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July 2, 2026 #1468 The recently concluded Vision Festival in New York provided me the opportunity to hear some artists for the first time, and I quickly began looking for their music – like pianist Hidemi Akaiwa & the powerful Konjur Collective – which you’ll hear in this episode. That Continue Reading

New music sampled this week comes from the dream duo of guitarist Mary Halvorson & trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, Canadian saxophonist Nicola Miller, Austrian avant garde pianist and zither player Sylvia Bruckner, the large Belgian ensemble Eclectic Maybe Band, Empirical from England, and piano trios: from New York Matthew Putman/Hilliard Greene/Francisco Continue Reading

Guitarists Miles Okazaki and Dan Phillips contribute music from their new recordings in this edition of OMJ. Okazaki’s “Boomtown” features a larger ensemble of top New York musicians, while Chicagoan Phillips hits it with his usual hometown duo of bassist Krzysztof Pabian & drummer Tim Daisy on the new “Universal Continue Reading