October 1, 2026 #1481

OCTOBER 1, 2026 #1481 Three of jazz’ royalty, bassist Reggie Workman, drummer Andrew Cyrille & saxophonist Oliver Lake performed brilliantly for 35 years as Trio 3. Shortly after Lake’s retirement in 2022, Workman & Cyrille asked the much-younger and much-heralded pianist David Virelles to join them for a gig. It Continue Reading

September 24, 2026 #1480

Featured this week are new releases from Germany (drummer Joe Hertenstein’s Future Drone, the Blumer-Morgenthaler Quartet, & the Schlippenbach-Walsdorff Quartet) and a preview of bass clarinetist Ziv Taubenfeld’s November release, “Song Of The Weeds” with his fellow Lisbon residents.  There’s a track from Satoko Fujii’s Orchestra Nagoya, another of her Continue Reading

September 17, 2026 #1479

The deep creative music scene in Germany reaches out to many artists, and three of the new releases in this week’s show have a Berlin reference point. Saxophonist Camila Nebbia makes that city her home base now; her new “Limbo” features a strong quintet whose members, like the native of Continue Reading