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Ches Smith
Ches Smith is an American musician whose primary instruments are drums, percussion, and vibraphone. He writes and performs music in a wide variety of contexts, including solo percussion, experimental rock bands, and small and large jazz ensembles. Smith has performed with Good For Cows, Marc Ribot, Theory of Ruin, Mr. Bungle, Secret Chiefs 3, Xiu Xiu, Trevor Dunn's Trio-Convulsant, Carla Bozulich, Beat Circus, Sean Hayes, Ben Goldberg, 7 Year Rabbit Cycle, Ara Anderson and Fred Frith. He has also recorded and performed a full-length album of his own solo percussion pieces entitled Congs For Brums (2006)
Dream Archives
By Craig Taborn
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: 1. "Coordinates for the Absent"
2. "Feeding Maps to the Fire"
3. "When Kabuya Dances"
4. "Mumbo Jumbo"
5. "Dream Archive"
6. "Enchant"
A Sun That Never Sets
By Ralph Alessi
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: 1. "A Sun That Never Sets"
2. "Nothing is Dead"
3. "Relaxed Misery"
4. "Sweet Spot"
5. "Ether"
6. "Twichild"
7. "Transitional Imagery"
8. "Slow Dancing Bear"
9. "Of Trees (Variations on a Theme by TB"
10. "Duck Face"
11. "Behind Clouds"
Ancestral Numbers
Label: Playscape Recordings
Released: 2024
Track listing: Ancestral Numbers I: Second House; Malachi; Potenziality; Remembering Water; Roots and Routes; Wattensaw; Vestibule; Ancestral Numbers.
Ancestral Numbers II: Sweet Tooth; The Return; Ruby; Enos; Deployment; Arrival; Grayscale; Ancestral Numbers.
GEORGE... John Hollenbeck + Anna Webber... Craig Taborn, Tomeka Reid and Ches Smith Archive Dreams and Helen Sung debuts her Big Band
by Hobart Taylor
Homage to Wayne Shorter from GEORGE (John Hollenbeck/Anna Webber), early Wayne Shorter with Lee Morgan (The Young Lions re-mastered) and Helen Sung premieres her new big band! Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Emmet Cohen/Jeremy Pelt “Compassion" from Universal Truth (Mack Avenue) 00:08 The Young Lions /Bobby Timmons/Lee Morgan/Wayne Shorter"Scourn'" from Seeds of Sin (Craft) 05:35 ...
Ralph Alessi Quartet al Torrione di Ferrara
by Libero Farnè
Ralph Alessi Quartet Torrione Jazz Club Ferrara 18 aprile 2026 Il Torrione, riconosciuto ormai a livello internazionale come un jazz club di prim'ordine con la sua programmazione costantemente rivolta all'attualità, è sempre frequentato da uno zoccolo duro di adepti, da una “confraternita del jazz" avrebbe detto John Fante. Tra gli ...
Big Ears 2026
by Mark Sullivan
Big Ears Festival Knoxville, TN March 26-29, 2026 Another year, another jam-packed festival lineup. The Spotlight presentations included SUSS Presents Across the Horizon, an ambient country experience; films and performances related to Ethiopia's musical legacy; and David Byrne's Who is the Sky? Polish pianist/composer Hania Rani offered an ambient concert and the ...
Mumbo Jumbo
Album: Dream Archives
By Craig Taborn
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 05:21
Tomeka Reid, Marco Mezquida, ALA.NI, Craig Taborn & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
Enjoy a playlist dedicated to recent and upcoming releases, where curiosity still rules, and the music often comes from just around the corner... or halfway across the world, Barcelona to New York; Amsterdam to London; Brussels to Melbourne.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Marco ...
The Anna Webber Nonet at the Jazz Gallery: Reflections from the Edge of a World Gone Awry
by Dave Kaufman
The Jazz Gallery has functioned as a vital incubator for the New York jazz scene since its founding in 1995, specifically designed as a non-profit space where the primary goal is artistic risk rather than commercial viability. Anna Webber has a longstanding relationship with the Gallery; she was the 2022 recipient of the Margaret Whitton Award ...
