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Rob Shepherd’s top 35 albums of 2025 postgenre.org/rob-shepherd-f… #postgenre #jazz #musicof2025 #bestmusicof2025 @pfvibes @PyroclasticRec @NonesuchRecords @redhookrecords @bluenoterecords @CharlesLloydSax @aumfidelity @ivoperelman @AmirElSaffar @AntiRecords @TheonCross @saxolutely

EIC Rob Shepherd’s Favorite Albums of 2025 - PostGenre

2025 was a year of great growth for our site. In addition to Brian Kiwanuka and John Chacona’s reviews, friend turned staff writer Jim Hynes, joined us in a big way. That includes his review of the...

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PostGenre’s Best of 2025 postgenre.org/best-2025/ #postgenre #bestmusic2025 #jazz #patriciabrennan #maryhalvorson #ambroseakinmusire #aminalclaudinemyers

PostGenre’s Best of 2025 - PostGenre

Deeming any album the "best" of a given year is inherently fraught with problems. First, there are the logistical issues. Generally, thousands of recordings are released annually. Given that a year...

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At @NewportJazzFest , @PresHall #jazz band just gave the liveliest masterclass ever in the intersection of old brass and jazz bands and New Orleans’ place as rightful home of #randb
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Conversation with #highlife legend @EboTaylor7. ‘JID022’ out now on @jazzisdeadco. postgenre.org/protecting-the… #ebotaylor #afrobeat #ghana #loveanddeath #jazzisdead #music #art #jazz #postgenre #postgenremedia #postgenremusic #africanmusic #guitar #felakuti #interview #jid

Protecting the History: A Conversation with Ebo Taylor - PostGenre

Many define “jazz” as the meeting of African rhythms and European harmonies. In a sense, this narrative is accurate - if you remove the influence of the church, songs of the field, or cues from the...

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Conversation with #avamendoza on #circulartrain, out now. #guitar #sologuitar #music #art #postgenre #postgenremedia #postgenremusic #thecirculartrain #goodnightirene #pinkdolphin postgenre.org/circular-train…

Sound Navigation: A Conversation with Ava Mendoza on ‘The Circular Train’ - PostGenre

The process of mining - digging deep into the earth to find an essential material - dates back at least forty-three thousand years. However, the process was not modernized until the adoption of rail...

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Conversation with #matthewwright and @evanparker on #trancemap, out on @relativepitch1 postgenre.org/going-beyond-p… #music #art #postgenre #postgenremusic #postgenremedia #improvisedmusic #electroacoustic #relativepitch #relativepitchrecords

Going Beyond What We Know: A Conversation with Evan Parker and Matt Wright on Trance Map - PostGenre

In the late 1850s, two decades before Thomas Edison’s phonograph, French inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville created the first sound recording device. In the generations since, the interrela...

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Conversation with #georgeburton on #whitenoise postgenre.org/burton-white-n… #sunra #music #art #postgenre #postgenremedia #postgenremusic #jazz #hiphop #electronicmusic #xhosamusic #socialjustice #racialjustice #arkestra #janeelliot

Always There: A Conversation with George Burton - PostGenre

Far too often, people tend to compartmentalize and localize matters of concern. However, such an approach minimizes the true scale of what is before us. Only in perceiving the big picture of an issue...

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Conversation with #kaliavandever on her quartet project - with #MaryHalvorson, #KanoaMendenhall, & #SavannahHarris - titled ‘In My Dream House’ postgenre.org/dream-house-va… #quartet #music #art #inmydreamhouse #carmenmariamachado #postgenre #postgenremedia #postgenremusic #trombone

Dream House: A Conversation with Kalia Vandever - PostGenre

Western literature has long noted the disconnection between perception and reality. In 1175, French monk Alain de Lille "Do not hold everything gold that shines like gold.” Geoffrey Chaucer and...

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Two part conversation with #fredfrith postgenre.org/normal-fred-fr… #guitar #sologuitar #improvisedmusic #music #art #postgenre #postgenremusic #postgenremedia #preparedguitar #guitarsolos #henrycow #rock #nakedcity #interview

Normal Give or Take: A Conversation with Fred Frith (Part One) - PostGenre

When first learning about music, students are often taught to classify instruments by their sound. In the abstract, this basic exercise appears helpful. Woodwind reeds will inevitably produce a...

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Conversation with producer Zev Feldman on his career in archival music and releases, by #JoeHenderson/#McCoyTyner/#JackDeJohnette/ #HenryGrimes, #EmilyRemler, #BBKing, #SunRa, and more. postgenre.org/keeping-flame-… #zevfeldman #music #art #jazz #resonancerecords #elementalmusic

Keeping the Flame: A Conversation with Archival King Zev Feldman - PostGenre

Far too often, history is perceived through a lens of minimizing the problems of the present. According to George Santayana, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Or to...

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‘What Happens Has Become Now’ by @jessicapavone out now on @RelativePitch postgenre.org/what-happens-j… #jessicapavone #viola #solo #soloviola #music #art #postgenre #postgenremusic #postgenremedia #relativepitchrecords #kenbutler #swordviola #improvisedmusic #strings

Slicing through Silence: A Conversation with Jessica Pavone - PostGenre

Pablo Picasso once noted that “Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.” In music, artists can converse in ways often words alone cannot. But there is also a great power in being alone....

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“I feel there’s something here with this particular intersection of different styles of #music in the music we’re making. There’s still a lot more to find.” - @aparksmusic #AaronParks’ ‘Little Big III’ out now on @bluenoterecords postgenre.org/aaron-parks-li…

Beautiful Imperfections: A Conversation with Aaron Parks on ‘Little Big III’ - PostGenre

As artificial intelligence increasingly disrupts our ordinary lives, there is an ongoing concern about how the new technology will impact music. In an industry in which its chief creators are already...

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“[M]usic was my whole life. It probably still is.” - #TerryGibbs Terry Gibbs Dream Band ‘Vol. 7, The Lost Tapes’ out now on Whaling City Sound postgenre.org/jazz-master-te… #dreamband #alicecoltrane #dinahwashington #jazzonasummersday #music #art #jazz #vibraphone

Jazz Master: A Conversation with Terry Gibbs (Part Two) - PostGenre

We continue our conversation with Terry Gibbs (read part one here), with a discussion of the intersection of Jewish music and jazz, Alice Coltrane, the meaning of music, and more. PostGenre: Jumping...

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“That’s what #jazz does to you. It has nothing to do with race, creed, or age; when two people play together, that’s all that counts.” - #terrygibbs ‘Vol. 7: The Lost Tapes, 1959’ is out on #whalingcitysound postgenre.org/jazz-master-te… #music #art #bebop #swing #cool

Jazz Master: A Conversation with Terry Gibbs (Part One) - PostGenre

Since 1982, the National Endowment for the Arts has bestowed its Jazz Master award to living legends of the music. The designation is considered by many to be the highest honor an American jazz...

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“This project … fostered an amazement in how many different things you can hear at any given moment … out and about in the world.” - @natemercereau ‘Excellent Traveler’ out now on @thirdmanrecord #natemercereau #excellenttraveler #thirdmanrecords postgenre.org/infinite-possi…

Infinite Possibility: A Conversation with Nate Mercereau on ‘Excellent Traveler’ - PostGenre

Poet T.S. Eliot once noted, “People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.” Although one can feel the impact left by another individual on them, it is often difficult to quantify or...

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“I’m always kind of longing for silence... I do think silence is something that’s not present or valued much these days.”- #travislaplante postgenre.org/quilting-travi… ‘The Golden Lock,’ out now on @NewFocusLabel #thegoldenlock #newfocus #newforcusrecordings #music #art

Quilting Sound: A Conversation with Travis Laplante on ‘The Golden Lock’ - PostGenre

In a recently published piece titled "19 Critically Acclaimed Albums That Nobody Actually Listens To," writer Victoria Omololu attempts to minimize incredible recordings with significant artistic...

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“Everything is vibration. The physical law of conservation of energy says that you can neither create nor destroy energy. And, if that is true, then everything that vibrates on earth continues to exist, just not in the auditory realm.” - #JasonKaoHwang postgenre.org/soliloquies-ja…

Drawing Energy from the Silence: A Conversation with Jason Kao Hwang on ‘Soliloquies’ - PostGenre

In September of 1939, only weeks after Hitler invaded Poland, a 100,000 Imperial Japanese force converged upon the city of Changsha in the Hunan province of China. Ultimately, the Chinese kept their...

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“Honestly, I don’t even like the term genre. It means nothing to me. Genre is something that exists after the fact. Nobody creating music, who is composing music, puts it into a genre.“ - @brianmarsella ‘MEDIETAS’ out now on @Tzadik_label . postgenre.org/most-like-bria…

Most Like Myself: A Conversation with Brian Marsella on the iMAGiNARiUM - PostGenre

When viewed in the abstract, imagination is a very strange thing. A world that emphasizes logical reasoning would seemingly make no use of visions of the nonexistent. And yet, there is something...

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“Nature is a very important aspect of my artistry. I definitely have a practice of, I’d say, spirit walking.“- #lukestewart ‘Unknown Rivers’ out now on @PiRecordings. postgenre.org/unknown-rivers…

Spirit Walking: A Conversation with Luke Stewart - PostGenre

There is something mysterious about a river. As Eartha Kitt noted, “The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up.” Its inconsistency...

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“The music … was created, compositionally, to never have a specific beginning, middle, or end.” - Ellen Reid Convo w/ #composer #ellenreid on new album, #BigMagestic out now on #NewAmsterdamRecords/@EclipseProjects postgenre.org/nature-ellen-r… #soundwalk #music #art #synth
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