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Chicago Edge Ensemble, The Exu, Laihonen/Innanen & Don Paul
by Maurice Hogue
This episode is a great example of the wide range of improvised music, ranging from the free jazz of the new European trio, The Exu, the Finnish pair of drummer Simo Laihonen and saxophonist Mikko Innanen and the Chicago Edge Ensemble, to solo piano by Joachim Kuhn, to NY underground legend Booker T (Not the Booker T of Green Onions fame), to post-bop by the Jessica Jones Quartet, to poetry & music by Louisiana's Don Paul with Rivers Answer Moons ...
Continue ReadingMédéric Collignon, Steve Coleman, Hasse Poulsen, Jon Irabagon & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
Enjoy a playlist featuring music which can be seen as the elaborate confluence of many sources of inspiration.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Ed Neumeister “Black Dog" Covers (Outside In Music) 0:16 Host talks 7:03 Karl Latham “Carry On, Pt. II" Living Standards II (Dropzonejazz) 8:27 Host talks 13:22 Médéric Collignon “Felix" Arsis Thesis (Le Triton) 15:35 Steve Coleman and Five Elements “Multiplicity Drum" PolyTropos/Of Many Turns (Pi) ...
Continue ReadingJutta Hipp, George Michael, Grammy Nods
by David Brown
We'll kick things off with some Latin energy from Mongo Santamaria and his Orchestra, recorded live at the Black Hawk in San Francisco in 1962. Next, we'll hear The Incredible Jimmy Smith with “Midnight Special" from his classic 1966 LP of the same name. Following that, we have some guitar music from alto saxophonist Tim Berne's new release Yikes Too, featuring drummer Tom Rainey and guitarist Gregg Belisle-Chi. Composer and organizer John Zorn will then take the spotlight with a ...
Continue ReadingFreda Payne at Blues Alley
by Mark Edelman
Freda Payne Blues Alley Freda Payne Washington, DC January 26, 2025 Blues Alley kicked off its 60th anniversary celebration with a special treat: multi-gold-record performing artist Freda Payne, the “Band of Gold" gal who captivated the pop charts back in the early '70s with her soulful serenade to lost love. Good news to report: Payne looks great, sounds better and makes the transition from pop songstress to American songbook chanteuse with equal measures of ...
Continue ReadingKenny Garrett Speaks Through The Soul of His Jazz
by Dean Nardi
Mental bungee-jumping may not be their sport of choice, but a cerebral ledge exists that sooner or later every jazz musician must leap off. One day, ready or not, tuning up or shaking down their instrument, they will glance in a mirror, hug a pregnant mother-to-be, second-line a funeral, walk in the deepest, dark woods, chance a liaison, wake in the night with a heart beating like Brian Blade hitting a snare, receive a message from another dimension, get lost ...
Continue ReadingJazz, Gnu and New: ECM Reissues To Excite Vinyl Fans
by Joshua Weiner
ECM's “Luminessence" series pays tribute to the impressive legacy of Manfred Eicher's label, founded in Germany in 1969. Several of its most historic and beloved releases are being reissued on audiophile vinyl cut from the original analog tapes (or, in the case of more recent albums, from high-resolution digital masters) and presented in heavy gatefold sleeves with original artwork along with additional photos and liner notes. The vinyl pressings are flat, glossy, and nearly flawless, and the sound that Eicher ...
Continue ReadingMatt Panayides: With Eyes Closed
by Richard J Salvucci
This is a charming recording: reflective, tranquil and built around the compositions of some of the most distinguished players and composers of what ought to be called the American Jazz Songbook. Here you have music written by Wayne Shorter, Joe Henderson, Woody Shaw, Cedar Walton and Chick Corea, to name only the figures in one strain. If taste runs to Jimmy van Huesen, Frank Foster, Henry Mancini, or Jules Stein, well, that is more than adequately covered. Pianoless trios are ...
Continue ReadingPeter Erskine: Vienna to Hollywood: Impressions of E.W. Korngold & Max Steiner
by Jack Bowers
From Vienna to Hollywood is versatile drummer Peter Erskine's ardent homage to the (mostly) film music of the renowned Academy Award-winning Viennese composers Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Max Steiner, who wrote some of filmdom's most memorable themes during Hollywood's Golden Age in the decades from 1930 to 1960. To transpose their film scores to the jazz genre, Erskine uses a talented group of performers from Vienna's JAM Music Lab University (where he serves as artist-in-residence), supplanted on two numbers by ...
Continue ReadingArturo O'Farrill's Homage To Carla Bley, Julia Hűlsmann, Vocalists Holly Cole, Aubrey Logan, Lili Anel, Liz Cole & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast includes new releases including Arturo O'Farrill's Carla Bley tribute, the Julia Hűlsmann Quartet, plus vocalists Aubrey Logan, Holly Cole, Liz Cole and Lili Anel, with birthday shoutouts to jazz foremother Lil Hardin Armstrong, Caili O'Doherty, vocalists CeCe Gable, Rosemary Loar, Eugenie Jones, Aubrey Logan, and Melody Gardot. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear. See them live, purchase their music so they can continue to distract, comfort, provoke, inspire and remind the world that A Woman's ...
Continue ReadingEuan Edmonds: Beyond Hope and Fear
by Hrayr Attarian
Washington DC-based Trombonist Euan Edmonds is a versatile musician who has performed in diverse settings. He honed his improvisational skills, however, in Chicago's creative music scene. His intriguing debut, Beyond Hope and Fear, on drummer Gustavo Cortinas' Desafio Candente label, features some of the city's most exciting voices in a cohesive sextet. The core of this cinematic album is the eponymous seven-part suite that features the spontaneity of the individual musicians in a dynamic framework. Saxophonist Clark Gibson ...
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