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Designing Jazz: The Iconic Album Covers of Reid Miles
by Kristine England
Blue Note Records has embodied the best jazz has to offer for over 80 years. With a catalog of greats, from Horace Silver, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Lee Morgan, Hank Mobley, Art Blakey, Herbie Hancock, Dexter Gordon and countless others from the bop and post-bop eras, to the funky recordings that hip-hop artists have repeatedly sampled, ...
Tom Nazziola: Reflections On Love
by Neil Duggan
Many albums feature arrangements of standards, so what does it take to stand out from the crowd? Solutions to the problem include choosing the seldom-played lesser-known standards, changing the chords to reharmonize the songs while keeping the melody and changing the instrumentation throughout the album. Tom Nazziola uses all these tools on his album Reflections On ...
Christopher Parnis: Everything You Could Be
by Neil Duggan
There cannot be too many jazz albums that find inspiration from as broad a spectrum as NASA's Mars rover missions and the horror novels of Clive Barker. Throw in some Kenny Wheeler influences and you have Everything You Could Be, the debut album from Canadian bassist Christopher Parnis. Parnis has been involved as a ...
Al Jarreau, Norma Winstone, Thandi Ntuli and More
by Jua Howard
Welcome Music Family! It's time for another heartfelt episode of the “First Instrument Jazz Show"! I've got a great show in store for you this week including a lot of new music from artists such as Norma Winstone, Zack Foley, Suzanne Pittson, and Eric Hollaway; and plenty more timeless music from artists such as Billie Holiday, ...
Samara Joy at The Carver
by Katchie Cartwright
Samara Joy The Carver Community Cultural Center Jo Long Theatre San Antonio, Texas June 1, 2024 Samara Joy, 24, describes herself as a rookie despite her numerous awards, including three Grammys and the prestigious Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, not to mention her acclaimed recordings as a leader, all ...
New Releases From Janis Siegel, Alexa Torres, Lakecia Benjamin, Birthday Shoutouts, Fathers Day & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
The Fathers Day broadcast includes new releases from Janis Siegel and Yaron Gershovsky, Janet Planet, Alexa Torres, Bruna Black & John Finbury plus a single from Lakecia Benjamin, with birthday shoutouts to Hazel Scott, Irene Higginbotham (Good Morning Heartache), Geri Allen, Nancy King, Amy Shook, Brianna Thomas, Alecia Olatuja, Monika Herzig, Carol Robbins and Daryl Sherman ...
The Lyrics They Are 'A Changing: Lyrical Liberties In "Lover, Come Back To Me" And "Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise"
by Alex Segal
Frank Sinatra's greatness is evident in his making the songs he sang his own. And his doing this is connected to his, on occasion, changing the lyric of a song--even a very good lyric. But according to good anecdotal evidence, Cole Porter and Ira Gershwin--suppliers of some of the best lyrics Sinatra sang--did not take kindly ...
Fay Victor / Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way
by Jerome Wilson
The jazz world overlooked pianist and composer Herbie Nichols in his lifetime, but musicians such as Roswell Rudd, Misha Mengelberg, and Ted Nash have tried to keep his music in circulation over the years in various projects. Vocalist Fay Victor has been entranced by his music for a long time, and in 2013, she put together ...
Queen Esther, Prince, Ghost-Note, Franz Koglmann, Huntertones & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
From the merciless funk of Ghost-Note and Prince & The New Power Generation all the way to the Mitteleuropean cool of Franz Koglmann, we bring you a playlist featuring music that is as eclectic as it is compelling. The cherry on top is Queen Esther's tribute to Billie Holiday.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison ...
Jan Garbarek, Keith Jarrett and Azimuth light up ECM Luminessence reissues
by Chris May
The spring 2024 iteration of ECM's audiophile vinyl reissue series, Luminessence, presents another trio of landmark albums: Jan Garbarek Quartet's Afric Pepperbird, from 1971, Keith Jarrett and Garbarek's Luminessence, from 1975, and Azimuth's Azimuth, from 1977. The combined scope of the music on the three discs (which come with new liner notes) is prairie wide, and ...
