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Magos Herrera, Karl Berger, Asher Gamedze, Gretchen Parlato & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
A remembrance of Karl Berger, the stunning new album by Magos Herrera, and a whole bunch of projects you can find along the Johannesburg-New York-Chicago expressway. Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Sam Butler Storybook" Folklore (Shifting Paradigm) 0:16 Host talks 5:30 Karl Berger, Kirk Knuffke, feat. Jay Anderson, Matt Wilson Ganesh" Heart is a Melody (Stunt) 7:42 Host talks 14:43 Gretchen Parlato, Lionel Loueke Astronauta" Lean In (Edition) 16:13 ...
read moreMagos Herrera: Aire
by Angelo Leonardi
Se amate l'universo musicale latino nelle sue varie espressioni--più o meno jazzisticamente orientate--verrete coinvolti profondamente da questo disco intenso e sorprendente. Magos Herrera è una cantante e compositrice messicana poco nota in Italia ma considerata tra le massime vocalist contemporanee. Magos risiede a New York dal 2008 e in due decenni ha pubblicato dischi ricercati, spaziando da contenuti jazzistici (ad es. Distancia con Aaron Goldberg e Lionel Loueke) a personali incursioni nel patrimonio musicale di Centro e Sudamerica ...
read moreMischief Night - New Releases, Jazz Scorpios and More New Standards By Women
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast presents new releases from Richard Baratta, Diana Panton, Kerry Politzer, Tawanda, Carmen Lundy, JD Allen and Roberta Donnay, with birthday shoutouts to Andy Bey, Magos Herrera, Allison Miller, Amanda Monaco and Jay Clayton, among others. Also Part 5 of selections from Terri Lyne Carrington's New Standards 101 Lead Sheets by Women featuring compositions by Tia Fuller, Melissa Aldana, Patricia Perez and Camille Thurman. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by purchasing their music during ...
read moreRoni Ben-Hur: Stories
by Jerome Wilson
Guitarist Roni Ben-Hur, originally from Israel, has absorbed a lot of different cultures and styles into his music. That is reflected on this CD in the variety of music played here: straight ahead jazz as well as Latin and Middle Eastern folk melodies. Mexican singer Magos Herrera brings a sense of husky passion to the songs La Serena" and A Redoblar" that sits nicely beside Ben-Hur's warm guitar chords, Ingrid Jensen's soaring trumpet and George Cables' crafty piano ...
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by John Chacona
Guitarist Roni Ben-Hur is an old soul. Uninterested in ostentation, the Israeli-born guitarist has been content to release a series of warm-hearted recordings that favor partnership over pomposity. Half his 12 leader dates have been duets or are co-credited. Stories isn't one of them, but it might as well be. This is an ensemble recording, patient and glowing with wisdom. Ben-Hur is helped by the elder masters he often chooses to bring gravity and wisdom to his dates. ...
read moreMagos Herrera: Rebirth in New York
by Gabriel Medina Arenas
New York City became the new jazz mecca during the 1920s, when many top jazz musicians from jny: Chicago and the rest of the U.S. migrated to the Big Apple. Jazz musicians from around the globe moved there every decade, knowing New York has some of the top jazz venues in the world, a dozen jazz festivals, and numerous jazz record labels. Competition is tremendous, but The City of Dreams" remains the best place for a jazz musician to gain ...
read moreMagos Herrera: Mexico Azul
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The sultry contralto cracks through the silence and a relatively new voce is discovered streaking across the skies of North America. This is the dark, sensuous voice of Magos Herrera, an outstanding young vocalist from Mexico. The constraints of singing in that register appear not to hold Herrera back for she often lets her voice soar free of the registers in which she is meant to sing. Her great leaps of gymnastic vocal skill are manifest throughout the woefully short ...
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