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This Week at All About Jazz

Happy holidays to all! We’ll be sending an early newsletter next week, so keep an eye out for it on December 24. The Jazz Near You newsletter will follow on its regularly scheduled Friday.

Speaking of the season, we’ve just added organist Barbara Dennerlein’s rendition of “Let It Snow” to our Yule Dig It Spotify playlist. If you're looking to maximize merriment this year, the playlist now offers nearly six hours of tasteful, holiday-ready tunes. And if you dig it, please share it far and wide.

Cool Yule Ornament

I can’t quite recall how this old fashioned-style radio ornament came into my life (pictured left), but it’s become a favorite. Turn the dial and you hear static until—click—you land on a station. Over the years, I kept discovering new station identifications and the surprises seemed endless… and then one day I stumbled upon a jazz station. It’s great. Give it a listen. For kicks, I asked AI to render the ornament with a jazz theme and it created the version on the right. We should pitch Hallmark on a design upgrade. :-) 

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If you’re active on Instagram, we’d love for you to follow us at @allaboutjazznearyou. We’re posting more frequently, growing our community, and hope you’ll join us.

And if Substack is more your speed, you can subscribe to us here. We began archiving our weekly newsletters on Substack back in June, so newcomers can easily catch up. While All About Jazz (including Jazz Near You) remains a platform unto itself, we’re making a concerted effort to extend our presence across other social spaces—and we’re glad to have you with us wherever you follow along.

Our Pets

We plan to make this an ongoing thing, so if you share your life with a dog or a cat, please upload their photo to the All About Jazz gallery and make sure to title and tag your photos appropriately. For dogs, include the “jazz dogs” tag so we can feature them together in a dedicated slideshow and group page. Likewise for cats—just add the “jazz cats” tag. Upload and tagging instructions can be found here.

Charlie (pictured right) is featured on the cover of guitarist Vic Dillahay’s album Music for Chasing Squirrels. You can view a handful of Charlie photos here.

Album Reviews

The album reviews below represent our most popular from the past week. View more recent reviews.

Memories Of Home John Scofield & Dave Holland	Sendas Omar Sosa	Anthology 4 The Beatles	Bremen 1965 Thelonious Monk
The Genius of Ray Charles is on display in this four-album Tangerine Records Master Series Ray Charles	The Nutcracker Remix Cincinnati Contemporary Jazz Orchestra	Himmel Over Hav Hanna Paulsberg Concept & Elin Rosseland	Haunted Heart: The Legendary Riverside Studio Recordings (Remastered 2025) Bill Evans Trio

Best of 2025

We'll keep a running list of our staff's favorites with five new submissions this past week:

Jack Kenney	Mike Jurkovic	Dan McClenaghan	Doug Collette
Konstantin Rega	Troy Dostert	Paul Rauch	Don Ball
Neil Duggan	Joshua Weiner	Mark Corroto	C. Andrew Hovan
Jack Bowers

Songs of the Week

A rare threefer from emerging artists.

Top Songs

The songs below represent our most heard in the past four weeks. View the Song of the Day archive.

Major From the album Being Dantès By WAKAN	Showdown From the album Multidirectional By Billy Hart	Watercolor From the album Alternate Route By Kerry Politzer	Red Bubble From the album pre/post atrophy By Chris Alford
You Are The Sunshine Of My Life From the album Absinthe By Ramona Horvath	Zambo's Mamba From the album My Latin Heart By Roger Glenn	Slow Slow Dancing From the album Lazy Morning By Roland Billberg	Vita From the album Vanguardia Subterránea: Live at The Village Vanguard By Miguel Zenon

Choice Content

From The Heart To The Hips To The Head (read); Jack Bowers' Best Jazz Albums Of 2025 (read); C. Andrew Hovan's Best Jazz Albums of 2025 (read); Charles Lloyd and Steve Tibbetts: Inner Directed and Independent (read); Anat Cohen at Miner Auditorium (read); Bela Fleck & the Flecktones at the Salt Shed in Chicago (view photos); Bryan Stovell: The Secrets Of Viral Jazz (read); Ms. Lisa Fischer And The Orrin Evans Trio at Miner Auditorium (read); Christmas Jazz featuring Kurt Elling at Arena COS Torwar (view photos); Tessa Souter: Singing Her Way to Happiness (read); Craig Taborn: When Kabuya Dances (listen); Tom Waits In The House: Three Jazzy Winners From The Noir Prince Of La Pop (read); Subway Music (read); Mark Corroto's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025 (read); Sylvie Courvoisier, Wadada Leo Smith and Mary Halvorson at Roulette (read); Joshua Weiner's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025 (read); Aretha Tillotson: Sad Junie (to Highway Jake) (listen); Torben Westergaard: Feliz Navidad (listen); Paolo Fresu's Heroes, a tribute to David Bowie, at Ponchielli Theater in Cremona (view photos).

Radio & Podcasts

Tune into our extensive collection of quality programs every week.

Allston Boylston: New releases honoring Kenny Wheeler + Tomeka Reid, Shawn Lovato with Ingrid Laubrock and music from the Charles Tyler Ensemble Resurfaces (listen); Mondo Jazz: Amirtha Kidambi, KNOBIL, Mattias Risbergs, Maria Pia de Vito & Henri Texier (listen); Exploration: RIP Gordon Goodwin and Phil Upchurch. Classics by Bobby Timmons, Peggy Lee, and others (listen); Mondo Jazz: Rufus Wainwright, Theo Bleckmann, Anne Mette Iversen, Terry Callier & More (listen); One Man's Jazz: Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Haeun Joo, Ishmael Ali & Satoko Fujii (listen); A Broad Spectrum: Holiday Music By Jeremy Pelt, Olivia Van Goor, New Releases From Mary Halvorson, the B.I.T. (Back In Time) Duo & More (listen); Neon Jazz: Bill Evans, Clark Terry, Gerry Mulligan, Teddy Charles & Bob Brookmeyer (listen); Bitches Brew: Jazz playlist special features Pat Metheny, Michael Brecker, Miles Davis and much more (listen); The First Instrument Jazz Show: Ella Fitzgerald, Gregory Porter, Olivia Van Goor, Leslie Odom Jr. and More! (listen); Backstage Bay Area: Sachal Vasandani: Best Life Now, Stripped Back (listen); Jazz Crumbs: Elysian Fields, Zeitgeber, Kate Wyatt, Rin Seo Collective & more (listen); The Tonearm: Marcus Roberts: Jazz Piano And Technology's Promise (listen); Backstage Bay Area: The Klezmatics: 40 Years of Revolutionary Joy (listen); Mondo Jazz: Trond Kallevåg, Dave McMurray, Bill Laurance, John O'Gallagher & More (listen); Jazz Connections: Improvising the Classics: Interpreting Mozart (listen); World of Jazz: New Music From Lovato, Burrows, Garcia, Faye, and More (listen); Jazz Bastard: Tyreek! So Chic! (listen); Jazz Bastard: Twin Talk Interview (listen).

News Announcements

Timely announcements covering new album releases, tours, special events and more. View all recent announcements.

South Beach Jazz Festival Marks 10 Years In Miami Beach With Grammy Winners And World-renowned Artists (read); Announcing Smoke Jazz Club's January Line-up Including Joshua Redman Quartet, Brad Mehldau And More (read); Gio Guido Introduces Extemporaneous Compositions: A New Real-time Solo Guitar Language (read); JazzWeek Radio Chart: December 15, 2025 (read); The Court At Versailles Reimagines Tycho Through A Jazz  Lens On Debut Single 'A Walk' (read); New Book: "You've Got Michael—Living Through HIStory" by Dan Beck (read).

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