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Jeremy Monteiro, Marshall Gilkes & Ulysses Owens Jr.
by Joe Dimino
From a jazz star in the modern world, we begin the 839th Episode of Neon Jazz with Ulysses Owens Jr. and music from his latest album A New Beat. From there, we get into a host of new cats putting out new music with the likes of Noah Becker, Kristen Edkins, Charles Chen and Myles Wright. We also get a good dose of new music from veterans like Dave Solazzo, Adam Birnbaum, Jeremy Monteiro and Andy Pratt. We bring the ...
Continue ReadingLiving The Beatles Legend: The Untold Story Of Mal Evans
by Doug Collette
Living The Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans Kenneth Womack 592 Pages ISBN: #978-0063248526 Dey Street Books2023 Kenneth Womack covers a tremendous amount of ground in writing The Untold Story of Mal Evans. Granted, Living The Beatles Legend runs nearly six-hundred pages including scrupulous footnotes as well as a lengthy index plus all the appropriate references. But in doing so, this professor of English and popular music maintains a charming approach ...
Continue ReadingMicah Thomas: Reveal
by Mike Jurkovic
A drop mic, double plus good treatise by three very ballsy players--pianist Micah Thomas, bassist Dean Torrey, and drummer Kayvon Gordon--Reveal wastes no time stating its case, taking centerstage, and holding that promised land's glories tight. Recorded in one seven-hour session, Thomas's second far-flung outing as a Blue Note leader and his third overall (the self-produced and eloquent Tide, 2019) deceptively chases the history of the piano trio then surpasses it altogether on the opening dynamo “Little Doctor (Take 2)." ...
Continue ReadingHugh Masekela: Grazing In The Grass
by Chris May
Lest we forget the total blast that was the late Hugh Masekela, caught in the act of breaking big in the US in 1968. Like Fela Kuti, Masekela kept the good times rolling and the message loud and clear. ...
Continue ReadingSarah L King: Fire Horse
by Neil Duggan
Starting her musical path with coaching from Mike King, one of the UK's leading contemporary vocal coaches, Sarah L King (no relation), surfaced as a solo jazz vocalist, releasing an EP of standards and several singles. Her passage was helped by a family heritage consisting of an accomplished jazz trumpeter father and an orchestral conductor grandmother. An early career as a writer and director of short films provided the right impetus to be a compelling musical narrator. King's ...
Continue ReadingDudu Pukwana: Baloyi
by Chris May
Joshua (as in the Walls of Jericho) had nothing on this. The opening track of Dudu Pukwana & Spear's debut album In The Townships (Caroline, 1974), with Mongezi Feza on trumpet and Louis Moholo (as he then was) on drums. ...
Continue ReadingSusan Alcorn: Nueva Canción on Pedal Steel
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, the Spotlight shines On the innovative pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn.While Susan got her start playing in country & western bands in Texas, she has taken the pedal steel into new and uncharted territories, exploring 20th-century classical music, improvisational jazz, and various world musics.On her latest project, CANTO (Relative Pitch Records), Susan explored Chilean folk music and nueva canción, which translates as “new song" and refers to an intertwined musical and leftist social movement so ...
Continue ReadingSatoko Fujii Tokyo Trio: Jet Black
by Doug Collette
Of all the varied settings in which Satoko Fujii places herself, the piano trio may be the most satisfying, if only because of the distinct way she and her respective bandmates stretch the boundaries of this ever-so-venerable instrumental concept. Hardly an exception to the rule of wholly arresting collaborative musicianship, Jet Black is the third outing of a lineup Fujii has dubbed the Tokyo Trio. Also including bassist Takashi Sugawa and drummer Ittetsu Takemura, this unit redefines one ...
Continue ReadingDhafer Youssef, Imogen Ryall, Joe Lovano, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
Enjoy a set featuring jazz inspired by a Persian mathematician, Omar Khayyam; jazz which blends with Hindustani and Carnatic music; jazz that meets a chamber string quartet; jazz that pays tribute to Joni Mitchell; and a whole bunch of other jazz permutations.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Dhafer Youssef “Flying Dervish (Omar Khayyam' Suite)" Street of Minarets (Back Beat Edition) 0:16 Host talks 6:10 Shakti “Changay Naino" This ...
Continue ReadingSly Stone: Thank You (Falettinme be Mice Elf Agin)
by Richard J Salvucci
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir Sly Stone With Ben Greenman 297 Pages ISBN: 9780374606978 Auwa Books2023 Some readers may remember a time before Sly and the Family Stone. There was music--music you might reasonably call funky. The word “funk" first appeared in the early seventeenth century. Its use in jazz went back to the 1950s, at least. But for a lot of people, there was before Sly and after ...
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