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Sharel Cassity

Born: February 10

Saxophonist, Woodwindist, Composer & Educator Sharel Cassity (pron. Shah-Relle) is a musician on the New York, Chicago, and international jazz scenes. Listed as “Rising Star Alto Saxophone” in Downbeat Magazine for the past 11 consecutive years, Sharel has appeared on the Today Show, earned her MA from The Juilliard School under full scholarship, won the 2007 ASCAP Young Jazz Composers Award & has been inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame. Cassity has shared the stage with jazz luminaries including Herbie Hancock, Wynton Marsalis & the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra; as well as mainstream artists Aretha Franklin, Natalie Merchant, Vanessa Williams & Trisha Yearwood

Sanne Rambags, Kenneth Jimenez, Bex Burch, Trish Clowes & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
March 26, 2024

Chamber jazz, field recordings, and deep deep deep interplay are at the heart of this exciting playlist.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Ethan Iverson “Victory Is Assured (Alla Breve)" Technically Acceptable (Blue Note) 0:16 Host talks 2:53 Bex Burch “Dawn Blessings" There Is Only ...

Jordan VanHemert: Deep in the Soil

by C. Andrew Hovan
March 20, 2024

Born in Korea and raised in Michigan, Jordan VanHemert counts himself among those youngsters that got involved in his school music program by starting out on the alto saxophone. Also like many of his fellow saxophonists, VanHemert eventually moved away from the smaller horn to devote his full energies to the tenor sax, an instrument emblematic ...

New Releases, Grammy Winners, Birthday Celebrations For Blanche Calloway, Carole King & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
February 19, 2024

This broadcast includes new releases from Ed Johnson & Novo Tempo, Alliance (led by Sharel Cassity and Coleen Clark), Tierney Sutton and Nubya Garcia, with nods to several Grammy winners and birthday shoutouts to Blanche Calloway, Chick Webb, Carmen Staaf, Jen Allen, and Carole King, among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you ...

Ten Stories

Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Journeyer; Same River, Once; Hutcherspired; Nice Day; Purpley; Non-Non; Tone Poem; Vega; Whistle in the Wind; Non-Non Outro.

Storybook

By Markus Rutz

Label: JMARQ Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: 1. Something’s Blowing In 4:02 2. Interlude for the Weekend 0:27 3. The Everyday Escapades of M&M 5:47 4. Third Coasting 5:18 5. Interlude of Values & Education 0:27 6. Buffalo - by Kenny Dorham 6:54 7. Mr.E 5:46 8. Short Story - by Joe Henderson 5:42 9. Interlude on a Nostalgic Afternoon 0:34 10. Just for a Thrill - by Lil Hardin Armstrong 4:20 11. Soul Eyes - by Mal Waldron 6:26 12. Right at Home 3:57

Precarious Towers: Ten Stories

by Jack Bowers
September 28, 2023

Precarious Towers is a Midwestern-based quintet whose second recording, Ten Stories, is as bare-bones an album as one could imagine: a plain CD (without name or artwork) resting in a pale-blue jacket (no tray or protective sleeve) that includes a list of songs, composers and personnel plus recording details. That's it. From a reviewer's point of ...

New Releases, Valentines Day, Plus Birthday Celebrations for Blanche Calloway, Carole King & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
February 20, 2023

This broadcast celebrates Valentines Day, Juno nominees and more, with new releases from Rachel Therrien, Simone Kopmajer and the Tony Kadleck Big Band, plus birthday shoutouts to Blanche Calloway, Carole King, Marsha Heydt, Jen Allen, Sharel Cassity and Carmen Staff, among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by seeing them live ...

Precarious Towers

By Johannes Wallmann

Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Precarious Towers; McCoy; December; Angel Eyes; Never Pet A Burning Dog; Pandemica I: Quiet Out There; Pandemica II: Unreliable Narrator; Pandemica III: Defeat and Imprison The Conman Strongman; Try To Remember; Saturday Night Meat Raffle.

Chicago Trumpeter & Composer Markus Rutz announces new album 'Storybook'

December 16, 2022

JMARQ Records is pleased to announce the February 17, 2023 release of Storybook, celebrated trumpeter and composer Markus Rutz’ sixth studio release as a bandleader. Fresh off the heels of the release of his critically acclaimed albums Blueprints – Figure One, Blueprints – Figure Two, and One Saturday in September, Rutz’ new innovative work takes listeners on a musical journey from past to present, ...