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New Music From Tucker, Jensen, Nodeland And More

By Bob Osborne | World of Jazz
September 18, 2025
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This selection of music drifts across borders and decades, tracing a path from Dara Starr Tucker's ethereal lullaby to Charles Tolliver's fiery live invocation. It's a voyage through jazz's many dialects—big band warmth, avant-garde abstraction, global fusion, and spiritual depth. Each track marks a waypoint: Bonnie Jensen's breezy swing, Henry Threadgill's cryptic miniatures, Samara Joy's playful reinvention, and The Secret Trio's Anatolian pulse. From self-released gems to Strata-East classics, these selections speak in rhythm, resistance, and reverence.

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Dara Starr Tucker

vocals

" data-original-title="" title="">Dara Starr Tucker "Twilight And Mist" from Time Couldn't Wait (Green Hill Music) 00:00

Bonnie J Jensen

piano and vocals
b.1970

" data-original-title="" title="">Bonnie J Jensen "Jive" from Rise (MGM Metropolitan Groove Merchants) 03:07

Martin Nodeland} "Straight Out The Gate" from Tributaries (Smeik Records) 06:33

Steve Allee

piano

" data-original-title="" title="">Steve Allee Big Band "Brothers" from Full Circle (Jazzville Records) 13:06

Joe Bowden

drums

" data-original-title="" title="">Joe Bowden "Way Out" from Music Is Life (Self Released) 18:09

Henry Threadgill

woodwinds
b.1944

" data-original-title="" title="">Henry Threadgill "A" from Listen Ship (Pi Recordings) 21:17

Henry Threadgill "B" from Listen Ship (Pi Recordings) 22:22

Michael Ragonese

piano

" data-original-title="" title="">Michael Ragonese "Occupying Space" from Chasing Calm (Self Released) 24:40

Samara Joy

vocals

" data-original-title="" title="">Samara Joy "Flor de Lis (Upside Down)" from Flor de Lis (Upside Down) (Verve) 28:17

The Secret Trio "Dik Halay—Diyarbekir" from Old Friends (Anderson Audio New York) 33:51

David Bode

saxophone

" data-original-title="" title="">David Bode "Syeeda's Song Flute" from Good Hang (1718 Records) 37:13

Bob Schlesinger

piano

" data-original-title="" title="">Bob Schlesinger "A Child Is Born" from Falling From Earth (Self Released) 42:24

Jorge Garcia

guitar, electric

" data-original-title="" title="">Jorge Garcia "Still Crossing" from Still Crossing (SDG Company) 48:36

Camilo Angeles "Para Kunu" from Los Mandotos del Aire (TVL rec) 53:03

Jussi Reijonen

guitar
b.1980

" data-original-title="" title="">Jussi Reijonen "salt -sarvi" from salt-sarvi (unmusic) 58:09

Eric Alexander

saxophone, tenor
b.1968

" data-original-title="" title="">Eric Alexander &

Vincent Herring

saxophone, alto
b.1964

" data-original-title="" title="">Vincent Herring "Pharoah's Dance" from Split Decision (Smoke Sessions) 1:03:57

Believe "Believer" from Spirits Of The Dead Are Watching (Ramble Records) 1:12:17

Charles Tolliver

trumpet
b.1942

" data-original-title="" title="">Charles Tolliver,

Stanley Cowell

piano
1941 - 2020

" data-original-title="" title="">Stanley Cowell "On The Nile" from Music Inc(Strata-East) 1:22:02

Piano Choir

" data-original-title="" title="">Piano Choir "Sanctum Sanctorum" from Handscapes (Strata-East) 1:31:44

Charles Tolliver "Our Second Father" from Live at Loodcrecht Festival (Strata-East) 1:44:58

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