Fresh Spin Fridays - January 2026

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

Peter Martin

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🗓️ 31 January 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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

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00:00 - Intro
00:50 - Why Don't You - Sam Fribush, Corey Fonville, Charlie Hunter
03:09 - Talking Drum - Julian Lage
04:58 - Flim - Winderman, Colman, Kimock
06:53 - Nacho Supreme - Motion II
08:51 - Wisdom Is Eternal (For Barry Harris)
10:49 - Unpersuadable Extern - N∆BOU
12:11 - Free Walk - Vladko
14:17 - Fireball - John Ellis & Double Wide
15:52 - Giant Steps - Billy Hart
18:50 - Parks Lope - Aaron Parks

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0:00.0	Welcome, everyone to another edition of Freshman Friday. I'm Adam Manus. On the show, we listen to new music every month.
0:20.3	And that's what we're doing. We're listening to some new
0:22.3	music that came out in January. A few tracks that came out just before the new year that we missed on our year-end wrap-up that I just want to address because they're so good. But we're going to kick it off here with an album that came out. Actually, it's not even an album. It's an EP. It's a five-song EP that came out on January 2nd by the incredible trio of Corey Fonville drummer Sam frybush organist and Charlie Hunter
0:44.8	guitar this is their cover of Why Don't You by Cleo's soul enjoy Enjoy. I'm I'm I'm
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1:13.6	I'm Hmm Hmm The That's Corey Fonville, Sam Drybush, Charlie Hunter.
2:03.6	The name of the EP is R&B Organ Trio.
2:07.3	The story goes as such.
2:08.4	Corey said about this EP, I called Sam up one day and proposed an idea, R&B organ trio.
2:14.5	All we need is four hours in the studio studio and the rest is history. They chose three
2:19.4	R&B covers, one by Roberta Flack. It's an amazing cover. One by Cleo Sol that we just heard and
2:26.0	one by Shade and then two originals. It's amazing. I've been listening to this since it came out
2:31.5	and I'm just obsessed with this EP. I love the chemistry
2:35.7	between these three musicians. They got a couple special guests on here to Brevin Hamden on
2:40.8	percussion and Ronnie Lux on the vocals. But go check it out. It's streaming everywhere. It's
2:47.1	R&B organ trio. That is pretty incredible. Next up, we've got new music from Julian Lodge.
2:53.3	Julian put out a new album on the Blue Note label just earlier this week, January 23rd.
2:58.5	This is called Scenes from Above, and this is the track Talking Drum, featuring John Medeschi, Jorge Rader, and Kenny Wilson.
3:27.0	Music featuring John Medeschi, Jorge Rader, and Kenny Wilson. The The I'm I'm I'm
3:41.6	I'm
3:42.6	I'm
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