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The Jazz Defenders, Joe Henderson, Tim Lin & Eyal Vilner
by Joe Dimino
Straight from the UK, we begin the 858th Episode of Neon Jazz with The Jazz Defenders with material off their 2024 album Memory in Motion. In honor of their influences, we move into a recent reissue of Horace Silver's LP Late Night. From there, we hear new music from Julieta Eugenio, Flávio Silva and Lenny Marcus ...
Chick Corea and Bela Fleck: Remembrance
by Doug Collette
As much as master banjoist Bela Fleck loves to play, he loves to perform with other like-minded musicians virtually as much. Consequently, in addition to his long-standing role as leader of The Flecktones ensemble, he has continued to explore his love of the bluegrass music by which he first made a name for himself, My Bluegrass ...
Take Five with Meg Okura
by AAJ Staff
Meet Meg Okura Hailed as “the queen of chamber jazz (All About Jazz)," Tokyo-native Meg Okura is a Grammy-nominated jazz composer and violinist based in New York, known for her music praised by The New York Times as “grandiloquent beauty that transitions easily from grooves to big cascades to buoyant swing." Ms. Okura leads her 10-piece ...
Hillai Govreen, Béla Fleck, Eva Novoa, Nicole McCabe & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
Creative takes on Django Reinhardt and George Gershwin open a show which then spotlights three emerging and compelling musicians: Hillai Govreen, Nicole McCabe and Eva Novoa.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Edouard Pennes “Swing 48" Génération Django (Artwork) 0:16 Host talks 3:33 Béla Fleck ...
Christian McBride, Edgar Meyer: But Who's Gonna Play The Melody?
by Mike Jurkovic
It is not known exactly how many duets of this nature have fallen into the lackluster bin of audio history. But rest assured that But Who's Gonna Play The Melody? is as far from that incalculable number as the moon is from the sun. Emblematic of Christian McBride's whole groove credo, everything falls into ...
Anat Cohen Tentet at Jazz Alley
by Paul Rauch
Anat Cohen Tentet Jazz Alley Seattle, Washington February 27, 2024 The wonderfully diverse and swinging ten-piece ensemble led by clarinetist Anat Cohen doesn't have the opportunity to tour very often. Since the release of Happy Song (Anzic, 2017), the band's first release on the label that Cohen founded with ...
Bela Fleck: Rhapsody In Blue
by Doug Collette
It's a long way from India to Broadway, but Bela Fleck makes the journey in high style for Rhapsody in Blue. It follows the altogether exotic As We Speak (Thirty Tigers, 2023), the combination of which further a case for the banjoist/composer/bandleader as an eclectic musical explorer comparable to Pat Metheny. Beginning in the ...
As We Speak
By Bela Fleck
Label: Thirty Tigers
Released: 2023
Track listing: Motion; The B Tune; Tradewinds Bengali; J Bhai; Rickety Karma; 1980; Owl's
Misfortune; Pashto; Hidden Lake; Beast in the Garden; Conundrum; As We Speak.
Bela Fleck: As We Speak
by Doug Collette
As We Speak is an emphatic continuation of banjoist Bela Fleck's eclectic adventures dating back to his high school days. It is thus only fitting that this LP's title alludes to the ongoing artistic process wherein creativity can ensue, virtually non-stop, no matter what other dialogue(s) might be going on at the time. In ...
Shakti 50th Anniversary Tour at Hill Auditorium
by C. Andrew Hovan
Shakti Hill Auditorium University Musical Society's 145th Annual Season Ann Arbor, Michigan September 14, 2023 Having learned his lessons well during his brief stay with Miles Davis in the late '60s, guitarist John McLaughlin has never let any grass grow under his feet, embracing many styles and following his creative ...
