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RADIO November 23, 2020

New Releases, Birthday Shoutouts Plus the Better Times Will Come Project

The broadcast features new releases from flutists Carla Campopiano and Yulia Musayelyan, vocalist Melody Gardot, the Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra, guitarists Susan Alcorn and Chance Hayden, plus singles from Sarah McKenzie and Lili Anel, the latest participant of Janis Ian's Better Times Will Come project, with birthday shoutouts to pianist Betty Bryant, vocalists Ernestine Anderson, Marlene VerPlanck, Rene Marie and Marianne Solivan, among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by purchasing their music during this ...

RADIO November 22, 2020

James Brandon Lewis, Code Girl, Junk Magic, Tim Berne & Gianni Lenoci

By Maurice Hogue

When you're hot, you're hot, and that's the kind of year saxophonist James Brandon Lewis is having. He's been a part of several fine albums this year, and his recent quartet release, Molecular, for Intakt Records is a further step on his path to the top. He demonstrates his concept of “Molecular Systematic Music." Mary Halvorson always seems to be having a good year, and her new one with Code Girl lives up to her standard. She's incorporating spoken recitations ...

RADIO November 21, 2020

Exploring music from 1975 and 1978

By Len Davis

Exploring 1975 and 1978, plus Mark Egan, Ben Wendel and Yellowjackets. Playlist The New Tony Williams Lifetime “Mr Spock" from Believe It (Columbia) 00:00 David Sancious “One Time" from Forest of Feelings (Epic) 0:06:38 Gong “Soli" from Expresso 2 (Virgin) 13:17 Major Surgery “Beans" from Rare Live Performances (The Last Music Company) 19:47 Mark Egan-Danny Gottlieb “Blue Sound Bath" from Electric Blue (Wavetone) 26:14r Terreon Gully-Greg Spero “Spherical" from Tiny Room Sessions (Tiny Records) 32:41 Ben Wendel “Drawn ...

RADIO November 20, 2020

New Releases and a Celebration of Joni Mitchell

By Mary Foster Conklin

The autumn harvest of new releases continues with recordings by Alan Broadbent, Brandi Disterheft, Joel Ross, The Royal Bopsters, Mary Halvorson's Code Girl, Richard Baratta, Ian Hendrickson-Smith, Rebecca Hennessy, Tom Oren and Fred Hersch, with birthday shoutouts to Lauren Henderson, Sarah Jerrom, Kurt Elling, Patricia Barber, Kitty Margolis, Chris Connor and as always, Joni Mitchell. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by purchasing their music during this time of lockdown.Playlist Alan Broadbent Trio “Struttin' ...

RADIO November 19, 2020

Snakeoil, Mark Helias, The Doxas Brothers And More

By Bob Osborne

A busy year for the prolific Tim Berne continues with the release of live music from his Snakeoil band and a fascinating duo with Mark Helias. There is further live music from the stellar line up of Sylvie Courvoisier, Ken Vandermark, Nate Wooley and Tom Rainey. Also a brand new album from Chet Doxas with brother Jim Doxas and the third release from pianist Will Bonness, which focuses on contrast, texture, and epic storytelling. There's also an archive cut from ...

RADIO November 18, 2020

Who Is Louis Cole

By Leo Sidran

Multi instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, arranger, video maker, surrealist, funk monkey, producer and personality Louis Cole on where he came from, what he's doing now, and where he hopes to go. Along the way he touches on writing “nostalgic music that feels almost like a memory of something that never happened," overcoming fear, being a better person, staying up late into the weird part of the night, “insanity music," money, honesty, humor, the problem with 100bpm, YouTube Poop, the spirit of ...

RADIO November 18, 2020

Diskonife, Bruno Räberg, Orientation of We & European Releases

By Maurice Hogue

Bassist Bruno Räberg's reputation as a very creative cat is reinforced by his new release, The Prospector, an excellent album with saxophonist Allan Chase and drummer Austin McMahon. Find it on Orbis, Bruno's own label. Speaking of labels, vibraphonist Matt Moran started Diskonife as a new creative outlet for independent releases, which has launched with releases by him and by saxophonist Peter Hess. This week there's also a ton of great stuff from European artists, including from SPIME 2019, a ...