#NowPlaying Alice Coltrane - Ptah, The El Daoud Good record, great Earth Wind & Fire style cover..

#NowPlaying Stan Getz - People Time, The Complete Recordings This record reminds me of Art Pepper's Goin' Home, where another sax titan makes a warm, intimate record w/ only piano accompaniment & shortly afterwards, he's gone.

#NowPlaying Gary Bartz - Another Earth

#NowPlaying Pharoah Sanders - Tauhid

#NowPlaying Oliver Lake & Julius Hemphill - Buster Bee

'In Lieu Of' is another captured moment when the magic of Tim Berne's Snakeoil quartet was happening, making exceptional music that only these four people could possibly carry out. Get the whole down-low here> somethingelsereviews.com/2025/09/29/t...

The 'going for the jugular' posture by elite musicians make 'Trio of Bloom' a sum greater than its substantial parts. Read about this new Nels Cline/Craig Taborn/Marcus Gilmore trio & their debut album here> somethingelsereviews.com/2025/09/24/c... Out TODAY from Pyroclastic Records

Natski Tamura & Satoko Fujii always make beautiful music together. 'Ki''s beauty lies in its spare & placid tone. Read all about it here> somethingelsereviews.com/2025/09/25/n...

#NowPlaying Thelonious Monk Quartet - Monk's Dream

#NowPlaying Mulligan Meets Monk (Remastered 2025 / Mono Mix)

#NowPlaying Freddie Hubbard - Open Sesame

The book on Henry Threaadgill's amazing career has already been published but the guitar-heavy 'Listen Ship' keeps this compelling story going. Read all about it here> somethingelsereviews.com/2025/09/19/h... Out SEP 26 from Pi Recordings

#NowPlaying The Art Ensemble of Chicago - Live at Mandel Hall

#NowPlaying Jan Garbarek - George Russell Presents The Esoteric Circle

#NowPlaying Alice Coltrane - World Galaxy

#NowPlaying Tomasz Stanko - TWET That rhythm section really makes Twet go. Edward Vesala's feel is impeccable, and Peter Warren is an animal.

#NowPlaying Ornette Coleman - Skies of America

#NowPlaying Ralph Towner - Lost And Found

#NowPlaying Alice Coltrane - Universal Consciousness

#NowPlaying Gong – Magick Brother

The all-percussion ensemble might have been around a while, but there's probably no one better today than Tomas Fujiwara for taking this idea further. Read all about his new album 'Dream Up' here> somethingelsereviews.com/2025/09/11/t... Out FRIDAY @ooyhrecords.bsky.social

#NowPlaying John Surman - Tales Of The Algonquin

#NowPlaying Bill Frisell - History, Mystery

#nowPlaying Sun Ra - The Magic City As usual, Ra was way ahead of his time..

Tortoise announced their long-awaited new album 'Touch' today. Here's the first advance single "Layered Presence" > somethingelsereviews.com/2025/09/09/t... @intlanthem.bsky.social

#NowPlaying William Parker Quartet - Sound Unity

Looking for a sleeper 70's jazz fusion record? Let me tell you about one that's about to get a welcome reissue from Frederiksburg Records, 'The People's People Present The Spirit Of David' > somethingelsereviews.com/2025/09/08/p... Out SEP 26

Getting the day going with some bustling, dynamic Chi-town jazz

#NowPlaying Grachan Moncur III - New Africa

#NowPlaying Lennie Tristano and Warne Marsh - Intuition

#NowPlaying Terje Rypdal - If Mountains Could Sing

#NowPlaying Steve Lacy | Roswell Rudd - Monk's Dream

If you love it, own it don't rent it. Getting a mint Cecil Taylor/Tony Oxley CD for $7.50 sounds pretty exciting to me..

#NowPlaying Jackie McLean - Demon's Dance By the time this Dec 1967 session was released in Oct 1970, jazz had fundamentally changed. But great jazz is timeless & with Woody Shaw & Jack DeJohnette by his side, this could be nothing but great.

Trumpet maestro @dan-rosenboom.bsky.social has developed a fine career making adventurous music of many stripes. With 'Coordinates,' he masterfully pulls it all together. Read all about it here> somethingelsereviews.com/2025/09/01/d... Out NOW from Dan's quality jazz label Orenda Records.

@jacobgarchik.bsky.social's 'Ye Olde 2, At The End of Time' is a fun listen even with its complex, wild imagination because you can feel the apparent fun that went into playing it. Read about his latest opus here> somethingelsereviews.com/2025/08/27/j... Out FRIDAY from Yestereve Records.

#NowPlaying Gato Barbieri - Bolivia

#NowPlaying Sonny Fortune - Four In One

#NowPlaying Horace Silver Quintet - Song For My Father Rightfully regarded as a Blue Note classic. Lonely Woman is a comely ballad. Title song rips off Steely Dan but still excellent 👌🏻

#NowPlaying Dewey Redman with Cecil Taylor & Elvin Jones - Momentum Space

#NowPlaying Tricolor - Mirth + Feckless

Here is the video premiere of David Bode's jaunty big band adaptation of Kenny Garrett's "Happy People"> somethingelsereviews.com/2025/08/20/d... Bode's debut album 'Good Hang' out Aug 29!

#NowPlaying Horace Silver - Silver's Serenade The last one with his first great quintet that boasted Blue Mitchell & Junior Cook. Probably a little overshadowed by what came next (Song For My Father) but still very legit.

#NowPlaying David Torn - Tripping Over God Torn's studio processing mastery is evident at this point as well as how he's able to leverage it to make deeply spiritual music. It's a gift very few musicians possess.

#NowPlaying The Crusaders - The 2nd Crusade Funk-jazz at the apex. This & Southern Comfort right after it are #fivestars

#NowPlaying Oliver Lake Organ Trio - Makin' It

#NowPlaying Woody Shaw - The Iron Men

#NowPlaying Karen Mantler - My Cat Arnold

Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (Exit) Knarr's 'Drops' is confrontational and reflective, aggressive and unassuming. It's never, ever boring. More about this banger right here> somethingelsereviews.com/2025/08/18/i... Dropping this Friday

#NowPlaying Dexter Gordon - Gettin' Around Bobby Hutcherson just makes everything better, even when it's already real good