Lorenzo Bellini – Source (GleAM Records, 2025) Pianist and composer Lorenzo Bellini leads a quartet formed during his time at Berklee College of Music. Alongside…
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Believin’ In Revisions: Vital Information Finds Its Way Home
Steve Smith’s Vital Information – New Perspective (Drum Legacy Records, 2025) Steve Smith’s Vital Information presents a fabulous lineup on its latest album, New Perspective.…
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Singer Lauren Henderson Explores Sound in Deeply Personal ‘Sonidos’
Lauren Henderson – Sonidos (Brontosaurus Records, 2025) Lauren Henderson’s Sonidos is a refined, elegant and seasonally framed exploration of sound, identity, and cultural lineage. Rooted…
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Jazz Singer Tereza Catarov Unearths Balkan Tradition on ‘Koren’
Tereza Catarov – Koren (PKmusik, 2025) Tereza Catarov’s debut album, Koren offers an inventive and fearless synthesis of Balkan folk traditions and contemporary jazz. The…
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Kind of Blue: Joni Mitchell Curates a Jazz-Flavored Retrospective
Joni Mitchell will release Joni’s Jazz on September 5, a career-spanning anthology that traces her deep and evolving relationship with jazz. The 61-track collection arrives…
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Sandro Norton Flying High at the Heart of It, Featuring Gary Burton
Flying High at the Heart of It (distributed by CDX Records and The Orchard) is the latest album by Portuguese jazz guitarist and composer Sandro…
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A Supermoon and Supergroup: Carl Weingarten Slides Into Orbit
Carl Weingarten – Songs for a Perigee Moon (Multiphase, 2025) Carl Weingarten’s Songs for a Perigee Moon is thematically inspired by the “perigee moon” (supermoon).…
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Rez Abbasi’s Acoustic Quintet Returns with Sound Remains
Rez Abbasi – Sound Remains (Whirlwind Recordings, 2025) Guitarist and composer Rez Abbasi continues to refine his acoustic language on Sound Remains, the third release…
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Bob Schlesinger Makes His Debut With Falling From Earth
Pianist and composer Bob Schlesinger will release Falling From Earth, his debut album as a bandleader, on August 1, 2025. Recorded with an elite ensemble…
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Rebecca Vasmant Finds Her Voice
Rebecca Vasmant – Who We Are, Becoming (2025) Rebecca Vasmant’s second album, Who We Are, Becoming, marks a pivotal moment in the Glasgow-based producer and…
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