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American jazz master, composer/pianist/educator Claire Ritter, is a multiple award recipient, and "among the most successful Thirdsteam synthesis of jazz & classical musics" author Ed Hazel/Wikipedia Encyclopedia. In 2014 Ritter was the recipient of an artist grant awarded by the NC Arts & Science Council, her fourth, as well as a previous NC Arts Council Composer Fellowship recipient. AllAboutJazz describes Ritter as "an under sung Master, with each engaging melody buffed up like a little jewel". JazzTimes notes the music as "painterly exquisite & poetic". Beginning with the great Mary Lou Williams at Duke University in the 1970s, Ritter has studied, worked, performed, and recorded with the best, which includes over a decade and half of work with MacArthur Grant 'Genius' Fellow, Ran Blake at New England Conservatory in Boston, where she taught her Contemporary Songwriting in the Contemporary Improvisation Department during the 1990s
Songs Of Lumiere
Label: Zoning Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: In a Sky Full of Rainbows; Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love; The Cloud & the Moonbeam; I Wish
You Love; Color the Dream; Painting the Stars; Girl With the Tattooed Eyes; Soul of the Grass;
Waltzing Hope; When You Wish Upon a Star; Prelude to the Angels; River of Joy;
Crazeology; Dancing with the Egrets; Greener Than Blue; I Wish You Love.
R.I.P. Louis Moholo-Moholo
by Jerome Wilson
This program includes the work of the late drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo, the last surviving member of the South African group, the Blue Notes and a great contributor to the British jazz scene. The show also features music by Joe Lovano, John Yao, and Claire Ritter. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I ...
Roberto Magris, Claire Ritter, and Jessica Jones
by Jerome Wilson
This show features recent music from Roberto Magris. Claire Ritter, and Jessica Jones. It also contains older work from Yusef Lateef, Tomasz Stanko, and Dizzy Gillespie. It also has a tribute to the late Jesse Colin Young. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia ...
Five Worthwhile Releases From Early 2025
by Jerome Wilson
These are short reviews of several albums released during the first months of 2025. Pablo Tarantino Charnia PKmusik 2024 Drummer Pablo Tarantino is originally from Argentina but currently resides in Germany. The music on his debut CD moves with the slow grace and spacious beauty of some ...
Claire Ritter: Songs Of Lumiere
by Dan McClenaghan
Claire Ritter sounds like the most American of artists on Song of Lumiere, a solo piano outing. The North Carolina native--who studied under another quintessential American, pianist Mary Lou Williams, as well as Ran Blake--presents “Opus 30: Songs of Lumiere" a nine-tune exploration of light on the album, along with two of her previously recorded compositions, ...
Eclipse Orange
Label: Zoning Recordings
Released: 2019
Track listing: Claire Ritter Story; Blue Monk; Eclipse Orange; Backbone; Short Life Of Barbara Monk; I Mean You; In Between; Blue Grits; Emerald & The Breeze; High Top Sneakers; Summertime; Waltzing The Splendor; Improvisation On Selma; Karma Waltz; Breakthru; Cool Digs; There's Been A Change; Brazil Medley; Over The Rainbow, Integrity.
Claire Ritter, Ran Blake: Eclipse Orange
by Alberto Bazzurro
Misura, buon gusto e un po' di accademia: questo, in estrema sintesi, ciò che troviamo in questo elegante album inciso dal vivo alla Queens University of Charlotte nel luglio 2017 da uno degli autentici decani del pianismo jazz, Ran Blake (classe 1935), accanto alla collega ed ex-allieva Claire Ritter (1952), di fatto principale artefice dell'operazione (sua ...
Mary Lou Williams, James Moody & More
by Joe Dimino
This week we start everything off with the talented veteran North Carolina jazz pianist Claire Ritter with the title track off her 2018 CD Eclipse Orange. Then we hear from her mentor Mary Lou Williams, a new one from Branford Marsalis and his Quartet and some solid groove with the great John Kirby leading The Biggest ...
Eclipse Orange
Album: Eclipse Orange
By Claire Ritter
Label: Zoning Recordings
Released: 2019
Duration: 3:22
