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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Sweet And Low Down

by Mary Foster Conklin
October 28, 2019

A two hour broadcast with new releases from the legendary Louis Armstrong and His All Stars, guitarists Amanda Monaco and Doug MacDonald, a single from Terri Lyne Carrington + Social Science and vocalists Claudia Villela and Kate Vargas, with birthday shout outs to George Gershwin, Lee Wiley (pictured) and Alison Wedding, among others. Also a preview ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

The Sound Of Progress: Lioness And Ellen Rowe

by Dan Bilawsky
February 21, 2019

The voices of women who've been marginalized, demeaned, abused, and overlooked will no longer be silenced. The #MeToo and #TimesUp movements have pulled the curtains back on deplorable actions and practices that have run rampant in all corners of society, the jazz world being no exception. With scandals airing out hidden truths at the Berklee College ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Halloween Mischief, Spirits and Sweet Stuff

by Mary Foster Conklin
November 17, 2018

Our Halloween broadcast is full of musical mischief, spirits and sweet stuff, with new releases from Giacomo Gates, Ayn Inserto, Alyssa Allgood and Vivian Sessoms, plus birthday shout outs to Milton Nascimento, Jazz Master Dianne Reeves, Jay Clayton, Cleo Laine and Andy Bey. Playlist Amanda Monaco “The Mean Reds" from Glitter (Posi-Tone Records) 00:00 ...

Album

Glitter

By Amanda Monaco

Label: Posi-Tone Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Dry Clean Only; Freight Trane; Gremlin From The Kremlin; Girly Day; The Mean Reds; Step Counter; Theme For Ernie; Mimosa Blues; Glitter.

Article: Album Review

Amanda Monaco: Glitter

by Dan Bilawsky
April 12, 2017

The multi-talented Mae West once said that “personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is." West, of course, thrived in a different era, worked in different formats, and was more than likely addressing another artistic discipline entirely with that ...

News: Festival

7th Annual Red Hook Jazz Festival Taking Place June 8 & 15 In The Urban Meadow - Red Hook, Brooklyn

March 26, 2014

The 7th annual Red Hook Jazz Festival will take place once again in Brooklyn's Urban Meadow on two consecutive Sundays, June 8 and 15, 2014 from 1-6 PM. As part of its continuing grassroots tradition, the RHJF is a 100% volunteer-run event that receives no major corporate sponsorship beyond in-kind donations from local businesses, nor any ...

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Article: Album Review

Playdate: Playdate

by John Barron
April 5, 2010

Playdate brings together a trio of long time friends and musical collaborators. Guitarist Amanda Monaco, saxophonist Wayne Escoffery, and pianist Noah Baerman have known each other since high school, studying music together at the Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven, Connecticut. The ensemble is rounded out by bassist Henry Lugo and drummer Vinnie Sperrazza ...

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Article: Album Review

Playdate: Playdate

Read "Playdate" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
April 2, 2010

While children spend after school-hours and weekends working on homework and spending time with their families, they also have play dates. They get together with other like-minded friends to let loose and blow off some steam. Musicians often do the same thing and, appropriately enough, three of the five performers on Playdate have been friends since ...

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Article: Live Review

Into the Fire: Winter Jazzfest 2010

by Gordon Marshall
January 15, 2010

Winter Jazzfest New York, New York January 8-9, 2010 Fast-forward 30 years from the days in the late 1970s and early '80s when the world-weary wisdom that jazz wasn't a living force anymore was whispered to us--maybe you are getting out of jail, maybe waking from a cryogenic sleep. Before this happened, ...

Album

I Think I'll Keep You

By Amanda Monaco

Label: LateSet Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: I Think I'll Keep You; Slinky; So Much for Spring; Hckhh Blues; Jitterbug Waltz; Darn that Dream; Co-op Shift; You and the Night and the Music; Haifalutin; It's Like This, See....