Jazz and Spoken Word Show
All About Jazz Feature ArticlesThis week, The Jazz and Spoken Word Show. Featuring Damon Locks, Fred Moten, Trapeta B. Mason; Tributes to NYC from C…
This week, The Jazz and Spoken Word Show. Featuring Damon Locks, Fred Moten, Trapeta B. Mason; Tributes to NYC from C…
This broadcast includes new releases from Eric Hoffman and Ken Hatfield , Hey Rim Jeon , Leap Day Trio and Eric Golet…
On this new 791st Episode of Neon Jazz we celebrate the new, the young and the champions. We kick off the show with a…
There are different ways to unpack this playlist. One of them is approaching it as a travelogue taking us to the musi…
2023 enters with the bang of the drumbeat of many new remarkable albums. Hear some of the most exciting voices featur…
A visit to the '90s with Dave Weckl from Rhythm Of The Soul, Stanley Clarke , Live At The Greek, Billy Cobham f…
While almost everyone is sharing the most polished and curated versions of themselves, Braxton Cook is asking "…
In its relatively short history, American jazz music has established a language that while having some ties to the Eu…
This show, from July 2021, covers two hours worth of the extensive legacy of the Blue Note record label, examining so…
Musicians need gigs and they need to go anywhere they can find them. The "romance" of the road becomes real…
The music speaks for itself. This timeworn axiom has often served as a suggestion that there's an intangible aspe…
This one's kind of all over the place: pure free jazz from the German trio of saxophonist Frank Paul Schubert , g…
This broadcast celebrates Valentines Day, Juno nominees and more, with new releases from Rachel Therrien , Simone Kop…
From one of the hottest jazz musicians on the planet, we begin the 790th Episode of Neon Jazz with saxophonist Miguel…
Today, the spotlight shines on the German electronic jazz collective Conic Rose. Members of the group who joined our …
A playlist built around the work of impressive emerging saxophonists ( Lakecia Benjamin , Xhosa Cole , Jason Marshall…
From cosmic gong signaling it's "Time to Reset" to bluesy combo asking that we "Say It Ain't S…
Omar Hakim , Japanese band Prism, guitarist Juan Cortes, French band Masal, Alex Acuna , the latest from Dhafer Youss…
Although a few jazz guitarists still perform solo concerts in the early days of the 21st century, none of them has pr…
On this show we conclude our twelve week look at Ivo Perelman 's Reed Rapture In Brooklyn with music from his par…
Swing is inseparable from jazz, yet remains an elusive quality. Episode 11 takes a deep dive in what makes music swin…
This week, we "Say a Little Prayer" for Burt Bacharach (RIP) with songs performed by Cécile McLorin Salvan…
The broadcast begins the February fundraiser for the station and includes new releases from drummer Jay Lawrence and…
From esteemed New York City trumpeter, we start the 789th Episode with Tony Kadleck and a song off his 2023 big band…
An intriguing set of music featuring Americana in its Unitedstatesean and British declinations, three variations on t…
The latest release from keyboardist Peter Fernandez, from Norway Soren Lee and his Diversity Trio, Melbourne Band Th…
This article was first published on All About Jazz on October 31, 2005.What the world needs now, it seems, is Burt Ba…
After almost a decade of planning and putting it off, the boys finally face their greatest fear: group jazz singing. …
On this show we continue our look at Ivo Perelman 's Reed Rapture In Brooklyn focusing on his duets with Colin St…
This show features several British jazz musicians such as Mike Westbrook and Yazz Ahmed . There is also music from P…
Precious archival recordings featuring unheard music by Charles Stepney , Donald Byrd and Miles Davis open this edi…
The "rich jazz musician" oxymoron is the focus of Part 2. Billy Bauer , Ellis Marsalis , Marshall Allen an…
We kick off the 788th Episode of Neon Jazz with vibraphonist and Kansas City native Mike Dillon and Punkadelic with …
Part 1 of recapping my favorite music for 2022 in jazz! Another wide-ranging show including everything from hard bop …
2022 is in the books and what a remarkable year in music is was! Here's the second part of my recap of favorite m…
If you ask a jazz fan to name the greatest piano-trio albums ever made, the probability is that their top twenty choi…
Old favourites from John Patitucci , Lonnie Plaxico and Tony Williams , new releases from The Resonance project, Eri…
Welcome to Philadelphia. Kurt Rosenwinkel and The New Generation including Joe Block , Aidan McKeon , Alexander Claff…
On this show we continue our exploration of Ivo Perelman 's Reed Rapture In Brooklyn, this time focusing on his p…
This vintage episode, from November 2021, features John Coltrane playing with Miles Davis and also Dave Liebman in…