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The Blue Notes: Refugees From Race Hate

by Chris May
May 26, 2022

In late May 2022, three months into the war in Ukraine, the plight of refugees is at the front of our minds. Around five million Ukrainians have become refugees and another seven million are displaced persons inside their own country. The apartheid-era South African refugee crisis was not on this scale. The number of internally displaced ...

Roomet Jakapi

Born: April 18, 1973

Roomet Jakapi is an avant-garde vocalist and free improviser based in Estonia. He has performed with many great free-improv musicians, including Rieko Okuda, Antti Virtaranta, Guilherme Rodrigues, Emilio Gordoa, Kris Kuldkepp, Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen, Tom Blancarte, Chris Pitsiokos, Fred Frith, Jerzy Mazzoll, Sławek Janicki, Girilal Baars, Roman Stolyar, Dario Fariello, Elo Masing, Taavi Kerikmäe, Mart Soo, Niels Præstholm, Theodore Parker, Jonas Van den Bossche, Oleksii Lupashko, Jukka Kääriäinen and Ilia Belorukov. Roomet is a member of the experimental bands Punkt Nihu, Rooluulend, Kreatiivmootor, and Impromachine4000

LUCIANO BUOSI

Born: March 27, 1955

MUSICIAN DIRECTOR TEACHER PIANIST COMPOSER Luciano Buosi was born in Villorba (Treviso), began his musical studies at the age of 8, and graduated in piano at 19 c / o the G.b. Martini conservatory in Bologna, pianist and composer immediately dedicated himself to teaching music and the piano and pursues a great passion of his. ..... jazz music. He dedicated his life to teaching music education from 1975, in lower secondary state schools, until 2011. In 1988 he founded a musical association: "Blue Note", still active today, which was the first school of modern and jazz music in the Treviso area. Also in those years he founded and directed one of the most esteemed big bands in the north east, the BLUE NOTE ORCHESTRA, of 20 musicians, with whom he performed for a decade in Italy and abroad, with more than a hundred concerts

Bob Ockenden

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Featuring the music of Ron Jackson
Duration: 4:43
February 24, 2022

Perry Dean Collins,jr

Born: November 18, 1956

Creative guitarist of many years who dabbles in Jazz and rock oriented experimentation also R&B and funk.Former Berklee student (70's), and a constantly evolving musician through constant self study and interaction w/ any and all artists embodying discipline and principle with regards to the pursuit of musical excellence in the musical art.

Gina Kronstadt

Born: October 2

Gina Kronstadt was born in Raleigh North Carolina. Her family was from the South but moved to Salt Lake City Utah after her chemist father was offered a dream job. Gina was surrounded by music constantly while growing up, being that her mother was a lover of Classical music. At the age of 10, she started studying the Violin with members of the Utah Symphony. During her schooling, she was Concertmaster and also singing with both the Madrigals and Jazz band. While studying at the University of Utah and Westminster College, Gina was drawn into Theory, Composition and Arranging. Studying with wonderful professors and having visiting faculty members like Frank Zappa, Jean-Luc Ponty, Clark Terry, Pat Williams, and Tom Scott inspired her to take that passion to the next level.After graduating from college, Gina moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the studios as a Violinist and Singer/Songwriter. Playing on Records, TV and Film (see resume), she still found time to sing for a few jingles, and records before deciding to dive into her own recordings as the Singer, (having studied with Seth Riggs and Robert Edwards) Songwriter, Arranger, Concertmaster and Producer.

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Josephine Davies: Way Out East: New Directions In Jazz

by Chris May
September 29, 2020

Compared to many other bands which have emerged on jny: London's paradigm-shifting jazz scene since the mid 2010s, saxophonist and composer Josephine Davies' trio Satori has attracted relatively little noise. There has been high praise from specialist critics but little mainstream media coverage and even less social media chatter. This may be because, unlike many of ...