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Youn Sun Nah, Ran Blake, Guy Klucevsek, Volker Goetze & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
This time we focus on great vocalists, and poignant chamber-like projects, and renditions of tunes by Curtis Mayfield, Astor Piazzolla (by way of Grace Jones) and Stevie Wonder (mashedup with Pete Rugolo).Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Dave Stryker “Theme from Shaft" Stryker and Strings Go to the Movies (Strikezone) 0:16 Host talks 6:20 Youn Sun Nah, Jon Cowherd “I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango)" Elles (Nplug) 7:26 ...
Continue ReadingYoun Sun Nah, Herb Geller, Mark Masters and More
by Jerome Wilson
This show features, among other things, vocals from Youn Sun Nah and Susanne Abbuehl, saxophone from Herb Geller and Melissa Aldana, and big band work from Mark Masters and William Parker. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait To Get Back Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Jeff Rupert with Veronica Swift “Beauty Becomes Her" from Let's Sail Away (Rupe Media) 00:53 Herb Geller “The Law" from A Jazz ...
Continue ReadingGinger Baker + Youn Sun Nah, Brahja, Natacha Atlas and Other New Releases
by Ludovico Granvassu
A remembrance of Ginger Baker, the jazziest drummer rock music ever had, and a stack of new releases for this week's edition of Mondo Jazz, featuring ensembles that bridge musical cultures -from the Michael Leonhart Orchestra to Brajia, Ajoyo, the Jazzaar Global Ensemble, the Go: Organic Orchestra and Brooklyn Raga Massive -compelling global singers like Youn Sun Nah, Natacha Atlas, Sarah Elizabeth Charles and Petra Haden, as well as Wynton Marsalis' new music for film. Happy listening! ...
Continue ReadingJazz à Juan 2014
by Jean-Pierre Goffin
54th Jazz à Juan Juan-les-Pins, Antibes France On the sunny Côte d'Azur, Juan-les-Pins offers a jazz festival every year by mixing all-stars bands, and daring to take risks in offering new artists not exclusively from the jazz sphere. Jazz à Juan (Jazz in Juan) is first of all a wonderful site, the timeless decor of the Gould pine grove a unique place with the Mediterranean Sea as a backdrop. As Booker T. Jones said after ...
Continue ReadingYoun Sun Nah: Lento
by Franz A. Matzner
With Lento Korean Vocalist Youn Sun Nah once again captivates with an eclectic mix of source material and her ability to evidently manipulate her voice to achieve any effect she so chooses.Nah has crafted a style so purely her own and so compelling, the only valid point of comparison is her previous work. In that vein, Lento represents a less overtly surprising album than her previous endeavor, Same Girl, taking instead a more consistently somber tone. And while ...
Continue ReadingYoun Sun Nah: Lento
by Ian Patterson
Youn Sun Nah's rejection of a multi-record deal with French outfit Label Bleu to preserve her artistic freedom indicated that a change was in the air, following five recordings with her French 5tet band. Signed up by German label ACT, Nah released two critically and commercially successful albums, Voyage (2009) and Same Girl (2010), with the same core group of guitarist Ulf Wakenius, bassist Lars Danielsson and percussionist Xavier Desandre-Navarre. Both albums borrowed from the language of jazz, folk and ...
Continue ReadingYoun Sun Nah: Same Girl
by AAJ Italy Staff
Quando partono le prime note di “My Favorite Things," un mondo di possibilità musicali sembra dischiudersi. La coreana Youn Sun Nah in un arrangiamento spoglio, suona la kalimba. E sguazza con la sua voce d'avorio come una falena triste tra le note dello standard di Rodgers e Hammerstein II. Pura magia. Un ostinato alla chitarra di Ulf Wakenius introduce un classico firmato Jackson C. Frank ("My Name Is Carnival"). La voce della cantante assume timbriche innervate di folk. “Breakfast in ...
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