The Chosen One

Using the constellations as her inspiration composer, vibraphonist and marimba player Patricia Brennan gazes skyward and delivers a fantastical set of music. You may have noticed there’s been a bunch…

It was clear from her early albums as a leader and particularly with the band Dinosaur, for which she wrote most of the music, that Laura Jurd was already shaping…

We are blessed to live in a time when a master jazz musician like Charles Lloyd walks among us. At the age of 87 he still tours regularly and seems…

  This is a beautiful record from a man who over the last few decades has won a rightful place in the hearts of many a global jazz fan. Mulatu…

  If you’ve been listening to One Jazz at all over the last month you may have heard the magnificent “Queen King” from this album. An Afrobeat meets jazz-psych freakout…

  Teasing Reflections is the third album by Lucid Dreamers, the ensemble led by vocalist and composer Brigitte Beraha, featuring George Crowley (tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, electronics), Alcyona Mick (piano,…

  Imaginary Mountains is the powerful new album from Finnish pianist and composer Aki Rissanen, marking a striking new chapter in his ongoing exploration of the piano trio.“It feels more…

  On NUEVA TIMBA, the new Blue Note album from Cuban-born pianist Harold López-Nussa, the jazz vanguard meets multiple eras of Cuba’s musical history with results that are at once…

  Brad Mehldau’s Ride into the Sun is a songbook record of music by the late singer, songwriter, and guitarist Elliott Smith.  Featured musicians include singer/guitarist Daniel Rossen (Grizzly Bear);…

  Here’s a thing. Roger Glenn played flute for one of the greatest vibraphone stars of all time, Cal Tjader and he played vibes for the legendary flautist Herbie Mann.…

  Around the turn of the century trumpeter/composer Rob Mazurek and percussionist/composer Chad Taylor thrilled us with a long run of inventive albums from their Chicago Underground project with Duos,…

Tenor saxophonist Nicole Glover first flashed in to the One Jazz musical consciousness last year with her album ” …Plays” and as a member of the all-female Blue Note super-group…