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Radio & Podcasts

Amanda Monaco, Aretha Tillotson Kerry Politzer, Maja Jaku Release New Music Plus Centennial Shoutout For Dory Langdon Previn

by Mary Foster Conklin
November 10, 2025

This broadcast includes new releases from Maja Jaku, Amanda Monaco, Aretha Tillotson and Kerry Politzer, with birthday shoutouts to Dory Langdon Previn (100!), Julia Lee, Sippie Wallace, Andy Bey, Cleo Laine, Abbie Finn, Kristin Korb, Kurt Elling, Amanda Monaco, Allison Miller, Carmen Lundy, Dianne Reeves and Jay Clayton, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear--see them live, buy their music so they can continue to comfort, distract, provoke and remind the world that A Woman's Place ...

Radio & Podcasts

New Releases, Celebrating Jazz Capricorns, Farewell To Jay Clayton & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
January 22, 2024

This broadcast includes new releases from Vanisha Gould & Chris McCarthy, Kristen Edkins, Peter Erskine plus a preview single from Lisa Markley, with birthday shoutouts to Melba Liston, Pamela Samiha Wise, Margaret Slovak, Ruth Brown, Michelle Walker, Jessica Molaskey, Douyé, Dee Daniels, Lisa Markley, Kris Davis and Ingrid Jensen, among others. At the close of the 2nd hour, an homage to the great Jay Clayton. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by seeing them live and ...

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Jay Clayton: Looking Back (Reflections)

by Katchie Cartwright
January 5, 2024

Born and raised in Youngstown, Ohio, Jay Clayton (October 28. 1941--December 31, 2023) summoned the courage to move to New York in 1963, finding her way into the free jazz scene at a time when singers (excluding Jeanne Lee and a few outliers) were simply not within the ranks of the jazz avant-garde. Her free jazz work shows a rare combination of audacity and softness. What did she do when she first moved to town? Back home, she had listened ...

Album Review

Judy Niemack - Jay Clayton: Voices in Flight

Read "Voices in Flight" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright

by Katchie Cartwright
August 15, 2023

While veteran vocal improvisers Judy Niemack and Jay Clayton have known each other since the '70s, Voices in Flight marks their first time together in the studio. They have performed some of the album material in live shows since the early 2000s, including their medley of “Body and Soul" and Idrees Sulieman's gorgeous contrafact of it, “Orange Blossoms" ("With You"). Niemack sings the Sulieman tune, highlighting her craft in writing texts for instrumental jazz tunes that match the melodic inflections ...

Radio & Podcasts

New Releases, Halloween Jazz Plus A Celebration of Jay Clayton's 80th Birthday

by Mary Foster Conklin
November 8, 2021

This broadcast celebrates Halloween with new releases from Arnie & Hudge (Arnt Arntzen and Jen Hodge), Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, bassist Dave Young and trombonist Nabou Claerhou with birthday shoutouts to Jay Clayton (80 years young), Amanda Monaco, Julia Lee and more. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by purchasing their music during this time of pandemic so they can continue to distract, comfort and inspire.Playlist Out To Dinner “Rebecca's Dance" from Play ...

Album Review

Jay Clayton, Jerry Granelli: Alone Together

Read "Alone Together" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
November 3, 2021

L'età avanzata non aveva spento in Jay Clayton e Jerry Granelli (purtroppo deceduto di recente) la voglia di riprendere la lunga collaborazione in performance liberamente improvvisate. Il sodalizio tra la cantante e il batterista risale alla fine degli anni settanta, quando Collin Walcott suggerì a Granelli d'invitare la Clayton al workshop musicale che tenevano al Naropa Institute, il famoso centro buddhista di Boulder, Colorado. Apparentemente sembrava una collaborazione incompatibile. Il drummer di San Francisco era maturato nel ...

Album Review

Jay Clayton, Fritz Pauer, Ed Neumeister: 3 for the Road

Read "3 for the Road" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
November 3, 2021

Registrato vent'anni fa, quest'album ricorda il pianista austriaco Fritz Pauer—deceduto nel 2012—in una delle sue rare incisioni da leader/co-leader. All'inizio del nuovo millennio lui e la cantante Jay Clayton insegnavano all'Università di Graz e iniziarono a eseguire delle performance liberamente improvvisate. In uno dei loro concerti invitarono il trombonista Ed Neumeister e la relazione si stabilizzò, trovando un fantasioso equilibrio che ora risalta in questa registrazione. Di Jay Clayton abbiamo avuto modo di considerare il suo recente ...