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Paul Cornish, Quite Sane, Silvia Bolognesi, Eric Mingus, Burnt Sugar & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
Enjoy a playlist that bridges past, present and future--celebrating two decades of boundary-pushing music from Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber and Quite Sane, honoring the legacy of Gil Scott-Heron, and spotlighting rising voices like Paul Cornish and Alessio Cazzetta.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber “Back Pain" If You Can't Dazzle Them with Your Brilliance, Then Baffle Them with Your Blisluth Pt. Two (Avant ...
Continue ReadingDaniel Casimir: Balance
by Carl Medsker
The dynamic London underground jazz scene has produced a stellar roster of innovative musicians over the last decade or so. Shabaka Hutchings, Nubya Garcia, Binker Golding, Moses Boyd and Theon Cross, to name a few, meld bebop, hip hop, grime, reggae, dub, calypso, afrobeat and classical musics into fresh, novel hybrids. Bassist and rising star Daniel Casimir's milieu for his last two albums, Boxed In (Jazz Re:freshed, 2021) and Balance (Jazz Re:freshed, 2024), was a jazz orchestra plus strings. He ...
Continue ReadingThe Brighton Beat: Victory At Last
by Mike Jurkovic
For the musically uninitiated and socially marooned, there is a perpetual sense of danceable immediacy to the big, fun Brighton Beat sound. The exact reason for that is that, at any moment--no, make that every moment--there is the potential to shake-your-money-maker around the moon and back again. Measure by measure by measure, the dance floor is going to get worn down to the studs. It is truly liberating. Utilizing a far greater freedom to enlist the studio as ...
Continue ReadingIgor Willcox Quartet: Time Traveller
by Joshua Weiner
Brazilian drummer Igor Willcox is the descendant of a multi-generational family of musicians, with a conductor-arranger father and vocalist mother. With Swiss phenom Jojo Mayer as a teacher and three decades of performing under his belt, it is perhaps not surprising that Willcox's playing is superb. What astonishes on the Igor Willcox Quartet's fusion album Time Traveller is the quality of the compositions, the rapport of the musicians and the clear but muscular sound quality. Instrumental pyrotechnics abound, but always ...
Continue ReadingRIP Eddie Palmieri, New Music from Karla Harris, Joe Farnsworth, and more, Birthday Music from Tony Bennett, Benny Carter, Allan Holdsworth, and More
by David W. Daniels
This program features classic jazz, current jazz that is in the tradition of classic jazz, jazz fusion, and music by local (Atlanta) artists covering all forms of jazz. Today's program pays homage to the recently transitioned Eddie Palmieri during our classic jazz segment. In our new music segment, tracks from recent releases and advance tracks are played, including music from Karla Harris, Paul Harrison, Nathan & Noah East, Gerald Clayton and Alex Sipiagin. During the final hour of the show, ...
Continue ReadingMike Freeman's ZonaVibe: Circles In A Yellow Room
by Jack Bowers
Circles in a Yellow Room, New York-based vibraphonist Mike Freeman's eighth recording as leader of his own ensembles, has a Latin flavor reminiscent of classic albums by West Coast maestro Cal Tjader. Stylistically, Freeman parallels Tjader and a host of others from Milt Jackson, Terry Gibbs and Gary McFarland to Bobby Hutcherson, Gary Burton, Joe Locke and Steve Nelson. Which is another way of saying that when it comes to the vibraphone, there is not much that separates the best ...
Continue ReadingMeet composer, keyboardist, multi-instrumentalist Roella Oloro
by Doug Hall
On this show we chat with Roella Oloro; British-born composer, multi-instrumentalist of Nigerian and Jamaican descent and recent graduate from Berklee College of Music, with a degree in Performance. Ms. Oloro first moved to London in 2017 to study at Trinity Laban and quickly got involved with London's vibrant music scene. She later attended Berklee College of Music in Boston. Ms. Oloro is a pianist, saxophonist, composer, and band leader. As a composer, she has written for a variety of ...
Continue ReadingJeremy Sirota Grills Lawrence Peryer On Creative Leadership
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, the Spotlight shines on someone we have not spoken to in a while... Over the years, we have periodically turned the tables by having friends and colleagues interview me, most notably in episode 100, or by airing talks and interviews I have done in other forums. Today is a little different. My longtime friend and colleague Jeremy Sirota is hosting a livestream series on LinkedIn called “Creative Leadership." There, he interviews figures from the worlds ...
Continue ReadingCécile McLorin Salvant's Ogresse At Carnegie Hall
by Adam Beaudoin
Cécile McLorin Salvant Carnegie Hall Ogresse New York, NY May 21, 2025 The relationship between jazz and classical music has a long, complicated history. Musicians themselves tend to care more about the music than concepts of genre, and you only need to listen to the echoes of French Impressionism in the opening moments of miles Davis' Kind of Blue (Columbia, 1959), or to Art Farmer and Jim Hall's adaptation of Ravel's “Pavane for ...
Continue ReadingJake Baldwin: Vanishing Point
by Troy Dostert
Trumpeter Jake Baldwin has been an important presence in the Minneapolis jazz scene since the early 2010s, known especially for a stylistic breadth that can cover the gamut from conventional post-bop fare to rock-inflected fusion. On Vanishing Point, his fourth release for Shifting Paradigm Records, he digs deeper into the latter mode, making good use of a strong band to support a set of infectious, edgy, melody-driven excursions. The album crackles with energy from the outset, as the ...
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