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Wayne Shorter is back at it. He's learning how to stretch out all over again.| PopMatters
Wayne Shorter is back at it. He's learning how to stretch out all over again.| PopMatters
Made in 1957 with Lou Levy, Ray Brown, and Stan Levely, 'Getz Meets Mulligan' marks the only time the pair recorded in a quintet format.| uDiscover Music
The album was originally released by the label in 1958.| uDiscover Music
It's the newest addition to Verve’s Acoustic Sounds Series lineup.| uDiscover Music
'Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Duke Ellington Songbook' is consummate vocal jazz that took over a year to record, but it was well worth the wait.| uDiscover Music
The tenor saxophonist’s 1964 album saw him collaborate with the John Coltrane Quartet’s McCoy Tyner and Elvin Jones.| uDiscover Music
A pioneering hard bop pianist, the late Horace Silver was a founding member of The Jazz Messengers. He left an enormously important legacy.| uDiscover Music
The great pianist and composer Horace Silver was, among other things, a genius with melody. Here are some of his best.| uDiscover Music
His second album for Blue Note, ‘Sonny’s Crib’ established the short-lived pianist as an in-demand giant in the jazz world.| uDiscover Music
The song marked the emergence of Nat King Cole's daughter as an exciting new jazz-soul talent in her own right.| uDiscover Music
The 1977 record is more conventionally commercial than 'The Jewel and the Lotus,' with excellent tracks throughout.| uDiscover Music
The first solo release post-Cream, 'Songs For A Tailor' is an underrated gem from a clever songwriter.| uDiscover Music
Kenny Wheeler Legacy, Some Days Are Better: The Lost Scores Review Elegance and Edge: Rediscovering Kenny Wheeler’s Some Days Are Better by Ferell Aubre Kenny Wheeler’s music has always carried a touch of mystery with [...]| The Jazz Word
Alexa Tarantino, The Roar and the Whisper Review The Roar and the Whisper: Alexa Tarantino’s exploration of Contrast and Cohesion By Nolan DeBuke Alexa Tarantino has long been admired as a saxophonist, flutist, composer, teacher, [...]| The Jazz Word
Royce Campbell and the Vosbein Magee Big Band, Vagabond Review Royce Campbell’s Vagabond: A Guitarist’s Voice in Flight with Big Band Fire By Nolan DeBuke Royce Campbell is no journeyman guitarist as he’s the rare [...]| The Jazz Word
Geoffrey Dean Quartet, Conceptions Review Geoffrey Dean: The Dynamic Conceptions Of Collaboration by Ferell Aubre Geoffrey Dean makes it clear that his Conceptions is assembled with cohesion and is the product of deep knowledge of [...]| The Jazz Word
Fred Hersch, The Surrounding Green The Art of Listening: Fred Hersch’s The Surrounding Green By Ferell Aubre Fred Hersch’s The Surrounding Green, on ECM records, is an expression in trio subtlety and musical conversation. Marking [...]| The Jazz Word
Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Chris Potter, Eric Harland, Larry Grenadier, First Meeting Review The Geometry of Sound: Four Masters, One Meeting By Nolan DeBuke Representing a confluence of four giants meeting for the first time and sounding [...]| The Jazz Word
Nick Biello, New America Review Unity in Motion: Nick Biello’s New America By Nolan DeBuke New America is Nick Biello’s third release as a leader and is an artistic statement from a saxophonist-composer steeped in [...]| The Jazz Word
Paul Motian playing with contemporary Israeli pianist Anat Fort. Interview with Anat Fort. Her new album The Dreamworld of Paul Motian just came out on Sunnyside records. Available through Bandcamp: https://anatfort.bandcamp.com/album/the-dreamworld-of-paul-motian| Paul Motian
A 34-year Waynesboro tradition continues this summer when Buttonwood Nature Center presents their annual Jazz Festival on Sunday, August 24, from 5 to 7 p.m. The Wharf, a park-like property […]| Visit Franklin County PA
Picked by five of D.C.'s leading jazz voices, the festival's must-see shows include Ron Carter, Lalah Hathaway and Charles Covington.| CapitalBop
Congratulations to Kymara, who just started her first residency at Casablanca. I had the privilege of attending her opening night, and it quickly became clear to me that this was going to be one of the best gigs I have attended. Kymara was supported by the fantastic band Room Service, who had everyone clapping along. […] The post Kymara at Casablanca: 22nd August 2025 first appeared on The Badger.| The Badger
Come enjoy live music at the Art Walk! The Art of Music is in Admiral, Alaska, and Morgan Junctions.| West Seattle Art Walk
By Noma Faingold (August 13, 2025) The family hi-fi set-up, anchored by two giant hidden speakers, was located in the dining room. We never ate there unless we had company. No one who came to the …| eatdrinkfilms.com
A decade and a half of deep dives, overlooked gems and fearless listening from critic Philip Freeman. Philip Freeman has been digging into the esoteric corners of music […]| In Sheeps Clothing
Come hear Matt Pines’ wonderful new arrangements of favourite standards from the American Popular Songbook. Stop by for delicious Indian food or a drink at the bar, and enjoy swinging classic jazz standards, and delicious Indian food. For the best listening experience, make sure to reserve a table at the front of the restaurant for […]| Rebecca Enkin
Ahead of the D.C. Jazz Festival later this month, August features performances from Kokoroko, T.K. Blue, Warren Wolf and more.| CapitalBop
Looking for help to transcribe hand written cursive document—pencil on lined paper, with mix of hand-drawn and photocopied musical notation—into editable digital text. Under 20k words.| Nicola Griffith
El evento se celebrará entre el 15 y el 19 de agosto en diferentes enclaves naturales y patrimoniales de Narón, Neda, Cedeira y Valdoviño, en el noroeste de Galic| La Razón
New York, New York, Frank Sinatra's iconic song about the city that never sleeps. So good they named it twice.| Poetry For Healing
Georgetown’s landmark supper club, Blues Alley, tucked behind 1073 Wisconsin, will celebrate its 60th anniversary with some vocal fireworks. The jazz| The Georgetowner
This show represents an enormous amount of effort and discipline. Sustaining any single format for eight years is achievement enough for me.| thejaymo
“Moondance” blends rhythm & blues and country rock with noticeable jazz influences, creating a unique and sophisticated sound. Morrison initially focused on the melody, playing it o…| Poetry For Healing
Chuck Mangione left behind not just a catalog of hits, but a generation of players who believed their instrument could mean something.| WDET 101.9 FM
Combine two or more genres of music to bridge the gap between music your students know and the realms of classical, jazz and world music. The post Use Fusion to Engage Students appeared first on Yamaha Music.| Yamaha Music
In the pantheon of jazz’s most charismatic entertainers, Maurice Hines stood as a bridge between the golden era of swing and the contemporary stage. His| The Jazz Word
Come enjoy live music at the Art Walk! The Art of Music is in Admiral, Alaska, and Morgan Junctions.| West Seattle Art Walk
Armstrong and Coltrane: two household-name musicians who were pivotal figures in the development of jazz. Despite their historical essentiality, you probably first thought of their husbands, Louis Armstrong and John Coltrane. Lil Hardin Armstrong and Alice Coltrane are just two of the female jazz musicians who society has turned a blind eye to. How can... The post NYPL Exhibit Spotlights Women Who Shaped Jazz appeared first on The Observer.| The Observer
It was great to listen to the 90th Anniversary stream from the Village Vanguard with Once Around the Room for Paul Motian playing last night. So today’s featured podcast is Live From the Village Vanguard. Set List & Podcast: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2022/04/live-at-village-vanguard.html Photo: Paul Motian at the Village Vanguard 1963 photographer unknown c. Paul Motian Archive| Paul Motian
An unreleased cassette tape of Paul Motian practicing and composing on his piano interspersed with recordings with a variety of pianists he played with: Keith Jarrett, Marc Copland, Frank Kimbrough, Marilyn Crispell, Masabumi Kikuchi, Lowell Davidson, Anat Fort, & Bill Evans. Set List: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2025/02/paul-motian-piano-and-some-pianists.html Photo: Paul Motian & Keith Jarrett 1973 05courtesy ECM Records photographer ©Roberto Masotti| Paul Motian
Those that follow Paul Carr on social media know — beyond his longstanding joke rivalry with fellow saxophonist Roger Woods — he ends most of his posts with “#realjazz2.” The term “real jazz” is one of the central pillars of Carr’s imprint on the D.C. jazz world. It is often how he brands the music… The post ‘Real jazz means the truth:’ Paul Carr on his new presenting series at Takoma Station appeared first on CapitalBop.| CapitalBop
Das Duo Dana and Alden kombiniert auf seinem Album „Speedo“ souligen Retrovibe mit Gegenwartssounds. Verträumtes verträgt sich dabei mit Disco.| taz.de
The soulful singer, known for hits like "Living All Alone and "You Know How to Love Me" died just days before her 46th birthday.| The Root
Une expérience immersive où musique live, bien-être et cuisine estivale se rencontrent. Tous les jeudis soir de l'été. The post Le Jazz s’invite au bord du fleuve appeared first on Bota Bota, spa-sur-l'eau.| Bota Bota, spa-sur-l'eau
Au rythme de Vera raconte l’histoire, à travers les années 70, de Vera Brandes, géniale promotrice de concerts de jazz d’à peine 18 ans. Nous sommes à| DIACRITIK
The Jazz Institute of Chicago, in partnership with the Chicago Park District, proudly presents the 2025 Chicago Latin Jazz Festival, a free, family-friendly| The Chicago Crusader
Amid unrest in Los Angeles, Jason Toney reflects on Lalah Hathaway’s VANTABLACK and how deep listening reveals what the city is truly saying.| Jason Toney
It is hard not to begin a piece on saxophonist Joshua Redman without mentioning his emergence as a Young Lion in the early 1990s. Or without mentioning his father, Dewey Redman, and the elder Redman’s legendary body of work as a clear connection to jazz history. The discourse on the music is consumed with era… The post Saying less: On Joshua Redman’s new quartet appeared first on CapitalBop.| CapitalBop
Among musicians, Joe Ford was a household name. Although the mainstream media never quite caught on to the saxophonist’s musical prowess, Ford’s passing on May 25 has led to a cascade of reflections from friends, contemporaries and musical successors, highlighting his humility, generosity, authenticity and originality. Ford’s expansive career spanned over 50 years. He first… The post The musicians’ musician: Celebrating the life and legacy of Joe Ford appeared first on CapitalBop.| CapitalBop
Ahead of a special performance at the Library of Congress, the saxophonist sat down to reflect on 60 years of musical exploration.| CapitalBop
Randy Hoexter’s Tomorrowsville emerges as an impressively structured modern jazz statement, offering a vibrant tapestry of compositional brilliance and| The Jazz Word
Listen & Be Heard Remix Volume One: a timely blend of our guests reading from their work, and other highlights from previous episodes.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Come enjoy live music at the Art Walk! The Art of Music is in Admiral, Alaska, and Morgan Junctions.| West Seattle Art Walk
The La Spezia Jazz Festival is an international music event that takes place in the mesmerizing Gulf of Poets. Throughout the years, the Festival Internazionale del… The post La Spezia Jazz Festival 2025 appeared first on Discover Portovenere Blog.| Discover Portovenere Blog
With a unique, instantly recognizable style, pianist Matthew Shipp has been active on the international jazz scene since late 1980s. His boundary-less musical approach crisscrosses free jazz, elliptical post-bop, and modern classical music. He served as pianist in the David S. Ware Quartet during the early '90s before leading his own dates and recording duos with a variety of musicians.| Listen & Be Heard Network
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Today’s brief post is an homage to Chick Corea, one of the great jazz pianists, who passed away in 2021. I was fortunate to catch Chick’s concert with the Oregon Symphony about a year before his death. Still spry in his late 70s, wearing tennis shoes, and refreshingly humble, he wowed the audience with his playing, which included an improvisatory rendition of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.| Portland Piano Lab
Before Roberta Flack became an internationally renowned, chart-topping music icon, she was already making indelible footprints in Washington, D.C., both as a public-school choir teacher and an aspiring singer and pianist. It was in D.C.’s classrooms and especially its small nightclubs that Flack — who died in February at 88 — established the disarmingly personal… The post Roberta Flack’s D.C. legacy appeared first on CapitalBop.| CapitalBop
Rick Roe's Tribute: The Music of Gregg Hill is a study in compositional elegance. Hill, a Lansing-based composer with a wide-ranging compositional voice, has| The Jazz Word
Precision and Pulse: Inside the Architecture of Cyrus Chestnut's Musicianship| The Jazz Word
With his fiery debut album, the trumpeter takes listeners on a narrative journey of love, resilience and community.| CapitalBop
The D.C.-raised bass phenom will return to D.C. Friday to premiere his newest album, 'Between Church & State.'| CapitalBop
If you notice, things are looking a little different around here. 2025 marks 15 years of CapitalBop, and we are marking the milestone by revamping our web presence. Hopefully you find this fresh web landscape more streamlined, newly engaging and increasingly informative. We will continue to celebrate – more on that to come. In the…| CapitalBop
In Planet D Nonet Presents Doctor Professor Leonard King in Tribute to Joe Williams, released April 19, 2025, on Eastlawn Records, the spirit of Joe Williams| The Jazz Word
In The Brahms Project, guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel and pianist-arranger Jean-Paul Brodbeck return to the fertile ground of classical reimagination, following| The Jazz Word
New York-based guitarist James Zito, affectionately dubbed "The Natural" by Artslife Magazine, makes an emphatic and authentic statement with his debut album,| The Jazz Word
Listen & Be Heard Remix Volume One: a timely blend of our guests reading from their work, and other highlights from previous episodes.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Rutgers University Press is pleased to announce a publishing partnership with the Institute of Jazz Studies (IJS). The Institute of Jazz Studies is the largest and most comprehensive archive and... READ MORE The post Rutgers University Press Announces Partnership with the Institute of Jazz Studies appeared first on Rutgers University Press.| Rutgers University Press
Kokayi is a multi-discipline creative force who launched from D.C. and has touched the world in many ways over a lengthy career. From his start as an underground hip-hop destroyer of microphones, his roles expanded to include bandleader, producer, visual artist and — increasingly — in-demand collaborator in the wide world of jazz. As an…| CapitalBop
Sun Ra ArkestraHoward TheatreSaturday, March 22, 2025 On the first Saturday night this spring, I visited the Howard Theatre to hear the Sun Ra Arkestra under the direction of Marshall Allen on a double-bill with indie-rock pioneers Yo La Tengo. The Howard has been at the corner of T Street and Florida Avenue for 115…| CapitalBop
Gratitude, the latest album by saxophonist Sharel Cassity, released on March 28, 2025, under Sunnyside Records, is the next step in Cassity's remarkable| The Jazz Word
Kaisa Mäensivu's third album with Kaisa's Machine, Moving Parts, presents jazz composition and performance at the intersection of Nordic and New York jazz| The Jazz Word
Earlier this month, Bill Warrell — an institution on D.C.’s music and arts scene since the 1980s — hosted what he called a “firehouse sale” at Outer Space, his decommissioned firehouse-turned-studio in Brentwood, Md., as he prepared the building to be sold. Warrell was a founder of the legendary experimental-music venue d.c. space and of…| CapitalBop
With her debut album, The Vibe, trombonist Nanami Haruta confidently steps onto the jazz scene, marking herself as an exhilarating player on the jazz scene.| The Jazz Word
Atmospheric Trio, comprising bassist Jay Sweet, pianist Kenny Tam, and drummer Dan Weeks, presents their debut album, Following Polaris, released on January| The Jazz Word
Forty years in, thankfully, Toronto's Shuffle Demons refuse to mellow out. Are You Really Real? bursts from the speakers like a reed-powered street party,| The Jazz Word
John Patitucci’s Spirit Fall is an album that thrives on interaction, subtlety, and the vast harmonic implications of three jazz titans. Released on February| The Jazz Word
For two decades, Finnish pianist Alexi Tuomarila has forged an unshakable bond with bassist Mats Eilertsen and drummer Olavi Louhivuori, a musical synergy at| The Jazz Word
Esquire magazine called him the 'One-man Pink Floyd of Nuevo Tango'. Astor Piazzolla was one of the most creative musical forces in any genre.| Keith J Lang
Rodney Whitaker’s latest release, Mosaic: The Music of Gregg Hill, is a set of ten well-written and arranged compositions reflecting jazz’s past while forging| The Jazz Word
Jazz is a language of relationships, a dialogue where musicians connect in real time to shape and reshape sonic ideas. Guitarist and composer Pritesh Walia,| The Jazz Word
British funk-soul pioneers Cymande have returned with a new album that takes their classic sound while reflecting modern UK jazz.| Big Issue
Photo: Creative Commons The ‘favorite albums’ list… This is a list i’ve wanted to put together for several years now, but have never gotten around to it. There is so much mu…| the one woman apollo!
I had known for a while that Spotify was slowly filling its playlists with music that was composed 'in-house', or commissioned in such a way that they could pay less royalties or even none at all. It looks like somebody finally brought the receipts about how all that works. And| The Komoy Noise Research Unit
JD Allen's Elegant Rendition of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas| The Jazz Word
Two days after the event, I am still somewhat baffled as to what three of America’s leading avant-garde jazz musicians – Mary Halvorson, Michael Formanek and Tomas Fujiwara, playing and recor…| Sphinx
In Looking Back, Scott Hamilton takes us on a journey through time, reflecting on a career forged by solo excellence and the bonds of collaboration. The| The Jazz Word
Rich Willey has a career as varied as his instrument collection, and his versatility shines on Boptism Christmas. A musician of many talents—playing trumpet,| The Jazz Word
Steve Davis's latest release, We See, recorded live at Smoke Jazz & Supper Club, captures the seasoned trombonist's creative element on the bandstand. As| The Jazz Word
The DC Jazz Festival, DC JazzFest for short, has been a District-wide happening from the get-go. Musicians performed at 18 venues during the inaugural| The Georgetowner
A month ago today, I was hit by a minivan in a Golden Corral parking lot. A tunnel of white light enveloped me with a warm puppy-like comfort. I didn’t plan to die that day, but I respect God's plan for me. The light grew brighter and warmer before it shattered like one of those dang hippie lava lamps and I felt my body become solid again.| The Hard Times
Monk revisits a pair of classics adding a more pronounced R&B flavour to this relatively late single, uncoupled from the Monk’s Dream Lp, purchased from Age Concern in Folkestone for a quid.| Thrifty Vinyl
Alice Coltrane has been lionized for her light and her loving devotion to God and the spirits since her first collaborations (on albums with Terry Gibbs and her husband, John Coltrane), and her earliest band-leader albums on “Impulse!” such as 1971’s “Journey in Satchidananda” and “Universal Consciousness.” With her newest work, however, the posthumously released […] The post The Holy Spirit of Alice Coltrane first appeared on The Smart Set.| The Smart Set
Tomorrow's Another Day, Jeremy Pelt's latest album, released in March 2024 under HighNote Records, is a new direction to his enduring talent and innovative| The Jazz Word
On August 13, 1867 Green Montgomery swore an oath of allegiance to the United States, which made him eligible to vote in Floyd County, Georgia. Montgomery had been enslaved in Floyd County, probably since his birth around 1836, and his ascent from property to voting citizen was repeated scores of times throughout the South. Numerous … Continue reading The Landscapes of Wes Montgomery| Invisible Indianapolis
When soul jazz emerged in the early 1960s, it created a vibrant fusion of contemporary soul and R&B with the robust energy of hard bop, becoming the| The Jazz Word
Conspiracy Deliracy by Andrew Binder's Conspiracy Deliracy| The Jazz Word
