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Two Previously Unreleased Recordings by Rahsaan Roland Kirk from the 1960’s Released for RSD: Vibrations in the Village: Live at the Village Gate and Seek and Listen: Live at the Penthouse

November 24, 2025November 24, 2025 Don Berryman5439

By Don Berryman Two live albums by brilliant multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk containing never-before heard performances, one from the east coast and the other from the west: Vibrations in the Village: Live at the Village Gate and Seek and Listen: Live at the Penthouse, are each being released by Resonance Records as 2-LP sets exclusively […]

Rob Mazurek’s Exploding Star Orchestra at Walker Art Center, Friday, December 5

November 13, 2025November 24, 2025 Dan Emerson5655

Chicago-based trumpeter-vocalist-composer Rob Mazurek will lead his 10-piece Exploding Star Orchestra, Friday, December 5 at 7:30 at the Walker Art Center. Inspired by the sounds of “meta-versal transformation,” the orchestra consists of drummer Mikel Patrick Avery (drums), vocalist-sampler Damon Locks (voice, samplers), Mazurek (director, compositions, trumpets, voice, bells, video), flutist Nicole Mitchell (flutes, electronics), cellist […]

Looking Back – 2024 TD James Moody Jazz Festival

November 11, 2025November 25, 2025 Sheila Horne Mason6884

The 2024 TD James Moody Jazz Festival took place from November 7 to 24 at New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC). In the Festival brochure, it says “I’ve always said the best has yet to be heard.” James Moody put that conviction on the record just over 30 years ago, and it feels even truer […]

Charlie Rouse’s Cinnamon Flower: The Expanded Edition – Remastered, Reissued, and Restored on Resonance Records

November 3, 2025November 3, 2025 Don Berryman7606

by Don Berryman In 2003 Let It Be Naked was released by Apple records. It was a remix made at the urging of Paul McCartney who objected to Phil Spector’s 1970 production of Let It Be and wanted to release an unadulterated, rawer version. We have a similar opportunity with Charlie Rouse’s Cinnamon Flower with […]

Miguel Zenón and Luis Perdomo photo by Jimmy Katz

Miguel Zenón and Luis Perdomo’s Grammy Winning El Arte Del Bolero Dou at Berlin Minneapolis 12/6/2025

October 30, 2025October 30, 2025 Don Berryman8408

by Don Berryman On Saturday, December 6th, the Grammy winning duo of Miguel Zenón & Luis Perdomo will perform two shows at Berlin jazz club in Minneapolis. This gives us a rare opportunity to hear these internationally acclaimed musicians in an intimate club setting. In 2021, Zenón and Perdomo were nominated for a Latin Grammy […]