Jason Roebke

Rob Mazurek, Ches Smith, Steve Lehman, and Joe Fonda

by Jerome Wilson
June 4, 2025

This show features recent recordings by Joe Fonda, Steve Lehman and Ches Smith as well as older ones by Rob Mazurek, Kevin Sun, and Emily Remler. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Jethro Tull “Serenade ...

3+3

By Tomeka Reid

Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Turning Inward/Sometimes You Just Have To Run With It; Sauntering With Mr. Brown; Exploring Outward/Funambulist Fever.

Angelo Leonardi's Best Jazz Albums of 2024

by Angelo Leonardi
December 28, 2024

What follows is the list of the albums, both Italian and international, that I most appreciated and, above all, loved in 2024. These are the ones that enriched and inspired me the most, the ones I found myself returning to repeatedly. They are listed in alphabetical order, not by order of preference. In preparing this list ...

Tania Grubbs, Brian Lynch and Satoko Fujii

by Jerome Wilson
November 13, 2024

This episode features newer releases by Tania Grubbs, Brian Lynch, and Satoko Fujii as well as older music from George Freeman and Roy Hargrove. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Vardan Ovsepian “Glass Figures" from ...

Tomeka Reid Quartet: 3+3

by Chris May
May 6, 2024

Jazz cello has come a long way since Fred Katz's pioneering work with Chico Hamilton in the 1950s. Back then, the instrument was looked on as a novelty turn. In 2024, while still relatively avant-garde, its presence in a lineup is less exceptional. A pivotal point was American cellist Adbul Wadud's By Myself (Bishara, 1977), an ...

Re-Collect

By Jeb Bishop

Label: Not Two Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Exordium / Salt; Sweat The Grub / On The Floor; Razorlip; Lungfish; Sometimes; Backfire.

Jeb Bishop Flex Quartet: Re-Collect

by John Sharpe
July 30, 2020

Trombonist Jeb Bishop doesn't have a whole slew of leadership dates to his credit in spite of being active on the scene since the early 1990s. His most high profile gigs have been as part of the Vandermark 5, and also Peter Brötzmann's Chicago Tentet, though he also has Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra and the ...

Tomeka Reid Quartet: Old New

by Ian Patterson
April 19, 2020

Tomeka Reid cut her teeth in Chicago, recording with Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell and Nicole Mitchell, but the cellist's 2016 move to New York seems to have fired her creative juices even more. The prolific Reid has appeared on nearly twenty recordings in that time, notably including the Art Ensemble of Chicago's We Are On The ...

Juan Vinuesa Jazz Quartet: Blue Shots From Chicago

by Mark Corroto
March 10, 2020

Chicago, a city of big shoulders, continues to present proof of poet Carl Sandburg's words from the poem of the same name... “Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning." Why is this? Because Chicago in 2020 remains the same as evoked in ...