International Jazz Day is the culmination of Jazz Appreciation Month, which draws public attention to jazz and its extraordinary heritage throughout April. Each year I'm proud to be a part of this wonderful celebration by presenting some of the best of the jazz world's newest music. All of this music has been released since the start of this year and appear on albums featured prominently across jazz radio, once again showing that jazz today is very much alive and thrives as well as it ever has.  Not as smooth like I usually give you, but please enjoy this year's finest so far in modern and traditional jazz my friends.  Love and peace always from your Chef...00:00 Dánae Olano - This City00:06 Giorgi Mikadze Trio - Not Easy To Repeat00:12 Mike Casey - The Beauty Of Everyday Life00:18 Lynne Arriale Trio - Passion00:23 José James - Black Orpheus (Don't Look Back)00:30 Ethan Iverson - Technically Acceptable00:34 Joel Ross - Central Park West00:38 Kinga Głyk - Island00:43 Susanne Alt - Classy Cats00:49 Adam Bałdych & Leszek Możdżer - Passacaglia00:53 Brian Bromberg - Nardis00:58 Chris Potter - Other Plans01:06 Ulysses Owens Jr. & Generation Y - Soulful01:14 Keyon Harrold - Well Walk Now (Perseverance)01:19 Cyrille Aimée - Back To You01:23 John Surman - Around The Edges01:27 Vijay Iyer Trio - Maelstrom01:32 Taylor Eigsti - Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered01:38 Marlon Simon & The Nagual Spirits - Above Thoughts01:43 Abdullah Ibrahim - Nisa (Live)01:49 Fred Hersch - Little Song01:54 Grace Kelly feat Sean Jones - Soul Bossa Nova01:59 Kandace Springs - Closer To Me02:03 Nick Finzer - That Thing02:07 One Or All feat George Coleman - Oscar Winner02:16 Christoph Grab’s Reflections - Pannonica02:22 Ghost-Note - Bad Knees02:27 Philip Glass - Truman Sleeps02:32 Norah Jones - Paradise02:35 Charles McPherson - Old Folks02:42 Michael Wollny and Joachim Kühn - Somewhere02:50 Charles Lloyd - Balm In Gilead02:53 Bill Frisell - Throughout (Live with Brussels Philharmonic)