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When two voices like Norah Jones and John Legend finally converge, it plays out as a natural event, perfectly capturing the essence of summer. “Summertime| The Jazz Word
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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
Emma Smith, Bitter Orange Review Bitter Orange: Emma Smith’s Swing, Soul, and Subtle Fire By Sylvannia Garutch Bitter Orange is Emma Smith’s debut for American jazz audiences and a confident artistic statement from a vocalist [...]| 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
Kieran Brown, Loving You Review Where Voice Meets Vision: Kieran Brown’s Cohesive Loving You By Sylvannia Garutch Kieran Brown’s Loving You is a program that is a showcase of collaborative musicianship, intelligent arranging, and the [...]| 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
When two voices like Norah Jones and John Legend finally converge, it plays out as a natural event, perfectly capturing the essence of summer. “Summertime| The Jazz Word
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Year: 2025| The Jazz Word
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
Month: March 2025| The Jazz Word
The debut album by The Beveled Edges, I Guess We’re Not Alone, is the sort of work that doesn’t scream its genre-melding modernization; it embodies it.| The Jazz Word
Randy Hoexter’s Tomorrowsville emerges as an impressively structured modern jazz statement, offering a vibrant tapestry of compositional brilliance and| The Jazz Word
In Crossing Paths, pianist-composer Renee Rosnes crafts a tribute to Brazilian music that is imaginative and performed by an outstanding ensemble. Released| The Jazz Word
In Alegre Menina, vocalist Masha Campagne crafts a luminous musical journey that bridges continents, cultures, and idioms as she seamlessly weaves the| The Jazz Word
With Out There, Hiromi Uehara and her ensemble Sonicwonder dynamically explore the jazz fusion landscape. Building on their debut, Sonicwonderland, this album| The Jazz Word
Wes Montgomery was a genre-defining jazz guitarist with his stylistic revolution, a melodic storyteller with a thumbprint as indelible as his thumb-plucked| The Jazz Word
Month: May 2025| The Jazz Word
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
Jo-Yu Chen's latest album, Rendezvous: Jazz Meets Beethoven, Tchaikovsky & More, released on May 2, 2025, under Sony Music, presents a compelling fusion| The Jazz Word
Precision and Pulse: Inside the Architecture of Cyrus Chestnut's Musicianship| The Jazz Word
Neff Irizarry's Cambio (Change) is an album that flows in Latin jazz performance and rhythmic, harmonic, and textural explorations. Irizarry, a seasoned| The Jazz Word
Month: April 2025| The Jazz Word
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
Kurt Elling has never been one to rest on past successes. With his latest single, "Steppin' Out," he signals a forward direction by reintroducing a tune he| 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
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
Rachael Calladine's album, The Game, released on March 14, 2025, under 33Jazz Records, finds the United Kingdom vocalist returning to her straight-ahead jazz| The Jazz Word
Silvano Monasterios is a pianist, composer, and orchestrator whose work reflects deep cultural roots and an expansive musical imagination. Born in Venezuela| 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
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
Wayne Alpern's Gotham is an excellent album that charts the fascinating intersection of Alpern's writing with elements of jazz and classical music. As a| 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
Lucia Sarmiento is not here to play it safe. With Escape, her debut album, the Peruvian-born saxophonist delivers a modern jazz sound unbound by geography,| The Jazz Word
Russ Anixter is a seasoned New York arranger who adores rock music and the spontaneous spark of jazz improvisation. The album in question, What Is?, the| 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
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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
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
For nearly five decades, Stephan Micus has charted a bold path as a world music alchemist, uniting diverse instruments to craft sonic rituals that defy| The Jazz Word
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JD Allen's Elegant Rendition of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas| The Jazz Word
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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
Maria Puga Lareo's journey from the lively jazz clubs of Buenos Aires to her major U.S. debut with My Universe is inspiring. With a vocal style and sound that| 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
Jane Monheit brings her vocal jazz enchantment to the holiday season with her latest release, The Merriest, an album that warmly embraces the essence of| The Jazz Word
Stan Harrison, a seasoned saxophonist and composer, is no stranger to a wide array of musical influences. Over the years, his extensive collaborations with| 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
Bria Skonberg's album What It Means is the vocalist and trumpeter crafting a musical love letter to New Orleans jazz. Released on July 26, 2024, by Cellar| The Jazz Word
In Cali Mambo, the ever-creative Dred Scott returns to Latin jazz by exploring its vibrant rhythmic landscape. Scott crafts an album of nine songs with his| The Jazz Word
Paul Dietrich’s 5+4 has a sonic palette where American folk-jazz embraces the pastels of orchestral elegance. Released in October 13, 2023, this album pairs a| The Jazz Word
Jesus Molina's latest offering, Selah, finds the artists seamlessly bridging the old and the new, the earthly and the divine. The album delivers a rich| The Jazz Word
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
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
Eric Alexander's latest release, Timing Is Everything, epitomizes the intersection of technical mastery and emotive melodic depth. This nine-track album| The Jazz Word
Eagle's Point by Chris Potter is an electrifying moment of contemporary jazz, uniting four unparalleled luminaries in a cohesive and dynamic ensemble. Each| The Jazz Word
