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If you had asked your holiday gnome to bring you some creative jazz treats, you would be ecstatic with the music debuting in this episode of OMJ. South African saxophonist Linda Sikhakhane is back with a live album: bassist Lisa Hoppe and Third Reality also return with an EP; Finnish Continue Reading

I got quite the surprise the other day when I played a new album from Italy by saxophonist Emanuele Passerini. His name was vaguely familiar, and a bit of research turned up his name as a member of a couple of Italian bands played in the past. The surprise was Continue Reading

There is much interesting music crammed into this episode that should find some sweet spots. The recent batch of releases from Clean Feed Records in Lisbon gave us Norway’s Chome Hill, Portugall’s hard-blowing saxophonist José Lencastre with three equally gifted countrymen Jorge Nuno, guitar, Felipe Zenícola, bass and João Valinho, Continue Reading