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Fusion Experience Quartet at Teatro Comunale in Caserta
by Pietro Previti
A collection of photos from the Fusion Experience Quartet concert at Teatro Comunale, in Caserta, Italy, on April 24, 2025 featuring Richard Bona, Dave Weckl, Ciro Manna, Mica Lecoq, and guest Luigi Patierno. ...
Continue ReadingSteve Hirsh: Root Causes
by Mark Corroto
Although Steve Hirsh's name appears on the masthead of Root Causes, you might not immediately recognize it as a drummer-led recording. Unlike the unmistakable leadership of Art Blakey, Elvin Jones, and Tony Williams, Hirsh leads with subtlety, functioning more as a selfless, responsive collaborator than a dominant force. The album features a classic piano trio format, with pianist Eri Yamamoto and bassist William Parker rounding out the ensemble. This trio forms three-quarters of the Sparks Quartet, led by ...
Continue ReadingTrilogy, Jose Luiz Martins, Jeff Libman, Medler Sextet, Nancy Kelly Plus Celebrations For Carline Ray, Bessie Smith & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast continues the celebration of Jazz Appreciation Month with new releases from Trilogy, Jose Luiz Martins, Jeff Libman, Medler Sextet and Nancy Kelly, with birthday shoutouts to Carline Ray (100!), Bessie Smith, Madeleine Peyroux, Judy Wexler, Roxy Coss and Tia Fuller, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear--see them live, buy their music so they can continue to comfort, distract, provoke and remind the world that A Woman's Place is in the Groove. Many thanks ...
Continue ReadingSeun Kuti and Egypt 80 at the Great American Music Hall
by Harry S. Pariser
Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 Great American Music Hall San Francisco, CA April 12, 2025 Growing up in Lagos, Nigeria was a singular experience for Afrobeat star Seun Kuti. For Kuti, now 42, came of age in the Kalakuta Republic, the freewheeling commune presided over by his dad Fela Kuti, who was a force of nature --innovating the Afrobeat style, singing and composing songs, playing sax and keyboards, along with being a political and ...
Continue ReadingHeartbreaker: A Memoir by Mike Campbell
by Doug Collette
Heartbreaker: A Memoir Mike Campbell with Ari Surdoval 464 Pages ISBN: #978-0306833199 Grand Central Publishing2025 In what may be the sole expression of explicit ego he ever really displayed during his history with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Mike Campbell has written A Memoir describing his time as guitarist, record producer and regular songwriting partner of the late bandleader for the archetypal American rock and roll band. The author's greatest accomplishment ...
Continue ReadingGabriela Machado: Equilibrando no Acupe
by Katchie Cartwright
Choro's popularity is on the rise. In the US, camps like Brazil Camp, Choro Northwest (aka Centrum Choro Workshop), Choro Camp New England and programs like Antonio Adolfo's Brazilian Music Workshop have attracted top artist-teachers, and eager students have brought the genre back to their local communities. Equilibrando no Acupe, a program of original choro compositions, was born into this 21st-century global market, with fans in and outside of Brazil. Gabriela Machado lives in Salvador da ...
Continue ReadingManfred Schoof: European Echoes
by Fran Kursztejn
Manfred Schoof's European Echoes is popularly characterized as a diamond in the rough, with emphasis on the rough. Boasting a cast filled with near every mainstay of the erupting European free jazz style, amounting to 16 independent players, most awarded their own solo, duet or section improvisation in the record's second half, audio technology of the '60s was perhaps incapable of ever doing it justice, and certainly not the spotty radio recording that has caged it for 50 years.
Continue ReadingGerald Clayton, Igmar Thomas, Johnny O'Neal & Wes Montgomery
by Joe Dimino
As we gear up for the Count Basie at 90 Celebration right here in Kansas City on International Jazz Day 2025, featuring none other than the legendary Count Basie Orchestra, we kick things off in style--with a nod to one of the true greats. We open the show with Wes Montgomery, spinning a track from his iconic 1960 Trio album. Why Wes? Because during our recent interview with former Kansas City Mayor and long-time Congressman Emanuel Cleaver, he lit up ...
Continue ReadingTriology: The Slow Road
by Pierre Giroux
In The Slow Road, the Canadian trio Triology--comprised of pianist Miles Black, guitarist Bill Coon, and bassist Jodi Proznick--joins forces with the inimitable tenor saxophonist Scott Hamilton to present a recording that swings with warmth, restraint, and unfailing musicality. This is chamber jazz at its most elegant, invoking the refined spirit of classic drummerless trios such as Oscar Peterson's early unit, the Nat King Cole Trio, and the telepathic interplay of Ahmad Jamal's 1950s groups. The ...
Continue ReadingThe Hemphill String Stringtet: The Hemphill Stringtet Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill
by Glenn Astarita
The Hemphill Stringtet's debut album, Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill is a vibrant tribute to the late jazz composer and saxophonist Julius Hemphill (1938--1995). This string quartet, featuring violinists Curtis Stewart and Sam Bardfeld, violist Stephanie Griffin and cellist Tomeka Reid, reimagines Hemphill's compositions with a fresh chamber music perspective. Formed in 2022, the ensemble aims to amplify Hemphill's legacy as a pivotal Black American composer while infusing his blues-inflected jazz with improvisational flair rooted in African American traditions. ...
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