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Steve Cardenas

Steve Cardenas has diverse credits as a performer and recording artist. Having started his musical career in Kansas City, he is now an integral part of the jazz community in New York.

Cardenas has backed up such greats as Eddie Harris, Marilyn Maye, Jay McShann, Claude "Fiddler" Williams and Slide Hampton. He has toured Europe extensively, performing at various jazz festivals including the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland on three separate occasions and the North Sea Jazz Festival five times. He has regularly performed in groups led by such diverse artists as Paul McCandless of the group Oregon, trumpeters/composers Mark Isham and Jeff Beal, bassists Marc Johnson and John Patitucci, as well as vocalists Madeleine Peyroux and Norah Jones. Steve is currently a member of the Paul Motian Octet + 1, Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra, a group led by Joey Baron called "Killer Joey", as well as the Ben Allison Band. In addition, he leads his own trio performing at various venues around New York City.

Album

Winter Songs

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: One; Two; Three; Four; Five; Six; Seven; Eight; Nine

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Article: Play This!

Luciano Biondini, Michel Godard, Lucas Niggli: Lawns

Read "Luciano Biondini, Michel Godard, Lucas Niggli: Lawns" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


Since Carla Bley's passing in 2023, the growing fascination with her songbook--which had already been steadily building for years--has increased exponentially, as more and more musicians turn to her unique blend of melodic clarity and emotional ambiguity. And so, by now, pieces such as “Ida Lupino" and “Lawns" have cemented their place in the pantheon of ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Daniel Rotem, Stefano Bollani, Asher Gamedze, Holly Palmer & More

Read "Daniel Rotem, Stefano Bollani, Asher Gamedze, Holly Palmer & More" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


From Cape Town to L.A., New York to Brussels, Rome to the Bay Area--with a stopover in Wyoming--hop on an around-the-world tour in eight songs.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Asher Gamedze “Of the Fire" A Semblance: Of Return (Northern Spy) 0:16 Host talks ...

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Article: Album Review

Viktorija Gečytė & Gene Perla: Mother

Read "Mother" reviewed by Ieva Pakalniškytė


Sometimes the music does not so much ask to be heard as it quietly draws you in. Listening to Viktorija Gečytė and Gene Perla's album Mother feels like slipping into a warm, half-remembered moment. The atmosphere is unhurried, softly lit, unfolding somewhere between memory and the present. Structured as a six-composition album, it echoes the aesthetic world of ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with Pianist Noah Stoneman

Read "Take Five with Pianist Noah Stoneman" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Noah Stoneman Noah Stoneman is a pianist and composer from London who has been based in New York City for the past three years. His career has already seen him collaborate with master musicians from all walks of musical life, and he is intent on keeping this diversity of creativity as a fixture of his ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Mark Christian Miller, Nicole McCabe, Audrey Ochoa, Bellbird, Sivan Arbel & More

Read "Mark Christian Miller, Nicole McCabe, Audrey Ochoa, Bellbird, Sivan Arbel & More" reviewed by Mary Foster Conklin


This broadcast includes fundraising for the station with new music from Mark Christian Miller, Nicole McCabe, Audrey Ochoa, Bellbird and Sivan Arbel, plus birthday shoutouts to Blanche Calloway, Bette LaVette, Carole King, Eugenie Jones, Katie Thiroux, Janice Jarrett and Honorable Man Ed Reed , among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear--see them ...

Album

Mother

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Try Your Wings; Mother; This Is Always; Isn't This A Lovely Day; The Smoker; Yakety Yak.

Album

The Dreamworld of Paul Motian

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Dreamworld; Mumbo Jumbo; Yallah; Riff Raff; Tacho (quatet); Prairie Avenue Cowboy; It Should've Happened a Long Time Ago; Umh Hum: Tacho (solo); Byablue; Arabesque.

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Every Other Now

Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Abarxas; Lost and Found; The Day Of; The Day After; Downhill; Something Short; This Nearly Was Mine; Ill Wind; Smoke.


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