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Aubrey Johnson

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Aubrey Johnson is a New York-based vocalist, composer, and educator who specializes in jazz, Brazilian, and creative contemporary music. Aubrey teaches in the jazz programs at Montclair University, Queens College, and in the voice department at Berklee College of Music. She has performed and/or recorded with Billy Childs, Jimmy Cobb, John Patitucci, Janis Siegel (Manhattan Transfer), John Zorn’s Mycale Vocal Quartet, Fred Hersch, among many others. Aubrey recorded on Bobby McFerrin’s 2010 Grammy-nominated release, “VOCAbuLaries”, Arturo O'Farrill's 2020 Grammy Award- winning album “Four Questions”, and on Lyle Mays’ 2021 Grammy Award-winning recording “Eberhard”

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Article: Interview

Jamie Baum: These Are Her Times

Read "Jamie Baum: These Are Her Times" reviewed by Dean Nardi


Jamie Baum is a world-class composer as well as flutist, who smoothly balances woodwinds with horns, guitar, bass, piano and drums so that they are equals. Her compositions can remind you of a Gil Evans arrangement with several decades of development added to create a thoroughly modern milieu. She mixes high-energy with ballads and Western foundations ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Kaisa's Machine, Wayne Shorter, and Michael Bisio

Read "Kaisa's Machine, Wayne Shorter, and Michael Bisio" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


This program features a wide variety of modern jazz musicians. The acts featured include Kaisa's Machine, Wayne Shorter, Owen Broder, Joe Fielder, and Michael Bisio. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 The Stryker/Slagle Band “Convergence" ...

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Article: Album Review

Sivan Arbel: Oneness

Read "Oneness" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright


Sivan Arbel's compositional practice is alternately “nerdy," as the singer-composer describes it, and “stream of consciousness." In her studio, she labors meticulously over the nuts and bolts: rhythmic patterns, harmonic changes, melodic turns. Once the fundamental elements are in place, though, she sits at her piano and “squeezes the sponge," improvising words and music freely, reaching ...

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The Door is Open: The Music of Gregg Hill

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: The Lost Tune; The Door is Open; Escape to Cat Island; Motel Blues; Spa-Teneity; April Song; The Last Pop Tune; Skyline; Triple Play.

Album

Things Will Pass

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Road to Hana; Memoirs of Ladies; Raindrop’s Journey; Run Away; Waltzing with Dad; Treasure Hunt; Night Climbing; Dance with Dracula; We Will Meet Again.

Album

What Times Are These

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: In The Light of Day (feat. Keita Ogawa); To Be of Use; An Old Story (feat. Aubrey Johnson & Keita Ogawa); In Those Years (feat. Theo Bleckmann); What Kind of Times Are These (feat. Sara Serpa); Sorrow Song (feat. KOKAYI & Aubrey Johnson; My Grandmother In The Stars (feat. Sara Serpa); I Am Wrestling with Despair (feat. Sara Serpa); Dreams (feat. Aubrey Johnson); In The Day of Light (feat. Keita Ogawa).

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Paying Tribute: Jamie Baum and Kris Davis

Read "Paying Tribute: Jamie Baum and Kris Davis" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


These two albums present prominent female musicians paying tribute to other women in the arts who have inspired them. Jamie Baum draws her inspiration from the work of several poets while Kris Davis tips her cap to other jazz pianists. The Jamie Baum Septet + What Times Are These Sunnyside Records ...

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Article: Album Review

Hyeseon Hong Jazz Orchestra: Things Will Pass

Read "Things Will Pass" reviewed by Jack Bowers


There are a handful of things you should know about Hyeseon Hong (pronounced hay-sun hong), as each of them impacts the scope and purpose of the music on Things Will Pass. First, she is well-versed in the shaping and subtleties of contemporary big-band jazz; second, she was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea; third, she ...

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Article: Album Review

The Jamie Baum Septet+: What Times Are These

Read "What Times Are These" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Nella sua nuova incisione Jamie Baum coniuga impegno civile e ricercata varietà di soluzioni musicali con voci e suoni di particolare freschezza. A distanza di sei anni dal precedente Bridges la flautista e compositrice firma l'album più riuscito del suo ensemble, in gran parte rinnovato con l'ingresso del trombettista Jonathan Finlayson, del pianista Luis ...


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