Celebrating the year of Miles Davis’s centennial, drummer Gregory Hutchinson is releasing Kind Of Now, The Pulse of Miles Davis on Warner Music this April 3rd. The album features the extraordinary ...

Thee Steve Kenny Quintet will play a few selections from the recently released “Blue Chunks” CD (picked as one of the best of 2025 by Don Berryman) intermixed with some crowd-pleasing favorite Jazz ...

On Double Exposure Paul Chambers plays piano on four tracks and drums on only two with Larry Young playing B3 organ on all but one track. Although known primarily as a jazz drummer, Chambers’ first ...

A previously unreleased recording of the late great pianist, Bobby Peterson, with bassist Gary Raynor and drummer Jay Epstein recorded live at the Dakota jazz club at Bandana Square in Saint Paul in ...

Producer and music sleuth Zev Feldman launched his new label venture, Jazz Detective, with the release of two double albums, Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse Volume 1 (1963 and 1964) and ...

Jazz fans and the jazz-curious have three opportunities to sample top talents from the local and international scene in the coming month, and the music is all free! The 27th annual Twin Cities Jazz ...

Some great jazz albums were released in 2025. Some are brand new, others are older recordings recently discovered, and a few are updated reissues. Here are some of my favorites. After the Last Sky – ...

All over Fort Adams State Park there were signs in tribute to George. Before the beginning of the first day’s concerts, the Jumbotron at the Fort Stage showed an early interview with Wein discussing ...

Last year I reviewed the newly found recording from Mal Waldron Searching In Grenoble: The 1978 Solo Piano Concert [read my review here]. That is a brilliant solo piano performance recording. Now I am ...

Searching In Grenoble: The 1978 Solo Piano Concert is a previously unissued recording of jazz pianist and composer Mal Waldron’s mesmerizing solo performance at the “Five Days of Jazz” series in ...

In 1975 alto saxophone legend and former Monk bandmate, Charlie Rouse, made a recording with Brazilian musicians melding modern Brazilian music with jazz. This reissue tells another tale of two ...

The 2024 TD James Moody Jazz Festival took place from November 7 to 24 at New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC). In the Festival brochure, it says “I’ve always said the best has yet to be heard.” ...