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Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Jazz - Part 3

by Ludovico Granvassu
September 28, 2026

The third and final part of our celebration of 50 years of Stevie Wonder's Songs In The Key Of Life--with more jazz renditions of this timeless masterpiece.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Gato Barbieri “Ngiculela--Es una Historia--I Am Singing" Ruby Ruby (A&M) 0:16 Host talks 6:00 Brandee Younger “If It's Magic" Brand New Life (Impulse!) 7:39 Host talks 11:07 Becca Stevens feat. Jacob Collier “As" Regina (GroundUP) 12:07 ...

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Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Jazz - Part 2

by Ludovico Granvassu
September 27, 2026

Stevie Wonder's cult classic may not be a jazz album, but its jazz connections run deep--from Herbie Hancock, Dorothy Ashby, George Benson, Glenn Ferris, and Bobbi Humphrey involved in its recording to Alice Coltrane, Chick Corea, Quincy Jones, David Sanborn, and Lenny White among the influences acknowledged in the liner notes. No wonder its songs have inspired hundreds of jazz renditions--and here's the second part of our playlist featuring some of the best, following the sequence of the original record. ...

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Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Jazz - Part 1

by Ludovico Granvassu
September 26, 2026

Fifty years after Stevie Wonder released Songs In The Key Of Life, we celebrate the anniversary song by song, in the exact sequence of the original double LP and the related Something's Extra EP--with one twist: every track is a jazz rendition. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Jalen Baker “Love's In Need of Love Today" This Is Me, This Is Us (Outside In Music) 0:16 Host ...

Album Review

Gary Clark, Jr.: JPEG RAW

Read "JPEG RAW" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
March 22, 2024

In contrast to Gary Clark Jr.'s thunderous stage performances, the keen impact of which permeate Live (Warner Bros., 2014) and Live in North America 2016 (Warner Bros., 2017), his studio albums, including JPEG RAW, are ambitious eclectic pieces of work the force of which grow inexorably with repeated listening. Its title an acronym for 'Jealousy, Pride, Ego & Greed / Rules, Alter Ego & Worlds,' the man's sixth full-length album is hardly an exception to that rule. In ...

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Rolling Stones: Hackney Diamonds

Read "Hackney Diamonds" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
March 2, 2024

The Rolling Stones have taken some risks of greater and lesser proportion over the course of their sixty-plus-year career, but perhaps no gamble is so great as the decision by the surviving members of the band to continue on after the passing of drummer Charlie Watts. With the blessing of their co-founder in place for the presence of musician/producer Steve Jordan at the kit, the self-appointed 'greatest rock and roll band in the world' carried on with its ...

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Sir Stevie: Jammin' on Stevie Wonder - Part 4

by Ludovico Granvassu
June 6, 2020

All good things come to an end, so here we are with the last part of our celebration of Stevie Wonder's 70th birthday in the key of jazz [check out parts one, two and three]. In this final installment tributes by Geri Allen, Stephane Belmondo and Sylvain Luc, Urbie Green, Max Ionata and Dado Moroni, Abbey Lincoln, Steve Khan, the New West Guitar Group with Gretchen Parlato, Joshua Redman the SFJAZZ Collective, and Grover Washington Jr.. Plus Stevie Wonder's first ...

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Sir Stevie: Jammin' on Stevie Wonder - Part 3

by Ludovico Granvassu
June 2, 2020

There's so much amazing material penned by Stevie Wonder, so here we go again with the third part of our birthday special. After a dive in renditions from the '70s during part one and two, here we mix things up with a combination of contemporary stunners, like the unique take of Alicia Hall Moran on “Signed, Sealed, Delivered" or the incandescent rendition of “Too High" by Chris Hunter, with classics like Roland Kirk's version of “Ma Cherie Amour" or Toots ...