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New Releases - Jocelyn Gould, Tina Raymond, Michelle Lordi, Chien Chien Lu, Hiromi, Joni Mitchell & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
Today's broadcast includes new releases from ((Laila Biali}}, Jocelyn Gould, Tina Raymond, Michelle Lordi, Chien Chien Lu, Hiromi, Arina Fujiwara plus a fun single from Nicole Zuraitis, with birthday shoutouts to Maria Muldaur, Abelita Mateus, Roxana Amed, Emily Takahashi, Hyuna Park and Tania Grubbs, among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by seeing them live and online. Purchase their music so they can continue to distract, comfort, provoke and inspire.Playlist Chick Corea & ...
read moreLive At Sweetwater / Live At Sweetwater Two / Live In Japan
by Doug Collette
Hot Tuna's Live at Sweetwater/Live at Sweetwater 2/Live in Japan (Mercury Studios, 2004) reaffirms the fluidity of personnel that's marked the veteran ensemble throughout its over fifty-year career. Comprised of titles originally issued on the Relix Records label in the mid-to-late Nineties, then re-released in modified form in 2004, this Mercury Studios compendium may represent the definitive versions of those titles (though the lack of notes providing historical perspective, as appeared on previous editions, leaves that a moot point).
read moreTaj Mahal: Savoy
by Steve Yip
Folk/blues practitioner Taj Mahal's Savoy is to be savored. As one of the custodians of the blues, Mahal has long been a legend in his own time. This collection traverses a cultural-musical continuum in an indispensable residency in the annals of Black American music. The namesake of this album--the Savoy on Lenox Avenue in Harlem--was known as The World's Finest Ballroom and Home Of Happy Feet. In the pre-Civil Rights era, the North claimed formal equality, but segregation ...
read moreTaj Mahal: Savoy
by Dave Linn
Savoy, from Taj Mahal, is the latest entrant in the crowded field of pop music artists trying their hand at the fertile songbook of old big-band, swing-era standards. Unlike most, Mahal's roots show he's well suited to the task. He was born in Harlem in 1942. He grew up in a musical family, and his parents were both involved in the arts. His father was a jazz pianist and arranger, working with Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, and Fletcher Henderson among ...
read moreI Like You Best Of All - A Look Back To Notable 2021 Recordings, Part One
by Mary Foster Conklin
Happy New Year! This first broadcast of 2022 presents a final holiday recording from drummer Jeff Hamilton with new releases from The Count Basie Orchestra, Vijay Iyer, Adonis Rose & The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra featuring Cyrille Aimee plus a look back at some of the notable 2021 albums made despite the disruption of the pandemic and all of its difficulties. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by purchasing their music during this time of pandemic ...
read moreDrinking Again and Them There Eyes - Happy Birthday Doris Tauber
by Mary Foster Conklin
This week we feature new releases from Fahir Atakoglu with Luciana Souza and other guest vocalists who contribute lyrics to his latest project of love songs, Carol Albert, Ran Blake with vocalist Christine Correa, plus birthday shoutouts to Doris Tauber (composer of “Them There Eyes" and “Drinking Again"), vocalists Maria Muldaur, Tom Wopat, Nancy Harms, Mel Torme, Lorraine Feather, pianists Ariel Pocock, Champian Fulton, Michael Feinstein and more. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by purchasing ...
read moreTake Five with Maria Muldaur
by Maria Muldaur
About Maria Muldaur Maria Muldaur is best known for “Midnight At The Oasis," though she has toured extensively worldwide for over four decades, and has released 41 albums covering all stripes of American Roots Music, including Gospel, R&B, Jazz and Big Band, as well as several award-winning children's albums. Often joining forces with other fine artists, she has recorded and produced on-average, an album per year. These last few years have seen the 50th Anniversary Kweskin Jug Band ...
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