Alan Pasqua – New Hope (Blue Canoe Records, 2025) A Steinway Artist, Grammy nominee, and Professor of Jazz Studies at USC’s Thornton School of Music,…
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Gustavo Cortiñas Drums Up a Global Call to Action
Gustavo Cortiñas – The Crisis Knows No Borders (Desafío Candente Records, 2025) Chicago-based drummer and composer Gustavo Cortiñas tackles humanity’s most pressing challenges with The…
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Nils Landgren Revives Holiday Tradition With “Christmas With My Friends IX”
Nils Landgren – Christmas With My Friends IX (ACT Music, 2025) Swedish trombonist, singer, and producer Nils Landgren returns with the ninth installment of his…
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Ravita Swings the Blues: Alice in Azure-Land
Ravita Jazz – Alice Blue (Ravita Jazz, 2025) Like Stravinsky, bassist-composer Philip Ravita’s Alice Blue (2025), builds on tradition to conjure something fresh, balancing rigor…
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Rosenbloom Swings for the Fences with San Francisco 1948
Steve Rosenbloom Big Band – San Francisco 1948 (self-released, 2025) The Steve Rosenbloom Big Band’s San Francisco 1948 presents an engaging brass fanfare: grand, bristling,…
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Mai Tais And Blue Notes: Waitiki 7 Pours A Fresh Mix Of Exotica
The WAITIKI 7 — Exotica Reborn: In Studio And Live At House Without A Key (Waitiki International, 2025) WAITIKI 7 plants a tiki torch back…
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Bill Laurance Finds New Light in “Lumen”
Bill Laurance – Lumen (ACT, 2025) In April 2025, pianist and composer Bill Laurance spent several days recording alone inside St. Faith’s Church in Dulwich,…
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Pulse Check: Jamile Finds The Jazz Beat
Jamile with Miki Yamanaka and her trio plus Steve Wilson – Pursuit of a Pulse (Cellar Music, 2025) On Pursuit Of A Pulse, gifted vocalist-composer…
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Juanjo López Channels Faith and Migration in ‘Above, Beyond, Within’
Juanjo López – Above, Beyond, Within (Desafío Candente Records, 2025) Mexican guitarist and composer Juanjo López presents Above, Beyond, Within, a three-part suite of original…
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Monk Business: Diego Piñera Reworks a Classic with Jazz Heavyweights
Diego Piñera – Evidence (self-release, 2025) Berlin-based drummer and composer Diego Piñera (Uruguay) brings an intrepid, rhythmically complex voice to modern jazz. Known for fusing…
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