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JD Allen, Love Letters (The Ballad Sessions) was released on September 26, 2025.

 

"Tenor saxophonist JD Allen had only one goal in mind—to play “pretty”—when he set out to record an album consisting entirely of ballads. He put the brainier aspects of his craft to the side and opted to feed his emotional core, focusing on melody and tone while making a personal expression of empathy for the human race. Allen also took off his composer hat for this project: He draws from a repertoire of classic siren songs (including “Stranger In Paradise,” “Until The Real Thing Comes Along,” “Why Was I Born,” “Come All Ye Fair And Tender Ladies,” “Put On A Happy Face,” “Gone With The Wind” and others) in a nine-track program that’s presented as a love letter to the listener."

 

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This is an album I'd expect to hear on an episode of Bosch.

 

 

 

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7 hours ago, Sk1Bum said:

JD Allen, Love Letters (The Ballad Sessions) was released on September 26, 2025.

 

 

The more I listen to this, the more I like it.

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The Kate Wyatt Trio, Murmurations was released on October 10, 2025.

 

"On Murmurations, Wyatt’s dynamic compositions are joined by those of Vedady and Hamel, each bringing unique textures and perspectives to the trio’s collective sound. The album also features a fresh, surprising take on the Kurt Weill standard Mack the Knife, highlighting the group’s playful side and inventive spirit."

 

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The Rin Seo Collective, City Suite was released on October 3, 2025.

 

"There is no doubting which metropolis Korean-born composer Rin Seo had in mind when writing City Suite, the panoramic opening salvo and centerpiece on the debut recording by her fourteen-member Rin Seo Collective, as the suite's first movement is titled "The Big Apple." Seo moved to New York City, her present home, after coming to America to study jazz performance and composition at Boston's Berklee College of Music."

 

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Boz Scaggs, Detour was released on October 17, 2025.

 

"On his latest album, Detour, Scaggs embraces his love for the Great American Songbook, interpreting a series of timeless standards with tender insight and profound emotional sophistication. Recorded with pianist Seth Asarnow, the collection—Scaggs’ first release in seven years—offers up an eclectic mix of the familiar and the obscure, tipping its hat to everyone from Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald to Irma Thomas and Lonnie Johnson with a mix of deep reverence and fresh perspective."

 

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Im a huge Boz fan.

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35 minutes ago, Receiver2000 said:

Im a huge Boz fan.

 

 

Me too. If you've not seen them, you should check out his Austin City Limits performances. The Dukes of September was a great show. Boz Scaggs, Michael McDonald and Donald Fagen, and they performed all of their hits together. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dukes+of+september+austin+city+limits

 

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Mark Sherman, Bop Contest was released on November 7, 2025.

 

"Following four well-received albums on which he played piano, the versatile Mark Sherman has placed the keyboard in the capable hands of Donald Vega and returned to his main instrument, the vibraphone, for the eloquent and delightful Bop Contest, Sherman's twenty-second recording in a prestigious career that has spanned nearly half a century."

 

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1 hour ago, Sk1Bum said:

Sherman's twenty-second recording

 

When I first read this, I read is a 20 second long recording, and did some head scratching before I figgered out is was his 22nd recording. Then I uttered "what a dumbass," and I wasn't referring to the author. 

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Pink Floyd just released this 25 min single ahead of their 50th anniversary album next month

 

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Brandon Sanders, Lasting Impressions was released on November 7, 2025.

 

"Every time Brandon Sanders steps into a jazz club, a ghost seems to walk in with him, the warm, lingering presence of his grandmother. Long before he became a drummer and composer of growing renown, there was her club in Kansas City, a place humming with brass, laughter, and cigarette smoke. For Sanders, that was where it all began, during those childhood summers of the 1970s and late ’80s, when he would visit her and find himself surrounded by the heartbeat of live music. It was not a classroom, but a communion. He didn’t so much learn jazz as breathe it."

 

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Paul Marinaro, Mood Ellington was released on November 21, 2025.

 

"In an era when most jazz vocalists seem to chase innovation through phrasing acrobatics or pop-inflected crossovers, Paul Marinaro’s new double album feels almost radical in its restraint. The Chicago baritone approaches Duke Ellington’s canon not as a museum piece but as a living, breathing songbook, reimagined through thirteen of today’s leading arrangers, yet rendered with a reverence that evokes the golden age of the American song tradition."

 

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Chrissie Hynde, Duets Special was released on October 17, 2025.

 

"This goes for the emotional jugular from the start and won’t let go. Everything you need to know, really, is in the tracklist and the collaborator names. 10CC “I’m Not in Love”, Me & Mrs Jones” crooned beautifully by Hynde and k.d. lang as album opener, a trio of Elvis’s biggest and weepiest signature songs: come on, this is not signalling restraint is it? Then add the other singers – Rufus Wainwright, Dave Gahan, Debbie Harry, Shirley Manson, Lucinda Williams and on and on… at very, very worst this could have been vaudevillian schmalz, but really given all of the above you’re expecting big things aren’t you?"

 

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Rick Wakeman, Melancholia was released on October 17, 2025.

 

“The album, and indeed the music, was heavily inspired by my wife Rachel, who heard me playing a piece on the piano (which eventually became the track ‘Garo’) and asked me about it. I explained that when I was feeling depressed or sad, I would always sit at the piano and play, as I found it healing – such is the power of music. She immediately said it was something I should share musically, as all the pieces could have a personal meaning to anyone listening … and so ‘Melancholia’ was born.” -- Rick Wakeman

 

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Cheap Trick, All Washed Up was released on November 14, 2025.

 

"There aren’t many acts closing in on their 50th year still touring constantly, delivering knockout shows and making new albums with as much gutsy, spirited enthusiasm as Cheap Trick. Most haven’t maintained that sense of joyful yet tough, edgy rocking for quite as long."

 

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Roger Glenn, My Latin Heart was released on August 22, 2025.

 

"Glenn’s artistry shines across more than 18 instruments, including flute, vibes, saxophones, marimba, and beyond. His sound is steeped in Afro-Caribbean and Brazilian traditions, but his improvisational voice is unmistakably his own."

 

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Sam Pilnick's Nonet Project, The Project was released on November 3, 2025. 

 

"Chicago saxophonist, composer, and educator Sam Pilnick has been steadily carving out a space for himself in the large-ensemble jazz scene, blending his academic grounding with a clear affection for both small-group interplay and the wide canvas of the nonet format. With “The Project”, his sophomore outing following 2021’s well-received “Adler Suite”, Pilnick revisits material spanning the last eight years of his writing, re-shaping it for this band of young Chicago players."

 

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Aaron Parks, By All Means was released on November 7, 2025.

 

 

"Pianist Aaron Parks’ previous album Little Big III, his first for Blue Note since his 2008 record Invisible Cinema, pushed boundaries of what was acceptable as jazz. For his follow-up, he takes a step back from electronics and rock influences for an excursion into the old-fashioned sounds of an acoustic quartet. On By All Means, Park joins saxophonist Ben Solomon, bassist Ben Street, and legendary drummer Billy Hart for an expansive view into what the traditional set-up can accomplish."

 

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Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, Hard Road was released on September 26, 2025.

 

 

There’s a reason Christone “Kingfish” Ingram is the hottest artist in blues/rock today. His talent and charismatic presence has captured legions of fans and staggered his peers.

 

And, with his new album Hard Road, he has sent a strong message that he is about to get stronger by taking charge of his life and music. In the opening track “Truth,” he announces his intention to stay true to himself and produce music that speaks his truth, without consideration of being labelled by genre or judged by others."

 

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Anika Nilles, False Truth was released on September 12, 2025.

 

"False Truth by Anika Nilles & Nevelle is a great mix of jazz fusion with symphonic prog. Nilles is a drum prodigy who recently has been announced as Rush's current live drummer, and her talent and ability as band leader is on full force, having great ability to show off while also being a strong spine for the ensemble. While there is great talent on display, creating more accessible and hookier material would bode them well. But when it comes to instrumental music, it's great for what it is. I'd give this a high 6 out of 10. The track I'd recommend is Fiji."

 

https://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=3222396

 

 

 

 

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Brian Culbertson, Day Trip was released on September 26, 2025.

 

"This soundtrack accentuates the different aspects of a remarkable day trip. Selected highlights include the opening track, “Morning Light,” where the percussion shadows the melodies from Culbertson and saxophonist Eric Marienthal. For a romantic frame of mind, “With You” spotlights Culbertson’s piano paintings. Branford Marsalis pumps up some fusion vibes with fluid saxophone work on “U-Turn.”

 

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Brian Culbertson's music has really developed. They used to play it on one of the local smooth jazz stations and it was nauseatingly boring. His new stuff is fantastic. Rippingtons, it is not, but its really cool.

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13 minutes ago, Receiver2000 said:

Brian Culbertson's music has really developed. They used to play it on one of the local smooth jazz stations and it was nauseatingly boring. His new stuff is fantastic. Rippingtons, it is not, but its really cool.

 

That reminds me, I need my daily dose of The Rippingtons. Thank you.

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Once a day whether you need it or not.

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4 minutes ago, Receiver2000 said:

Once a day whether you need it or not.

 

I just sent an email to Andi Howard of The Rippington's management requesting their catalog on SACD and a tour. I wonder if I'll get a response.

 

ahowardent at gmail.com