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Article: Year in Review

Doug Hall's Best Recordings Of 2021

by Doug Hall
January 4, 2022

To echo the converging sentiments and “high-fives" for a slew of extraordinary releases under a continued full-frontal assault of Covid Revenge part 2, there is a lot to embrace. I found myself sweeping though streaming releases and recordings of a vast variety of jazz genre. Seeing new faces and old and making discoveries. Such a wide ...

Article: Year in Review

2021: The Year in Jazz

by Ken Franckling
December 31, 2021

The jazz world continued grappling and adjusting in year two of the COVID-19 pandemic. International Jazz Day again went virtual for the most part. Singer Tony Bennett put the final stamp on his touring--and likely recording--career after his Alzheimer's disclosure. Trumpeter Irvin Mayfield was headed to federal prison. The National Endowment for the Arts welcomed four ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Tony Palkovic, Bunny Brunel, Gergo Borlai, Chick Corea and Antoine Fafard

by Len Davis
December 31, 2021

We pay tribute to guitarist, the late Tony Palkovic. Also new music from bassist Bunny Brunel, Chick Corea fromThe Ultimate Adventure, plus Gergo Borlai with his tribute to Billy Cobham and bassist Antoine Fafard. Playlist Tony Palkovic “Force Of Habit" from Esoteric (Self Produced) 00:00 Tony Palkovic “I'm Taking It with Me" from as ...

Album

Songs from My Father

By Gerry Gibbs

Label: Whaling City Sound
Released: 2021
Track listing: Disc 1: Kick Those Feet; Smoke ‘Em Up; Bopstacle Course; Nutty Notes; Take It from Me; Sweet Young Song of Love; The Fat Man; Lonely Days; Hey Chick. Disc 2: Townhouse; T&S; 4 AM; Waltz for My Children; Hippie Twist; Lonely Dreams; For Keeps; Pretty Blue Eyes; Gibberish; Tango for Terry.

Album

Live!

By Chick Corea

Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 2021
Track listing: Disc 1: Morning Sprite; Japanese Waltz; That Old Feeling; In a Sentimental Mood; Rhumba Flamenco; Summer Night; Humpty Dumpty. Disc 2: On Green Dolphin Street; Eternal Child; You and the Night and the Music; Monk’s Mood; Humpty Dumpty (Set 2); You’re Everything (featuring Gayle Moran Corea).

Album

Mirror Mirror

By Eliane Elias

Label: Candid Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Armando's Rhumba; Esta Tarde Vi Llover; Blue Bossa; Corazon Partio; Mirror Mirror; Sabor A Mi; There Will Never Be Another You.

Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Releases, Holiday Music, Grammy Nominations And More

by Mary Foster Conklin
December 13, 2021

This broadcast presents new releases from Los Asesinos, Eliane Elias, Gretchen Parlato, Ledisi, plus a single from Amy Engelhardt, with birthday shoutouts in the second hour to Melissa Aldana, Jazz Master Cassandra Wilson and more. As the Grammy nominations are out, the show's focus is where women placed this year in the Latin jazz, composition, contemporary ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Satoko Fujii: Aural Abstracts

by Doug Collette
December 10, 2021

Pianist/composer Satoko Fujii had already released one of the year's most notable albums Piano Music (Libra Records, 2021) by the time Underground and Mosaic came out. And yet these two titles, conceived and executed in markedly different ways, reaffirm the woman's ingenuity as much as her prolific nature (along with close to another handful of records ...

Article: Interview

Kenny Garrett: The Value of Ancestors

by R.J. DeLuke
December 6, 2021

Saxophonist Kenny Garrett has always respected the music of his predecessors. He knows its importance. He knows the value of the tradition, knowledge and innovation passed on to new generations of musicians. He's recorded, for example, dedications to John Coltrane (Pursuance, Warner Bros., 1996), as well as Joe Henderson and Sonny Rollins (Trilogy, Warner ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

The Persistence of Big Bands

by Geno Thackara
December 4, 2021

It's faintly amazing to be able to talk at all about big-band recordings--plural--emerging during an ongoing pandemic with no end in sight. Nonetheless it's a milieu that still enjoys plenty of devotion, and musicians (especially jazz players) are no strangers to realizing ideas that seem practically impossible. Here we have scores of them willing to keep ...