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Ariel Pocock

25-year-old Ariel Pocock has received international acclaim as an equally captivating jazz pianist, vocalist, and composer. Ariel's notable performances as a headline act include the Montreal International Jazz Festival, the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, the Rochester International Jazz Festival, the Vancouver International Jazz Festival, the 2014 Jazz Cruise, the Tokyo Jazz Festival, the Quebec City International Jazz Festival, the Stanford Jazz Workshop, and many more. Ariel's original compositions and songs draw inspiration from a wide array of sources: Cuban and Brazilian folk music, the Great American Songbook, modern jazz composers such as Chick Corea and Brad Mehldau, and songwriters like Joni Mitchell, Randy Newman, and Paul Simon

Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall

By MARY FOSTER CONKLIN

This week we feature new releases from flutist Haruna Fukazawa, vocalists Svetlana, Emma Frank and Jazzmeia Horn, soprano saxophonist and flutist Jane Bunnett & Maqueque, plus a rediscovered Miles Davis recording, with birthday shout outs to Doris Tauber (composer of “Them There Eyes"), Claire Martin, Tom Wopat, Alyssa Allgood and Lorraine Feather, among others.

Birthday Celebrations for Shirley Horn and Judy Collins

By MARY FOSTER CONKLIN

This broadcast celebrates songs about birds in the second hour plus birthday songbirds Judy Collins (who just turned 80) and the legendary Shirley Horn. New releases included vocalists Kalya Ramu, Holly Cole, Laurie Antonioli, Charles Ruggiero & Hilary Gardner, bassist Anne Mette Iversen, pianists Amina Figarova and Eric Reed, with more birthday shout outs to Bing ...

Charlotte Jazz Festival 2019

By MARK SULLIVAN

Charlotte Jazz Festival Charlotte, North Carolina April 29 -May 4, 2019 Longtime Charlotte, North Carolina jazz fans have fond memories of JazzCharlotte, a free outdoor weekend jazz festival that ran for eight years from 1986 to 1993. A spinoff from the popular SpringFest, it was a Fall festival that included stages presenting ...

Living In Twilight

By ARIEL POCOCK

Label: Justin Time Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: The Very Thought Of You; 500 Miles High; Living In Twilight; So In Love; Someone Like You; Saudações; So Long; I Love You; To Be Alone; Gonzalo's Melody; When You Wish Upon A Star; Hymn; Go Leave.

Dan Bilawsky's Best Releases Of 2017

By DAN BILAWSKY

Few things are a given, yet we can always count on a flood of new music making its way into the world over the course of a year. In 2017 some of the best jazz found its path by looking forward, doubling back, and/or branching out. In short, this music and the dedicated artists who make ...

Five Women V – Kathleen Potton, Ariel Pocock, Christina Morrison, Michelle Bradley, Donna E. Scott, Kellye Gray

By C. MICHAEL BAILEY

There is no end to very good jazz vocals. Kathleen Potton Nero Self Produced 2017 Australian-born singer/songwriter Kathleen Potton's debut recording Nero is a sly nod in the direction of female singer/songwriters who came before. The title refers to the Laura Nyro ("Eli's Coming," Stoned Soul Picnic") and the ...

Ariel Pocock: Living In Twilight

By DAN BILAWSKY

When the sun rests below the horizon, the sky sits in a limbo state represented by a wondrous ambiguity in color, content, and intention. An intoxicating afterglow emerges, both wishing the day a fond adieu and ushering in the night. It's that variegated realm, an in-between locale that's neither here nor there, that inspires pianist-vocalist Ariel ...

Festival International de Jazz de Port-au-Prince, 2017 - Part 1

By MARK SULLIVAN

Part 1 | Part 2 Festival International de Jazz de Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince, Haiti March 4-11, 2017 Haiti: the only nation in the world established as the result of a slave revolt; home of Vodou. Haiti: poorest country in the Western Hemisphere; subject to devastating hurricanes and earthquakes. Most potential visitors ...

Touchstone

By ARIEL POCOCK

Label: Justin Time Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Exactly Like You; Devil May Care; Real Emotional Girl; Barrel Roll; Country; You Can Close Your Eyes; Ugly Beauty/Still We Dream; All the Things You Are; When I Fall in Love; Rainbow Sleeves; Mother Stands for Comfort; Touchstone.