Nicole McCabe

Mischief In The Musitorium

By Frank Swart

Label: Need To Know Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Reflections From The Future; Mr. Coleman; Drowning Man; Satisfreaktion; Indelicate Balance; Funk-ish; Ode To Jeff Beck; Amerika The Brutal; For Lu.

Sam Rivers 100

By Mark Masters

Label: Capri Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Fuchsia Swing Song; Cycl8ic Episode; Helix; Parts Of Speech; Point Of Many Returns; Beatrice; Downstairs Blues Upstairs; Calls Of The Wild; Paean; Ellipsis; Luminous Monolith.

Downstairs Blues Upstairs

September 14, 2025

Album: Sam Rivers 100
By Mark Masters
Label: Capri Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 4:11

Anthony Wilson Nonet At Joe Henderson Lab

by Steven Roby
September 8, 2025

Anthony Wilson Nonet Joe Henderson Lab San Francisco, CA September 4, 2025 Anthony Wilson chose a high-wire debut for his first time leading his own band at SFJAZZ: nine musicians packed onto the Joe Henderson Lab's stage--roughly 20 by 12 feet--to open the 2025-26 season. The Nonet fit like a ...

Joey Waronker & Pete Min: Parrots

by Ludovico Granvassu
August 31, 2025

King King (Colorfield Records) was recorded at LA's Lucy's Meat Market studio by drummer Joey Waronker and bassist/engineer Pete Min--the creative force behind both that sonic laboratory and the Colorfield Records label. For these sessions, Waronker and Min played a multitude of instruments with a multitude of guests, including Mark Guiliana, Larry Goldings, Josh ...

Anthony Wilson��s Nonet Blooms Again on House of the Singing Blossoms

by Steven Roby
August 17, 2025

Guitarist-composer Anthony Wilson is circling back to a format that has shaped his voice since the beginning: the nonet. His new live album, House of the Singing Blossoms (Sam First Records, 2025)), documents two nights at Los Angeles listening room Sam First and sets the stage for four shows at SFJAZZ's Joe Henderson Lab on September ...

Mark Masters: Sam Rivers 100

by Jack Bowers
May 23, 2025

Sam Rivers 100 is the first of two homages recorded in 2023-24 by arranger Mark Masters and his blue chip southern California-based ensemble. This one pays tribute to the music of the late saxophonist Sam Rivers on the hundredth anniversary of his birth; the second, Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance! salutes the music of tenor saxophonist Billy ...

Mark Masters Ensemble: Sui Generis

by Angelo Leonardi
April 11, 2025

Dopo aver creato nell'ultimo album nuovi arrangiamenti per i classici ellingtoniani dei primi anni quaranta (Masters & Baron Meet Blanton & Webster, Capri Records), il notevole orchestratore californiano riduce l'organico e presenta un repertorio tutto suo. Dalla precedente incisione resta solo il trombettista Tim Hagans che ha il ruolo di principale solista. Il titolo ...

Nels Cline, Billy Mohler, Koi Kingdom, Sophie L��ssi & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
April 5, 2025

A slew of gorgeous new albums on the NY-LA express is at the core of this episode which also takes us to Switzlerland and Australia, for good measure!Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Billy Mohler “Those Who Know" The Eternal (Contagious) 0:16 Host talks ...