Best New Jazz Of March 2026

You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians

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🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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We're looking at the best jazz releases of March 2026! Listen with pianist Adam Maness as he breaks down and reacts to these great tracks.

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0:00.0	Welcome, everyone to our March edition of Freshman Friday, bringing you some of our favorite
0:13.8	music that got released in the month of March, 26.
0:17.7	And we're going to kick it off with a very interesting album from bassist Flee,
0:23.0	famously of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
0:25.7	Flee put out an album really honoring his roots as a trumpeter,
0:30.3	Flee starting on the trumpet before playing the bass and really expressing his love of jazz.
0:38.2	And this is really great, whenever a great musician from a whole other genre that you don't even think about as jazz comes into our world a little bit and makes some music.
0:50.3	This first track I'm going to play here, one of the singles of the album, is called Traffic Lights, and it features none other than Radiohead's Tom York.
1:11.6	Music I'm going to be able to be. I'm going to I'm going to
1:13.6	I'm going to The whole are just a part of it. The whole are just a part of it.
1:43.3	Cause when you're out of it because
1:45.0	when you're sicker
1:50.0	I'm not
1:52.0	be your president president can you
2:03.6	spot the difference
2:07.7	flea on the bass, on the trumpet,
2:13.1	Tom York.
2:13.9	On this album, it's not just original music.
2:16.3	Flea covers Willow Weep for Me,
2:18.8	Magad Brain by George Clinton and Funkadelic, Frank Ocean Song. There's a bunch of interesting
2:26.3	stuff going on on this album. It's called Honorah, and it comes out on March 27th.
2:38.0	Next up is new music from one of our favorites around here, tenor saxophonist Walter Smith the Third. We've talked about Walter on the UL here podcast before.
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