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Theo Bleckmann

Theo Bleckmann. A jazz singer and new music composer of eclectic tastes and prodigious gifts, GRAMMY NOMINATED Theo Bleckmann makes music that is accessibly sophisticated, unsentimentally emotional, and seriously playful. His work provokes the mind to wonder, but connects immediately with the heart. Singer. Bleckmann has released a series of gorgeous and irreverent albums on Winter & Winter, including recordings of Las Vegas standards, of Berlin kabarett, and of popular “bar songs” (all with pianist Fumio Yasuda), a recording of newly-arranged songs by Charles Ives (with the improvisational jazz/funk collective Kneebody), and most recently Solos for Voice and Toys, where Bleckmann brought just his stunning vocal technique, his emotional commitment, and his suitcase full of oddly evocative voice-altering gadgets to the project of recording delicate songs and poems alone at a monastery in the Swiss Alps. Collaborator. In addition to his work as a soloist, Bleckmann loves to mix it up with other musicians

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Oedipe Redux

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Prelude; Tirésias et Laïos; Helas! Terre lamentable...; Interlude I; Adonis couché sur la pourpre et l'or; Le berger; Hécate, Hécate; Oui suis-je? Le Corbeau crie...; Interlude II; Le crime, mort de Laïos; El est un breuvage; La Sphynge; Couronnement et chute; Je mourrai dans la lumière.

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What Times Are These

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: In The Light of Day (feat. Keita Ogawa); To Be of Use; An Old Story (feat. Aubrey Johnson & Keita Ogawa); In Those Years (feat. Theo Bleckmann); What Kind of Times Are These (feat. Sara Serpa); Sorrow Song (feat. KOKAYI & Aubrey Johnson; My Grandmother In The Stars (feat. Sara Serpa); I Am Wrestling with Despair (feat. Sara Serpa); Dreams (feat. Aubrey Johnson); In The Day of Light (feat. Keita Ogawa).

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Article: Album Review

Jamie Baum Septet+: What Times Are These

Read "What Times Are These" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright


Reading Marge Piercy's poem “To Be of Use" (track two onWhat Times Are These), Jamie Baum could be speaking of herself, one of those “who jump into work head first without dallying in the shadows, who swim off with sure strokes," knowing that “the thing worth doing has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident." What ...

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News: Recording

The Jamie Baum Septet+ Release 'What Times Are These' on Sunnyside Records

The Jamie Baum Septet+ Release 'What Times Are These' on Sunnyside Records

On What Times Are These (Sunnyside), Jamie Baum’s fifth recording with The Jamie Baum Septet+, her flagship ensemble, the acclaimed New York-based flutist-composer presents her first exploration of spoken word and art song. To be specific, seven of Baum’s ten compositions respond to works by a cohort of eminent 20 th and 21 st century female ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Releases from Ernesto Cervini, Remy Le Boeuf, Grace Kelly, Dan Pugach With Birthday Shoutouts to Miriam Makeba, Keely Smith, Carole Bayer Sager & More

Read "New Releases from Ernesto Cervini, Remy Le Boeuf, Grace Kelly, Dan Pugach With Birthday Shoutouts to Miriam Makeba, Keely Smith, Carole Bayer Sager & More" reviewed by Mary Foster Conklin


Women's History Month continues with new releases from Ernesto Cervini's Turboprop, Remy Le Boeuf's Assembly of Shadows, Grace Kelly, Dan Pugach Big Band and Cecilia Sanchietti, with birthday shoutouts to Miriam Makeba, Eric Comstock, Anat Fort, Marya Lawrence, Rachelle Garniez, Frank Senior, Keely Smith, Carol Sloane, Tomoko Ohno and Carole Bayer Sager, among others. Thanks for ...

Article: Album Review

Riley Mulherkar: Riley

Read "Riley" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Il nome di Riley Mulherkar potrebbe risultare sconosciuto ai più, ma il trentaduenne trombettista originario di Seattle presenta un percorso artistico di tutto rispetto. Vanta due mentori come Wynton Marsalis e il compianto Frank Kimbrough, collaborazioni con musicisti come Theo Bleckmann e Dave Douglas e soprattutto è co-fondatore di Westerlies, il quotato quartetto di ottoni con ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Ambrose Akinmusire, ladyybirdd, Enji, Joseph Branciforte, Theo Bleckmann

Read "Ambrose Akinmusire, ladyybirdd, Enji, Joseph Branciforte, Theo Bleckmann" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


We may regret missing out on the time when some of our jazz idols were building the foundation of the music we love, but we can still fantasize about them. We are lucky, however, to live at a time when there is a number of modern masters in action. One of them is trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, ...

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The Parsonage

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Sailing To The Sunday School Picnic (Composed by Regina Carter); Ballad of The Man Who Laughed (Composed by Renee Rosnes); Translation, Two Cigar Butts (Composed by Ted Hearne); East In The Village (Composed by Kirk Nurock); Living Light (Composed by Dan Tepfer); Lou Reed Was Very Well Read (Composed by Theo Bleckmann); Glamour and Standing (Composed by Darcy James Argue); Eighteen Million Six (Composed by Sarah Kirkland Snider).

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Phil Haynes: Drummer, Bandleader, Composer & Educator

Read "Phil Haynes: Drummer, Bandleader, Composer & Educator" reviewed by Doug Hall


Veteran drummer/composer Phillip Haynes is featured on more than 85 releases from numerous American and European record labels. His collaborations include many of the seminal musicians of this generation: saxophonists Anthony Braxton, Ellery Eskelin and Dave Liebman; trumpeters Thomas Heberer, Herb Robertson and Paul Smoker; bassists Mark Dresser, Ken Filiano and Drew Gress; keyboard artists David ...


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