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Radio & Podcasts

Nnenna Freelon, Roy Ayers, Roberta Flack, Saje and More

Read "Nnenna Freelon, Roy Ayers, Roberta Flack, Saje and More" reviewed by Jua Howard


Greetings Music Family! It's finally time for another episode of the “First Instrument Jazz Show"! I've got new music from Nnenna Freelon, Kate McGarry, {m: Nicole Zuraitis and Kristin Korb; and more timeless music from Roberta Flack, Roy Ayers, Säje, Ben Williams and many more. Come get lost in the music with me!Playlist Intro 00:00 Roberta Flack “Tenderly" from Roberta (Atlantic) 3:34 Gretchen Parlato “No Plan" from Flor (Edition) 7:24 Mark Granfield “Just One of Those Things" from ...

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Radio & Podcasts

The Empress, John Ellis, Nnenna Freelon, Chicago Jazz Orchestra and more

Read "The Empress, John Ellis, Nnenna Freelon, Chicago Jazz Orchestra and more" reviewed by Benjamin Boddie


Today's Music--Right Now! Fantastic music by The Empress, Jon Bentley, John Ellis, Nnenna Freelon, Kevin Fort, Chicago Jazz Orchestra, Dave Robbins, Rodney Whitaker, Laura Dreyer, Carloss Mena, Ben Patterson, David Caffey, Jackson Potter, Fred Hersch, Jeremy Pelt, Nels Cline, Bob James & Dave Koz, Caili O'Doherty, Lisa Hilton, Billy Hart, Yuval Cohen, Dave Hanson, Artemis, Nanami Haruta and more. Playlist The Empress “Bolivia" from Square One (Cellar Music Group) 00:00 Jon Bentley “Trane's Terrain" from Go Ahead! (Cellar ...

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Radio & Podcasts

Betcha By Golly Wow - New Releases From Nnenna Freelon, Aubrey Logan, Rosa Passos and More

Read "Betcha By Golly Wow - New Releases From Nnenna Freelon, Aubrey Logan, Rosa Passos  and More" reviewed by Mary Foster Conklin


This broadcast presents a boatload of new releases from vocalists Nnenna Freelon, Aubrey Logan, Dara Tucker, Rosa Passos and Jonathan Karrant, organist Kendall Carter, and the Alchemy Song Project with birthday shoutouts to pianists Brittany Anjou, Yoko Miwa, guitarist Sheryl Bailey, flutist Jan Leder, and vocalist Carmen Souza, among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by purchasing their music.Playlist Brittany Anjou “Hard Boiled Soup" from Enamigo Reciprokataj (Origin) 00:00 The Lascivious Biddies “Betty" ...

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Live Review

Nnenna Freelan With The Charleston Jazz Orchestra at Charleston Music Hall

Read "Nnenna Freelan With The Charleston Jazz Orchestra at Charleston Music Hall" reviewed by Rob Rosenblum


Nnenna Freelon with the Charleston Jazz Orchestra Charleston Music Hall Charleston, SC January 18, 2018 If you were expecting fireworks and bombastic performances of favorite pop tunes, jazz vocalist Nnenna Freelon might have disappointed you in her Charleston debut last Friday night at the Charleston Music Hall. But if your ears were open to a seasoned professional who had honed her craft to near perfection, while leaving herself open to subtle changes in inflection ...

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Album Review

Nnenna Freelon & the John Brown Big Band: Christmas

Read "Christmas" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Renowned jazz singer Nnenna Freelon's first Christmas album truly is a gift, made possible by a small bequest from her Christmas-loving mother and a long-time friendship with John Brown, director of Duke University's Jazz Studies program and leader of the splendid John Brown Big Band. Brown not only made his ensemble available but co-produced the album with Freelon and released it on his own label, Brown Boulevard Records. It's clear that this is something Freelon has wanted ...

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Live Review

Nnenna Freelon Live At The Saville Theater, San Diego

Read "Nnenna Freelon Live At The Saville Theater, San Diego" reviewed by Robert Bush


Nnenna Freelon Saville Theater, San Diego City College San Diego, CA November 9, 2010 Vocalist Nnenna Freelon has enjoyed her share of commercial success over the years (she's been nominated for six Grammy Awards), but not enough to damage her artistic integrity. She's got one hell of a voice, which she employs to great effect by never overdoing it. She has the innate ability to organize most of her phrasing just a fraction behind ...

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Album Review

Nnenna Freelom: Homefree

Read "Homefree" reviewed by Fred Bouchard


Nnenna Freelon can be spotted miles off, like neon or a rainbow. The tall, rawboned, outspoken gal from Cambridge, MA via North Carolina owns a musical persona as unique as her name. She nails her ancient/modern, genre-jumping repertoire, embraces it, inhabits it organically and belts it with a hearty, emphatic attack. You can tell her from a phrase--even a note--as she goes merrily variegating vowels, taffy-pulling syllables, signifying scat sounds (gong-gong), sing-songing exit vamps; check her risqué ...


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