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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Big Long Silidin' Thing - Celebrating Melba Liston

by Mary Foster Conklin
January 27, 2020

In the first hour, we celebrate trombonist, composer and arranger Melba Liston in honor of her birthday, and take a look at some recent trombone players making noise in the jazz world. We sample some new releases by vocalists Josephine Beavers, Lila Ammons, Virginia Schenck, flutist Andrea Brachfeld and pianist Roberta Piket, with birthday shout outs ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Turn The Hose on Me Boys, I'm Burnin' Up Again

by Mary Foster Conklin
July 14, 2019

This week the playlist includes new releases from vocalists Rebecca Dumaine, Chanda Rule, Amanda Ekery, harpist Brandee Younger, the Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra, clarinetist Anat Cohen and The Hot Sardines, with birthday shout outs to guitarist Memphis Minnie, trumpeter Valaida Snow, vocalists Dakota Staton, Boz Scaggs, saxophonist Alexa Tarantino, and pianists Hazel Scott and Mala Waldron, ...

Article: Film Review

Jazz Ambassadors: Representing A Segregated America During The Cold War

by Victor L. Schermer
May 11, 2018

Jazz Ambassadors THIRTEEN Productions 2018 Here, long overdue, is a comprehensive documentary about the legendary jazz musicians in the 1950s who served as “cultural ambassadors" under the aegis of the U.S. State Department, touring Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Soviet Union. The film comes sixty years after the fact. As Americans continue ...

News: Book / Magazine

Little Melanie: A New Musical Comedy Television And Children's Book Series Pays Tribute To Jazz Legend Hazel Scott

August 18, 2017

London5 Studios' Little Melanie is a new brand of children’s entertainment representing diversity and inspiring kids with “the dream is everything" message by paying tribute to jazz pianist Hazel Scott. Little Melanie children’s books and musical comedy television series centres around the diverse family of our heroine. Melanie is a child prodigy who is passionate about ...

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Article: Catching Up With

Ahmad Jamal

by Chris May
January 31, 2012

In February 2010, at the well seasoned age of 80, pianist Ahmad Jamal released A Quiet Time on Dreyfus Records. It is an album many observers regard as up there in the stratosphere along with such landmark Jamal discs as Chicago Revisited (Telarc, 1992) or A L'Olympia (Dreyfus, 1996), to name just two of many--or even ...

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Round Midnight

By Hazel Scott

Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: 1 'Round Midnight 2 Just Imagine 3 It's You or No One 4 It's Easy to Remember 5 Lucky to Be Me 6 Maybe 7 I Wish I Didn't Love You So 8 (In The) Wee Small Hours (Of the Morning) 9 Warm All Over 10 Love Is the Thing 11 Ev'ry Time 12 For You, For Me, For Evermore

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