Becca Stevens

Always reaching, always expanding, Becca Stevens reinvents herself once again with Regina. In the years since the release of her critically acclaimed third album, Perfect Animal, Stevens has undertaken a journey that began with a study of Queen Elizabeth I as inspiration for a commission to write a concert of new music, which expanded into tributes to various queens from history, literature, folklore, and her own imagination, songs inspired by the regal and divine, and finally Regina as a voice, like a trusted friend or an alter ego. As for her muse for the album, Stevens explains, ��Regina is like an alter ego, or an imaginary friend

Rebecca Martin: She

by Angelo Leonardi
August 7, 2025

Sono trascorsi esattamente trent'anni da quando la EMI pubblic�� il debutto della 26enne Rebecca Martin (Once Blue), nel gruppo omonimo col bassista Ben Street, il chitarrista Kurt Rosenwinkel e il batterista Kenny Wollesen. Da allora la cantautrice ha pubblicato tredici album (sei da leader) con musicisti a lei particolarmente affini: non solo il marito Larry Grenadier ...

Dena DeRose, Amina Claudine Myers, Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell, Antonia Bennett, Jennifer Lee, MzVal & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
June 30, 2025

This broadcast includes new releases from Antonia Bennett, Mike Clark & Mike Zilber, Jennifer Lee, MzVal, Dena DeRose, Amina Claudine Myers, Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell, with birthday shoutouts to Erica Seguine and Jaimie Branch, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear--see them live, buy their music so they can continue ...

Scott Colley, Edward Simon, Brian Blade: Three Visitors

by Angelo Leonardi
June 10, 2025

? un disco che lascia il segno questo variopinto ritorno di Scott Colley, Edward Simon e Brian Blade con ospiti di rilievo come Chris Potter e Becca Stevens. Ricordiamo che il trio ha debuttato pi�� di un decennio fa, quando incise a nome di Simon Steel House per la ArtistShare. Negli anni passati i ...

Plot Armor

By Taylor Eigsti

Label: GroundUP Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Let You Bee; Bucket of F's (feat. Ben Wendel); Look Around You (feat. Becca Stevens); Plot Armor; Light Dream (feat. Terence Blanchard); Fire Within (feat. Lisa Fischer); The Rumor; Actually; Beyond The Blue (feat. Gretchen Parlato); 201918; Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered; Bad Sport Lobby.

Scott Colley, Edward Simon, Brian Blade: Three Visitors

by Mike Jurkovic
December 8, 2024

There are the many moments to hold and savor on Three Visitors, the second trio offering from pianist?Edward Simon,?bassist?Scott Colley?and drummer?Brian Blade. Like their 2017 eponymous debut Steel House (Artist Share), Three Visitors is artful, understated, elegant and so soul deep. A late night disk to rest with and to reflect upon days in the distance ...

Detroit Jazz Festival 2024: The Year of Alice

by Paul Rauch
September 12, 2024

Detroit Jazz Festival 2024 Hart Plaza & Campus Martius Detroit, MI August 30-September 2, 2024 An annual pilgrimage to the Detroit Jazz Festival allows a jazz fan, or in this case, a jazz journalist, to reset to an internal default setting for what this music means to us on a very ...

Alice Zawadzki, Fred Thomas, Misha Mullov-Abbado: Za G��rami

by Konstantin Rega
September 11, 2024

Jazz is all about moving forward and finding new ways to make music that touches hearts and minds. Here London-based vocalist and violinist Alice Zawadzki teams up with pianist and drummer Fred Thomas and double bassist Misha Mullov-Abbado on a stylish and folk-tinged jazz album. Za G��rami incorporates folk songs, chamber music and improvisational jazz styles ...

Take Five with Tulio Araujo

by AAJ Staff
October 16, 2023

Meet Tulio Araujo Tulio is a Brazilian musician, carrying advanced degrees and experience in the fields of Percussion, Music Production and Sound Engineering. He has studied with renowned masters Ian Guest (Hungary), Santiago Reyther (Cuba), Marcos Suzano (Brazil), among others. Through his experimentation and study, he dreamt and effectively conceived a way to merge the pandeiro ...

Danny Fox Trio: Time Took Care of It

by Neil Duggan
May 26, 2023

Brooklyn-based pianist and composer Danny Fox has an eye-catching background. He has studied with John Kamitsuka, Fred Hersch, Ethan Iverson and Garry Dial, and performed with artists as varied as Bruce Springsteen, Cassandra Wilson and Emmylou Harris. Since 2008, he has led the Danny Fox Trio with Time Took Care of It being their fourth album. ...