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The Southern's suite with Sean Mason
by Ngwako Malakalaka
The K Show welcomes North Carolina born and New York based pianist and composer Sean Mason as our guest. Mason's musical journey has taken him from the soulful heart of the South to the bustling streets of New York City, where he's now a staple in the city's vibrant jazz scene. He's had the honor of playing alongside jazz legends, and his story is one of passion, perseverance, and deep-rooted connection to his Southern roots. He joins us as we ...
Continue ReadingSatoko Fujii: Altitude 1100 Meters
by John Sharpe
Even after over one hundred leadership dates, Japanese pianist Satoko Fujii still finds new avenues down which to take her invigorating music. For the first time she has composed for a string ensemble, though the inclusion of her own piano, as well as the drums of regular collaborator Akira Horikoshi, swiftly usher this set out of the chamber and into a more utilitarian space. The suite of five pieces was written during a sojourn in the highlands at the titular ...
Continue ReadingLaura Dreyer: Dancing Through Time
by Katchie Cartwright
When something sparks her creativity, Laura Dreyer is the sort of person who jumps in with both feet and gets right down to business. A multi-hyphenate artist, saxophonist-flutist-composer-teacher-clinician, she has been serious about jazz since junior high school in El Cerrito, California, across the bay from San Francisco. “El Cerrito High had an award-winning--like state champion award-winning--jazz band that was really, really exciting," she explains. Flute was her first instrument, but she was happy to pick up a baritone saxophone ...
Continue ReadingSteve Lehman, Nels Cline, Satoko Fujii & Hobbs/Shanko
by Maurice Hogue
It's not easy to find a more accomplished figure in creative music than Anthony Braxton. Alto saxophonist Steve Lehman knows that, and he honours his one-time mentor with a bristling new live album, The Music Of Anthony Braxton, destined for 2025 best-of lists. This recording is a reminder of Lehman's fearlessness. There are other excellent new releases in this episode: Dream A Dream from Satoko Fujii's Tokyo Trio, The Depression Tapes from the duo of altoist Jim Hobbs & bassist ...
Continue ReadingThe Empress, 3 Cohens/WDR Big Band, Nnenna Freelon, Sylvie Courvoisier/Mary Halvorson and Kaisa's Machine
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast includes new releases from The Empress (Pureum Jin, Lauren Sevian, Erena Terakubo, Chelsea Baratz), 3 Cohens/WDR Big Band, Nnenna Freelon, Sylvie Courvoisier/Mary Halvorson and Kaisa's Machine, with birthday shoutouts to Shirley Scott, Carol Sloane, Jeanie Bryson, Anne Mette Iversen, Mark Murphy, Tomoko Ohno, Arooj Aftab and Bobby McFerrin. 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 ...
Continue ReadingMuriel Grossman, Yazz Ahmed, Kaisa Mäensivu
by David Brown
Welcome friends and neighbors to The Jazz Continuum. Old, new, in, out... wherever the music takes us. Each week, we will explore the elements of jazz from a historical perspective. This week, we'll explore new and recent releases from Europe, including the spiritual jazz grooves of Muriel Grossmann, the psychedelic Arabic jazz of Yazz Ahmed, the Nortec Noir of Kaisa's Machine, the soul jazz sounds of The Lewis Express and tracks from We Out Here, a project documenting London's underground ...
Continue ReadingLuca Dell'Anna: Tactile
by Neil Duggan
Italian pianist and composer Luca Dell'Anna draws from a rich tapestry of musical traditions. His earliest influences came from his grandfather, whose accordion playing was rooted in Italian folk music. At home, his father's diverse record collection introduced him to the works of Nat King Cole, Ray Charles and Johann Sebastian Bach. As Dell'Anna developed his own musical identity, he cultivated a deep-seated appreciation for Cuban and African musical traditions and Gonzalo Rubalcaba in particular. This cultural mix ...
Continue ReadingJim Snidero at the Bop Stop
by C. Andrew Hovan
A collection of photos from the Jim Snidero concert at The Bop Stop in Cleveland on March 7, 2025 featuring Jim Snidero, Peter Washington and Jason Tiemann. ...
Continue ReadingLeslie Pintchik: Prayer For What Remains
by Jack Bowers
Pianist and composer Leslie Pintchik abandoned a promising career as an educator at New York's Columbia University in favor of writing and playing piano full-time. What has become clear since then, and especially on her eighth album, Prayer for What Remains, is that academia's loss is beyond any doubt the jazz world's gain. Pintchik leads her working trio here, with guest appearances by the esteemed soprano saxophonist Steve Wilson on two numbers and percussionist Satoshi Takeishi on ...
Continue ReadingJo David Meyer Lysne: For Renstemt Klaver
by John Eyles
For as long as it has existed, it seems as if the piano has been subject to opinions and experiments of various types. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the player piano was a popular self-playing piano with a mechanism that operated the piano action using perforated paper or metallic rolls to play popular tunes.Later on, it became more fashionable for pianists to play inside the piano lid, for example by striking or plucking strings, by ...
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