WOW: New Music For June 2026

**Kaleb Kirby** (0:00)
What's up, Youll Hear It fans? This is Kaleb Kirby stepping in for Adam Maness. He's on vacation. I know, I know. But don't worry, we have a ton of fresh music that we're going to bring for you for June 2026 Let's get straight into it. Check it out.
The first is Jeff Goldblum in the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra. Yeah, you heard it. We're gonna talk more about that name right after I play this track. Check it out. Every time we say goodbye. Look at him. Beautiful. How can you not like this guy? I think Jeff Goldwyn is the friend of the pod.
We can sing. We can sing.
Oh, snap, here he goes.
Is crooning back? Are we crooners now? All right, so that's Jeff Goldbroom in the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra. From what I can tell, the name of that is based on someone from a person that he used to know is not a musician, not an actor, a person that he used to know that lived to be over 100, and he just decided to name the orchestra after her. So that's not a person in the band. But you know what, I'm not going to lie, I like that a lot more than I was expecting to like it. It's a whole album of it called Night Blooms. Check it out now, it just dropped. I'd be lying if I thought I was going to be letting people know about the Jeff Goldblum Jazz Album today. But look at me now, I've got to say I've solidly back it. Okay, next up is straight from the contemporary jazz scene with Mark Giuliana, Keon Herald, hometown hero of St. Louis, and Sam Barsh. It's called Straight 8 I believe it's just an 808 synthesizer, drums, trumpet, and I think a couple other keyboards in here from Sam Barsh. Let's check out this first track, Fergament Park.
Man, that's cool. Yeah. I mean, Marjuliana is always involved in something like this. If you know him from his music, Beat Music, it just never ends with this guy and being extremely creative. Sam Barsh and Keon Harrell as well are just like two masterful musicians. I mean, I'm almost getting like a dub vibe or something from that, like a reggae dub vibe, but it definitely goes beyond that. The album is straight 08, and I believe it's on the record label La Reserve Records. You can get it now. Really, really cool. Yeah, I'm impressed. Okay, up next is the newest album from Boards of Canada, Inferno. Now, this album has been highly anticipated over the years. I don't think they've come up with an album for like 10 years or something. Crazy. Amongst the jazz nerds that I know, I mean, like, yeah, every like it's Apex Twin Adjacent, always kind of like dark synthy landscapes, very analogue-y. But this one is like got a whole new thing to it. Let's get right into it. This track is called Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan. Check it out.
Yeah, just otherworldly textures, absolutely alien.
Yeah, I hate to cut that short. It really doesn't get better than that. Boards of Canada, Inferno, you gotta check it out, out now, out everywhere. Such a gift that we got that from them. And yeah, please, please get in there. It's, I mean, well, how many tracks are in here? There's 18 tracks, 18 tracks. So yeah, definitely get that in there and check it out. And the next time you got some free time. And I suggest listening to the whole thing in its entirety, just straight through because it basically sounds like a movie. It's like it's got all the cinematic build. You don't want to miss like the concept from beginning to end. So check that out. Okay, up next is Lakeisha Benjamin's newest album, We Dream with this newest track called Magenta. If you don't know Lakeisha Benjamin, she's played with some pretty small artists like Missy Elliott and Alicia Keys or, you know, who cares. This track features Christian Scott, Chief Adjua, and it was released on Artwork Records. So check it out. This one's called Magenta.
Like the second coming of Kid Icarus or something.
Isn't that over?
That's Jerome Jennings on the drums.
Oh, I hate to turn all these down, man. Lakeisha Benjamin. Can't get enough. You're gonna have to check that out. You gotta check that out. That is so, so, so good. So good. All right, up next is an incredible trio, super group. I would definitely say a super group. We got Marcus Gilmore, Joe Martin, and Mark Turner in the Phoenix Trio. This group collabs on writing all the music. So in this album, which is called Tomorrow Is Today, it's gonna be a mixture of compositions from different, from the different artists in the group. So you're gonna get a song from Mark, you're gonna get a song from Marcus, you're gonna get a song from Joe. This tune we're gonna play now is called 1946 and it's Mark Turner's tune. Check it out.