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    February 15, 2026 · 43 min

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    January 15, 2026 · 39 min

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  • The Jazz Session #648: Tineke Postma & Theo Bleckmann

    December 15, 2025 · 34 min

    Voya (2025, Clap Your Hands) is the new album by saxophonist Tineke Postma and her band, featuring Theo Bleckmann on vocals. In this interview, they talk about working Theo into the existing quartet; the difference between identity and…

  • The Jazz Session #647: Alison Shearer

    November 15, 2025 · 36 min

    Saxophonist Alison Shearer’s new album is called In The Garden (Pinch Records, 2025). In this interview, Alison talks about the creation of the album with her working band; the way she works her own life story into instrumental…

  • The Jazz Session #646: Jack DeJohnette [2012]

    October 27, 2025 · 51 min

    Jack DeJohnette passed away. In his honor, I’ll hope you’ll enjoy this 2012 interview I recorded with Jack at the Blue Note in NYC at the time of the release of his album Sound Travels. [Photo: Mitchell Garrison]

  • The Jazz Session #645: Carmen Staaf

    October 15, 2025 · 55 min

    On her new album, Sounding Line, pianist Carmen Staaf explores the music of Thelonious Monk and Mary Lou Williams. In this interview, Carmen talks about making music in the context of Palestine and COVID; the intersection between Monk and…

  • The Jazz Session #644: Kelly Green

    September 15, 2025 · 37 min

    People make music for many different reasons. In Kelly Green’s case, her new album Corner Of My Dreams is in part an attempt to process the loss of her mother to suicide. In this interview, Green talks about writing the music on the new…

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The original jazz interview podcast since 2007. Hosted by Jason Crane.