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Gaia Wilmer, Greg Ward, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Janel Leppin & Other New Releases
Episode 228
There are different ways to unpack this playlist. One of them is looking at it as a travelogue that will take us to that music incubator that Chicago…
3 years, 1 month ago
Ben Allison, Rickie Lee Jones, Mette Henriette, Jo Lawry & Other New Releases
Episode 228
The painstaking job of unearthing subtle nuances which were lost in earlier mixes of five of his albums is at the heart of the remastering labor of l…
3 years, 1 month ago
Xhosa Cole, Lakecia Benjamin, J.D.Hive, Jason Yaeger & More New Releases
Episode 227
A playlist built around the work of impressive emerging saxophonists (Lakecia Benjamin, Xhosa Cole, Jason Marshall, and Alex Hitchcock), and guitaris…
3 years, 1 month ago
Brian Blade, Sun Ra, Jon Cowherd, Chris Potter & More New Releases
Episode 227
Sun Ra may have joined the outer spaceways almost 30 years ago but he continues to inspire our earthly affairs through the musicians that have worked…
3 years, 1 month ago
Leiteres Leite, Hedvig Mollstead, Chad Taylor, JD Allen & More New Releases
Episode 226
An intriguing set of music featuring Americana in its Unitedstatesean and British declinations, three variations on the concept of jazz for large ens…
3 years, 1 month ago
Duo Hofmaninger/Schwarz, Charles Stepney, Jeff Parker, Donald Byrd & More New Releases
Episode 226
Precious archival recordings featuring unheard music by Charles Stepney, Donald Byrd and Miles Davis open this edition of Mondo Jazz featuring new an…
3 years, 1 month ago
Thandi Ntuli, Frank Zappa, Jason Moran, Soweto Kinch & Other New Releases
Episode 225
The first edition of Mondo Jazz of the new year! Judging by how the year started, it should not be difficult… we open with Jason Moran's latest fasci…
3 years, 2 months ago
Winter JazzFest 2023: The Out-of-Towners
Episode 225
One of the things that characterizes the New York jazz ecosystem at this time of the year is the celebrated Winter JazzFest. This year it’s back with…
3 years, 2 months ago
A Few More of My Favorite 2022 Jazz Things, Part 2
Episode 224
As this is our last show in 2022, our playlist focus on the songs we’ve loved the most in the last six months of what was an incredibly prolific year…
3 years, 2 months ago
A Few More of My Favorite 2022 Jazz Things, Part 1
Episode 224
Twelve months have gone by so fast, and so much has happened... At the beginning of the year we were still under various degrees of lockdown or socia…
3 years, 2 months ago