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Hyeseon Hong, Emilie-Claire Barlow and Lux Quartet led by Myra Melford & Allison Miller Plus A Birthday Tribute To Lyricist Dorothy Parker
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast includes new releases from Hyeseon Hong, Emilie-Claire Barlow and Lux Quartet led by Myra Melford & Allison Miller, with birthday shoutouts to lyricist Dorothy Parker ("I Wished On the Moon," “How Am I To Know"), Hilary Gardner, Nora Germain, Linda May Han Oh, Mimi Fox, Anita Wardell, Jacqui Naylor, Rachel Eckroth and Nicky Schrire, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear by seeing them live and online. Purchase their music so they can continue ...
Continue ReadingCedar Walton One Flight Down
by Thomas Conrad
They are thinning out: the ranks of pianists who can trace their lineage directly back to primary sources like J.J. Johnson, the early Jazz Messengers of Art Blakey, and the Jazztet of Art Farmer and Benny Golson. In the last few years, we have lost Tommy Flanagan, Mal Waldron, Roland Hanna, Dodo Marmarosa, Russ Freeman, Frank Hewitt, and, most recently, John Hicks. Producer Bob Porter once said of Cedar Walton, “By the time he came to make his ...
Continue ReadingTony Oxley Quintet: Angular Apron
by Chris May
Among the most welcome jazz events of 2024 is the return to active duty of the great British saxophonist Larry Stabbins following an absence of over a decade. Stabbins went into voluntary exile in 2013, after around thirty-five years at the deep end of British jazz. Disenchanted with the culturally regressive direction in which the music and its ecology seemed to be heading, he even went so far as selling his tenor. But things change, and towards the end of ...
Continue ReadingRalph Bowen: Five
by C. Andrew Hovan
Although he's better known in educational circles due to his solid commitment to jazz pedagogy as a member of the faculty at Rutgers University, Ralph Bowen has been a vital member of the jazz community since debuting with the group Out of the Blue back in the mid '80s. His adaptability to a diversity of musical situations has made him a valuable sideman over the years, although the opportunities for Bowen to call the shots as a leader have not ...
Continue ReadingJordan VanHemert: Deep in the Soil
by Jack Bowers
Energy and enthusiasm fairly leap from the speakers--or headphones--on Sharel Cassity's daring “Call to Order," the opening number on Korean-born saxophonist Jordan VanHemert's fifth album as leader, Deep in the Soil. Alas, that same ardor doesn't reappear until track seven (of eight), trombonist Michael Dease's boppish “ST in the House." In between, VanHemert and his companions (group sizes vary from sextet to duo) offer some agreeable music but nothing that approaches the ebullience or cogency of the themes already named. ...
Continue ReadingGroove Master Oz Noy: How a Guitar Virtuoso Blends Funk, Jazz, and Blues into a Unique Musical Landscape
by Steven Roby
In this episode we dive into the electrifying world of guitarist Oz Noy, discussing his unique blend of funk, jazz, and blues. Noy shares the story behind his latest project, Triple Play, an album recorded at Stages Music Arts in Maryland after a series of tours with his band. “I called the guys like, hey, let's do this record really quick before, you know, it goes away," Noy recalls. They delve into his songwriting process, where he seamlessly combines genres ...
Continue ReadingJimbo Ross: Jazz Passion & Satin Latin
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Jazz Passion & Satin Latin from elite viola player Jimbo Ross offers a dozen selections drawn across a wide array of resources. From tried-and-true GASsers, to more obscure, but, fascinating, jazz compositions, all seasoned with Latin flavorings, Ross and his compadres deliver an invigorating session. The album opens auspiciously with Ross in viola-guitar unison in a heated Latin-straight-ahead take covering of “Delilah." It mirrors Clifford Brown and Max Roach's arrangement from their classic 1954 Grammy Hall of ...
Continue ReadingThe late Dean Brown, Rodney Holmes, Richard Hallebeek and Kazumi Watanabe
by Len Davis
The late Dean Brown, drummer Rodney Holmes, Netherlands musicians Frans Vollink and Richard Hallebeek and Canadian bassist Alain Caron. Japanese fusion with Kazumi Watanabe, and T Square, bassist Jonas Hellborg and Polish pianist Krzysztof Herdzin.Playlist Dean Brown “Breaksong" from DB 3-Live at Cotton Club (BHM) 00:00 Rodney Holmes “The Bronx Experiment" from Twelve Months Of October (Self Produced) 08:20 Frans Vollink “Dirty Gilly" from One Spirit (Self Produced) 16:38 Richard Hallebeek “Lined Out" from RHP (Liquid Note) 25:00 ...
Continue ReadingWarren Wolf, Alexis Cole, Sonny Rollins and Leigh Pilzer
by Joe Dimino
From the mind of veteran musician Leigh Pilzer, we get right into the 869th Episode of Neon Jazz. With her Seven Pointed Star, we hear the title track off her 2024 album called Beatin' the Odds. From there, we journey around a stellar line up of veterans with new albums in 2024 with Julieta Eugenio, Natalie Jacob, Alexis Cole and Warren Wolf. In betwixt, we hear from legends like Count Basie, Sonny Rollins, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. Veteran Eric ...
Continue ReadingDaniel Herskedal: Call For Winter II: Resonance
by Chris May
Among the strangest all-horns discs ever heard in this parish is How It All Started (Hat Hut, 2007) by the Swiss quartet Mytha. Led by free improv and third stream trumpeter Hans Kennel, the group plays music made almost entirely on alphorns, heavy wooden horns ten to twelve feet long with curved bells that rest on the ground. They look a little like Tibetan dungchen, though those are made of metal. Alphorns seem to have been developed back in the ...
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