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The Top Ten Jazz Albums of 2022

January 4, 2023 Todd Manning 0 Comments Anteloper, Best Albums, Eric Revis, Immanuel Wilkins, jaimie branch, Jazz, Jeff Parker, Mark Turner, Mary Halvorson, Melissa Aldana, Moppa Elliot, Nasheet Waits, Nate Wooley, Top 10, Tyshawn Sorey, Will Bernard

Celebrating yet another year of supreme sonic innovation

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ALBUMS: Renowned Reedist Avram Fefer Returns With Juba Lee

December 4, 2022December 4, 2022 Todd Manning 0 Comments Avram Fefer, Chad Taylor, Clean Feed Records, Eric Revis, Jazz, Juba Lee, Marc Ribot

His electrically charged quartet exceeds expectations on second LP

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Classical Experimental jazz

ECM Records: Still Beyond Category in 2022

October 16, 2022 David Beckett 0 Comments ECM, Enrico Rava, Fred Hersch, Jason Palmer, Jazz, Jimi Hendrix, Jonathan Blake, Julia Hülsmann, Keith Jarrett, Kit Downes, Manfred Eicher, Nitai Hershkovits, Oded Tzur

Digging into some of the influential jazz label’s latest titles

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ALBUMS: William Parker’s Tones of Home

October 9, 2022October 9, 2022 Todd Manning 0 Comments AUM Fidelity, Billy Bang, Brooklyn, Gerald Cleaver, Jazz, Joe Morris, Leena Conquest, New York, Universal Tonality, William Parker

The excellent Universal Tonality calls back to the legendary free jazz leader’s early ’00s era

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jazz Remembrance

The Creator Has Called For Pharoah Sanders

September 27, 2022September 27, 2022 David Beckett 0 Comments 2022, Alice Coltrane, Jazz, John Coltrane, Leon Thomas, Pharoah Sanders, RIP, Spiritual Jazz, The Creator Has a Master Plan

Remembering the groundbreaking jazz musician gone at 81

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Electronic jazz Progressive Rock

ALBUMS: Revisiting A Far-Out Tony Williams Classic

September 5, 2022September 5, 2022 Todd Manning 0 Comments drums, Jazz, M.I.G. Music, Neu!, Patrick O’Hearn, Play or Die, Rush, Tom Grant, Tony Williams, Weather Report

Legendary jazz drummer’s 1980 trio LP emulates Rush, Neu!

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jazz Remembrance

Acknowledging A Heavy Week In Jazz

August 27, 2022August 27, 2022 David Beckett 0 Comments Creed Taylor, jaimie branch, Jazz, Joey DeFrancesco, Michael Bourne, Monette Sudler, RIP, Warren Bernhardt

The genre lost six significant figures in the span of a few days

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Montréal Jazz Festival Takes It Outside in 2022

July 10, 2022July 11, 2022 David Beckett 0 Comments 2022, Canada, Jakob Do, Jazz, Kamasi Washington, Makaya McCraven, Montreal, Montreal Jazz Festival, Pasquale Grasso, Quebec, Ravi Coltrane, Samara Joy

A single outdoor stage alone featured 20 free concerts at this year’s festivities

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jazz Music Journalism

Phil Freeman Knows His Jazz

April 3, 2022April 3, 2022 Todd Manning 0 Comments 2022, Jazz, Phil Freeman, Ugly Beauty, Ugly Beauty: Jazz in the 21st Century, Zer0 Books

The acclaimed music critic and impresario delivers the only book on jazz in the 21st Century that matters

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Creative Jazz Titans Pay Homage to Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor

March 20, 2022March 20, 2022 Todd Manning 0 Comments Andrew Cyrille, Barry Altschul, Charlie Haden, Don Cherry, Ed Blackwell, Enrique Rava, Graham Haynes, Jazz, Joe Fonda, Luciano Rosetti, Oliver Lake, pDon Cherry, William Parker

A pair of new TUM Records titles explore the artistry of two dearly departed legends

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Back In The Days When I Was A Teenager: The Low End Theory at 30

September 27, 2021April 3, 2022 Daniel Offner 0 Comments 1991, A Tribe Called Quest, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Check The Rhime, Jarobi, Jazz, Phife, Phife Dawg, Q-Tip, Ron Carter, Scenario, Skypager, The Low End Theory

How A Tribe Called Quest’s sophomore masterpiece put the spotlight on their secret weapon and changed the course of rap music

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ALBUMS: Roy Hargrove, Mulgrew Miller and the Beauty of Harmony

July 26, 2021March 28, 2022 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 2021, In Harmony, Jazz, Merkin Hall, Mulgrew Miller, New York City, Roy Hargrove, vinyl reissue, Zev Feldman

A classic performance from two departed masters of modern jazz preserve their talents for the ages

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Electronics Experimental jazz Remembrance

You Gotta Orient Myself: One of Jon Hassell’s Last Interviews

June 28, 2021June 28, 2021 Dan Weiss 0 Comments Bluescreen, Brian Eno, Fourth World, Jazz, Jon Hassell, RIP

The groundbreaking soundscaper and reinventor of modern trumpet died on June 26th at age 84

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LISTEN: Miles Davis at 95

May 26, 2021May 26, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments 95th Birthday, birthday, Bitches Brew, Darryl Jones, Jason Miles, Jazz, Kind of Blue, Michael Jackson, Miles Davis, Prince, Scritti Politti, The Man With The Horn

Celebrating the heavenly birthday of a jazz titan with a playlist of our faves from his final decade

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How Landscape’s Subversive Synth-Pop Helped Shape the ‘80s

March 9, 2021March 15, 2021 Jim Allen 6 Comments 1981, 40th Anniversary, Blitz, Einsten A Go Go, Jazz, Kraftwerk, Landscape, New Romantic, New Wave, Spandau Ballet, Ultravox, Yellow Magic Orchestra

Follow the journey from jazz to New Romantic as “Einstein a-Go-Go” turns 40

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