Black Orpheus (Hip-O --Fontana-- )
Achim Kaufmann - Kyrill (Pirquet )
Ana Caram - Rio After Dark (Chesky )
Andrew Hill - Dreams Come True (Joyous Shout! )
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Tribute To Antonio Carlos Jobim (Sony BMG Europe )
Antonio Ciacca - Rush Lifedig (Motema Music )
Antonio Ciacca - Rush Life (Motema Music )
Art Blakey - Like Someone In Love (& The Jazz Mes (Pid )
Art Blakey - Like Someone In Love (Toshiba EMI Japan )  read more »

Art Pepper - Mucho Calor (Jazz Track )
Atjazz - Full Circle (Mantis Recordings )
Barbara Carroll - I Wished On The Moon (Pid )
Bud Powell - Piano Interpretations + Blues In Closet (Lonehill Jazz Spain )
Bud Powell - Jazz Giant (Essential Jazz Spain )
Carl Drevo & The Clarke-Boland Big Band - Swing Waltz Swing (Family Affair Distribution SRL )
Count Basie - On Beatles (Groove Hut Spain )
Dave McKenna - Down Home (Lonehill )  read more »

The Portland Jazz Festival , pronounced dead on September 8 due to the pullout of Seattle-based title sponsor Qwest Communications, now rises from its ashes on the wings of Alaska Airlines and an advisory board of local businesses and individuals. According to a press release issued today by PDX Jazz, the fest's umbrella organization, "the 6th Annual Alaska Airlines Portland Jazz Festival presented by The Oregonian A&E will take place, as scheduled, Februrary 13-22, 2009." The 10-day fest's theme will be the 70th anniversary of Blue Note Records. Does this suggest corporate and community support for jazz is available -- if you know where to find it?  read more »

A major international jazz festival right now in Washington D.C.? How odd: Is it the End of Times? Are we fiddlin' while Rome burns? Or could it be a new beginning?  read more »

The New Jazz THing is LIVE! Thursday, October 2, 2008 between 6 and 8 PM PT on Jazz 88.3, KSDS San Diego, 88.3 FM with World Wide Webcast at http://Jazz88.org!

Tonight on the show…Stanley Jordon drops by the Jazz 88 Studios to chat about this weekend’s Anthology Dates and the State of His Nature! The great drummer Billy Mintz plays Dizzy’s next week, so we’ll get caught up and find out what else is New with Billy!

NOTE: Live Video Only Link. There are problems with some embedded videos and browser on the site right now, so follow that link to a page that only has the TNJT TV Live Feed going.  read more »

There is probably no more intimidating a figure in jazz than Rahsaan Roland Kirk. If you don't know much about jazz or are unfamiliar with Kirk's music, images of the artist in sunglasses with four or five different saxophones around his neck or in his mouth probably have led you to only one conclusion: Here is someone who plays wild, noisy music that will be tough to deal with unless free jazz is your bag.Actually, nothing could be further from the truth. Kirk was an extraordinary talent who loved melody, was fascinated by sound and harmony, and remains along with Wayne Shorter one of the most interesting saxophonist-composers of the 1960s.  read more »

51st Annual Monterey Jazz Festival Monterey, California September 19-21, 2008

Youth had its day, but seniority made its mark at the 51st Annual Monterey Jazz Festival, held Sept. 19-21 at the Monterey California Fairgrounds.

Young tenor-sax star Joshua Redman opened the festival Friday night outside on the large Jimmy Lyons Stage arena with a rousing trio set, hearkening back to the Sonny Rollins' trio recordings from the late fifties. With great help from Matt Penman on bass and Brian Blade on drums, Redman took the standards "Surrey With the Fringe on Top" and "East of the Sun," got under the melodies and on to improvisational heights to reveal hidden nuances in the old standards. The group was equally impressive with Redman originals...

Jazz pianists looking for a Grammy-winning concept may want to consider recording a Laura Nyro tribute album. Today, the late pianist-singer-composer has been all but forgotten. But between 1968 and 1970, Nyro had comet-like success with a trail of soulful...Marc Myers

Rifftides Washington, DC, correspondent John Birchard went to the city's leading jazz club to catch a veteran pianist. Here is his review. Jamaican pianist Monty Alexander has arrived at Washington, DC's Blues Alley for a four-night stand. If the US...Rifftideshttp://www.artsjournal.com/rifftides

Cannonball Adderley Cannonball Adderley Live in '63 Jazz Icons 2008  read more »