No matter the format, from duo to large ensemble, depth and introspection are the defining characteristics of the music featured in this playlist.

Enjoy a playlist featuring gems from around this jazz world, connected through a number of common threads…

40 minutes replete of music you didn’t know you couldn’t live without.

Enjoy a set dedicated to music that flows beautifully, and is uplifting and energizing.

Up and coming artists, and legends playing with up and coming artists, on this intergenerational playlist!

Music that was recorded live, music that is about to be (or has just been) performed live, and music that is keeping us alive, in this lively set.

Here is a playlist featuring endless delights from recent and not so recent releases of Kenny Wheeler, and Kenny Wheeler-adjacent music, projects and musicians.

Enjoy a set featuring three of the most exciting European large ensembles, the WDR Big Band, the Brussels Jazz Orchestra and the Ensō Ensemble, delving into compelling original music, and covers of gems by Joe Jackson and Nick Drake.

A slew of gorgeous new albums on the NY-LA express is at the core of this episode which also takes to Switzerland and Australia, for good measure!

A tribute to the late Bunky Green through his music and that of the musicians he has inspired.

Tons of music continues to orbit around Sun Ra. Here some fascinating new and archival recordings.

A playlist featuring music inspired by New Orleans, Gaza and Africa, and then an unearthed live gem.

Mark Turner is so busy as leader, co-leader and special guest on countless new albums, that he--literally--seems to be here, and there, and everywhere (pretty much like Ted Lasso's Roy Kent!). Here is a quick guide to enjoy his ubiquitousness!

A playlist focusing on recent outstanding guitar albums, with two cherrys on top, the latest releases by Kjetil Mulelid and Ambrose Akinmusire.

From our studio in Bushwick, NY, here is--for the 321st time--Mondo Jazz bringing you delightful recent and upcoming releases!

Some of today's most compelling European players in a playlist which is topped off with Takuya Kuroda's latest album for the newborn PPK record label co-founded by legendary bassist Pino Palladino.

Enjoy a playlist featuring heartfelt and original tributes to Carla Bley, and projects enriched by Arabic, West-African and Indian music traditions.

A playlist featuring music that makes you travel--in space and in time--while you stand still.

A tribute to Abbey Lincoln and gems from the 1970s bookend an episode which also features mesmerizing releases by The Young Mothers, Clemens Kuratle and Travis Laplante.

From Brazil to Korea, with a few European stops, a journey into today's jazz world.

Brooklyn, Brussels, Copenhagen and Paris, are the stations this playlist stops at before ending into zero gravity orbits with Wayne Shorter.

Here is a playlist mostly devoted to releases that, explicitly or implicitly, remind of us of the importance of Kenny Wheeler for today's jazz.

Allison Miller front and center in a playlist which features her new Big Band album and her contribution to the new records by ARTEMIS and Allegra Levy, as well as the architectural jazz of GOGODUCKS, the music without borders of An Pierlé and a heartfelt tribute to Joni Mitchell.

This week we focus on a most auspicious debut album, which offers a welcome opportunity to appreciate Marshall Allen for being more than the flamekeeper of the Sun Ra legacy, and the launch of the Year of Women in Jazz with a groovy single by Rosa Brunello. The playlist also features Massimiliano Cignitti's tribute to Edda Dell'Orso, the mesmerizing singer on many Ennio Morricone soundtracks, and much more!

Around the jazz world in seven songs, and forty-five minutes!