Results for "Meg Okura"

Meg Okura

Born: August 9

The New York Times called her music "grandiloquent beauty that transitions easily from grooves to big cascades to buoyant swing"(Giovanni Russonello), Meg Okura is a jazz composer and violinist and the founder of the Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble based in New York. In the last decade, she has won over two dozen prizes and honors, including the 2023 ISJAC Fundamental Freedom Commission and International Women In Music’s 2023 Portland Jazz Composer’s Prize.

Over the last 18 years, her ensembles have graced iconic venues in New York, such as Birdland Jazz Club, Blue Note, Dizzy’s, and Knitting Factory, as well as the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., K.L. Jazz Festival in Malaysia, and other performances in the U.S., Israel, Serbia, and Japan. 

Lingering

By Meg Okura

Label: Adhyâropa Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Improvisation No. 1; Without Words; Again and Again; Will You Hear My Voice; Seven Short Pieces: I.Aleph; Seven Short Pieces: II. Blues Kachol; Seven Short Pieces: III. Mi is Who is He is She; Seven Short Pieces: IV. Maim Korim; Seven Short Pieces: V. Shamaim; Seven Short Pieces: VI. Lilah; Seven Short Pieces: VII. Hora Tarantella; Waltz For Wollesen; Improvisation No. 2; Lingering.

Seven Short Pieces: V. Shamaim

May 23, 2024

Album: Lingering
By Meg Okura
Label: Adhyâropa Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 05:37

The New Day Bends Light

By Erica Seguine

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Reel; States; Tangoing with Delusion; In Dreams; Ose Shalom; …and the Tire Swing Keeps Spinning…; The New Day Bends Light.

Introspection

By Eunmi Lee

Label: You&Me Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: Gimmick; Suspicion; 5.19; Narcissism; Mr. Weird; Wavelength; Azure.

Mr. Weird

July 2, 2023

Album: Introspection
By Eunmi Lee
Label: You&Me Music
Released: 2023
Duration: 04:55

Narcissism

June 5, 2023

Album: Introspection
By Eunmi Lee
Label: You&Me Music
Released: 2023
Duration: 06:53

Erica Seguine/Shon Baker Orchestra: The New Day Bends Light

by Jack Bowers
June 2, 2023

The New Day Bends Light, the debut recording by the twelve-year-old Erica Seguine/Shon Baker Orchestra, is interesting on a number of levels, not the least of which is emotional. The leaders and their twenty-one piece ensemble are clearly committed to the music and do their best to breathe life into each of the album's seven numbers, ...

Close Your Eyes: Celebrating Bernice Petkere, The Queen of Tin Pan Alley

by Mary Foster Conklin
August 23, 2021

This broadcast begins with a celebration of composer Bernice Petkere ("Close Your Eyes," Lullaby of the Leaves") along with new releases from pianist Haeun Joo and bassist Adi Meyerson. Other birthday shoutouts include Jeri Southern, Terri Lyne Carrington, Roberta Piket, Noa Fort, Tony Bennett, Meg Okura and Cyrille Aimee, among others. Thanks for listening and please ...

Dime Dancing: The Music Of Steely Dan

By Andrew Green

Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Black Cow; Aja; Any World (That I'm Welcome To); Reelin' in the Years; Dirty Work; Daddy Don't Live in That NYC No More; Everything You Did; Rikki Don't Lose That Number.