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This Is Jazz Today: Wayne Horvitz, Laszlo Gardony, RighteousGIRLS and more!

  And here’s Part II of this week’s recommendations.  A couple things worth noting:  One, both co-Albums of the Week were released by Songlines Recordings.  It’s a label that has put out some excellent...

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This Is Jazz Today: Indigo Kid, Roots Magic, Drifter, Deric Dickens-Jarrett...

  Obviously we’ve gotten a bit behind with our This Is Jazz Today columns.  We have a lot of catching up to do.  We fear your stereos have been suffering hunger pains and your wallets growing fat from...

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This Is Jazz Today: The Dorf, Amir ElSaffar, The Brothers Nylon & MK and Nick...

  We’ve got four more recommendations for you as we get caught back up with our This Is Jazz Today columns.  And we still have a lot of catching up to do.  And you, well, you have too much unused space...

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This Is Jazz Today: Logan Strosahl Team, Shai Maestro Trio, Armel Dupas,...

  We’ve got five more recommendations for you as we get caught back up with our This Is Jazz Today columns.  And we still have a lot of catching up to do.  And you, well, you have too much unused space...

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This Is Jazz Today: Josh Maxey, Liberty Ellman, Juli Wood Quartet, Baltazanis...

  So, we continue our brisk catch-up of the This Is Jazz Today columns with five more recommendations.  And, yes, we still have a lot of catching up to do.  It’ll be another week or two before we get...

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This Is Jazz Today: Improgressive, Yuma Uesaka, The Sorcerers, Gregg...

  This is gonna be a huge week for playing catch-up on our This Is Jazz Today recommendations.  Hopefully, we’ll be back up to speed one week from today.  Speaking of today, we’ve got five more...

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This Is Jazz Today: Goodman-Bordenave Quintet, C.B.G., Urs Bollhalder Trio,...

  And we’re back with five more recommendations with a new This Is Jazz Today.  Today’s batch sticks closer to a straight-ahead flight course, though we’ve got a couple that flee to the fringes of jazz...

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This Is Jazz Today: ACT, Misha Mullov-Abbado, Chamber Metropolitan Trio,...

  Okay, we’re back with another batch of recommendations!  The new edition of This Is Jazz Today is gonna make the straight-ahead jazz fan quite happy.  Thankfully, these recordings show just how...

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This Is Jazz Today: Mike Holober, Tobias Meinhart, Oscar Perez and Will...

  Got a short list for you as we try to dig ourselves out of the hole of backlogged new releases.  Today, we’re serving up four relatively straight-ahead recordings, and the diversity of their sound...

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This Is Jazz Today: Orrin Evans, Get the Blessing, John Ellis and more!

  Nothing quite says “we’re back” like a This Is Jazz Today column.  Not for nothing, we’ve got a ton to catch up with.  There are lists sitting around here just begging to get mined for the best...

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This Is Jazz Today: Julian Arguelles, Pin Addix, Matthew Halsall and more!

  Even though I’ve been at this awhile now, it never fails to amaze me each time I put up a ten spot of new recommendations and witness just how diverse are the array of sounds represented.  Seriously,...

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This Is Jazz Today: Aaron Irwin, Industrial Revelation, Dave Douglas and more!

  So, we’re still playing some catch-up here, both from the site downtime and, well, there was a tidal wave of new releases in the last quarter of the year.  So, what you’ll get today and next week are...

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This Is Jazz Today: Sylvain Rifflet, John Hebert, Nick Mazzarella and more!

  So, we’re still playing some catch-up here, both from the site downtime and, well, there was a tidal wave of new releases in the last quarter of the year.  So, what you’ll get today and next week are...

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This Is Jazz Today: Made to Break, Matthieu Donarier, Book of Air and more!

  Well, look what I found.  As I was taking care of some badly overdue year-end clean-up, I found a bunch of first drafts and notes for albums that I never managed to fit into a column… and it looks...

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This Is Jazz Today: But Yesterday was not that long ago

  I don’t know if they use the term “slush pile” anymore, but back when I was actively sending out queries of my own to publishers and agents to get them to take a look at one of my fiction novels, the...

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