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Walter Blanding, Jr. with the John Toomey Trio at the Attucks Jazz Club
by Mark Robbins
Educator, composer, musician, Walter Blanding, Jr is a man for all seasons. Born into a musical family in Cleveland, OH, his parents moved the family to New York in the early '80s where his parents became part of the house band at the Village Gate jazz club. Blanding began playing the saxophone at the age of six and performed with his parents as a teenager He studied at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, where he met Wynton Marsalis, ...
Continue ReadingChicago Jazz Orchestra: More Amor: A Tribute to Wes Montgomery
by Jack Bowers
When the Chicago Jazz Orchestra decided to record a tribute to Wes Montgomery, the choice of who would sit in for the legendary guitarist was obvious: Bobby Broom, a stellar guitarist in his own right who has called Chicago home for more than forty years and had performed a concert version of the album at Chicago's Harold Washington Library in 2004. Once Broom agreed to accept the assignment, the sailing was relatively smooth, as CJO music director Jeff Lindberg assembled ...
Continue ReadingMarty Ehrlich's Trio Exaltation, Loot, Enemy & Cosmic Ear
by Maurice Hogue
The much respected woodwind master, Marty Ehrlich, has a thing about trios--he feels a trio is a perfect vehicle to get to the essential core of music. Ehrlich has fronted several great trios with the most recent being Trio Exaltation. The 2018 debut of that band with bassist John Hébert and drummer Nasheet Waits was met with much acclaim and now they're back with This Time. It's terrific and it's the feature in this episode of One Man's Jazz. Actually, ...
Continue ReadingKevin Fort: Everything I Love
by Dan McClenaghan
The ghosts of pianists past inhabit the music of Kevin Fort. The Chicago-based piano man's third album release, Everything I Love, keeps a grip on the tradition with an eye to right now on this ten-tune workout that includes five engaging Fort originals and and five well-chosen standards, incuding the Cole Porter title tune, the Rodgers and Hart's “Spring Is Here," and Tadd Dameron's “If You Could See Me Now." Those ghosts? Erroll Garner, Tommy Flanagan, maybe even ...
Continue ReadingCelebrating Billie Holiday, Carmen McRae Plus New Releases By Mafalda Minnozzi, Steve Knight, the Esthesis Quartet, Deb Bowman & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast highlights Jazz Appreciation Month with new releases from Mafalda Minnozzi, Deb Bowman, Steve Knight and the Esthesis Quartet, with birthday shoutouts to Billie Holiday, Carmen McRae, Rosa Passos, Marilyn Maye and Herbie Hancock, 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 for tuning in. Playlist ...
Continue ReadingKenny Dorham: Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live from the Blue Morocco
by Thierry De Clemensat
Another remarkable chapter in contemporary music comes to life once again, thanks to Resonance Records. It was from 1967 that Blue Bossa In The Bronx: Live from the Blue Morocco emerged, an unreleased performance by the legendary jazz trumpeter Kenny Dorham, recorded live at the Blue Morocco jazz club in the Bronx, NY. The session features Sonny Red, Cedar Walton, Paul Chambers and Denis Charles. Transferred from the original tape reels captured by the renowned engineer Bernard Drayton, ...
Continue ReadingBergamo Jazz Festival 2025
by Luciano Rossetti
A collection of photos from the Bergamo Jazz Festival in Bergamo from March 20, 2025 to March 23, 2025 with the Artistic Direction of Joe Lovano, featuring Marc Ribot, Myra Melford, Antonio Faraò, Aruan Ortiz, Jordina Millà, Barry Guy, Ravi Coltrane, Danilo Perez, John Patitucci, Alexander Hawkins, Camila Nebbia, Enrico Rava, Virginia Sutera, Camila Nebbia, Dianne Reeves, Tony Levin, Nik Bartsch, Tania Giannouli, Billy Hart, George Cables, Donald Harrison, Eddie Henderson, Cecil McBee, Dianne Reeves, and many many others. ...
Continue ReadingSong For Someone: The Musical Life of Kenny Wheeler
by Ian Patterson
Song For Someone The Musical Life of Kenny Wheeler Brian Shaw and Nick Smart 509 Pages ISBN: # ISBN-13-978-178179 Equinox Publishing 2025 If only for his trumpet and flugelhorn playing Kenny Wheeler stands as one of the modern greats, marrying linear lyricism and free-jazz expression like no-one else. But as a composer, Wheeler was just as innovative, developing harmonic and melodic language in new ways, and bringing together musicians from very different ...
Continue ReadingMatt Ulery: Mother Harp
by Mike Jurkovic
With 15 albums of adventurous composition and daredevil artistry behind him, Chicago-based bassist-composer-bandleader Matt Ulery is, as they say back home, no slouch. And on his 16th, the raucously-inflamed and infectious Mother Harp, he follows his rock 'n' roll heart to the finish line and beyond. Mother Harp is a bevy of crazy-good stuff packed with a punk-rock punch you do not hear authentically or authoritatively anymore anywhere these days. Today it all sounds categorical, as if AI ...
Continue ReadingGeorge Freeman, Ermelinda Cuéllar, Bennie Moten & Lonnie McFadden
by Joe Dimino
We're kicking off the 902nd episode in style--with none other than the King of Kansas City Jazz himself, Lonnie McFadden. We drop the needle on a fiery cut from his 2018 album Live at the Green Lady Lounge, and it sets the tone just right. During a recent chat with Lonnie, he gave us the lowdown on the upcoming Count Basie 90th birthday bash, lighting up KC on International Jazz Day. And guess what? The party doesn't stop there--he's hosting ...
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