Jazz Articles about Tina Turner

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Tina Turner + Selma Savolainen, Ben Van Gelder, Rajna Swaminathan & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
June 13, 2023

A tribute to Tina Turner opens a show featuring music characterized by a deliberate desire to blur the lines between jazz and other genres, be it pop, R&B, world music or church music, and to do so with the most wonderful arrangements. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Herbie Hancock, Tina Turner “Edith and the Kingpin" River: The Joni Letters (Verve) 0:16 Host talks 6:46 Don Braden “Master Blaster ...

Radio & Podcasts

New Releases, Jazz Geminis and Farewell To Tina Turner

by Mary Foster Conklin
June 12, 2023

This broadcast pays tribute to the legendary Tina Turner, along with new releases from Nicky Schrire, Emilio Solla & Antonio Lizana, Tim Ray, Satoko Fujii, June Bisantz & Gordon Morrell, plus birthday shoutouts to Clora Bryant, Valaida Snow, Adison Evans, Samantha Boshnack, Mala Waldron, Yissy Garcia and Lynne Arriale, among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by seeing them live and online. Purchase their music so they can continue to distract, comfort, provoke and inspire.

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Tina Turner, Herbie Hancock: Edith and the Kingpin

by Ludovico Granvassu
May 31, 2023

There are many ways to remember the one and only Tina Turner. For jazz fans, her collaboration with Herbie Hancock might well be the place to start. “Edith and the Kingpin" is a song that Joni Mitchell recorded for her 1975 album The Hissing of Summer Lawns and that Herbie Hancock revisited for his Grammy-winning 2007 tribute to Joni Mitchell River (The Joni Letters) (Verve). For this song he wanted Tina Turner by his side. This is one ...

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Album Review

Herbie Hancock: River: The Joni Letters

Read "River: The Joni Letters" reviewed by George Kanzler

by George Kanzler
March 6, 2008

The participation of such former and present Grammy nominees and winners as Norah Jones, Tina Turner, Corinne Bailey Rae, Luciana Souza and Leonard Cohen (reading “The Jungle Line" like a beat poet), as well as the iconic stature of Joni Mitchell herself, may have immeasurably helped in winning this CD the Grammy Album of the Year award. But that doesn't diminish the significance of it being the first jazz album to win the award in forty-three years. For make no ...

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Album Review

Herbie Hancock: River: The Joni Letters

Read "River: The Joni Letters" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
October 11, 2007

While it might be easy, on the surface, to view pianist Herbie Hancock's River: The Joni Letters as a continuation of Possibilities (Hear, 2005), nothing could be further from the truth. Possibilities was an unapologetically pop record; River is unequivocally jazz--although such broad classifications shouldn't matter. River is, quite simply, a superb disc that takes Joni Mitchell's extant jazz proclivities and gives them an even greater interpretive boost. The majority of River is culled from Mitchell's “classic" songwriting ...