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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Orange&Blue, and a glance at NYC's Downtown Jazz Scene

Read "Orange&Blue, and a glance at NYC's Downtown Jazz Scene" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu

by Ludovico Granvassu

Orange and blue are two complimentary colors that go especially well together. They are also the colors that have inspired the music featured in this episode of Mondo Jazz, to celebrate Radio Free Brooklyn's move into its gorgeous orange and blue studio. This episode of Mondo Jazz also features an exclusive interview with the ...

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Article: Album Review

Swingadelic: Mercerville

Read "Mercerville" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

Swingadelic loves a good tribute. This little big band's first date for Zoho was all about Duke--Pearson, not Ellington--and its second set on that imprint focused on the music of New Orleans icon Allen Toussaint. Now the group has set its sights on another singular figure, taking a trip to Johnny Mercer country with positive results. ...

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Article: Album Review

Lizz Wright: Grace

Read "Grace" reviewed by James Nadal

by James Nadal

In reaffirming the adage that you can go home again, Lizz Wright did just that. The songs on Grace reflect a homecoming to the singer's southern heritage--a personal rite of passage to glean inspiration and redefine her musical origins. She revisits her rural Georgia upbringing and Atlanta gospel roots, and finds comfort at her current home ...

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Article: Album Review

Stanton Moore: With You In Mind

Read "With You In Mind" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette

The title of Stanton Moore's homage to Allen Toussaint suggests the affection at the heart of this project. With You In Mind symbolizes the achievements of the latter NOLA icon as ongoing inspiration for generations of musicians to come and not just those with their roots in New Orleans like this great drummer and bandleader with ...

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Article: Live Review

TD Ottawa Jazz Festival 2017

Read "TD Ottawa Jazz Festival 2017" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

TD Ottawa Jazz Festival Ottawa, Canada June 23-26, 2017 Amongst the most significant challenges that face any festival is, as the gray and no-hair crowd continues to age, finding ways to cultivate and grow a younger audience. But when you're a Canadian festival, another major challenge is a simple fiscal fact: most ...

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Article: Album Review

Trombone Shorty: Parking Lot Symphony

Read "Parking Lot Symphony" reviewed by Geno Thackara

by Geno Thackara

Troy “Trombone Shorty" Andrews is the kind of player that's taken Duke Ellington's philosophy of genres truly to heart--the outlook that “there are two kinds of music, good music and the other kind." His jazz and New Orleans roots run throughout most everything he does, though they often share equal space with modern rhythm and/or blues, ...

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Article: Album Review

Reverend Chris: @etude

Read "@etude" reviewed by Geno Thackara

by Geno Thackara

Christopher Marsceill may be based in northwest Philadelphia, but a casual listener could just as easily believe it was Nashville or New Orleans--not just because he goes by Reverend Chris in polite company and otherwise, but because he and his amiable High Rollers band share a love for earthy horns and Dixie swing. This lineup's first ...

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Article: Live Review

The Last Waltz 40 Tour at the NYCB Theatre at Westbury

Read "The Last Waltz 40 Tour at the NYCB Theatre at Westbury" reviewed by Mike Perciaccante

by Mike Perciaccante

The Last Waltz 40 Tour NYCB Theatre at Westbury Westbury, NY February 3, 2017 On November 25, 1976 (Thanksgiving), the Canadian-American rock group the Band gave its farewell concert at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom. The concert was filmed by director Martin Scorsese and made into the documentary, The Last Waltz. The ...

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Article: Under the Radar

Jazz Education: The Next Generation, Part 2

Read "Jazz Education: The Next Generation, Part 2" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann

Part 1 of Jazz Education: The Next Generation explored how the early days of music and--specifically--jazz music was approached through various channels of formal education. The long, arduous process of creating an accepting environment for jazz education necessitated moving the art form from a vaudevillian status through a firewall of academic elitism and prejudice to a ...

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American Tunes

By Allen Toussaint

Label: Nonesuch Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Delores' Boyfriend; Viper's Drag; Confessin' (That I Love You); Mardis Gras In New Orleans; Lotus Blossom; Waltz For Debby; Big Chief; Rocks In My Bed; Danza op. 33; Hey Little Girl; Rosetta; Come Sunday; Southern Nights; American Tune


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