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Jazz WeeklyOct 14, 2026

HRISTJIAN RISTESKI: THE DANCE OF MACEDONIAN WATERS

Macedonia, once the home of home of both Byzantine and Ottoman cultures, still brings fresh ideas to Western minds. Clarinetist/saxist Hristjian Risttski, born in Ohrid (also known as "The Jerusalem of Europe") brings a fresh sound to jazz, melding in ancient orthodox tones and harmonies with modern sensibilities, bringing in a fresh Aegian breeze of...

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Jazz WeeklyOct 12, 2026

Fumi Tomita: Yokai-Songs of the Japanese Supernatural

Bassist and composer Fumi Tomita richly mixes jazz ideologies with his own Japanese tradition of harmonies and folklore on this album that explores dreams and visions both spiritual and musical. He’s joined by Carl Clements/fl-sax, Jason Ennis/g and Gary Fieldman/dr, as they say, every musical picture tells a story. Tomita’s rich bass has that same...

Jazz WeeklyOct 12, 2026

Lisa Hilton: Naturally

She mixes and matches modes with familiar friends Rudy Royston/dr, Luques Curtis/b JD Allen/ss-ts and Igmar Thomas/tp, with the latter forming rich tones around the locking lines of Hilton and Curtis on a flowing dream of “Carefree Chronicles”, while “Transcendental Tango” has Hilton and Curtis working up a sweat on a dance floor with a...

Jazz WeeklyOct 12, 2026

Gil Melle’: Music From Hot Target Jealousy-Georgia

Mostly known as a warm sounding saxist, Gil Melle’ turns in a couple of musical scores, most famously the Angie Dickenson film Georgia as well as the 1984 thriller Hot Target. This isn’t a “jazz” album soundtrack, per se, but there is a rich mix of electronic ideas, dark themes and fantasmic settings. Titles like...

Jazz WeeklyOct 12, 2026

Reza Khan: Shadow Dancers

Reza Khan plays guitars, keyboards and santoor, as he leads a tea mof Matt King/p-key, Mauriicao Zotarelli/dr, Brendan Rothwell/b, Philippe Saisse/key and a collection of guests including bassists Mark Egan, Nathan East and Jimmy Haslip on this collection of soundscapes. Khan’s nylons strings shine with Jeff Kashiwa’s tenorsax on “Aurora” , while some Latin loving...

Jazz WeeklyOct 12, 2026

Stephen Braude: Big Dipper

Subtitled “Alternative Jazz Fusion”, this release by pianist and composer Stephen Braude takes on a wide variety of musical genres. The team of Ljubomir Stojanovic/key, Miodrag Jovanic/g, David Rodriguez/arr, Sarah Thiele/voc, Jeremy Kiewicki/dr, Derek Jones/b, Ramiro Nasello/tp and Charles McNeal/sax are mixed and matched from a mellow bluesy synth of “Gary’s Tune” the a humming...

Jazz WeeklyOct 12, 2026

Robeone: If You Don’t Know What It Is, It Must Be Jazz

Robeone plays every sound on this album with more keyboards than most music stores on this wide ranging collection of originals. There’s a fun stop-start mad dash with some violin and trumpet sounds on the free bopper “A Lovely Bit Of Squirrel”, while a deep electric bass groove gets down and dirty on the hip...

Jazz WeeklyOct 12, 2026

David Borgo: Pana Rhei

Composer, enthnomusicologist, professor and player of a warm tenor and soprano sax (among other ditties), David Borgo brings together a team of LA’s finest in Josh Nelson/p, Luca Alemanno/b and Dan Schnelle/dr for a rich collection of modern originals. The ethnomusicologist in Borgo comes out when he pulse out his Irish low whistle and delivers...

Jazz WeeklyOct 12, 2026

Luis Alas: High Life

Alto saxist Luis Alas sounds like he’s trying to be the reed version of Teddy Pendergast, playing his bel canto horn around seductive soulful originals with his team of Edard Menifee/key, Marcus William/dr, Deshone William/perc, Kevin Walker/g and Myron Carroll/b. The album is loaded with deep grooves, with Carroll’s thumb working overtime as Alas sears...

Jazz WeeklyOct 12, 2026

Zeitgeist: Mary Ellen Childs: North

Consisting of the team Pat O’Keefe/cl, Nicole Melville/p and Heather Barringer-Patti Cudd/perc, the band Zeitgeist creates imaginative soundscapes, but without the use of electronics The alluring thing about this band is that every nuance is organically produced, creating a holistic organic environment, and in this case the land is the Arctic. The sounds match the...

Jazz WeeklyOct 12, 2026

Empire Child: The Empire Child

Vocalist Ruth Rothwell brings songs of hope and healing on this album of encouragement with Mariano Diaz/p-key, Rene Rossano/g, Mikel Urreta/dr, Daniel Pozo/b, Tomi Lujan/perc and a handful of guests. The musical themes are wide ranging, going from a reggaed and fun “By Boat” to a wacka wooka-ing “Step Up Step Up” and 80’s pop...

Jazz WeeklyOct 12, 2026

Neil Rolnick: Messages

Using simply a laptop and tons of imagination, Neil Rolnick creates an album of sonic samples that get stretched, pulled intertwined and released in quite creative and diverse ways. Taking simple words like “measuring” or “falling apart”, Rolnick purees them into a mosaic of ideas on “sO mANy mE’s”, while “MONO Prelude” combines sitarish noodles...