Joel Ross

For the past several years, Joel Ross has been refining an expression that��s true to his sound and his generation. In 2019, the vibraphonist-composer released his anticipated Blue Note debut KingMaker to eruptive critical acclaim. He��s topped the DownBeat Critics Poll Rising Star category for vibraphone and in 2017, he became one of the youngest artists to receive a coveted Residency Commission from The Jazz Gallery. With the release of Who Are You? (Blue Note, 2020), Ross shares the culmination of a year-long exercise in experimenting and risk-taking on and off the bandstand. Inspired by mentor Stefon Harris�� empathetic, whole-self approach to articulation, Ross has adopted an entire ethos dependent on truthful, ongoing communication

Red Brick Hill

By Harry Skoler

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Last Star, Last Night (prologue); NanCee; Ascent; Blue, mostly; Abyss; Last Star, Last Night; AppleHands; Beneath Bequeath; Harbinger; Here. Still.; Red Brick Hill; Furthering; Still. Here.; Last Star, Last Night (epilogue).

Ones & Twos

By Gerald Clayton

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Angels Speak; Cinnamon Sugar; Sacrifice Culture; How Much Love?; Count M; Just Above; Lovingly; Rush; For Peace; More Always; Space Seas; Endless Tubes

The Big Room

By Joe Farnsworth

Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Continuance; What Am I Waiting For?; All Said and Done; I Fall in Love Too Easily; You Already Know; Prime Time.

Unforeseen Blossom

By Neta Raanan

Label: Giant Step Arts
Released: 2025
Track listing: Violet; Blue Jay; Unforeseen Blossom; Mountain Voice; Late Fire Colors; Melt; CY.

Prime Time

August 25, 2025

Album: The Big Room
By Joe Farnsworth
Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 03:46

New Music from the Zhengtao Pan Jazz Orchestra, Remembering Hal Galper, and Darius Jones

by Hobart Taylor
July 30, 2025

Welcome the Zhentao Pan Jazz Orchestra, Plus new music from Lauren Henderson, Joe Farnsworth, Ohad Talmor and Remembering Hal Galper.Playlist Lauren Henderson “Vida" from Sonidos (Brontosaurus) 00:00 Hal Galper Reggie Workman Rashied Ali “ Stella by Starlight" from Art-Work (Origin) 4:19 Host Speaks 13:38 Waitiki 7 “Cave of the Tarpon (live)" from Exotica Reborn: ...

Grand/Nebbia/S��nchez/Mendenhall/Fern��ndez: Altered Visions

by Mark Corroto
July 20, 2025

In July 1967, The Beatles released the single “All You Need Is Love," with “Baby, You're a Rich Man" on the flip side. It's not that the quintet performing “Wild Marks," the 33-minute track comprising the entirety of Altered Visions, is covering that Lennon-McCartney anthem. But the music presented here embodies the spirit of the idea ...

Neta Raanan: Unforeseen Blossom

by Vincenzo Roggero
June 11, 2025

Un album di debutto della durata di quasi ottanta minuti ha tutta l'aria di un'impresa ardita, se poi a intraprenderla �� una giovane sassofonista pressoch�� sconosciuta si aggiunge anche una massiccia dose di incoscienza. Evidentemente Neta Raanan non si fa intimorire e con un quartetto completato dalla batteria di Kayvon Gordon, il basso di Simon Wilson ...

Ari Hoenig: Tea For Three

by Artur Moral
May 20, 2025

In the concise liner notes for this release, Ari Hoenig states that this is the first time he has kept the same lineup for two consecutive recordings. No shock there: From the album's opening bars, it is clear we are not just dealing with another trio, but with the convergence of three exceptional musical personalities whose ...