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Todd Sickafoose

Todd Sickafoose is a Tony and Grammy award-winning composer, producer, arranger, orchestrator, bandleader and double bassist. He has performed on hundreds of recordings, toured internationally, appeared at music venues and festivals from Carnegie Hall to New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, and played on national television and radio programs including the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Show with Conan O’Brien, The Artists Den, and NPR’s Mountain Stage. Known as a musical cross-breeder who stretches across genres, Sickafoose has been described by the San Francisco Chronicle as “a captivating improviser, imaginative composer, and master of collaboration”.

Todd Sickafoose: Bear Proof

by Vic Albani
February 19, 2024

Era dai fasti di Tiny Resistors (uscito nel 2008 per la Cryptogramophone dell'amico Jeff Gauthier e che invitiamo a riascoltare per la bellezza che lo ammanta) che il signor Todd Sickafoose non regalava al mondo un nuovo lavoro. Inneggiato da più voci quale coerente ed intelligentissimo musicista nonché compositore e produttore Sickafoose è stato ...

Favorite Jazz of 2023

by Jerome Wilson
January 31, 2024

This episode is a belated review of the best jazz music I heard in 2023. The musicians presented include Jaimie Branch, Ingrid Laubrock, Les McCann, Tyshawn Sorey, and Jeff Lederer. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) ...

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 3, 2024

If it is true that, like The Police once put it, “when the world is going down you make the best of what's still around," then throughout 2023 jazz fans were better off than most other social groups. In a year in which everyday news brought ever more inconceivable disappointments, jazz musicians, labels, festivals and venues ...

A Few More of My Favorite 2023 Jazz Things - Part 2

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 2, 2024

It's that time of the year when we look back at the past twelve months and realize that jazz continues to be possibly the only thing that doesn't let us down, while the world is getting crazier by the hour. So here we are again, sharing a few mores tunes we've loved the most in the ...

The Island In Me (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

By Todd Sickafoose

Label: Secret Hatch Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: The Ocean (Opening Theme); Longing; Through a Lens; Pukapuka National Anthem (featuring Niua School Pukapuka); Drumming; Not a Fear, But a Memory; Surviving the Hurricane; Atoll Arrival; Homecoming Song; Sports Celebration (Imene Taki Patele); Cry to the Outer Islands "Tangi Ke Kite Pa Enua"; Family History; Church Bell (Imene Apii Sabati); Women Singing (Patautau Imene Tawa Ngake); The Great Night Sky "Te Po Tumu Langi"; Stillborn; Fishing Scene / Island Shrinking; Love, Give Love "Aloa Aloa Atu"; Tila (featuring Niua School Pukapuka); Elder Makos "Ulu ia Meli ia Waleeu"; Leg Healer; Laying Flowers (Imene Apii Sabati); Weola "Alive"; The Island In Me; The Ocean (Credits).

Rivers In Our Veins

By Allison Miller

Label: Royal Potato Family
Released: 2023
Track listing: Of Two Rivers (Part 1); Of Two Rivers (Part 2); Water; Hudson; Fierce; For The Fish; Blue Wild Indigo; GO!; Shipyards; Riparian Love; Potomac; The Dancing Tide.

Bear Proof

By Todd Sickafoose

Label: Secret Hatch Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: The Gold Gate; Bent Into Shape; Switched On; Flush; Magnetic North; Boom Bust Startup Ruin; Turns Luck; Prospects; Reverse Fortune.

Hudson

December 28, 2023

Album: Rivers In Our Veins
By Allison Miller
Label: Royal Potato Family
Released: 2023
Duration: 5:03

Jerome Wilson's Best Jazz Albums Of 2023

by Jerome Wilson
December 22, 2023

There was a lot of exceptional new music released during 2023 and these were my favorite albums of the year. Some of them bent the music into fascinating new shapes and some made fresh and compelling statements within the jazz tradition. Jaimie Branch Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ...