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Jamie Baum: These Are Her Times
by Dean Nardi
Jamie Baum is a world-class composer as well as flutist, who smoothly balances woodwinds with horns, guitar, bass, piano and drums so that they are equals. Her compositions can remind you of a Gil Evans arrangement with several decades of development added to create a thoroughly modern milieu. She mixes high-energy with ballads and Western foundations with South Asian colors; the music so charged it practically has a visible aura around the score. You can hear it on Bridges (Sunnyside, ...
Continue ReadingRay Brown: His Life and Music
by Andrew Hunter
Ray Brown: His Life and Music Jay Sweet 310 Pages ISBN: # 9781800505353 Equinox Publishing2025 It is such a common occurrence in life that bad things happen to good people, and conversely that good things happen to bad people, that there is a branch of theology given to the question of how and why God allows such injustice to occur. It is called theodicy. Given the frequency with which people ...
Continue ReadingEmma Hedrick: Newcomer
by Kyle Simpler
As long as there are songs, there will be singers to sing them, but there is a slight difference between a singer and a vocalist. Singers, no matter how talented, tend to remain in the foreground with the band in support. A vocalist, however, uses the voice as an instrument, becoming an integral part of the ensemble. Emma Hedrick fits that definition completely, and with her debut album Newcomer, she arrives with a voice honed through years of training and ...
Continue ReadingNeil Charles Quartet: Dark Days
by Mark Corroto
In 2025, amid global unrest and political fracture, the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom can feel like a distant dream, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream" speech like a myth from a gentler past. Has social media, with all its noise and manipulations, induced a kind of societal amnesia? Has King's “arc of the moral universe" begun to bend backward under the weight of cynicism and fatigue? If your glass is half empty, ...
Continue ReadingMeet trombonist, keyboardist, and composer William Carn
by Cheryl K.
In this hour, an interview with trombonist, keyboardist, and composer William Carn. He and his group Choices have self-released The Unburdening. Playlist [SINGLE] Bitter:Sweet “Dirty Laundry" (Quango) 4:01 Colin Hancock's Jazz Hounds feat. Catherine Russell “Telephoning the Blues" from Cat & The Hounds (Turtle Bay) 2:59 [excerpt] William Carn's Choices “No Peace" from The Unburdening (Wiliam Carn) 1:20 [excerpt] William Carn's Choices “Ascension" from The Unburdening (Wiliam Carn) 5:01 [excerpt] William Carn's Choices “Brother" from The Unburdening (Wiliam ...
Continue ReadingRemembering Nancy King, New Releases From Colin Hancock's Jazz Hounds featuring Catherine Russell, Plus Amy Engelhardt, Dara Starr Tucker, Jennifer Madsen & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast includes new releases from Colin Hancock's Jazz Hounds featuring Catherine Russell, Amy Engelhardt, Dara Starr Tucker and Jennifer Madsen, with birthday shoutouts to Bernice Petkere (Close Your Eyes, Lullaby of the Leaves), Terry Pollard, Iola Brubeck, Ben Sidran, Mary Stallings, Cecilia Smith, Jenny Klukken, Lenora Zenzali Helm, among others, plus a remembrance of the great Nancy King. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear--see them live, buy their music so they can continue to comfort, distract, ...
Continue ReadingAngelini/Niescier/Abdou, Wojciech Jachna, Johnny Dyani & Amalie Dahl
by Maurice Hogue
French pianist Bruno Angelini found much inspiration in a quote from his favourite musician Wayne Shorter's graphic novel, “Emanon": “The lotus exists only in the swamp, in our world of turmoil, and the blooming flower purifies the water around it." It led him to make a recording called Lotus Flowers where he and saxophonists Angelika Niescier & Sakina Abdou pay tribute to Shorter and true “lotus flowers" like Nelson Mandela, Jack London, the IPCC scientists, Rosa Parks, Jane Addams, Berta ...
Continue ReadingKamasi Washington at The Royal Baths Park
by Marek J. Śmietański
A collection of photos from the Kamasi Washington concert at The Royal Baths Park in Warsaw on July 10, 2025 featuring Tony Austin, Cameron Graves, Miles Mosley, Ryan Porter, Patrice Quinn, Igmar Thomas, Rickey Washington and Fatima Washington. ...
Continue ReadingJuanjo López: Above, Beyond, Within
by Troy Dostert
In our troubling national moment of intensified nativism and ethnic fearmongering, it can be edifying to encounter the stories of people whose lives are directly affected by the current climate. One of them is Juanjo López, a guitarist now well-established in the Chicago scene but who came years ago to the United States with his family from Mexico. His story, reflected in his second release, Above, Beyond, Within, is about much more than geographic relocation, however. There is a strong ...
Continue ReadingVictor Bailey: Sweet Tooth
by Mike Jacobs
The “other Victor of bass," the late Philly-bred low-end icon and his capable cronies take flight on a signature tune from the album, Low Blow (ESC, 1999). Featuring Omar Hakim, Michael Bearden, Henry Hey, Bill Evans and Wayne Krantz. ...
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