Kweku Sumbry

Big Ears Festival 2025

by Mark Sullivan
April 8, 2025

Big Ears Festival Knoxville, TN March 27-30, 2025 This year's festival again featured several spotlighted events (but none of them required special ticketing, as was tried last year). “Across the Horizon" was a series of concerts combining Americana and ambient music, curated by Bob Holmes and the band SUSS. “Age ...

Immanuel Wilkins Quartet at The Triple Door

by Paul Rauch
March 6, 2025

Immanuel Wilkins Quartet The Triple Door Seattle, WA February 28, 2025 Alto saxophonist/composer Immanuel Wilkins burst onto the scene in 2020 with his premier Blue Note release, Omega. Straight out of Juilliard in New York, Wilkins was part of a collective of musicians corralled out of the school by the ...

Emiliano D'Auria: The Baggage Room

by Angelo Leonardi
February 17, 2025

Dopo le atmosfere cantabili e un po' algide del precedente First Rain--registrato in Norvegia col suo stabile quintetto--Emiliano D'Auria va a New York e s'immerge nel tumulto jazzistico contemporaneo guidando una formazione col sassofonista Dayna Stephens, il trombettista Philip Dizack, il contrabbassista Rick Rosato e il batterista Kweku Sumbry. Anche se stilisticamente ha espresso ...

Iladi

By Linda Sikhakhane

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: iGosa; Inkehli; Ukukhushulwa; Umhlahlandela; Idatshana; Mama; Influential Moments; Ecako.

Mountains

By Micah Thomas

Label: Artwork Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Life; Processing; lament; libre; no answer; Hide; The Mountain; nomad; collapse; Encounter; through; coda.

Blues Blood

By Immanuel Wilkins

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Matte Glaze; Funmi; Motion; Everything; Air (Interlude); Dark Eyes Smile; Apparition; Assembly (Interlude); Afterlife Residence Time; Mosphit; Set! (Interlude); If That Blood Runs East; Your Memory (Interlude); Blues Blood.

The Baggage Room

By Emiliano D'Auria

Label: Via Veneto Jazz
Released: 2024
Track listing: The Baggage Room; 1891: Ellis Island; Temporarily Detained; Searching for the New World; The Eye Man; The Story of Sacco and Vanzetti; The Long Wait; Human Connections; Third Class.

Immanuel Wilkins At Bordeaux Jazz �� Descas

by Artur Moral
October 17, 2024

Immanuel Wilkins QuartetCh?teau Th��?tre Descas Jazz ? Descas Bordeaux, France October 7, 2024 It's easy to find an excuse to visit Bordeaux, the capital of the French department of Gironde. In addition to the world-famous wines made in its legendary terroirs the region has many geographical, historical and cultural ...

Micah Thomas: Mountains

by Mike Jurkovic
September 17, 2024

It can never not be exciting and enthralling to listen to a young artist come into his or her own as pianist/composer Micah Thomas does on the very live, very rollicking, very palpable Mountains. Thomas' fourth disc as captain of the ship chronicles four hot sets in June of 2023 commissioned by The Jazz ...