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Parts of that sure sounds like the early Crusaders.

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Melissa Aldana, Filin was released on February 13, 2026.

 

Many of the great jazz tenor saxophonists have a ballads album that highlights their catalog. That’s true from Coleman Hawkins through John Coltrane, Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon, and even the late Michael Brecker, among several others. Now, on her third Blue Note release, Filin, Chilean-born tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana joins this legacy. Yet her approach is very different from the aforementioned in that she does not gravitate to The Great American Songbook, but instead to a still-unheralded tradition of Cuban romantic song that thrived between the late ‘40s and early ‘60s.

 

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Nice Sunday morning music. Thanks.

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James Fernando, Philly 3 was released on February 6, 2026.

 

"At a moment when the jazz piano trio is often pulled between reverence and reinvention, James Fernando charts a compelling middle course. Were it not for the sheer brilliance of this trio, the album might almost pass for a classical work. That impression is no accident. Fernando openly draws inspiration from one of jazz’s great figures, Erroll Garner, himself a musician whose ambitions were deeply shaped by classical music."

 

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The piano and violin are nice.

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I think so too.

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Vance Thompson, Lost and Found was released on January 16, 2026.

 

"For several years, Vance Thompson's career as a musician hung in the balance. Owing to a neurological disorder known as Focal Dystonia, the Grammy-nominated trumpeter and founder of the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra was literally unable to blow his own horn. But unlike other people who may have thrown in the towel or called it a day, Thompson instead looked for an alternative, set his mind and body to work and learned to play a second instrument, namely the vibraphone.

 

The fruits of Thompson's transformation are evident on the suitably named Lost and Found, recorded in August 2024 with four of his longtime friends and colleagues: guitarist Steve Kovalcheck, pianist Taber Gable, bassist Tommy Sauter and drummer Marcus Finnie. Together they glide easily through a half-dozen of Thompson's tantalizing original compositions and others by Chick Corea ("Bud Powell") and Donald Brown ("My Three Suns") before closing with a lovely reading of Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg's classic "Over the Rainbow.""

 

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Pat Metheny, Side Eye III+ was released on February 27, 2026.

 

"The greatest musicians have a distinct, instantly recognizable sound. That’s hardly news, but it’s an important notion to keep in mind when discussing Pat Metheny. As the guitarist cruises through his sixth decade as a professional music maker, his vibe remains essentially the same as it did in the first. The music he writes always uses sixties jazz guitar (think Jim Hall and Joe Pass) as its foundation, but adds structures derived from folk music, Brazilian music, seventies singer/songwriter pop, and non-bombastic progressive rock, decorating them all with other sounds he comes across and digs. His electric guitar tone is one of the most easily discernable in music: clean, warm, expertly picked, able to run up and down the fretboard at high speed, but more likely to choose the right note at the right time. His production style cuts through the processed haze that engulfs so many other albums, while still taking advantage of studio magic when it makes sense. This is a musician you clock within seconds of hearing a few notes."

 

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