Jazz news: JazzWeek Radio Chart: October 27, 2025
All About Jazz publishes the weekly JazzWeek Radio Chart. Discover new releases, track chart movement, and learn what is being played on jazz radio stations in the United States. Enjoy! TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Christian McBride Big Band Without Further Ado Vol. 1 (Mack Avenue) […]
The “Jazz Detective” Finds A New Muse, Reissues Lost Classics article @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Multiple Reviews » The “Jazz Detective” Finds A New Muse, Reissues Lost Classics The first three LP reissues from the Time Traveler imprint indicate that, with a discography of 500 albums, the Muse Records catalog contains many classics ripe for rediscovery. Joe Fields (1929-2017) was a jazz producer and […]
Sounding Line album review @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Carmen Staaf: Sounding Line ” data-original-title=”” title=””>Thelonious Monk (1917 -1982) was often grouped with the bebop pianists of the late 1940s and early 1950s. But he was not bop. He was a pianistic world unto itself. Quirky, dissonant, often playful. Mary Lou Williams piano1910 – 1981 ” […]
Lover, You Should Have Come Over by David Bode
Home » Music » Song of the Day From the album Buy Album Album Title: Good Hang1718 Records LLCReleased: 2025 Duration: 01:09:07 Listen Sign in to view listen count About the Album ” data-original-title=”” title=””>David Bode , a New Orleans-born saxophonist, composer, and arranger, is set to release his debut album, Good Hang, on August […]
From Lima To Carnegie Hall Arturo Valdez’s Path To Prominence Is Defined By Range, Rigor, And Reach
Before locking down an extensive run of U.S. commitments, Peruvian bassist Arturo Valdez built a career that traveled confidently between celebrated institutions, headline stages, and influential recording rooms across Peru, Spain, and the United States. His résumé reads as a map of modern jazz and Latin American creativity, with each stop demonstrating a different facet […]
Anita O’Day Musician – All About Jazz
Born Anita Belle Colton in Chicago, Illinois on October 18, 1919, O’Day got her start as a teen. She eventually changed her name to O’Day and in the late 1930’s began singing in a jazz club called the Off-Beat, a popular hangout for musicians like band leader and drummer Gene Krupa. In 1941 she joined […]
Studio Architect And Stage Anchor, Arturo Valdez Scales Up A Transatlantic Career With A High-Impact U.S. Slate Through 2028
Few bassists combine the authority of a first-call bandleader with the technical fluency of a studio producer the way Peruvian jazz standout Arturo Valdez does. His next chapter in the United States, running through 2028, doubles down on both fronts: a robust pipeline of major-label-caliber recording work and a coast-to-coast performance calendar with nationally recognized […]
George Colligan Musician – All About Jazz
George Colligan is a New York based pianist, organist,drummer, trumpeter, teacher, and bandleader, who is one of the most original and compelling jazz artists of his generation. An award-winning composer (Chamber Music America/Doris Duke Foundation grant recipient, RACC Grant Winner) and player (winner, Jazzconnect.com Jazz Competition, DownBeat Critics Poll Winner), Colligan is highly in demand […]
Music Inn, the Berkshires, and the Place of Jazz in American Life article @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Book Review » The Jazz Barn: Music Inn, the Berkshires, and the Place … No other bricks-and-mortar institution, no other physical space, no other place better registered the pulsing changes in jazz music and jazz musicking over the course of the 1950s and into the […]
Same But Different album review @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Christy Doran’s May 95 Sextet: Same But Different Curse or blessing? A festival handing a musician carte blanche for a one-off adventure sounds liberating, but the allure of artistic freedom can be tempered by pressure: what if the personalities do not gel? What if it bombs? Christy […]