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Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Releases, Birthday Celebrations For Peggy Lee, Rosemary Clooney, Miles Davis & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
June 5, 2023

This broadcast includes new releases from Gretchen Parlato & Lionel Loueke, Walter Bishop Jr., Ellie Martin, Edward Simon, The JM Jazz World Orchestra, plus birthday shoutouts to Peggy Lee, Yoko Miwa, Caity Gyorgy, Rosemary Clooney, Nadje Noordhuis and Miles Davis among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by seeing them live ...

Article: Bailey's Bundles

October 2022: Smile

by C. Michael Bailey
October 13, 2022

Tawanda Smile Resonance Records 2022 Tawanda Suessbrich-Joaquim, known professionally as Tawanda, tied for first place in the 9th annual Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition held in June 2021. That is fresh talent. Tawanda won this award only a year after making her stage debut, a feat, surpassed only by ...

Article: Album Review

Emmet Cohen: Uptown In Orbit

Read "Uptown In Orbit" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
October 12, 2022

Pianist/composer/educator/impresario Emmet Cohen has proven himself time and time again to be one of the guiding lights of 21st century jazz. And he may have/could have single-handedly saved our collective sanity and jazz's continued rise and relevance when, in the face of a world plague, he began streaming Live From Emmet's Place from his apartment in ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Cyrille Aimée: Improvisation Is A Way Of Life

by Leo Sidran
September 7, 2022

Long before singer Cyrille Aimee spent any time on the road she was already a citizen of the world. She grew up in a small French town, Samois-sur-Seine, but says that she never felt fully French. She never felt fully any one thing. Her mother is Dominican, her father is French, and she says that “when ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Releases By Daniela Soledade, Julia Hulsmann, SaltmanKnowles With A Birthday Nod To Composer Bernice Petkere

by Mary Foster Conklin
August 22, 2022

This broadcast presents new releases from Daniela Soledade, Mark Saltman & William Knowles, Evening Sky and the Julia Hulsmann Quartet, with birthday shoutouts to composer Bernice Petkere (Lullaby of the Leaves, Close Your Eyes), Roberta Donnay, Kat Gang, Roberta Piket, Cyrille Aimee and Noa Fort among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you ...

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Emmet Cohen has one foot in the tradition, and another in the future

by Leo Sidran
August 3, 2022

Within about a week of home quarantine in March 2020, pianist Emmet Cohen started live-streaming shows every Monday night from his apartment in Harlem.At first it was just Cohen and his bandmates, drummer Kyle Poole and bassist Russell Hall, set up in Cohen's living room. Eventually they started inviting guests, and Emmet's Place became ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Kris Davis, Cole Porter & Lenny Marcus

by Joe Dimino
June 12, 2022

Washington DC-area pianist Lenny Marcus begins the 755th Episode of Neon Jazz with new material off his latest 2022 album When a Door Opens. We also hear new works from Ermelinda Cuellar, Kristina Koller and the Diva Jazz Orchestra. Balancing all this new material are classics from The California Ramblers, Aretha Franklin and Muggsy Spanier. A ...

News: Contest

Registration For The 11th Annual Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition Is Now Open

May 14, 2022

The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) announced the opening of the 11th Annual Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition. The search is on for the next great jazz singer! Solo vocalists from around the world are encouraged to submit their entries before September 6, 2022, by visiting SarahVaughanCompetition.com. In the Fall 2022, the Top Five ...

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New Releases, Birthday Shoutouts Plus Oscar Winning Songs Written By Women

by Mary Foster Conklin
April 4, 2022

This broadcast presents new releases from Sean Nelson's New London Big Band, violinist Leonor Falcón, The DIVA Jazz Orchestra and vocalists Jesse Palter, Jeanie Perkins, Sally Terrell, with birthday shoutouts to bassists Carol Kaye and Mimi Jones, pianists Renee Rosnes, Jessica Williams and Hiromi plus vocalists Sarah Vaughan and Virginia Schenck, among others, with a set ...

News: Festival

Cleveland's Tri-C Jazz Fest Returns to Playhouse Square in 2022

March 21, 2022

At Cleveland's Tri-C Jazz Fest, everything new is old again. That might sound retrogressive in a culture that valorizes novelty, but the announcement that the 43rd edition of the festival will return to the historic theaters of Playhouse Square is instead a comforting, Biden-era byword after the disruptions of the past two years.