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Marie Goudy's Paloma Sky, Gino Amato, Caroline Davis, The Danish Radio Big Band and Kurt Elling New Releases
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast includes new releases from Marie Goudy's Paloma Sky, Gino Amato, Caroline Davis, April Aloisio & Joanie Pallatto, The Danish Radio Big Band and Kurt Elling, with birthday shoutouts to composer Doris Tauber (Them There Eyes, Drinkin Again), Helen Sung, Bobby Short (100), Wesla Whitfield, Amy Winehouse, Lorraine Feather, Champian Fulton and Maria Muldaur, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear. See them live, purchase their music so they can continue to distract, comfort, provoke ...
Continue ReadingJeff Lederer: Guilty!!!
by Mark Corroto
Note to conservative Republicans: stop reading this review now. Note to self: There cannot be but a handful of folks who are both MAGA and jazz and improvised music listeners. Jeff Lederer's Guilty!!! recalls a time when jazz was at the forefront of the zeitgeist. Max Roach, John Coltrane, and Charles Mingus were creating music about and during the civil rights movement. Elsewhere Neil Young was protesting the four dead at Kent State, while Graham Nash was recruiting ...
Continue ReadingIsrea Butler: Congo Lament
by Richard J Salvucci
Well, this is the kind of recording that will start a war over who hears whom and what, all that jazz police kind of thing. Worry not. Whether you think this is a bop recording, rooted in swing, with more than a little of Al Grey's plunger mute on the trombone, or something entirely different, the progeny of Ike Quebec, it really does not matter. Anyone who, say, puts him or herself to rest with the music from Robert Altman's ...
Continue ReadingMiguel Zenon: Golden City
by Dan McClenaghan
The alto saxophone rose to jazz prominence in the 1940s, under the influence of Charlie Parker and the birth of bebop. Important players such as Art Pepper, Lee Konitz and Ornette Coleman took the horn in their own directions, crafting distinctive alto saxophone voices. Moving ahead to the new millennium, no alto saxophonist has entered the tradition with more style and panache than Miguel Zenon. His Alma Aldentro: The Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music, 2011), Tipico (Miel Music, 2017) and ...
Continue ReadingRomán: La Pulpa
by Mike Jacobs
The twin guitar attack, memorable yet intricate lines, and uber-tight rhythms make these raucous Argentines' invitation to get up and groove about impossible to refuse. From their album, Momentum ( Elefante en la Habitación!, 2018). ...
Continue ReadingTigran Hamasyan, Randy Hoexter, Igor Wilcox and Japanese band Trix
by Len Davis
This show includes music from Armenian keyboard player Tigran Hamasyan with his latest, pianist and composer Randy Hoexter with Jimmy Haslip, the Igor Willcox Quartet, German duo Nils Wulker and Arne Jansen, and keyboard player Will Lowry. Guitarist's Plini and Kiko Loureiro, Japanese band Trix, French trumpeter Erik Truffaz, El Trio-Live with John Beasley and Andrew Renfro and Curtis Nowosad. Playlist Tigran Hamasyan “The Quest Begins" from The Bird Of A Thousand Voices (Naive) 00:00 Randy Hoexter “Particle ...
Continue ReadingJonathan Mortiz & Mike Pride: Summertime
by Mark Corroto
Sumertime by the duo of Jonathan Moritz and Mike Pride highlights the distinction between paying attention and attention paid. The former deals with concentration, while the latter concerns awareness or consciousness. With this release or any free improvisation experience, immersion prevails over comprehension. In other words, dig the view instead of building a camp here. Mortiz's saxophone has been paired with Pride's drums in several groups, with Ken Filiano and Nate Wooley, the Jonathan Moritz Trio, and the ...
Continue ReadingEric Person, Charlie Hunter, Wayne Shorter & Rachel Z
by Joe Dimino
Full of soul and gusto, we begin the 872nd Episode of Neon Jazz with keyboardist Rachel Z and music from her 2003 album First Time Ever I Saw Your Face. From there, we hear from her hero in the legendary Wayne Shorter. As we move on, there's a host of new music from past Neon Jazz interviewees recently in Felipe Brito and Scott Amendola. We also dig into new music from Jeff Rupert, Eric Person and Neil Swainson. Finally, we ...
Continue ReadingClod Ensemble + Nu Civilisation Orchestra At Barbican Theatre
by Chris May
Clod Ensemble + Nu Civilisation Orchestra Barbican Theatre The Black Saint And The Sinner LadyLondon September 19, 2024 We will never know exactly what Charles Mingus meant by the title of his suite The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (Impulse!, 1963). Indeed, Mingus himself may not have known, though righteous anger was evidentially part of the music, as it was with so much of his work. Mingus declined to articulate any ...
Continue ReadingRahsaan Barber: Six Words
by Chris May
Six Words is saxophonist Rahsaan Barber's fourth album on his Nashville-based label Jazz Music City, and the first to be conceived as a suite. The titular six words are something Wynton Marsalis said in a conversation with Barber: “There is power in this music." With that thought in mind, Barber composed a series of pieces focused on protest, personal liberation and love, and on the penultimate track, grief, in a tender elegy for Roy Hargrove, “Remembering Roy." ...
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