Jazz news: JazzWeek Radio Chart: December 8, 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) 262 274 -12 1 […]
A French Jazz Composer Returns To The Source article @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Interview » Amaury Faye: A French Jazz Composer Returns To The Source Rust is one of the first impressions I had when I arrived in New Orleans for the first time. . . this city, basically, it’s in Louisiana, it’s resisting the elements like hurricanes and insects and everything. […]
Composer/Pianist Gregory Golub Unveils Third Original Jazz Album — ‘African And Other Jazz Passions’
Gregory Golub’s ‘African and Other Jazz Passions’ makes for a stimulating listen by an inventive and distinctive musician who is well worth discovering. Scott Yanow ” data-original-title=”” title=””>Gregory Golub is a composer, pianist and keyboardist whose music is full of surprises, creativity, and a blending of different idioms while always being inventive jazz. He […]
Jim Hall Musician – All About Jazz
Jim Hall, born in Buffalo, and educated at the Cleveland Institute of Music, moved to Los Angeles where he began to attract national, and then international, attention in the late 1950s. By 1960 Jim had arrived in New York to work with Sonny Rollins and Art Farmer, among others. His live and recorded collaborations with […]
Finding Her Muse in the Desert article @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Interview » Lara Somogyi: Finding Her Muse in the Desert This was improvised out of pure inspiration from the landscape around us. There was no intention of making a record; it was all spur of the moment. Lara Somogyi When one is making a pilgrimage to Joshua Tree in […]
Olhos de Gato album review @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Rachel Eckroth & John Hadfield, featuring Petros Klampan… Rachel Eckroth and ” data-original-title=”” title=””>John Hadfield were in Greece to record Speaking In Tongues (Adhyâropa Records, 2025). The freewheeling piano-drum duo found themselves with an extra day in Athens after finishing the recording, so they decided to enlist […]
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 […]