True Story: I was doing a software deployment for a client on an offshore rig in the Indian Ocean around 2010 and this was my late night walk around the Helipad deck playlist... Bassist Lars Danielsson 's stellar release Lars Danielsson Edition
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After performances in France, Switzerland & Germany in 2020, French pianist Matthieu Mazué and Swiss Trio group released Cortex, an exploration of sound & silence at times, and a torrent of colors & harmonies in some. Sound & Silence here.
Xaver Rüegg-B
Michael Cina-D
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Another generation, another jazz bop drummer bringing in the best of the Next Gen jazz artists and making magic. Drummer Ulysses Owens Jr. and his High Wire Generation Y band and their outstanding new post bop release Around The World With U . This band cooks...
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Photos of the four 2026 NEA Jazz Masters. Jazz Masters Fellowship include vocalist, composer and arranger Carmen Lundy; drummer, percussionist, composer and educator Airto Moreira; and pianist, composer, musical director and educator Patrice Rushen. The A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Award for Jazz Advocacy went to jazz broadcaster Rhonda Hamilton.

Update: The 2026 NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert is being rescheduled for fall 2026. More details on date and location will be available this summer.

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NEA to Honor Jazz Masters Carmen Lundy, Airto Moreira, Patrice Rushen & Rhonda Hamilton on Saturday The National Endowment for the Arts will honor the 2026 Jazz Masters at a free concert on Saturday, April 18, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. All performances...

The National Endowment for the Arts will honor the 2026 Jazz Masters on Saturday, April 18, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. All performances will be streamed online at arts.gov.

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Jazz Fans who are Grateful Dead fans will love this.
If you have never heard of Boston, Mass Post Bop / Jazz Fusion band Club d'Elf, here you go. Founded in 1998 at Lizard Lounge, Cambridge, Mass, new alubm Loon and Thrush & this Deadhead song!
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John Coltrane Sextet at the Village Vanguard - India
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WATCH - Streams Of Laughter by Luiz Santos -Subscribe! & SHARE!
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Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor by Buddy Bolden
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Alphonse Picou: High Society
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Offered as a prayer for all the Children of the World, who are forced to deal with the consequences of stupidity on behalf of their elders... from absolutely gorgeous and soul soothing duet album Storytellers by guitarists Antonio Forcione and Cenk Erdoğan
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TUESDAY, Apr 14th, 26
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..:: J O E L O V A N O ’ s P A R A M O U N T Q U A R T E T ::..

Joe Lovano - Tenor Saxophone, Tarogatos
Julian Lage - Guitar
Asante Santi Debriano - Double Bass
Will Calhoun - Drums

BeBop fans will want to check this out...Grammy winning trumpeter Bryan Lynch's superb Touch Bears feat legendary saxophonist Charles McPherson
Rob Schneiderman - piano
Boris Kozlov - bass

Kyle Swan - drums
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While Brazil and Uruguay share a common border, their music differs. Too long a list, but suffice to say, Brazil was colony of Portugal, Uruguay of Spain. New release Vibe Factor explains it better with Diego Piñera-D, Omar Sosa - P, Joo Kraus-TRP
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Pianist McCoy Tyner & 90's working Trio of Avery Sharpe: Bass, and Aaron Scott: Drums, add vibraphonist Bobby Humphrey for an album recorded in 1993, unreleased to this point, but The Seeker will hit the street April 28th...here is a sneak listen of title track
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Saxophonist Carlos Martins' Absence CD (2014, Sons Da Lusofonia) includes his version of Charlie Haden's composition "Silence". w/ Alexandre Frazao (d), Carlos Baretto (b), Mario Delgado (g).

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Happy Birthday April 14 to Gene "Jug" Ammons jazz tenor saxophone giant (1925-1974)!

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Fans of Bebop Jazz guitar will want to check out hot as a firecracker new release All In by guitarist Gil Livin. TI swear this man has magic fingers that float effortlessly....with tenor Amit Friedman, organist Yonatan Riklis and drummer Yonatan Rosen
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I don't have all the space to begin to detail the extraordinary body of work created by British pianist and Jazz Orchestra leader Mike Westbrook, who at 90 years young passed away on 4/11/26. A fixture on UK jazz scene here is Avant Rock Post Bop 1980 gem recently found
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Ivory Coast born, France reared, bassist Clovis Nichols holds fast to roots of jazz & embraces the residual flowers and pedals it evolved into. From stellar new release Blues in Blueprint: 12 Variations on the Blues. The Carla Bley tune!
Larry Goldings-P
Carl Allen-D
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From the Brussels, Belgian jazz scene, trumpeter and composer Pierre-Antoine Savoyat's outstanding new Post-Bop release Thousand Shades Of a Clown with an top notch cast of
Simon Groppe: Piano
Fil Caporali: Bass
Oscar Georges: Drums
Alexandra Grimal: Tenor & Soprano
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From the sophomore offering by the hard bop/ post-bop London based Five Way Split - Modus Operandi - an exquisite blending of modern modal music with
Quentin Collins-TRP, , Vasilis Xenopoulos TS/SS, Rob Barron-P , Matyas Hofecke-B, Matt Home-D
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I several bootleg recordings broadcast from the Café Bohemia, with support from Downbeat and Dom Cerulli. Can’t find compilation albums - I wonder if anything was officially released. Just finished Giuffre 3 with Jim Hall and Brookmeyer. Burning.
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A 2025 Gem That Wasn't A Dream from Pino Palladino (fretless bass) and Blake Mills (guitar/producer)...a visceral dreamscape with constant motion and reflection...
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Get "Profound Rivers" by Luiz Santos
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'Speakeasies to Symphonies' and 'Cosmic Music' chronicle 2 jazz greats Critic Kevin Whitehead reviews biographies of two musicians who transcended jazz, and to whom recognition was slow in coming: James P. Johnson, born in 1894, and Alice Coltrane, born in 1937.

Critic Kevin Whitehead reviews biographies of two musicians who transcended jazz, and to whom recognition was slow in coming: James P. Johnson, born in 1894, and Alice Coltrane, born in 1937.

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Photograph of John Coltrane from a page of the liner notes booklet

You Can Never Have Too Much 'Trane on Vinyl

Live John Coltrane’s Complete 1961 Village Vanguard marks the dividing line between Coltrane's past and future: a standard jazz quartet on the brink of galactic innovation.

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