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Alicia Hall Moran

Alicia Hall Moran is known primarily as a classically-trained singer (starring as “Bess” in Porgy & Bess on national tour and as an alternate in the role on Broadway) and performing artist with deep ties to Jazz and it's contemporary fans and practitioners. Moran was a named artist at the 2015 Venice Biennale and the 2012 Whitney Biennial. She's been commissioned for music and live performance by the Museum of Modern Art, the Gardner Museum in Boston, The Kitchen New York, and ArtPublic for Miami Art Basel, and been featured as a vocalist at the Guggenheim, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Walker Art Center, and Philadelphia Museum of Art, among others

Coldblooded

By Alicia Hall Moran

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2026
Track listing: Walking on Thin Ice; Wolf (pacing on the lake); Civil Twilight; River; Everybody Wants to be Carmen; Iced Cotton; Oil and Salt; Moonfunk; Destiny; Blizzard; On the Motion of Animals; Cruise Control; Trax; Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day; 2 B Cold; Inside of a Rose; The Three Kings; Oh, Glory!; Duluth (Postlude).

Alicia Hall Moran, Harriet Tubman, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Airelle Besson, Lionel Suarez & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
March 28, 2026

Art-songs, protest music, solo musings and instrumental storytelling make up this episode that should give you plenty to enjoy and reflect upon.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Harriet Tubman, Georgia Anne Muldrow “When You Rise" Electrical Field of Love (Pi) 0:16 Host talks 4:51 ...

Alicia Hall Moran: Coldblooded

by Tyran Grillo
March 16, 2026

Take a heart and cast it into water. Lower the temperature. Watch the surface tighten until motion turns into sculpture. What remains are rings expanding outward, movements frozen into memories. These are the contours listeners encounter on Coldblooded, the third meta-statement from singer and composer Alicia Hall Moran. Sound travels across its surface as a skate ...

Abbey Lincoln, Dorothy Ashby Birthdays, New Releases From Ragan Whiteside, Nicole Zuraitis, Lonnie Plaxico, Tierney Sutton & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
August 18, 2025

This broadcast includes new releases from Ragan Whiteside, Nicole Zuraitis, Lonnie Plaxico and Tierney Sutton, with birthday shoutouts to Louis Armstrong, Regina Carter, Abbey Lincoln, Dorothy Ashby, Cyrille Aimee, Terri Lyne Carrington, Trudy Pitts, Meg Okura and Roberta Piket, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear--see them live, buy their music so ...

Black Lives - From Generation to Generation

By Jean-Paul Bourelly

Label: Jammin' Colors
Released: 2022

Phil Freeman Talks Jazz in the 21st Century

by Tyran Grillo
July 26, 2022

If music journalism had an award for honesty, it would belong firmly on the shelf of Phil Freeman alongside his latest book, Ugly Beauty. And if I had a choice about the design of said award, I might opt for a gold-plated boxing glove to symbolize the gut punches his words deliver. Not because his approach ...

From Generation to Generation, A New Collection Transcends Borders and Barriers

by John Chacona
May 24, 2022

The release of the three-disc set The Concert for Bangladesh (Apple) in 1971 established a template for the charity benefit album that is still followed to this day: multiple discs in lavish packaging, a grab-bag of songs and most importantly, a red-carpet lineup of established, often older stars, one of whom was invariably the organizer of ...

Ayumi Tanaka, Alan Hawkshaw, Leslie Bricusse, Franco Cerri & New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
November 16, 2021

We open with tributes to three artists that passed in the past few days, Alan Hawkshaw, Leslie Bricusse and Franco Cerri, before delving into new releases ranging from the straight-ahead hard-hitting energy of Pete Rodriguez to the sound (and silence) explorations of Ayumi Tanaka and her Trio.Happy listening!PlaylistBen Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme ...

Fire Music: When Jazz Speaks Out - Part 3

by Ludovico Granvassu
June 20, 2020

As Martin Luther King put it in the opening address to the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival, “Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with ...