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    Trio aRT with its avalanche of instrumentation: from left, Pheeroan akLaff, Scott Robinson and Julian Thayer.

    News, From the Magazine, Trio aRT

    Sep 3, 2025 12:03 PM

    Trio aRT: Music at ScienSonic Speed

    Trio aRT, a working unit since 1988, shockingly released its very first studio recording this summer. Recorded in…

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    Don and Maureen Sickler serve as the keepers of engineer Rudy Van Gelder’s flame at Van Gelder Studio, perhaps the most famous recording studio in jazz history.

    News, From the Magazine

    Sep 3, 2025 12:02 PM

    Keeping the Flame at Van Gelder Studio

    On the last Sunday of 2024, in the control room of Van Gelder Studio, Don and Maureen Sickler, co-owners since Rudy Van…

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    “It’s energetic,” says Brittany Davis of feeling the spirits of the ancestors. “It’s interpretive. It’s a dance of sound and vibration. It’s a memory, it’s a wash. It’s washing over you.”

    News, From the Magazine, Brittany Davis

    Sep 3, 2025 12:01 PM

    Brittany Davis Catches Some ‘Black Thunder’

    Since she was 3 years old, Brittany Davis has been mimicking bird songs on the piano. Davis, who was born blind, also…

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    Mark Masters, right, with Billy Harper.

    News, From the Magazine, Mark Masters

    Sep 3, 2025 12:00 PM

    Mark Masters Celebrates Sam Rivers & Billy Harper

    The Rising Star Category of this publication’s annual Critics Poll was once called Talent Deserving Wider Recognition…

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    “What I got from Percy was the dignity of playing the bass,” Buster Williams said of Percy Heath.

    Interview, From the Magazine, Buster Williams

    Aug 26, 2025 1:53 PM

    Blindfold Test: Buster Williams

    Buster Williams, who at the age of 83 has been on the scene for 65 years, had never done a Blindfold Test. The first…

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    “I’m not getting any younger, and in my later years I want to make sure my own visions can be realized,” says pianist George Colligan.

    Interview, From the Magazine, George Colligan

    Aug 26, 2025 1:48 PM

    George Colligan’s Vision Realized

    From one perspective, the eminently versatile pianist George Colligan claims membership in the population of jazz…

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    Tyreek McDole follows up his Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition win with a collection of jazz classics.

    Review, From the Magazine, Tyreek McDole, Gabriela Martina, Maxim Lubarsky, Champian Fulton, Jeffrey Gimble, Ute Lemper, Roxana Amed

    Aug 26, 2025 1:14 PM

    Review: Vocals Aplenty

    Tyreek McDole cements his place as a vocalist to watch with his debut, Open Up Your Senses (Artwork; ★★★★ …

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    Butcher Brown, clockwise from top left: Marcus Tenney, DJ Harrison, Morgan Burrs, Corey Fonville and Andrew Randazzo. (Keyboardist Harrison couldn’t make the gig, so special guest Jacob Mann sat in with the band at the Reno Jazz Festival.)

    Interview, From the Magazine, Butcher Brown

    Aug 19, 2025 12:41 PM

    Blindfold Test: Butcher Brown

    The band known as Butcher Brown has enjoyed the last half-decade basking in the glow from the twin engines of critical…

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    ​“I love the place that fate or whatever has positioned me in Gil Evans’ life and legacy,” said Ryan Truesdell.

    Interview, From the Magazine, Ryan Truesdell

    Aug 5, 2025 12:26 PM

    For the Love of Gil Evans

    “I originally set out to give two years of my life to Gil,” Ryan Truesdell said of his mindset in 2009, when he…

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    ​The Westerlies, from left: Addison Maye-Saxon, Riley Mulherkar, Andy Clausen and Chloe Rowlands.

    News, From the Magazine, The Westerlies

    Aug 5, 2025 12:20 PM

    The Westerlies’ Shape-Note Explorations

    “Have you ever gotten together with 40 strangers and belted out songs for three hours?” Andy Clausen asks.…

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