From the Distance of My Freedom by Aruán Ortiz
Home » Music » Song of the Day From the album Buy Album Album Title: Créole RenaissanceLabel: Intakt RecordsReleased: 2025 Listen Sign in to view listen count About the Album Pianist, composer, and music conceptualist Aruán Ortiz draws inspiration from the mid-20th-century Négritude movement on his striking new solo piano album Créole Renaissance. The recording […]
Gigi Gryce Musician – All About Jazz
Gigi Gryce was born George General Grice(sic) on 28th November, 1925 (not 1927) in Pensacola, Florida – although he was brought up in Hartford, Connecticut. He spent a short period in the Navy where he met musicians such as Clark Terry, Jimmy Nottingham and Willie Smith, who were to turn his thoughts from pursuing medicine […]
Jazz news: JazzWeek Radio Chart: December 1, 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 Nat Adderley Jr. Took So Long (Independent) 274 268 +6 0 […]
An Open Concept article @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Interview » John Hadfield: An Open Concept Courtesy Alyssa Jane So I moved to New York and I knew nobody. I knew one person… John Hadfield is a musician whose sound is instantly recognizable, due in part to his unique drum kit, which reflects the musics he has studied […]
Joni Jazz, Part 2 article @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Profile » Joni Jazz, Part 2 Jaco, with his musical genius and his completely original way of playing the bass, which is not like a bass—he plays the bass, as if he were playing an orchestra—he thinks conceptually as an arranger, and it affected Joni’s playing. Henry […]
Many Moons album review @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Markus Rutz: Many Moons Orson Welles once quipped, “I’m not such a fool as to not take the moon seriously.” Journeyman Chicago trumpeter Markus Rutz takes this sentiment to heart with his fine recording, Many Moons, which finds him under the spell of our silvery satellite, leveraging […]
Red Bubble by Chris Alford
Home » Music » Song of the Day From the album Buy Album Album Title: pre/post atrophyMystic Form RecordsReleased: 2025 Duration: 70:25 Listen Sign in to view listen count About the Album Bubbling melodic phrases from Chris Alford’s electric guitar craft a personal harmonic soundscape that is equally abstract and intimate. Alford invites the listener […]
Jazz news: JazzWeek Radio Chart: November 24, 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 5 1 Nat Adderley Jr. Took So Long (Independent) 268 177 +91 2 […]
Born Out Of The Legendary Brooklyn Raga Massive Jam Sessions, Quadrature Is Set To Release Their Debut Album ‘Black Hole Blues’ Through Deko Entertainment
Quadrature is a musical powerhouse that redefines sonic frontiers with their electric blend of raga, rock, jazz and psychedelia. Rooted in deep musical traditions, yet soaring into uncharted territories, the band crafts soundscapes that defy laws of genre, space and time. They feature the magnetic sitar/effects of ” data-original-title=”” title=””>Neel Murgai, the experimental Firebird trumpet/effects […]
June Christy Musician – All About Jazz
June was born as Shirley Luster on November 20, 1925 at the Memorial Hospital in Springfield, Illinois and was raised from the age of three in Decatur, Illinois; and from the beginning always wanted to sing. She was singing with local bands when she was just 13, and later with society bands around Chicago, the […]