The Chosen One

  To introduce this extraordinary project it feels right to lead with Ambrose Akinmusire’s own words about the project: “This album is about the fears and struggles I personally face,…

  The classic canon of the Brazilian master composers has of course been familiar ground for jazz players since the 1960s. But just occasionally an album comes along that stands…

A very belated Happy New Year and to kick things off in an up-beat mood (despite what’s going on in Washington today) our Chosen One comes from veteran Dutch-Surinamese multi-instrumentalist…

Blue Note. What a label. Its contemporary releases as enticing as its peerless catalogue. 85 years of jazz bangers! Whatever the opposite of resting on your laurels is – that’s…

Anyone who was worried when this time last year Shabaka announced he was taking an indefinite leave from playing saxophones that he’d be absent from our musical lives needn’t have…

When I first listened to keyboard player Jessica Lauren’s new release FILM I assumed it was a brand new recording. In fact it was recorded in 1997. Standout track “Uptown”…

Jazz has no shortage of musicians who were taken from us way too young. Trumpet player Roy Hargrove’s passing at the age of just 49 seems especially cruel. He was…

Kurt Elling has always been a prolific and adventurous artist. A vocalist who’s prepared to put himself in to a variety of settings and situations to see where the music…

We’re incredibly fortunate here at One Jazz to receive a lot of new music. Hopefully we do a good job of reflecting that on air. Interestingly enough though good new…

The Bad Plus are quite a rare thing in jazz. They’re a band that sound and feel like a band, rather than a band in service of a leader. They…

October sees the release of new albums from two prominent jazz playing Avishai Cohens. The trumpet playing Avishai releases the rather good Ashes to Gold on ECM while the bass-playing…

Jet-lagged and wide-eyed on arrival at this January’s Winter Jazz Festival in New York I was grateful to get out of the sub-zero wind and in to any venue of…