November 20, 2024 #1386

This show kicks off with some blues for a change, and it comes from a legend: B.B. King, recorded in concert in France at the 1977 Nancy Pulsations Festival. B.B. is in full glory with a jazz-inflected back up band. There’s no one like B.B. King. Trumpeter Natsuki Tamura and Continue Reading

November 13, 2024 #1385

This is a mixed bag edition of OMJ where the music ranges from a first-time appearance by reedman Floros Floridis who is jazz royalty in Greece, to a pair of new albums in the ongoing Live At Scholes Street Studio from Gauci Music, to new European releases by Midi 4 Continue Reading

November 6, 2024 #1384

There is some exceptional music crammed into this 162.5 minutes, highlighted by saxophonist Steve Coleman and Five Elements, tearing it up at concerts and France that include the debut of the much-praised Canadian Rich Brown on electric bass. The late Arthur Blythe is a link in the chain of important Continue Reading