Jazz Desk
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News, reviews, and reflections from the jazz world.
Isaiah Collier Quartet plays a full program of John Coltrane songs at Brussels jazz Festival. It is music full of passion and intensity. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2026/01/23/i...
Isaiah Collier plays Coltrane tribute
Isaiah Collier Quartet plays a full program of John Coltrane at Brussels jazz Festival. It is music full of passion and intensity.
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January 23, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Isaiah Collier Quartet plays a full program of John Coltrane songs at Brussels jazz Festival. It is music full of passion and intensity. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2026/01/23/i...
Craig Taborn continues his experimental journey with cellist Tomeka Reid and percussionist Ches Smith on Dream Archives. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2026/01/21/c...
Craig Taborn with Tomeka Reid and Ches Smith
Craig Taborn continues his experimental journey with cellist Tomeka Reid and percussionist Ches Smith on Dream Archives.
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January 21, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Craig Taborn continues his experimental journey with cellist Tomeka Reid and percussionist Ches Smith on Dream Archives. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2026/01/21/c...
Chris Potter will release a new album featuring Bill Frisell and violinist Sara Caswell. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2026/01/18/u...
Upcoming release from Chris Potter
Chris Potter will release a new album featuring Bill Frisell and violinist Sara Caswell.
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January 18, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Chris Potter will release a new album featuring Bill Frisell and violinist Sara Caswell. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2026/01/18/u...
Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland and John Abercrombie blend blues, power rock, and jazz on the first Gateway album. It was released 50 years ago. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2026/01/16/g...
Gateway at fifty – Abercrombie, Holland, DeJohnette
Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland and John Abercrombie blend blues, power rock, and jazz on the first Gateway album. It was released 50 years ago.
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January 16, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland and John Abercrombie blend blues, power rock, and jazz on the first Gateway album. It was released 50 years ago. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2026/01/16/g...
Jackie McLean’s One Step Beyond was just that. It introduced Tony Williams and Bobby Hutcherson. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2026/01/13/j...
January 13, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Jackie McLean’s One Step Beyond was just that. It introduced Tony Williams and Bobby Hutcherson. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2026/01/13/j...
Roy Hargrove and his band are in top form on Live at KNKX recorded for public radio in 2009 and 2017. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/r...
Roy Hargrove live in his final years
Roy Hargrove and his band are in top form on Live at KNKX recorded for public radio in 2009 and 2017.
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January 10, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Roy Hargrove and his band are in top form on Live at KNKX recorded for public radio in 2009 and 2017. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/r...
Kris Davis’ new work for piano and string quartet is about the ecological crisis. It sounds mature and aware of the tradition of modern art music. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2026/01/07/k...
Kris Davis and the Lutoslawski Quartet play the end of the world
Kris Davis’ new work for piano and string quartet is about the ecological crisis. It sounds mature and aware of the tradition of modern art music.
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January 7, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Kris Davis’ new work for piano and string quartet is about the ecological crisis. It sounds mature and aware of the tradition of modern art music. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2026/01/07/k...
Miles Davis Pangea was released in Japan 50 years ago. It took 15 more years until it was released in the US and Europe. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2026/01/04/m...
Miles Davis’ Pangea turns 50 years
Miles Davis Pangea was released in Japan 50 years ago. It took 15 more years until it was released in the US and Europe. Miles Davis – Pangea (CBS/Sony 1975) With all the interest today in Mi…
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January 4, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Miles Davis Pangea was released in Japan 50 years ago. It took 15 more years until it was released in the US and Europe. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2026/01/04/m...
Max Roach’s Percussion Bitter Suite is one of the best jazz albums of the early 1960s. Now it is reissued on vinyl. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2026/01/01/m...
Max Roach with Abbey Lincoln and Eric Dolphy
Max Roach’s Percussion Bitter Suite is one of the best jazz albums of the early 1960s. Now it is reissued on vinyl.
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January 1, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Max Roach’s Percussion Bitter Suite is one of the best jazz albums of the early 1960s. Now it is reissued on vinyl. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2026/01/01/m...
This previously unissued live recording by Roland Kirk finds the energetic multi horn player with his first stable band. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/11/29/r...
Rahsaan Kirk live at the Penthouse 1967
This previously unissued live recording by Roland Kirk finds the energetic multi horn player with his first stable band.
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December 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
This previously unissued live recording by Roland Kirk finds the energetic multi horn player with his first stable band. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/11/29/r...
Linda May Oh’s new trio album features two of the most interesting musicians of her generation. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/l...
Linda May Oh Trio with Akinmusire and Sorey
Linda May Oh’s new trio album features two of the most interesting musicians of her generation. Linda May Han Oh – Strange Heavens (Biophilia, 2025) Bassist Linda May Han Oh has recorded such…
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December 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Linda May Oh’s new trio album features two of the most interesting musicians of her generation. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/l...
Keith Jarret’s iconic The Köln Concert turns 50 years and is reissued on vinyl. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/12/14/t...
The Köln Concert celebrates 50 years and is reissued
Keith Jarret’s iconic The Köln Concert turns 50 years and is reissued on vinyl.
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December 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Keith Jarret’s iconic The Köln Concert turns 50 years and is reissued on vinyl. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/12/14/t...
One of McCoy Tyner’s best trio albums turns 50. It finds him reunited with Elvin Jones and Ron Carter. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/12/26/m...
McCoy super trio with Elvin Jones and Ron Carter – Trident turns 50
One of McCoy Tyner’s best trio albums turns 50. It finds him reunited with Elvin Jones and Ron Carter.
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December 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
One of McCoy Tyner’s best trio albums turns 50. It finds him reunited with Elvin Jones and Ron Carter. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/12/26/m...
This previously unreleased live recording finds the Pres of the saxophonists in good form at the jazz club named after one of his many disciples. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/l...
December 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This previously unreleased live recording finds the Pres of the saxophonists in good form at the jazz club named after one of his many disciples. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/l...
So many great albums are reissued on vinyl that you almost do not have time to buy and listen to new ones. Here are our top selections from 2025. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/b...
Best jazz vinyl reissues 2025
So many great albums are reissued on vinyl that you almost do not have time to buy and listen to new ones. Here are our top selections from 2025.
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December 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
So many great albums are reissued on vinyl that you almost do not have time to buy and listen to new ones. Here are our top selections from 2025. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/b...
This is the albums which we have enjoyed the most in 2025. It includes a song cycle, an octet for guitar and piano, and a remake of a classic protest album. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/b...
Best jazz albums 2025
This is the albums which we have enjoyed the most in 2025. It includes a song cycle, an octet for guitar and piano, and a remake of a classic protest album.
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December 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This is the albums which we have enjoyed the most in 2025. It includes a song cycle, an octet for guitar and piano, and a remake of a classic protest album. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/b...
Golden Flower documents two concerts from Sweden by multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef. The one with Kenny Barron on piano shines most brightly. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/g...
Golden Flower – Yusef Lateef live in Sweden 1967 and 1972
Golden Flower documents two concerts from Sweden by multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef. The one with Kenny Barron on piano shines most brightly.
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December 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Golden Flower documents two concerts from Sweden by multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef. The one with Kenny Barron on piano shines most brightly. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/g...
Oscar Peterson shines with his pianistic brilliance on a previously unissued collection of live recordings. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/12/05/t...
The brilliance of Oscar Peterson – and the predictability
Oscar Peterson shines with his pianistic brilliance on this previously unissued collection of live recordings.
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December 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Oscar Peterson shines with his pianistic brilliance on a previously unissued collection of live recordings. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/12/05/t...
Rahsaan Roland Kirk and his horns of plenty shines brightly on the previously unissued Live at the Village Gate from 1963. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/r...
Rahsaan Roland Kirk live in New York 1963
Rahsaan Roland Kirk and his horns of plenty shines brightly on the previously unissued Live at the Village Gate from 1963. Rahsaan Roland Kirk – Vibrations in the Village: Live at t…
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November 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Rahsaan Roland Kirk and his horns of plenty shines brightly on the previously unissued Live at the Village Gate from 1963. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/r...
Ingrid Laubrock’s 60 pieces for different duos of singers and instrumentalists is one of this year’s most original albums. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/i...
Ingrid Laubrock’s Purposing the Air
Ingrid Laubrock’s 60 pieces for different duos of singers and instrumentalists is one of this year’s most original albums.
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November 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Ingrid Laubrock’s 60 pieces for different duos of singers and instrumentalists is one of this year’s most original albums. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/i...
Believe it by Tony Williams is fusion at its best: energetic and elegant. Now the album turns 50 years. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/b...
Believe It by Tony Williams’ Lifetime at 50
Believe it by Tony Williams is fusion at its best: energetic and elegant. Now the album turns 50 years.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Believe it by Tony Williams is fusion at its best: energetic and elegant. Now the album turns 50 years. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/b...
Two tenor saxophone greats go head-to-head on Dizzy Gillespie’s 1957 album Sonny Side Up: Sonny Rollins and Stitt. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/t...
The real tenor madness – Dizzy Gillespie’s Sonny Side Up
Two tenor saxophone greats go head-to-head on Dizzy Gillespie’s 1957 album Sonny Side Up: Sonny Rollins and Stitt.
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November 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Two tenor saxophone greats go head-to-head on Dizzy Gillespie’s 1957 album Sonny Side Up: Sonny Rollins and Stitt. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/t...
Aaron Parks returns to acoustic jazz with his new quartet album with Billy Hart, Ben Street and Ben Solomon. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/a...
Aaron Parks’ return to acoustic jazz
Aaron Parks returns to acoustic jazz with his new quartet album with Billy Hart, Ben Street and Ben Solomon.
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November 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Aaron Parks returns to acoustic jazz with his new quartet album with Billy Hart, Ben Street and Ben Solomon. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/a...
Changes I & II is Charles Mingus still on top of his game with a vital band which sounds like pure Mingus. The albums were released 50 years ago. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/c...
Charles Mingus Changes at 50 years
Changes I & II is Charles Mingus still on top of his game with a vital band which sounds like pure Mingus. The albums were released 50 years ago.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Changes I & II is Charles Mingus still on top of his game with a vital band which sounds like pure Mingus. The albums were released 50 years ago. jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/c...
Chick Corea’s last performances are now issued. Corea alone at the piano plays compositions by himself and others.
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Chick Coreas’s last tones and words
Chick Corea’s last performances are now issued. Corea alone at the piano plays compositions by himself and others.
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November 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Chick Corea’s last performances are now issued. Corea alone at the piano plays compositions by himself and others.
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