](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/first-light/)
- [Jazzmyn](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/jazzmyn/)
- [Danser avec le feu](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/danser-avec-le-feu/)
- [Casual Metres](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/casual-metres/) - Travis Brant is a drummer and composer whose journey in music began in Indianapolis, where he developed a profound appreciation for jazz. His previous works include collaborations with contemporary jazz titans Gerald Albright, Paul Brown, Michael Lington, and Darren Rahn. In 2023, Brant earned a spot on the Billboard / Mediabase Top 40 smooth jazz
- [No Wonder](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/no-wonder/) - Judy Wexler’s NO WONDER—Liner Notes by Grammy-winning author Neil Tesser Sometimes, the best way forward starts with a backward glance. Any improviser will agree: the standup comics, the action painters, and especially the musicians whose solos tell the best stories. The chain grows stronger if the links connect. A prominent avant-garde saxophonist once gave me
- [Navigator](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/navigator-2/)
- [More Than I Knew](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/more-than-i-knew/)
- [Academia Tropical do Groove Universal](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/academia-tropical-do-groove-universal/)
- [DIGALIG](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/digalig/)
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- [SITUATION](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/situation/)
- [Radio Paradise](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/radio-paradise/) - Jazz pianist and composer Yaron Herman announces his new album "Radio Paradise", which is coming out via Naïve Records on April 4th. The album features an exceptional ensemble, including two of the finest saxophonists in the world, María Grand and Alexandra Grimal, alongside long-time collaborators bassist Haggai Cohen Milo and drummer Zic Ravitz. "Radio Paradise"
- [Reminiscing](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/reminiscing/) - Reminiscing, Dame’s third recording, marks an exciting departure from traditional vocal jazz, breathing new life into the genre with innovative arrangements that pay homage to the diverse musical landscape of the 1970s, creating a sonic tapestry that is both familiar and refreshingly original. Reminiscing is a bold testament to the versatility of jazz as a
- [Retrospective](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/retrospective/) - Experience professional live music with the Furgo’s 25+ years experience Private Events, Music Clubs, Weddings, Corporate Events, Birthday Parties, Restaurants, City Events, Festivals, etc. We’ve played them all! Each performance and audience is different and we customize each performance to your requests. Get to know The Furgos and find out why they are repeatedly hired
- [The Speakeasy Collective](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/the-speakeasy-collective/)
- [The Channel 292 Session](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/the-channel-292-session/)
- [As I Was Saying](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/as-i-was-saying/)
- [Time Traveller](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/time-traveller/)
- [Elementa](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/elementa/)
- [We Made (Feat. Lil Noodle)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/we-made-feat-lil-noodle/)
- [Revived Emotions](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/revived-emotions-2/) - Aakash Sridhar is a pianist from Bangalore, India who was drawn to the world of jazz and improvisation as it offered him a creative platform to communicate his thoughts and feelings. His sensitive relationship to the piano serves as a medium for expressing honest emotions through unique, fresh, and captivating melodies throughout life's uncertainties. Currently
- [Revived Emotions](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/revived-emotions/) - Aakash Sridhar is a pianist from Bangalore, India who was drawn to the world of jazz and improvisation as it offered him a creative platform to communicate his thoughts and feelings. His sensitive relationship to the piano serves as a medium for expressing honest emotions through unique, fresh, and captivating melodies throughout life's uncertainties. Currently
- [signal_Blur](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/signal_blur/)
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- [Music from the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/music-from-the-opening-ceremony-of-the-olympic-games-paris-2024/) - "I couldn’t be more proud to release Music from the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024, an album that compiles a selection of pieces I wrote and produced for the Olympic Games. Two years of work were necessary to complete this original soundtrack, recorded with more than 600 musicians of all aesthetics, including
- [Sloppy](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/sloppy/)
- [Christmas Time is Here](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/christmas-time-is-here-2/) - Boni de Souza from Singapore first published his debut jazz album “Eau de Vie” in 2000 to a great review in the local press by notable Straits Times Music critic Whang Shang Yin. Years later he re-released it as a 21st Anniversary Album. The title track, an original by Boni de Souza, "Eau de Vie"
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- [Eugenie](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/eugenie/) - Since she burst on the jazz scene in 2013, the award-winning, Seattle-based vocalist, composer, producer, and legacy activist Eugenie Jones has been one of our time's most evocative and evolving artists. NEA Jazz Master and bassist Reggie Workman described Jones as "an extraordinary singer, songwriter, and a source of light we're fortunate to experience." Thomas
- [Cabernet](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/cabernet/)
- [#SongbookSeries](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/songbookseries/)
- [#SongbookSeries](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/songbookseries-2/)
- [#SongbookSeries](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/songbookseries-3/)
- [#SongbookSeries](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/songbookseries-4/)
- [Guitar Multiverse](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/guitar-multiverse/)
- [The Graceful Ghost: Contemporary Piano Rags](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/the-graceful-ghost-contemporary-piano-rags/)
- [Hassi Messaoud](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/hassi-messaoud/)
- [Oneness](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/oneness-2/)
- [For Teen](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/for-teen/) - YOYOKA, a 15-year-old drummer, has been playing the drum since she was 1 year old. Born and raised in Hokkaido, Japan, she started performing live at the age of 4 and formed a band with her family when she was 5. At the age of eight, YOYOKA covered Led Zeppelin’s “Good Times Bad Times” and
- [Christmas Time Is Here](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/christmas-time-is-here/)
- [New Town](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/new-town/) - Exciting guitarist Stephen Bryant has a hot new release entitled "New Town" RED123 emerged from the creative depths of a "Basement Recording" project during the COVID-19 lockdown, exploring unique tunings and innovative sounds. In his early 20's Steve Bryant spent six years playing guitar as a member of the United States Navy Band—an experience that
- [My Universe](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/my-universe/)
- [Shades of Purple](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/shades-of-purple/)
- [Mercurial](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/mercurial/)
- [Kinetic](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/kinetic/)
- [Portable Infinity](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/portable-infinity/) - Portable Infinity is an all-star quartet with four of the international jazz scene's strongest names. They are going to release their first album 21st of November this year and will be on the road March 2025. Swedish drummer Magnus Öström really made his name internationally with his work in the style-creating and iconic jazz trio E.S.T.
- [Lab 2024](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/lab-2024/)
- [Dream State](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/dream-state/)
- [Blue House Session](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/blue-house-session-2/)
- [Vibe Check](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/vibe-check/)
- [Blue House Session](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/blue-house-session/)
- [Shatter The Glass Sanctuary](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/shatter-the-glass-sanctuary/)
- [Asterismyth](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/asterismyth/)
- [Tryptique](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/tryptique/)
- [Aisle 49](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/aisle-49/)
- [Back For Another Round](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/back-for-another-round-2/)
- [Untamed Austinight](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/untamed-austinight/) - Marc Biala is here to make you move, laugh, and maybe even cry a little—all while keeping it real. Based in Austin, Texas 🤠, Marc mixes synth-pop, dance beats, and melodic rap to create music that’s as wild and unpredictable as Texas’ bipolar weather. As an indie artist who writes every lyric from the heart
- [the clown](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/the-clown/)
- [Cosmic Odyssey II](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/cosmic-odyssey-ii/)
- [The Week The Rivers Rose](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/the-week-the-rivers-rose/)
- [Come My Way](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/come-my-way/)
- [Parallel Structures EP](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/parallel-structures-ep/)
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- [But Beautiful](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/but-beautiful/)
- [WOW! Live at the Childe Harold](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/wow-live-at-the-childe-harold/) - In the pantheon of Jazz singers, Al Jarreau stood as a beaming giant of talent, inspiration, and crossover capability. The beloved platinum seller, known the world over for his hits “We’re in This Love Together,” “Mornin’,” and theme from the TV series “Moonlighting,” started along his path of music crafting an inebriating blend of Jazz
- [Back For Another Round](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/back-for-another-round/)
- [Time & Place](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/time-place/)
- [Charnia](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/charnia/)
- [Don’t Waste Your Ancestors’ Time](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/dont-waste-your-ancestors-time/)
- [Joe Elefante's Wheel of Dharma](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/joe-elefantes-wheel-of-dharma/) - Joe Elefante is a pianist, saxophonist, vocalist, composer, arranger, and bandleader. "Elefante is a thoroughly modern musician... talented, charismatic." - Dave Marash, ABC News Joe has traveled 4 continents playing and conducting jazz and musical theater. Joe founded the Joe Elefante Big Band in 2001, which was the house band at Cecil's Jazz Club for
- [The Answer](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/the-answer/) - Ilya Osachuk's debut album The Answer is a compelling and beautiful recording from one of the top new bassists in the North American jazz scene. Though Osachuk's first release, it is a triumph for the young musician, featured as a performer, composer, arranger, and producer on it. He has created an album grounded in the
- [Another Christmas Day](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/another-christmas-day/) - 2x JUNO Nominees Alex Bird & The Jazz Mavericks release 10 brand new Christmas songs for the holiday season. Not only recorded live-off-the-floor, this album was recorded without the use of headphones or studio monitors, a throwback to the early days of recording, adding some extra warmth to these new offerings. Over the past few
- [Robin Simone Hollywood Orchestra](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/robin-simone-hollywood-orchestra/) - ROBIN SIMONE HOLLYWOOD ORCHESTRA (LP/CD) Enter the new Robin Simone Hollywood Orchestra: Seventeen super musicians, a gifted conductor/arranger, and Robin all creating an electrifying take on songs of great motion pictures, and bringing new magic to the big band stage. Debut album produced by the esteemed Bill Appleberry at Henson Recording Studios in Hollywood.
- [Lush Life](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/lush-life-2/) - Kenny Peagler, a Pittsburgh native, is a masterful multi-genre pianist, composer, arranger, and singer-songwriter whose music captivates with a blend of jazz, soul, R&B, and gospel. Known for his virtuosic technique and deeply emotional performances, Peagler leaves audiences spellbound whether he's behind the keys or at the microphone. With a rich background that includes studying
- [Reverence](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/reverence/)
- [Rick Bogart Sings Mr. Paganini](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/rick-bogart-sings-mr-paganini/) - RICK BOGART JAZZ CLARINETIST , VOCALIST AND COMPOSER RICK BOGART IS ONE OF THE MOST ACTIVE JAZZ CLARINETISTS IN THE WORLD TODAY. WITH A MELLOW SOUND ON THE CLARINET AND A UNIQUE VOCAL STYLE HE APPEALS TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. RICK BOGART WORKED IN NEW ORLEANS DURING THE "HEYDAY" OF THE FRENCH QUARTER DURING THE
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- [Here For You](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/here-for-you/)
- [Here For You](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/here-for-you-2/)
- [Here For You](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/here-for-you-3/)
- [Here For You](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/here-for-you-4/)
- [Ululō](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/ululo/) - Koki Nakano's fourth studio album, Ululō, out October 25 via NO FORMAT!, is a deep exploration of desire and raw emotion. With striking emotional directness, Nakano blends this intensity with the conceptual depth of his previous works. The title Ululō, which means “howl” or “cry” in Latin, conveys a profound sense of longing, reflecting the
- [LIVE](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/live/) - After more than a decade on stage, over 500 concerts, and six albums, iconic German composer, pianist, and producer Martin Kohlstedt introduces his first live album 'LIVE', out on November 15 via Edition Kohlstedt. Recorded during his 2023 European tour, 'LIVE' is a curated best-of from over 400 recordings, taking listeners on an 80-minute journey
- [Penuka](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/penuka/) - Ivan Mazuze: Composer, Saxophonist, and World Jazz Artist Ivan Mazuze is an award-winning composer, saxophonist, and world jazz artist originally from Mozambique, now based in Norway. His music is a captivating fusion of African traditions, jazz, and global influences, which he has showcased on stages worldwide. Mazuze began his musical journey at Mozambique’s National Music
- [To My Ex](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/to-my-ex/)
- [OR](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/or/)
- [YOU](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/you-2/) - Patrina was born in India to Anglo-Indian parents and moved to England when she was just 6 months old. She was brought up in North London and lived there until as a teenager she was spotted by a model agent while working in a restaurant to pay for Art School. Soon she was living in
- [Oceanic](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/oceanic/) - Atlanticus is a transatlantic collaboration between Washington, DC saxophonist Peter Fraize and UK jazz heavyweights Terry Seabrook (organ), Jack Kendon (trumpet), and Milo Fell (drums), performing their updated conception of the classic Hammond organ group sound with a post-modern sensibility. The group has been active since 2016 and have embarked upon four UK tours with
- [Urban Chaos](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/urban-chaos-2/)
- [Urban Chaos](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/urban-chaos-3/)
- [Urban Chaos](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/urban-chaos-4/)
- [Urban Chaos](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/urban-chaos-5/)
- [Beams](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/beams-2/)
- [Moon River](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/moon-river/)
- [Innuendo](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/innuendo/) - obias Hoffmann was born in Göppingen (Germany) in 1988 and discovered his passion for music and the saxophone during his high school years. From 2008 until 2010 he studied at the University for Music, Drama and Media in Hanover and from 2010 at the Prins Claus Conservatorium Groningen (Netherlands), where he graduated with a Bachelor
- [Urban Chaos](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/urban-chaos/)
- [Donny Time: The Music of Don DePalma](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/donny-time-the-music-of-don-depalma/)
- [f](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/f/)
- [Exits](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/exits/)
- [LacLu](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/laclu/)
- [Latin Crossroads](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/latin-crossroads/)
- [Live At Galloway Studio](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/live-at-galloway-studio/)
- [The 1968 Tapes](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/the-1968-tapes/)
- [BONDI](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/bondi/)
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- [Beams](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/beams/)
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- [Hold On to Me](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/hold-on-to-me/) - Paloma Sky weaves together the elegance, groove and vivacity of jazz and leaves out anything stuffy. Bandleader Marie Goudy’s compositions feature sophisticated harmonies paired with catchy melodies that are brought to life by vocalist Jocelyn Barth’s sensitive musicality and “sensuous” vocal delivery (All About Jazz). Rounding out the sound, the instrumentalists take advantage of Goudy’s
- [A porta](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/a-porta/)
- [Turning Thoughts](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/turning-thoughts/)
- [All In](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/all-in-2/)
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- [Rituals](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/rituals-3/)
- [April and Joni sing](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/april-and-joni-sing/)
- [North Of Now](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/north-of-now/)
- [Night Heat](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/night-heat/)
- [April & Joanie Sing!](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/april-joanie-sing/) - Take a journey with APRIL ALOISIO and JOANIE PALLATTO blending music and friendship with April & Joanie Sing! in this compilation of their VOCAL DUETS from 1986 - 2024. Aloisio, a sensuous and passionate soprano and Pallatto, a sultry and inviting alto, agree that there are times when they can't tell each other apart -
- [Red Summer 1919 (An Instrumental Opera)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/red-summer-1919-an-instrumental-opera/) - On June 1, 1969, J. Kimo Williams was captivated as he witnessed Jimi Hendrix's spellbinding performance of "Spanish Castle Magic" at a Waikiki Shell concert in Hawaii. This transformative experience solidified his unwavering commitment to a life devoted to music. Subsequently, on July 4, 1969, he enlisted in the Army and was deployed to Vietnam.
- [All Is Merry and Bright](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/all-is-merry-and-bright/) - Celebrated pianist and composer Donald Vega is getting into the holiday spirit early this year with his new album “All is Merry and Bright” - to be released on Imagery Records on October 4, 2024. Recorded, Mixed & Mastered in DigitaleXtreme Definition (352.8kHz/32bit) in both stereo and immersive sound, with Multi GRAMMY-Winner Engineer &Producer Jim
- [Through the Passages](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/through-the-passages/) - Nancy Erickson Lamont, a seasoned jazz vocalist who studied with the renowned jazz instructor Frank DeMiero, has been leaving her mark on Seattle's music scene for over three decades. Her impressive vocal range, lush alto, and distinctive approach to the jazz tradition have captivated audiences and earned her a reputation as one of the city's
- [Brightlight](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/brightlight/) - Avishai Cohen has garnered acclaim in the jazz world for his originality, dedication, and musical talent, which shine through in his compositions and performances on the upright bass. His upcoming album 'Brightlight', set for release on October 25th via. Naïve Records, highlights the narrative depth of Cohen's music, as he explores themes of optimism, courage, and dreams. His intricate yet
- [Lumen](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/lumen/) - About Danilo Pérez Danilo Pérez is a multi-Grammy Award-winning pianist, composer, and educator celebrated for his profound influence on contemporary Jazz and his visionary approach to music. He organically blends his Panamanian roots with a diverse array of influences, including Latin American folk music, West African, Middle Eastern sounds, jazz and classical music. This innovative
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- [Santhi](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/santhi/) - Jim "Kimo" West is a master of ki ho'alu, or Hawaiian slack key guitar. After arriving in Maui in 1985, he fell in love with the island's slack key tradition and unique fingerstyle guitar. Now a Grammy winner and four-time Na Hoku Hanohano nominee, Kimo is regarded as one of the world's foremost slack key
- [The Science Of Superstition](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/the-science-of-superstition/)
- [Sacred Garden](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/sacred-garden/)
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- [Trem das Cores](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/trem-das-cores/) - Trem das Cores is a celebration of Caetano Veloso, Brazilian singer-songwriter, and important figure in Brazilian culture. He was also very influencial in Brazilian Jaques Morelenbaum and Gaia Wilmer’s lives. The idea comes from their love and great pleasure in working together with Caetano’s work while celebrating his 80th birthday and, most of all, honoring
- [Honeysweet](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/honeysweet/) - Canadian-born, Seattle-based jazz vocalist Heather Ward has released her first solo album, ‘Honeysweet’, showcasing a rich blend of original tracks and fresh jazz arrangements. Produced collaboratively by Heather and Dave Houghton, and recorded under the expert mixing of Ben Lange at Lange Recording Studios, Heather Ward’s new release features a collection of Seattle's finest musicians.
- [Change The System](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/change-the-system/)
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- [Interpretations, Vol. 1](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/interpretations-vol-1/) - The first of a 2-volume set, "Interpretations, Vol. 1" is a collection of Tobin Mueller' best interpretive piano covers, remixed and remastered. Mueller's effortless virtuosity shines through each recording. But what places this collection above others is his imaginative arrangements, his sometimes subtle, sometimes audacious way of transforming well-known masterpieces into fresh, contemporary expressions. He
- [Searching for Colors](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/searching-for-colors/) - Avinoam Ettun is a contemporary music performer-composer and improviser based in New York City. With a focus on creating compositions for large ensembles and his own string quartet, Avinoam combines the sounds of electric guitar and chamber music. Ettun actively collaborates with animators, painters, filmmakers, and dancers and explores the intersections of different art forms.
- [Jazz is My Lifestyle](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/jazz-is-my-lifestyle/)
- [Lightning In A Bottle](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/lightning-in-a-bottle/)
- [A Song Of Life](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/a-song-of-life/) - Willie Hill Biography Willie Hill is a veteran musician who spent a number of years playing with touring R&B and soul acts before starting his own recording studio and record label in Durham, NC. Hill is a native of Durham and attended North Carolina Central University (located in Durham), where he played trumpet in the
- [Birdland](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/birdland/)
- [MissOriented Metaphor](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/missoriented-metaphor/)
- [Quadrifoglio](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/quadrifoglio-2/)
- [Quadrifoglio](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/quadrifoglio/) - ALEX PERTOUT is a Chilean born Australian award-winning percussionist, composer, educator, recording artist and producer. His creative studio percussive touch has graced hundreds of albums and motion picture soundtracks, including iconic Australian number one hits such as ‘The Horses’ by Daryl Braithwaite and ‘My Happiness’ by Powderfinger. As a versatile percussionist he has also attained
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- [Swinging Solo](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/swinging-solo/)
- [Love Vibrations](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/love-vibrations/)
- [True](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/true/)
- [I Can Tell](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/i-can-tell/)
- [Melodia (jazz under glass)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/melodia-jazz-under-glass/)
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- [It's My Time](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/its-my-time/)
- [Penumbra](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/penumbra/)
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- [My Little Brown Book](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/my-little-brown-book/)
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- [Dreams Lost and Found](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/dreams-lost-and-found/)
- [Light and Shade](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/light-and-shade/)
- [Sojourn](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/sojourn/) - Sojourn “a stay in a place for a time” is a collection of both recent pieces, and some I composed over a number of years, and are representative of my best unrecorded works. Friends hearing the record for the first time, tell me that Sojourn comes across to them as my musical autobiography. There is
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- [Table For One](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/table-for-one/)
- [Forgiveness](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/forgiveness/)
- [Bob Levy ALL ABOUT LOVE: the Dane Vannatter Recordings Vol II](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/bob-levy-all-about-love-the-dane-vannatter-recordings-vol-ii/)
- [Why Ten?](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/why-ten/)
- [Man Of The Year](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/man-of-the-year/)
- [BANGGALORE](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/banggalore/) - If there was one word to describe the creative process behind this album, it would be spontaneity. It was born on stage, motivated by a request from the audience, in a natural impulse. “There are times when you meet someone who knows how to take your music down uncharted paths, where everything becomes possible. Such
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- [Ruminations](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/ruminations/)
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- [Awakening](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/awakening/) - Andrew Vogt is an accomplished musician and composer from Chicago who, in addition to writing, producing and performing his own original music, collaborates and performs regularly with singers and songwriters from all genres of music. He has written and arranged over 200 pieces of music and has recorded over 300 songs (60 albums) as a
- [Jaya](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/jaya/)
- [IT'S ABOUT TIME](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/its-about-time-2/)
- [The Remedy](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/the-remedy/)
- [Schrambled Ivies, Part 1](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/schrambled-ivies-part-1/)
- [Meditations on Providence and Perseverance, Vol. 1](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/meditations-on-providence-and-perseverance-vol-1/)
- [Lowlands](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/lowlands/)
- [A Sad Song in C](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/a-sad-song-in-c/)
- [Sweet Tears](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/sweet-tears/)
- [Island Hopping](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/island-hopping/)
- [Tribute To The Groove](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/tribute-to-the-groove/)
- [Wait Until Now](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/wait-until-now/)
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- [Daddys Little Girl Got Jazz (Dat Da Dat Da)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/daddys-little-girl-got-jazz-dat-da-dat-da/) - This Cool Jazzy Instrumental Song "DADDY"S LITTLE GIRL GOT JAZZ" Is From The New Smooth Jazz Album By JOSEPH ALAN FEARS Titled"NIGHT CIRCUS. Along With 8 More Songs That will Be Released Soon Avaible On The JAFF RECORDS USA Music Label. Stay Tuned For More Great Music Releases By JOSEPH ALAN FEARS . For More
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- [Longing](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/longing/) - Hyeonseon Baek is A New York-based Jazz vocalist/songwriter from South Korea who focuses on striving to create music that transcends cultural and generational boundaries, blending traditional Jazz with a modern approach for our diverse and vibrant audience. In 2019, he completed his bachelor of music degree in the Netherlands with Holland-national excellence scholarships. He was
- [dB-ish: The Path To Our Truth](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/db-ish-the-path-to-our-truth/)
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- [Window](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/window/)
- [Songs From the Sea](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/songs-from-the-sea/) - Hazal Selçuk is an independent artist and regularly releases new music on Spotify along with monthly videos on her Youtube channel. She started her musical journey at a young age as a singer, frequently performing throughout Turkey and abroad with her father, the Turkish composer/performer Timur Selçuk who was widely known for his hit songs
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- [Abiding Memory](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/abiding-memory/)
- [Liminality](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/liminality-2/)
- [JazzArtDuo](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/jazzartduo/)
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- [Harbour](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/harbour/) - Canadian Saxophonist and composer Christine Jensen has led a distinct voice to the creative jazz scene for the last twenty-five years with her large and small ensembles. She is set to release her third jazz orchestra album Harbour (2024) which follows previous releases Habitat (2013) and Treelines (2010). It features her Montreal-based orchestra, along with
- [Typewriter](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/typewriter/)
- [World Traveler](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/world-traveler/)
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- [Lost & Found](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/lost-found/)
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- [Childhood](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/childhood/)
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- [Boarding Pass](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/boarding-pass/)
- [Getting To Noam](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/getting-to-noam/)
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- [Brick By Brick](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/brick-by-brick-2/)
- [Strum](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/strum/)
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- [Hittin' It](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/hittin-it/)
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- [19-29](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/19-29/)
- [Reset](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/reset/)
- [Horns of Hope](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/horns-of-hope/)
- [Lingering](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/lingering-2/)
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- [Beautiful Moons Ago](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/beautiful-moons-ago/)
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- [PUR•VIEW](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/purview/)
- [Freeing Form](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/freeing-form/) - The Stratos Ensemble approaches its music from an ambient and progressive style rather than the traditional, non-idiomatic, free-jazz school of thought. Its focus is on textured audio exploration as much as musicianship, and its performances often extend into epic, long-form sets of sonic and melodic exploration, moving through peaks and valleys of intensity and emotional
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- [Run Your Race](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/run-your-race/)
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- [Lingering](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/lingering/)
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- [(after)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/after/)
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- [REVOLUTIONS](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/revolutions-3/)
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- [inffusion](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/inffusion/) - Singapore-based pianist/composer/arranger Boni de Souza composed "It is what it is" to accompany a visual. This original tune is now a part of a compilation of his recordings in the album "Inffusion" now available on all digital platforms. This release is one of the first for his Cool Music label, established in August 2020, where
- [25](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/25-2/) - "25" celebrates the twenty-fifth year of the DC-based "Michael Thomas Quintet". Sitting on the shoulders of Art Blakey & Lee Morgan, this recording continues that tradition and celebrates Thomas's fresh original compositions to further power the BAND. The Quintet swings majestically, soulfully, & passionately. SWANG is surely spoken here. U DIGG! Released 2024 Jazhead Entertainment
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- [Brick By Brick](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/brick-by-brick/)
- [Estaleiro](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/estaleiro/)
- [For Drums And Data Tape](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/for-drums-and-data-tape/) - Recorded in April 2022, For Drums And Data Tape is an highly experimental Free Jazz album based on a drum solo that improvises live on an 80s Data Tape, which provides a vigorous Noise flavor. It's just a must listen. Stefano Pisu, Born in 1974 in Cagliari, Sardinia, he studied musicology at the University of
- [Amaranto](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/amaranto/)
- [I Remember](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/i-remember/)
- [For All We Know](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/for-all-we-know/) - Master drummer and Artistic Director of the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra releases his first standards album, For All We Know, featuring Sarah Vaughan Competition winner Gabrielle Cavassa, pianist Ryan Hanseler, and bassist Lex Warshawsky. His first trio recording as a leader, features original arrangements of What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life, So
- [Athina](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/athina/)
- [At The Piano, Vol. 2](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/at-the-piano-vol-2/) - Volume 2 of Tobin Mueller's "At The Piano" presents the final 12 recordings of his best solo piano recordings. The depth and breadth of these compositions are breathtaking. His virtuosity at the piano is front and center, yet the innovative aspects of his compositions dominates the album. Every note fascinates and satisfies. Mueller effortlessly combines
- [Glimmering Path](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/glimmering-path/)
- [It's Time](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/its-time-3/)
- [Valley of Silence](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/valley-of-silence/)
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- [Tonal Prophecy](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/tonal-prophecy/)
- [Magpie](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/magpie/)
- [Swingin' After Dark](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/swingin-after-dark/)
- [A Dream of Form](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/a-dream-of-form/)
- [Personal Sky](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/personal-sky/)
- [No Perspective](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/no-perspective-2/)
- [Disaster Pony](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/disaster-pony/)
- [Moving On](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/moving-on/)
- [Straightaway](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/straightaway-2/)
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- [When Sun Lights Up The Future](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/when-sun-lights-up-the-future/) - Johannes Faber (born November 7, 1952 in Munich) is a German jazz trumpeter and composer. He studied trumpet in Munich, Graz and at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He was a professor at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama between 1990 and 1998. In 2012 he became a professor at the "Conservatorio
- [QUIESCENCE VOL 2: A Collection Of Ballads](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/quiescence-vol-2-a-collection-of-ballads/)
- [Raum 610](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/raum-610/)
- [From Day to Evie](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/from-day-to-evie/)
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- [What Eludes Us](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/what-eludes-us-2/)
- [The Solitude Suite](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/the-solitude-suite/) - Toronto - based composer, saxophonist, producer, band leader, and educator Scott Marshall A skilled composer and arranger, Scott’s compositions have been featured on Six of his own releases: The Solitude Suite (2024), Dream Logic Project (2018), Nihahi Ridge (2014), Vignettes (2010), Nine Moments of Time (2007), and Face It (2002). Scott has also had compositions
- [King du Lac](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/king-du-lac/)
- [LOVE UNIVERSAL](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/love-universal/) - JAZZ& R&B Bassist & Music Recording Artist "JOSEPH ALAN FEARS Has Been Around Recording & Writing Music Since 1969 , Hales From The Great State Of Nebraska Now Residing In Kansas , This Musical Artist Has A New Smooth Jazz Album Release Out For 2024 Smooth Jazz Music Lovers. Titled "LOVE UNIVERSAL" On (JAFF RECORDS
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- [Willow](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/willow/)
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- [Live at Brothers Drake](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/live-at-brothers-drake/)
- [Library Card](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/library-card/)
- [Foreverland](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/foreverland/)
- [Memento Odesa](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/memento-odesa-2/) - Video Premiere | Sebastian Studnitzky and the Odesa Symphonic Orchestra | MEMENTO ODESA Watch the video premiere of the MEMENTO ODESA project, as the music unites us in solidarity with Ukraine. In the heart of war-torn Ukraine, a symphony of resilience plays on, a melody of unwavering spirit that echoes through the ruins. ‘Memento Odesa’
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- [Who Are You When No One Is Watching?](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/who-are-you-when-no-one-is-watching/)
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- [Circle of Madness](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/circle-of-madness/)
- [SICK](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/sick/)
- [The Beholder](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/the-beholder/)
- [SMALL WORLDS – VOLUME 2](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/small-worlds-volume-2/)
- [Live Above Budapest](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/live-above-budapest/)
- [Cinematic Light Orchestra](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/cinematic-light-orchestra/)
- [The Way In](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/the-way-in/)
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- [Tangents](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/tangents/)
- [GROOVES FROM THE OTHER SIDE](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/grooves-from-the-other-side/)
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- [Lift](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/lift/)
- [What Eludes Us](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/what-eludes-us/)
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- [Sons](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/sons/)
- [At The Piano, Vol. 1](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/at-the-piano-vol-1/) - A collection of Mueller's best original solo piano compositions, recorded up close and personal. Combines modal jazz with Romanticism and Impressionistic styles, creating a unique sound. Emotionally stirring and creatively inventive, Mueller's dynamic virtuosity comforts as it thrills. The music washes over the listener with an uplifting flow, even as it surprises and informs. The
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- [It Comes With the Territory](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/it-comes-with-the-territory/)
- [Elegy (Part 2)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/elegy-part-2/)
- [Black Whole "Live"](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/black-whole-live/)
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- [Take the "A" Train](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/take-the-a-train/)
- [ON A MISSION TO WHO KNOWS WHERE](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/on-a-mission-to-who-knows-where-2/)
- [Healthy Breakfast](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/healthy-breakfast/)
- [New Way](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/new-way/)
- [Straightaway](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/straightaway/)
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- [ON A MISSION TO WHO KNOWS WHERE](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/on-a-mission-to-who-knows-where/)
- [From This Moment Forwad](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/from-this-moment-forwad/)
- [RIGHT ON!](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/right-on/)
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- [Birds in Wells](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/birds-in-wells/)
- [Drawing Songs](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/drawing-songs/)
- [Phases](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/phases-3/)
- [Kyla Nicole Healey](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/kyla-nicole-healey/)
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- [s/t](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/s-t-2/)
- [Dancing on Water](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/dancing-on-water/)
- [PSA](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/psa/)
- [Night](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/night/)
- [Turn Up The Quiet](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/turn-up-the-quiet/)
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- [Rise Up](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/rise-up/)
- [Conflict](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/conflict/)
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- [Glowing](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/glowing/)
- [Cruisin'](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/cruisin/)
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- [Open in Finder](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/open-in-finder/)
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- [Liberated Gesture](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/liberated-gesture/)
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- [Der Zweite Streich](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/der-zweite-streich/)
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- [還 (Kaeru)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/還-kaeru/) - Eki Shola’s music is “Half-time electronic soul for the mind” - Resident Advisor. Featured on PBS, NPR Tiny Desk Contest, KQED and Best of the Bay Editors’ Pick, Eki Shola’s music transcends genre, as she seamlessly draws from jazz, electronica, and soul music to create a sonic landscape all her own. A vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and
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- [WHY](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/why/)
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- [Trance](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/trance-2/) - Marty Cook was born in New York and began playing trombone at the age of seven. Growing up in Ohio, he later moved back to New York, where he worked with various jazz musicians such as Marzette Watts, Sam Rivers and Ted Daniel. In Europe he played with Gunter Hampel and Jeanne Lee in the
- [It's Christmas Eve](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/its-christmas-eve/)
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- [Cherokee (Single)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/cherokee-single/)
- [The Lost Chicago Sessions](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/the-lost-chicago-sessions/)
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- [CELESTIAL SUITE](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/celestial-suite/)
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- [One](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/one-2/)
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- [Intention](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/intention/)
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- [Dreamers Ball](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/dreamers-ball/)
- [About Last Night](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/about-last-night-3/)
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- [Versocrático [EP]](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/versocratico-ep/)
- [Radiance](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/radiance/)
- [Brazilian Childhood](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/brazilian-childhood/)
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- [PERCEPTION](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/perception-3/) - Ogbonné Mary Orji is a multi-instrumentalist creative shape shifter from Endicott, NY who is currently based in the NYC area. Her main voice can be heard from the tenor saxophone, poetry and composition. She is inspired musically and compositionally by the works of many artists such as Alice Coltrane and Grover Washington to name a
- [Living On Mars](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/living-on-mars/)
- [An AfroCuban Excursion](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/an-afrocuban-excursion/)
- [TIME CHOIR](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/time-choir/)
- [VOLT](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/volt/) - VOLT by LAAKE: A Dazzling Journey of Resilience and Creativity LAAKE's latest release, VOLT, is a hypnotic masterpiece born from an unexpected and electrifying experience. Following a violent electric shock, originally meant to inspire a solo piano album, LAAKE's imagination took a haunting turn, leading to an album that captivates with its intensity and artistry.
- [New Every Day](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/new-every-day/)
- [Pieces of Peace](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/pieces-of-peace/)
- [The Proper Time](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/the-proper-time/)
- [As Good As It Gets](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/as-good-as-it-gets/)
- [DISTANCIA](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/distancia/) - Solidaridad Tango is North America’s original all-woman, diversity-affirming tango ensemble. Founded in 2021 by Aparna Halpé, Solidaridad is proud to present new music by women tango composers and arrangers from around the world delivered in a historical performance style that keeps the old alive in the new. Solidaridad’s debut album DISTANCIA (2023) is produced by
- [Éclats (Piano Works)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/eclats-piano-works/)
- [I Fall In Love Too Easily](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/i-fall-in-love-too-easily/)
- [Kick Up The Dust](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/kick-up-the-dust/) - Stavroz has just dropped their latest single "Her Eyes Were Red" from their upcoming EP "Kick The Dust". Balancing different instruments and personalities within a band is no small feat, yet this is where the Belgian band truly shines — both on stage and in the studio. Originally a DJ duo consisting of friends IJsbrand
- [Life Is Like a song](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/life-is-like-a-song-2/)
- [LOOK OUT](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/look-out/)
- [Live From The Northwest, 1959](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/live-from-the-northwest-1959/)
- [Quaret](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/quaret/) - Recorded 20-21 September 2021 at Frinnvox Studios in Helsinki. Recording engineer Jukka Viiri. Mix and production by Jyrki Saarinen. Executive producer Johan Fredrik Lavik. All tracks published by Jazzaggression., and ITI Records/ITI Music Corporation. “The spirit of vintage hard-bop is reimagined on the first great jazz record of 2023! Originals and compositions by Waldron, Shorter,
- [Who am I](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/who-am-i/)
- [Solos and Duets](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/solos-and-duets/)
- [Don't Play That!](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/dont-play-that/)
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- [Piano Music 2](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/piano-music-2/)
- [NOCHE](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/noche/) - Acclaimed pianist Sofiane Pamart, known for PLANET and LETTER, returns with his third album, NOCHE, out on October 20 via DEMAIN / [PIAS]. Following his global success, Pamart's new work delves into the night's depths. Composed during months in Latin America, this album reflects his nomadic spirit and deep connection with his audience. The lead
- [Flute Factor](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/flute-factor/)
- [Way Station](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/way-station-2/)
- [Den sämsta lösningen av alla](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/den-samsta-losningen-av-alla/)
- [Orkester Omnitotal](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/orkester-omnitotal/)
- [Recompensa](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/recompensa/)
- [About Last Night](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/about-last-night-2/)
- [Blue Dawn](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/blue-dawn/) - Blue Dawn is the third release from Detroit guitarist Michael Varverakis in the past three years and his third recording with producer Erik Maluchnik. It completes a musical trilogy and rings with the possibilities of what comes next. It’s the sound of a master musician leaving all the rules and plans behind, playfully moving through
- [RAGAMALA PAINTINGS ALIVE!](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/ragamala-paintings-alive/)
- [SEPIA SONGS](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/sepia-songs-2/)
- [Javier Rosario Trio V.2 Yes!](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/javier-rosario-trio-v-2-yes/) - Guitar virtuoso, composer, bandleader, educator and recording artist, Javier Rosario is the first ever Michel Camilo Scholarship winner. The scholarship was an initiative of the Dominican born, Grammy, Latin Grammy and Emmy Award winning pianist. It has been the first scholarship of its kind in the history of the Dominican Republic, where Javier was born
- [Migrations](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/migrations/)
- [If I Had](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/if-i-had/) - Curtis Nowosad is a JUNO-nominated, NYC-based jazz drummer, composer, bandleader and educator. Having made his home in Harlem for the last decade, the native of Winnipeg, MB, Canada has established himself as an integral part of the NYC and international jazz scene, both as a bandleader and a sideperson. Curtis has played in the bands
- [Sepia Songs](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/sepia-songs/)
- [Pallett](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/pallett/)
- [Radio Misterio](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/radio-misterio/)
- [What We Are](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/what-we-are/)
- [Light Cycle](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/light-cycle/)
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- [Les Jardins Mystiques Vol. 1](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/les-jardins-mystiques-vol-1/)
- [Serendippo](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/serendippo/)
- [test](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/test-2/)
- [TEST](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/test/)
- [Gradient](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/gradient-2/)
- [Four Windows](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/four-windows/)
- [Phantasma Vol. II](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/phantasma-vol-ii/)
- [Rainforests](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/rainforests/)
- [Sun](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/sun/) - Born in Athens to Lebanese-Canadian parents, Lara Eidi is an artist that thrives on celebrating difference. An independent singer songwriter and multi- instrumentalist, she has received critical acclaim for her compositions that combine deft storytelling with intricate rhythms and jazz folk motifs. Jazz UK described her as “a singer with true gift of a voice,
- [Siparia to Soweto](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/siparia-to-soweto/) - Siparia to Soweto is an album that represents a coming together, an amalgamation of people, experiences and culture. It is the melding of different but unique flavors into one; a celebration of the African diaspora’s rich diversity. This momentous production is a reflection of Hugh Masekela’s great love of travel, musical adventure, and collaboration. Before
- [Canons](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/canons/)
- [Reunion](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/reunion/)
- [Elegy](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/elegy/)
- [Sicilian Lullabies and Tales](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/sicilian-lullabies-and-tales/)
- [Too Many Tracks](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/too-many-tracks/)
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- [FUSION](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/fusion/) - Multi-genre guitarist/composer/producer Peter Xifaras has traded in his classical composer hat, dusted off his Les Paul, and wants to take you on a wild contemporary-jazz ride. Peter is a multi-award winning artist who's music has been heard on hundreds of radio stations, been on SiriusXM rotation for over a decade, has topped Billboard's Classical &
- [The Lighthouse](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/the-lighthouse/)
- [ESZ KODESZ](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/esz-kodesz/)
- [We"ve Got Nothing](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/weve-got-nothing/)
- [Soulmate](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/soulmate/)
- [Giraffe](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/giraffe-2/)
- [FUN](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/fun/)
- [Exponential Process](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/exponential-process/)
- [Shirt Don't Fit](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/shirt-dont-fit/)
- [WEB MAX II](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/web-max-ii/)
- [Plays for Wayne](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/plays-for-wayne/)
- [Hiraeth](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/hiraeth/)
- [Giraffe](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/giraffe/)
- [Los Animales](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/los-animales/)
- [Chromazone](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/chromazone-2/)
- [Chromazone](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/chromazone/)
- [Twilight](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/twilight-2/)
- [The Shores Of Infinity](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/the-shores-of-infinity/)
- [The Speed of Time](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/the-speed-of-time/)
- [Nowhere Girl](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/nowhere-girl/)
- [The South Detroit Connection](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/the-south-detroit-connection/)
- [Enterprises of Great Pith and Moment](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/enterprises-of-great-pith-and-moment/) - Prominent LA-based electronic producer Tristan De Liège has teamed up with up-and-coming jazz ensemble Jambal for their new album Enterprises of Great Pith and Moment, which is set to release on the 15th September 2023 via Tristan De Liège X Jambal Music. The album evokes images of artists like St Germain, Arms and Sleepers, Azymuth,
- [Truth Be Told](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/truth-be-told/)
- [Eclectic](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/eclectic/)
- [Vol. 2](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/vol-2-2/)
- [Red Ellen](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/red-ellen/)
- [Olivia](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/olivia-3/)
- [Songs For Ananim](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/songs-for-ananim/)
- [Olivia](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/olivia-2/)
- [Hey](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/hey/)
- [Jazz Hands](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/jazz-hands/)
- [OLIVIA](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/olivia/)
- [Shaping the Invisible](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/shaping-the-invisible/)
- [Play It Cool](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/play-it-cool/) - NY/NJ based keyboardist and composer Mike Di Lorenzo has explored everything from R&B to Jazz and everything in between. Mike has performed and toured with a wide range of artists including Cissy and Whitney Houston and the Grammy-award-winning NJ Mass Choir, Gerald Alston of the Manhattans and numerous members of the Rock and Roll Hall
- [About Last Night](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/about-last-night/)
- [BAE](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/bae/)
- [In Time](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/in-time-2/)
- [Mind Over Matter](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/mind-over-matter/) - Mind Over Matter is chart-topping jazz pianist Skinny Hightower’s fourth studio album on Trippin’N’Rhythm Records. A nod to his life philosophy, this body of work resumes the path started by the critically acclaimed album Retrospect while journeying somewhere further than Blue Moon. “Much has changed since I recorded my last album,” says Hightower. “The pandemic
- [Quaver](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/quaver/)
- [No Drible dos Reveses [Single]](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/no-drible-dos-reveses-single/)
- [Killer On The Keys](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/killer-on-the-keys/)
- [Best of Tobin Mueller, Vol. 5: Chill](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/best-of-tobin-mueller-vol-5-chill/) - BIO: “Best of Tobin Mueller, Vol. 5: Chill” is the final volume of Mueller’s 5-volume Best OF series. As the name implies, it is a compilation of relaxed, late night jazz, hip yet chill recordings. Mainly original tunes with some pleasingly inventive covers of classic standards. Most recordings are remastered, some newly edited, and a
- [Drop The Rock](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/drop-the-rock-3/) - Greg Joseph is an in-demand drummer who has been a fixture on the NYC music scene for over 25 years. He has played with such diverse musicians as Kevin Hays, Chris Potter, Steve Wilson, Ira Sullivan, Binky Griptite, Ted Kooshian, Michael Blake, Chiara Itzi, Nicole Henry, Yungchen Lhamo, Madeleine Peyroux, Moses Patrou, Brian Charette, Swamp
- [Drop The Rock](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/drop-the-rock-2/) - Greg Joseph is an in-demand drummer who has been a fixture on the NYC music scene for over 25 years. He has played with such diverse musicians as Kevin Hays, Chris Potter, Steve Wilson, Ira Sullivan, Binky Griptite, Ted Kooshian, Michael Blake, Chiara Itzi, Nicole Henry, Yungchen Lhamo, Madeleine Peyroux, Moses Patrou, Brian Charette, Swamp
- [Galapagos](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/galapagos/)
- [The Palm Tree Line](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/the-palm-tree-line/)
- [Drop The Rock](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/drop-the-rock/)
- [Inside](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/inside/)
- [Axiomatic - Music For The People](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/axiomatic-music-for-the-people/)
- [Contemporary Jazz](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/contemporary-jazz/)
- [Da Bang](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/da-bang/)
- [Divagar Devagar](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/divagar-devagar/)
- [Roots](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/roots/)
- [Love & Life](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/love-life/)
- [Appear to Fade](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/appear-to-fade/)
- [A Moment in Time](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/a-moment-in-time/) - "Olivia Maisel is a French-American singer from Toulouse, now based in Montreal. Here is her debut album, which is as exciting and interesting to discover as albums from artists on their fourth or fifth record. It features impeccable interpretation, and when I say interpretation, I mean that an artist is able to go beyond the
- [Memories](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/memories/)
- [Piano solo](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/piano-solo-3/)
- [Piano solo](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/piano-solo-2/)
- [Cold Turkeys](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/cold-turkeys/)
- [Arba](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/arba/)
- [Reimagining Aria](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/reimagining-aria/) - Paying homage to the past to dialogue with the present is the ambitious motive of the project. A metamorphosis that aims to transcend tradition towards contemporary perspectives and potential, projecting the notes into an eclectic universe where there is no lack of research, continuity and emulation of the past. The composer Daniele Sardone and the
- [Convergence](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/convergence/)
- [Fruits of the Midi](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/fruits-of-the-midi/)
- [The Sisterhood](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/the-sisterhood-2/)
- [The Sun and Moon Within](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/the-sun-and-moon-within/)
- [Detect Festival 2023](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/detect-festival-2023/) - Set in the beautiful 800-year-old estate of Bröllin Castle in Fahrenwalde, Detect Classic Festival 2023 will return from the 11th to the 13th of August, offering performances talk and workshops all centred around this year’s theme of “membrane” – the fragile layer that enables exchange between two different entities. More than 45 international acts have
- [Versailles](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/versailles/) - The Ah! Kosmos rework of French electronic producer Thylacine’s track, Versailles, is part of a wider journey in which Thylacine invited four leading musicians to remix songs from his 2022 9 Pieces album. The 2022 album was inspired by his exploratory travels around the globe and a wonder and love for exciting and intriguing places,
- [Try](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/try/) - German producer Johannes Brecht established himself as a luminary within the electronic scene, collaborating with the likes of Solomun and Henrik Schwarz. Latest EP ‘Try’, however, sees him return to his roots as an ardent jazz lover, in a partnership with legendary Norwegian Jazz pianist, Bugge Wesseltoft. On the track, Brecht adds soft electronic and
- [Love Songs and Lullabies](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/love-songs-and-lullabies/)
- [The Hot Toddies Jazz Band](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/the-hot-toddies-jazz-band/)
- [Idiom](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/idiom/)
- [PROSPER](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/prosper-2/)
- [Ox](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/ox/) - Yonathan is a trombonist, composer, arranger, and band leader based in New York. He grew up in Tel-Aviv and was driven by a deep desire to share his love for music with the world. This led him to pursue his dream of performing internationally, leaving behind his hometown to embark on a journey of self-discovery.
- [The Sisterhood](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/the-sisterhood/)
- [Soundtrack For A Film Without Pictures](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/soundtrack-for-a-film-without-pictures-2/)
- [And the stars were shining](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/and-the-stars-were-shining/)
- [Occasionally, Good Things Do Happen](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/occasionally-good-things-do-happen/)
- [Rituals](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/rituals-2/)
- [Who Are You?](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/who-are-you/)
- [At Least](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/at-least/)
- [Something Awaits](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/something-awaits/)
- [Solstein](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/solstein/)
- [All The Better For Seeing You](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/all-the-better-for-seeing-you/)
- [Soundtrack For A Film Without Pictures](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/soundtrack-for-a-film-without-pictures/)
- [Afro Cuban Bop: The Long Lost Bird Live Recordings](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/afro-cuban-bop-the-long-lost-bird-live-recordings/)
- [Herkyna / Nassia Gofa & The Jazz Tales](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/herkyna-nassia-gofa-the-jazz-tales/)
- [Ataraxia](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/ataraxia/)
- [Life Is Like A Song](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/life-is-like-a-song/)
- [Stronger Than Dirt](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/stronger-than-dirt/)
- [Savannah Blue](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/savannah-blue/) - Melodic, soulful, and smooth, Dr. Greg Satterthwaite brings an energy and touch to the piano that has become his signature sound. As a jazz artist, Satterthwaite brings forth improvisational music that speaks to who he is as a performer and composer. His performances are rooted in his passion to continue to uphold the legacy and
- [Absolutely Knot](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/absolutely-knot/)
- [A Pair of Bats in the Dark](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/a-pair-of-bats-in-the-dark/)
- [You Send Me A Photograph](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/you-send-me-a-photograph/)
- [Raymond Scott Reimagined](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/raymond-scott-reimagined/) - Violinjazz Recordings, the label of acclaimed Grammy-nominated musician Jeremy Cohen, principal violinist and founder of Classical Crossover specialists Quartet San Francisco, has crafted ‘Raymond Scott Reimagined,’ an unprecedented new collaboration teaming Quartet San Francisco with accomplished Grammy/Emmy Award-winning composer, producer, arranger Gordon Goodwin and revered Grammy-winning a cappella group Take 6. The thrilling 14-track collection,
- [Back at the Bop Stop](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/back-at-the-bop-stop/) - Maria Jacobs is an American jazz vocalist born of Syrian Lebanese and Armenian descent. She is a national recording artist, licensed music educator and the vocal Jazz professor at Kent State University. Back at the Bop Stop is her ninth album, recorded live at the world renowned venue and released in January, 2023. It is
- [Lyric Pieces](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/lyric-pieces/)
- [Higher Dimension Waiting Room](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/higher-dimension-waiting-room/)
- [Stages](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/stages/)
- [Becoming](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/becoming-2/)
- [Invisible Painters](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/invisible-painters/)
- [Fake](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/fake/)
- [Highway 27](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/highway-27/)
- [The Power of THREE](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/the-power-of-three/)
- [Grail](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/grail/) - John Bruce Wallace is a free jazz solo performer interested in freely improvised music with a focus on generating extended sound statements within the options afforded through solo performance. An acknowledged, accomplished guitar virtuoso working to create a new voice for the electric guitar, creating a new approach to the instrument, John Bruce Wallace is
- [When I Am Dead, My Dearest](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/when-i-am-dead-my-dearest-3/)
- [When I Am Dead, My Dearest](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/when-i-am-dead-my-dearest-2/)
- [WITH FREEDOM](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/with-freedom/) - Mark Sherman brings a deeply rooted post bop approach to a program of originals and standards, which convincingly carry on the art form with a potent level of invigorating musicianship. His music is relentlessly energetic, hard charging, and brimming with incredible improvisations from his deeply rooted skillset. In addition Sherman has recorded 21 CD’s as
- [Sad Walk](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/sad-walk-2/)
- [Sad Walk](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/sad-walk/)
- [Octava](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/octava/)
- [When I Am Dead, My Dearest](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/when-i-am-dead-my-dearest/)
- [Ngayon](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/ngayon/)
- [AFTER|LIFE](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/afterlife/)
- [Jazz Pops/Pop Swings](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/jazz-pops-pop-swings/)
- [My Aesthetic Soul](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/my-aesthetic-soul/)
- [Open mic](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/open-mic/)
- [What Do You See](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/what-do-you-see/)
- [LIVE at the DEER HEAD INN](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/live-at-the-deer-head-inn/)
- [That's The Night](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/thats-the-night/)
- [dose](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/dose/)
- [Live at Bansko Jazz Festival 2022](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/live-at-bansko-jazz-festival-2022/)
- [Boomer Vibes, Volume 1](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/boomer-vibes-volume-1/)
- [WORLD LINES](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/world-lines/)
- [It Never Entered My Mind](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/it-never-entered-my-mind/)
- [Love Letters](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/love-letters/)
- ['Round Midnight (Live in Cologne)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/round-midnight-live-in-cologne/) - Chet Baker Group Live at the Salt Peanuts Club in Köln (Germany). Recorded live 21st and 23rd of May, 1981 Originally released as Circle Records vinyl album, restored and digitally remastered for all major streaming platforms.
- [Conversations in Chaos](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/conversations-in-chaos/)
- [EVER SINCE WE MET](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/ever-since-we-met/)
- [Ecosystems](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/ecosystems/) - It was American philosopher, Karan Barad, who stated that, “Existence is not an individual affair”, and it was British composer, Roger Goula, who transformed the concept into a beautiful musical journey, reminding us of the intricate bonds we share on earth. The track, ‘Relational Beings’, from upcoming album ‘Ecosystems’ is richly textured and utterly exciting.
- [Holy Water](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/holy-water/)
- [Dance Machine](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/dance-machine/)
- [Phil DiRe Legacy](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/phil-dire-legacy/)
- [After The Game](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/after-the-game/)
- [Songs, Hymns And Ballads – Volume 2](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/songs-hymns-and-ballads-volume-2/)
- [Reaching In](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/reaching-in/)
- [Soul To Soul](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/soul-to-soul-2/)
- [A Thousand Things](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/a-thousand-things/)
- [Dark Is the Sky](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/dark-is-the-sky/)
- [Passion Eyes](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/passion-eyes/)
- [Summer Skies](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/summer-skies/)
- [Across the Sands](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/across-the-sands-2/)
- [Above the World](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/above-the-world-2/)
- [Above the World](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/above-the-world/)
- [Across the Sands](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/across-the-sands/)
- [Summer Kisses](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/summer-kisses/)
- [April Bright](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/april-bright/)
- [Brent Charles: Live at the Melton Mustafa Jazz Festival](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/brent-charles-live-at-the-melton-mustafa-jazz-festival/) - Originally from Long Island, NY with Trinidadian roots, Brent Charles sprouts from a large musical family. Demonstrating deep warm tones to a vibrant whistle register with a vocal range of more than four octaves, Brent sings several languages and genres. In addition to the wonderful tutelage and influence of his mother, Cynthia Young Sheppard, and
- [Dolphin](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/dolphin/)
- [Mantendo A Firmeza [Single]](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/mantendo-a-firmeza-single/)
- [Upswing](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/upswing/)
- [Palermo](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/palermo/)
- [Bad Reception](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/bad-reception/)
- [Ambient Bass Guitar](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/ambient-bass-guitar/) - I played bass and electronics with ambient music pioneer Jon Hassell from 2014-2020 and designed the final software-based iteration of his live/studio rig, which we used in the sessions for his last two albums, Listening to Pictures and Seeing Through Sound. This current album began to take shape in 2022 when I took the software
- [Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 1982](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/live-at-montreux-jazz-festival-1982/)
- [Time](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/time-2/)
- [Project 43](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/project-43/)
- [The Jazz Doctors Intensive Care: Prescriptions Filled - The Billy Bang Quartet sessions 1983/1984](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/the-jazz-doctors-intensive-care-prescriptions-filled-the-billy-bang-quartet-sessions-1983-1984/)
- [Accidental Melody](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/accidental-melody/) - ACCIDENTAL MELODY is the the fourth album JOANIE PALLATTO has recorded with all original music and features co-producer and esteemed jazz guitarist FAREED HAQUE. Pallatto is particularly adept at writing lyrics, which are by turn philosophical, romantic, and quite clever. Described by Rick Kogan of the Chicago Tribune as having "a stirring and special voice,"
- [Projet Seb Parent](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/projet-seb-parent/)
- [SYNCHRONICITY: An interpretation of the album by THE POLICE](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/synchronicity-an-interpretation-of-the-album-by-the-police/)
- [Wild Awake](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/wild-awake/)
- [You Break You Buy](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/you-break-you-buy/)
- [Audible Spirits](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/audible-spirits/)
- [Live at Porgy & Bess Vienna](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/live-at-porgy-bess-vienna/)
- [Pure Grooves Vol. 1](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/pure-grooves-vol-1/)
- [AWAKE](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/awake-2/)
- [AWAKE](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/awake/)
- [XJAZZ! 2023](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/xjazz-2023/) - XJAZZ! festival is back in Berlin for 2023! Organised by the XJAZZ! label, this year’s line-up includes the genre's biggest names such as, Roy Ayers, Louis Cole, Kokoroko, Nadia Rose and Grammy-winning artists Bombino from Nigeria and Arooj Aftab from Pakistan. The festival will also provide a platform for up and coming artists to come
- [Thoughts, Conversations and To Do Lists](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/thoughts-conversations-and-to-do-lists/) - Named among the 100 Alternative Power Music List for 2020, multi-award winning jazz artist, editor-in-chief, journalist and founder of the award winning Women in Jazz Media organisation. As a vocalist, pianist, composer and producer, Fiona has become known for creating her own contemporary jazz sound incorporating fast paced Latin Jazz, vintage Jazz club, a little
- [Open City](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/open-city-2/)
- [Lost In Translation Vol. 2](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/lost-in-translation-vol-2/)
- [After The Hours, The Minutes](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/after-the-hours-the-minutes/)
- [In The Before: Live at The Side Door](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/in-the-before-live-at-the-side-door/)
- [L(oo)ping](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/looping/) - Expectation-defying collaborations have long been an essential feature of French electronic producer Rone's acclaimed career. Showcasing his incredible versatility, he has worked across genres, picking up a Cesar and Cannes Film Festival award along the way. His latest project L(oo)ping sees him team up with the National Orchestra of Lyon to create an album which
- [Nocturnal](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/nocturnal-2/)
- [KARACELL](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/karacell/)
- [Elemental](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/elemental-2/)
- [Elemental](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/elemental/)
- [La Madrugá](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/la-madruga/)
- [Groovin Smooth](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/groovin-smooth/) - The new Ghost Jazz Trio album Groovin Smooth is the smoothest of smooth jazz guitar playing and production. The band consists of founder/guitarist/composer and producer James Morgan. On this new release James is joined by guitarist and producer Dean Brown, who co-wrote many of the songs and plays guitar on the album. All the songs
- [Almost Out](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/almost-out/) - Matt Cooper was a key figure in the music era that rebooted jazz with digital beats in 1990s London Recorded under the name Outside, the 1993 debut album ‘Almost In’ stood out when it was released on the experimental label Dorado. Mixmag pronounced his second album ‘The Rough & the Smooth’ "the best record of
- [Speech of Species](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/speech-of-species/)
- [Dreams](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/dreams-2/)
- [Balance](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/balance/)
- [Mind Vibrations](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/mind-vibrations/)
- [Here is to Life](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/here-is-to-life/)
- [Wisdom of Aurelius](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/wisdom-of-aurelius/)
- [UPPER WEST SIDE LOVE STORY](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/upper-west-side-love-story/)
- [Hymn for Africa](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/hymn-for-africa-2/)
- [res publica](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/res-publica/)
- [Viu](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/viu/)
- [REAL LIFE](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/real-life/)
- [Of What Remains](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/of-what-remains/)
- [Best of Tobin Mueller, Vol. 2: Jazz Arrangements](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/best-of-tobin-mueller-vol-2-jazz-arrangements/) - Inventive, energetic, joyous virtuosity elevates each track in Volume 2 of Tobin Mueller's "Best" series. Focusing on his arranging expertise, Mueller pays homage to classic standards as well as fusion and funk hits, reimagining each tune with dramatic vision. Grammy-winning guitarist Paul Nelson sizzles, bringing his progressive blues chops to his solos. Woody Mankowski's saxophone
- [Tuesday's Child](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/tuesdays-child/)
- [TRE](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/tre/) - Rodrigo Simoes is an outstanding guitarist. He ignites jazz by combining it with many Brazilian rhythms, such as maracatú, forró or samba to create a contemporary jazz that warms body and soul. Soak up the Southern heat and its intoxicating rhythms with good humor!
- [Time Took Care of It](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/time-took-care-of-it-2/) - Revered for “changing the sound and expectation of a jazz piano trio (John Schaefer, WNYC’s New Sounds),” the Danny Fox Trio releases its fourth album Time Took Care of It Since its critically acclaimed 2011 debut, The One Constant (Songlines), the group has continued to push the boundaries of the classic piano trio format. Comprising
- [Time Took Care of It](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/time-took-care-of-it/) - Revered for “changing the sound and expectation of a jazz piano trio (John Schaefer, WNYC’s New Sounds),” the Danny Fox Trio releases its fourth album Time Took Care of It Since its critically acclaimed 2011 debut, The One Constant (Songlines), the group has continued to push the boundaries of the classic piano trio format. Comprising
- [Angle Shades](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/angle-shades/)
- [Freedom in Jazz Vol.3](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/freedom-in-jazz-vol-3/)
- [Pipe Dream](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/pipe-dream/)
- [New Horizon](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/new-horizon/)
- [Calasanitus](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/calasanitus/)
- [Through the Rain](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/through-the-rain/)
- [Voyage](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/voyage/)
- [Lightning Dreamers](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/lightning-dreamers/)
- [The Spacemen Vol. 2](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/the-spacemen-vol-2/)
- [Now THAT'S Amore!](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/now-thats-amore/)
- [Loser](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/loser/)
- [The Power Station Sessions](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/the-power-station-sessions/)
- [Playing With Fire](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/playing-with-fire/)
- [Verboten](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/verboten/)
- [A Moment In Transition](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/a-moment-in-transition/)
- [Her Love](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/her-love/)
- [In Time](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/in-time/)
- [The Toronto Project](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/the-toronto-project/)
- [Don't Stop Now](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/dont-stop-now/)
- [Living at the End of the World](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/living-at-the-end-of-the-world-2/)
- [Feld](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/feld-2/) - German producer and pianist, Martin Kohlstedt’s upcoming album release “Feld” intertwines the analogue and acoustic with cutting-edge electronica, achieving a thrilling sense of sonic vastness and openness. On single, ‘OHM’, Kohlstedt expresses the destruction at the heart of creation. This intriguing parallel is commenced via dystopian drone sounds and metallic clanks, before the air is
- [Lakay](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/lakay/)
- [Living at the End of the World](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/living-at-the-end-of-the-world/)
- [An Evening with Kevin Toney and Friends - Jazz Legacy](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/an-evening-with-kevin-toney-and-friends-jazz-legacy/) - Let it be stated – no shouted from the highest mountain top – that the root source of piano virtuoso Kevin Toney’s dynamic musical artistry has ALWAYS been hardcore straight-ahead Jazz As an A+ disciple of the Art Tatum’s, Oscar Peterson’s, McCoy Tyner's, Errol Garner’s, and Herbie Hancock’s of the idiom (as well as Detroit-born
- [Belle de Nuit](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/belle-de-nuit/) - Parra for Cuva has established his name internationally creating mellow electronic tracks. On latest album Belle de Nuit, however, he returns to the instrument of his childhood, the piano, to provide four tracks of intense emotion and dramatic narrative. Single ‘Life Lately’ demonstrates just how elaborate a storyline Parra for Cuva can convey, with a
- [Black Holes Are Hard To Find](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/black-holes-are-hard-to-find/)
- [ANCIENT COSMIC TRUTH](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/ancient-cosmic-truth/)
- [Ma Sister Jumps Through Fire](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/ma-sister-jumps-through-fire/)
- [Leon](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/leon/) - Described as a “deft magician” by the New York Times and “one of the most brilliant revelations” by Le Figaro, Dom La Nena has become famed for her remarkable skill on the cello and her ability to create evocative pieces which enthral her listeners. Nowhere is this aptitude more evident than single ‘Universo’ from latest
- [Ghost Notes](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/ghost-notes/) - John Matthias and Jay Auborn have become renowned for their ability to stretch sound, pushing it beyond boundaries, breaking its materiality and reimagining what might be possible. On the first single of latest album “Ghost Notes” this boundless creativity and innovation comes out in full force. The track moves swiftly through an ever-evolving landscape, commencing
- [Tokyo Live!](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/tokyo-live/)
- [Goldstream](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/goldstream-2/)
- [Night Rider](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/night-rider/)
- [Dialética Loquaz [Single]](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/dialetica-loquaz-single/)
- [Best of Tobin Mueller, Vol. 1: Jazz Originals](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/best-of-tobin-mueller-vol-1-jazz-originals/) - One of the most diverse and talented jazz composers today presents a career spanning 5-volume compilation. “Best of Tobin Mueller, Vol. 1: JAZZ Originals” kicks off the set with 21 tracks, all remastered, including stellar performances by the likes of bass legend Ron Carter, Grammy winning guitarist Paul Nelson, Blue Note drummer Dane Richeson and
- [Little Red Wagon](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/little-red-wagon/) - Blessed with the innate ability to express deep feeling and emotion through live performance, as well as recording, Melvin Johnson has truly become the Evolution and Revolution of Jazz! Houston-born Pianist Melvin Johnson has benefited from extensive studies in Classical, Jazz, Pop, Soul and R&B. As the owner of a corporate band (Sincerely Yours Music),
- [Operator](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/operator/)
- [Hypokrat](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/hypokrat/)
- [Absence of You](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/absence-of-you/)
- [Beneath the Canopy](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/beneath-the-canopy/)
- [Love In The Air](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/love-in-the-air/)
- [Ghost Cat](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/ghost-cat/) - The quintet of Zurich tenor saxophonist Christoph Irniger presents its fifth album on Intakt Records on the occasion of the band’s 10th anniversary. Over the years, the band has created a distinct ensemble identity and has matured into one of the most exciting ensembles of young European jazz. As a well-rehearsed unit, the band on
- [Skyline](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/skyline/)
- [Divisive](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/divisive/)
- [Maharet](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/maharet/)
- [Change Lanes](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/change-lanes/) - Balance9, truly have a future-minded respect for the 9 elements of Composition, It means a lot to us where music goes from here. The Radio and online success of the last album Inside Out carries the concept of Healing and forging a path toward elevating Creativity, Change Lanes has The same disciplined Layers and Tribal
- [Viola Brasil](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/viola-brasil/)
- [Magnolia](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/magnolia/) - The instrumental jazz trio Okonski is led by pianist Steve Okonski (from Durand Jones & The Indications) and is joined by Michael Montgomery and Aaron Frazer (also from Durand Jones & The Indications). Their forthcoming debut studio LP "Magnolia," will be available on vinyl, CD and digital/streaming platforms on February 24th via Colemine Records.
- [Road Warrior](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/road-warrior/)
- [HOMECOMING MEDLEY or SOCIETY INTO SOUND](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/homecoming-medley-or-society-into-sound/)
- [Goldstream](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/goldstream/)
- [Luz](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/luz/)
- [On The Bone](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/on-the-bone/)
- [Most Dont' Have Enough](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/most-dont-have-enough/)
- [Quinta Essentia](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/quinta-essentia/)
- [You Asked For It](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/you-asked-for-it/) - Award-winning retro jazz singer Laura Ainsworth follows her best-of LP/CD "Top Shelf" with "You Asked For It," her critically-acclaimed fourth album of new material, requested by fans. Backed by top Texas jazz players led by pianist/arranger Brian Piper, Laura adds fresh spins on standards, from rare intros to reinventions (her sultry, lounge jazz take on
- [Miles to Go](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/miles-to-go/)
- [Family Business Part 2](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/family-business-part-2/)
- [Tora Collective](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/tora-collective/) - BASSIST/COMPOSER PETROS KLAMPANIS LOOKS TO PAST AND FUTURE AS HE TRANSFORMS TRADITIONAL GREEK MUSIC WITH TORA COLLECTIVE Unique instrumentation bridges Greek folkloric and modern jazz worlds, with Klampanis (bass, artistic direction), Areti Ketime (vocals), Thomas Konstantinou (oud, laouto), Giorgos Kotsinis (clarinet), Kristjan Randalu (piano), Ziv Ravitz (drums, electronics, co-production) and more Following up his acclaimed
- [Elements and Orbits](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/elements-and-orbits/) - Brooklyn born pianist, composer, arranger, conductor, and educator Randolph Noel has released his second album as a leader, “Elements and Orbits” His first album “Hands on the Plow”, as founder and director of the Brooklyn Arts Ensemble, was released in 2003 Randolph’s work can also be heard on several of the late Abbey Lincoln’s Verve
- [All Day](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/all-day/)
- [A Thousand Pebbles](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/a-thousand-pebbles/)
- [Time To Be Great](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/time-to-be-great/)
- [Mirror Image](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/mirror-image/)
- [Good Days](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/good-days/)
- [journeys vol. 2](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/journeys-vol-2/)
- [The Music of Pilgrim](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/the-music-of-pilgrim/)
- [Divine Nature](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/divine-nature/)
- [Oh, Hugo!](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/oh-hugo-2/)
- [Storybook](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/storybook/)
- [Nowhere But Here II](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/nowhere-but-here-ii/)
- [BALLADS](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/ballads/)
- [Red Beats](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/red-beats/)
- [Little Things Run The World (Remastered)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/little-things-run-the-world-remastered/)
- [MakeYourTake Blue Bird](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/makeyourtake-blue-bird/)
- [A Long Story](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/a-long-story/)
- [Childish Mind](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/childish-mind/)
- [That Christmas EP](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/that-christmas-ep/)
- [Nomadic](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/nomadic/)
- [The Rules](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/the-rules/)
- [HYBRIDE](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/hybride/)
- [Burning Room Only](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/burning-room-only/)
- [Each Caress](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/each-caress/)
- [I Wouldn't Mind At All](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/i-wouldnt-mind-at-all/)
- [A Lark Somewhere](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/a-lark-somewhere/)
- [Decidedly Blue](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/decidedly-blue/)
- [Earth and Sky](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/earth-and-sky/)
- [Runs To Sea](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/runs-to-sea/)
- [What Magic](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/what-magic/)
- [A Dream or Two](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/a-dream-or-two/)
- [Chameleon(Two) (2022/12/02) & The Best Of 15 Years(One) 2022/12/23](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/chameleontwo-2022-12-02-the-best-of-15-yearsone-2022-12-23/)
- [JazzTown - a documentary film by Ben Makinen](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/jazztown-a-documentary-film-by-ben-makinen/) - Denver’s iconic and Grammy Award-winning musicians reveal the secrets of their success and longevity in the music business while warning the young lions to whom they pass the torch to stay relevant in a marketplace both treacherous and brutal The majestic Rocky Mountains tower over a bustling metropolis filled with steamy and romantic nightclubs where
- [Atlas](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/atlas/)
- [Three Stories](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/three-stories/)
- [Simplicity](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/simplicity/)
- [Nurture The Child / Challenge The Adult](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/nurture-the-child-challenge-the-adult/)
- [Far As The Eye Can See](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/far-as-the-eye-can-see/)
- [Quintessence](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/quintessence/)
- [PARADISE COVE](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/paradise-cove/) - “I think we all need jazz in our lives these days,” composer, pianist, and producer Lisa K. Hilton writes in the liner notes for Paradise Cove. “Our world today desires and deserves a lift after the last couple years, and we aim to boost spirits everywhere.” Hilton chose the title Paradise Cove as a reference
- [Voices: A Musical Heritage](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/voices-a-musical-heritage/)
- [Wizard Wisdom](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/wizard-wisdom/)
- [CNRMXD](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/cnrmxd/)
- [Conspiracy](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/conspiracy/) - Tobias Hoffmann was born in Göppingen (Germany) in 1988 and discovered his passion for music and the saxophone during his high school years. From 2008 until 2010 he studied at the University for Music, Drama and Media in Hannover and from 2010 at the Prins Claus Conservatorium Groningen (Netherlands), where he graduated with a Bachelor
- [Live at the Bop Stop!](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/live-at-the-bop-stop/)
- [Love Will Follow](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/love-will-follow/)
- [Duals](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/duals/)
- [The Hasaan, Hope & Monk Project](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/the-hasaan-hope-monk-project/)
- [Prosper](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/prosper/)
- [Who Killed Jazz](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/who-killed-jazz/) - An Award-winning action-packed jazz film with live performances and candid behind the scenes confessions from Dianne Reeves, Charlie Hunter, Ron Miles and more! Elite professional jazz musicians address the elephant in the room: why are musicians living in poverty while the club owners and music distributors profit off of their life's work? Have the musicians
- [At the Water's Edge](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/at-the-waters-edge/)
- [Apricity](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/apricity/) - Through the dulcet tones of the South American charango, on latest album Apricity, out 9th December, Aukai draws listeners into rich and cinematic sonic vistas. With a return to acoustic roots, complemented by strings, soft chanting, and piano via collaborations with long-time friends like acclaimed cellist, Anne Müller, Aukai has created eleven intimate musical meditations.
- [Brand New Day](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/brand-new-day/)
- [Hot Sax on the Boardwalk](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/hot-sax-on-the-boardwalk/)
- [Christmas Dreaming](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/christmas-dreaming/)
- [Dreamride - The Music of Holly Burke & Bill Runge](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/dreamride-the-music-of-holly-burke-bill-runge/)
- [Imaginary Movies](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/imaginary-movies/) - Edward Givens is focused on the idea of the concept album. He composes in various styles, but his music is nearly always melodious, exotic and groove oriented. Imaginary Movies is heavily influenced by Latin jazz, space age lounge music, spy movies, and mid-20th century popular fiction. There are swanky horns, hipster beats, twangy Bond-style guitars
- [JazzTown](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/jazztown/)
- [Lemon Twist](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/lemon-twist/)
- [Last Place in a Bear Race](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/last-place-in-a-bear-race/)
- [Something for Someone](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/something-for-someone/)
- [Tales of Trees](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/tales-of-trees/)
- [Swingback (Single)](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/swingback-single/)
- [Songwriter](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/songwriter/) - Welcome to the dynamic exploration of sound that is, "Songwriter." The charismatic musical bond of 2022 JUNO nominees Alex Bird and Ewen Farncombe continues with their third original album in three years This time a duo album With Bird at the mic and Farncombe at the piano, they have written 11 new originals inspired by
- [Atomize](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/atomize-2/)
- [The First Snowfall](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/the-first-snowfall/)
- [FRAMED 2022](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/framed-2022/) - Born in the living room of singer-songwriter Yael Nachshon-Levin, FRAMED has expanded into a multidisciplinary collective of creatives who come together to create intimate evenings which celebrate art and music. Following careful selection of the best of this year’s events, they have created the FRAMED 2022 limited edition vinyl – an immaculate compilation of recorded
- [Feld](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/feld/) - This album marks a radical departure from the composer's previous acclaimed works with solo piano. Feld as a whole is a living body, a movie with an immersive, captivating story and yet every piece is abundant with character and stands out as a complete, individual scene in itself embedded in a greater picture. Feld not
- [Some Jaded, Atavistic Freakout](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/some-jaded-atavistic-freakout-2/)
- [Destiny](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/destiny-3/)
- [Lush Life](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/lush-life/) - Called a “jazz sensation” by Monday Magazine, with the Times Colonist calling Heather Ferguson’s music, “lush, expertly performed, with an engaging setlist and…she will fill the room with her silky-smooth notes” Heather’s journey to music was long and winding but the singer, based in Victoria, Canada, is becoming known for her interpretations of great 20th
- [Metamorfose](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/metamorfose/)
- [I'm Not Meant to Break](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/im-not-meant-to-break/)
- [SPIRIT SPIRIT](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/spirit-spirit/)
- [Courage](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/courage/)
- ['By This River' by Brian Eno](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/by-this-river-by-brian-eno/) - Pascal Schumacher reinterprets Brian Eno's 1977 track, 'By This River', offering a continuation of latest album ‘LUNA’, which explores the facets of nocturnal existence. Schumacher's version of this piece encapsulates the peaceful stillness of someone who has found comfort in solitude - or better yet, in the quiet company of the moonlight and the glittering
- [Let Go](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/let-go/)
- [Sarabande de Solitude](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/sarabande-de-solitude-2/)
- [Sarabande de Solitude](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/sarabande-de-solitude/)
- [Christmas: Live at The Jazz Room](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/christmas-live-at-the-jazz-room/)
- [Avi Granite's In Good Hands](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/avi-granites-in-good-hands-2/)
- [Senzai Ichigu](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/senzai-ichigu/)
- [Lucy Lambert's Violet Drift](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/lucy-lamberts-violet-drift/)
- [ilolli-pop](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/ilolli-pop/)
- [First Christmas Loving You](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/first-christmas-loving-you/)
- [Now That I Have Everything](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/now-that-i-have-everything/)
- [ANYWHERE YOU WANT](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/anywhere-you-want/)
- [Inappropriate](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/inappropriate/)
- [The Trondheim Concert](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/the-trondheim-concert/) - Born 30 June 1983 in Hamar, Espen Berg is a Norwegian pianist and composer. His first solo album, Noctilucent, was released in 2012 and became the starting point for his career as a band leader. The Espen Berg Trio was formed in 2014 with fellow band members Bárður Reinert Poulsen (bass) and Simon Olderskog Albertsen
- [A Contundente Arte das Rimas](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/a-contundente-arte-das-rimas/)
- [Variations On No Particular Theme - Part 2](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/variations-on-no-particular-theme-part-2/)
- [ANIMA](https://jazzizdiscovery.com/new-releases/anima/)
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