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For Margherita Fava, the piano has always been both a vessel of transformation. Born in Italy to a family of baroque specialists, she carries the counterpoint| The Jazz Word
Month: October 2025| The Jazz Word
Wolfgang Muthspiel, Tokyo Review Wolfgang Muthspiel Trio: Dialogues in Tokyo by Nolan DeBuke In jazz, a trio can either narrow its focus to tight interplay or broaden into a world of color, space, and possibility. [...]| The Jazz Word
Christian McBride Big Band, Without Further Ado, Vol. 1 Review Swing, Soul, and Renewal: McBride’s Big Band Without Further Ado by Ferell Aubre Christian McBride’s big band has always been a proving ground for the [...]| The Jazz Word
For Margherita Fava, the piano has always been both a vessel of transformation. Born in Italy to a family of baroque specialists, she carries the counterpoint| The Jazz Word
Shawn Purcell, Oblivity Review Shawn Purcell’s Oblivity: Elegance in Motion By Nolan DeBuke Oblivity is Shawn Purcell leading and ensemble as a guitarist of fluidity and grace. He reveals he is a composer of rare [...]| The Jazz Word
Chip Wickham’s The Eternal Now arrives like a prism catching spiritual jazz sunlight, refracting the many shades of this journey into a unified beam. Released| The Jazz Word
Month: September 2025| The Jazz Word
Eric Alexander, Like Sugar Review Tradition as Creation: Eric Alexander’s Homage in Like Sugar By Nolan DeBuke Eric Alexander’s career has long been a study in a balance of respect for the language of bebop [...]| The Jazz Word
If you want to know where the heartbeat of the Midwest tenor/B3 tradition is living right now, drop the needle on Pete Mills's For The Record. This| The Jazz Word
Month: July 2025| The Jazz Word
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
Kieran Brown's Loving You is a program that is a showcase of collaborative musicianship, intelligent arranging, and the stylistic depth of Brown's singing.| The Jazz Word
Representing a confluence of four giants meeting for the first time and sounding like they’ve been conversing for years is what First Meeting captures. The| The Jazz Word
New America is Nick Biello's third release as a leader and is an artistic statement from a saxophonist-composer steeped in jazz tradition, engaging with the| 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
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
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
Month: October 2024| The Jazz Word
JD Allen's Elegant Rendition of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas| The Jazz Word
Month: November 2024| The Jazz Word
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
