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Tessa Souter: Making Connections Between Erik Satie, Jazz, and Personal Identity
by Victor L. Schermer
New York-based vocalist Tessa Souter is deservedly treasured among jazz fans, critics and musicians alike. Equally effective performing live and on her several fine recordings, she is a jazz singer who combines the sonority, vocal range and discipline of a classical mezzo soprano with subtle and sultry jazz inflections. Everything she sings is well thought out ...
Kandace Springs: Lady In Satin
by Pierre Giroux
Kandace Springs has embraced one of jazz's most emotionally charged moments, Billie Holiday's Lady In Satin (Columbia, 1958), and emerged not only unscathed but triumphant. Recorded in collaboration with Portugal's Orquestra Clássica de Espinho, this reimagined take on Lady Day's 1958 orchestral masterpiece shines with sumptuous beauty and reverence while bearing Springs' delicate emotional imprint.
Charles Rangel: Harlem’s Congressman, Jazz’s Quiet Witness
by Hank Hehmsoth
Charles Rangel was more than a Congressman. He was Harlem's heartbeat--a living archive of its culture, community, and sound. In the National Jazz Museum in Harlem's Harlem Speaks Oral History series, Rangel reflects on growing up with the music, the icons who defined a generation, and how jazz was inseparable from Black life in 20th-century America. ...
Ella Fitzgerald: The Official Graphic Novel
by Nenad Georgievski
Ella Fitzgerald: The Official Graphic Novel Ngozi Nwadiogbu 112 Pages ISBN: 978-1970047295 Fantoons 2025 There are few voices in jazz, and perhaps in all of music, that carry the warmth, depth and precision of Ella Fitzgerald's. Her effortless swing, her impeccable phrasing, her ability to transform even the simplest ...
Jack Chambers: Rethinking Duke Ellington
by Jack Kenny
Jack Chambers is professor at the University of Toronto and teacher of music and language. His jazz writings include the prize winning biography Milestones: The Music and Times of Miles Davis (Da Capo Press, 1998) and Bouncin' with Bartok: The Incomplete Works of Richard Twardzik (Mercury PR, 2008). Sweet Thunder: Duke Ellington's Music In Nine Themes ...
Meet Andy Bey
by Chris M. Slawecki
From the 1995-2003 archive: This article first appeared on All About Jazz in February 2000. Listening for the first time to Andy Bey is like stepping into a quiet, still lake. Your foot first parts a surface that's smooth and tranquil, but you can't really tell from that surface how deeply your foot must ...
Savina Yannatou: Letting the Voice Go Where It Goes
by Katchie Cartwright
Savina Yannatou flies through vast reaches of space and time as she works, like the swallows and warblers who traverse the Sahara, stopping in Greece on their annual pilgrimage to breeding grounds in the North, thousands of miles away. She is an artist “beyond category," to borrow Duke Ellington's phrase, whose programs and performances combine Mediterranean ...
Celebrating Billie Holiday, Carmen McRae Plus New Releases By Mafalda Minnozzi, Steve Knight, the Esthesis Quartet, Deb Bowman & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast highlights Jazz Appreciation Month with new releases from Mafalda Minnozzi, Deb Bowman, Steve Knight and the Esthesis Quartet, with birthday shoutouts to Billie Holiday, Carmen McRae, Rosa Passos, Marilyn Maye and Herbie Hancock, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear -see them live, buy their music so they can continue ...
Nnenna Freelon, Roy Ayers, Roberta Flack, Saje and More
by Jua Howard
Greetings Music Family! It's finally time for another episode of the “First Instrument Jazz Show"! I've got new music from Nnenna Freelon, Kate McGarry, {m: Nicole Zuraitis and Kristin Korb; and more timeless music from Roberta Flack, Roy Ayers, Säje, Ben Williams and many more. Come get lost in the music with me!Playlist Intro ...
Brilliant Corners 2025: Days 1-4
by Ian Patterson
Brilliant Corners 2025 Black Box/Various Venues Belfast, N. IrelandFebruary 28-March 8, 2025 Thirteen is young for most things, smartphones, cars and your average household pet aside. Thirteen is young for jazz festivals too, but as jazz festivals go, Brilliant Corners qualifies as a precocious youth. Its programming, whilst musically inclusive and ...
