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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Cameron Graves, Randal Despommier, Jeff Lorber Fusion and Graham Costello and Strata

by Len Davis
July 11, 2021

On today's program we begin with two dynamic piano players, Cameron Graves and Hiromi. Saxophonist Randal Despommier with his latestDio C'e and Space-Time from Jeff Lorber Fusion with Jimmy Haslip and Gary Novak. Playlist Cameron Graves “Sacred Spheres" from Seven (Mack Avenuel) 00:00 Hiromi “Double Personality" from Another Mind (Telarc) 06:18 Randal Despommier “Big ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Wrapping Up Womens History Month With New Releases and Birthday Shoutouts To Aretha Franklin And Sarah Vaughan

by Mary Foster Conklin
April 5, 2021

This broadcast wraps up Womens History Month featuring new releases from Bill Cunliffe, Jeff Coffin & Helen Gillet, vocalists Joanie Pallatto, Hannah Baiardi and Georgia Mancio plus birthday shoutouts to Sarah Vaughan, Aretha Franklin, Meredith D'Ambrosio, Renee Rosnes, Hiromi, Mimi Jones and Stacey Kent, among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear ...

Article: SoCal Jazz

Catalina Jazz Club: Landmark Jazz Haven Forges Onward

by Jim Worsley
June 23, 2020

While west-coasters long to go to the Blue Note in New York City, east-coasters have their sights set on the Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood. The family-owned and operated jazz hot spot has seen and heard from all the jazz legends over the past thirty-four years. The supper club has fine dining and even finer up ...

Article: Interview

Benjamin Boone: The Poetry of Jazz and the Ghanaian Connection

by Duncan Heining
June 10, 2020

So, Down Beat picks your record, The Poetry of Jazz, as one of its year-end top three. You put out a second volume, which is similarly well-received. Now here's the conundrum. Do you lock into the niche and follow up with more of the same? Or do you go for broke with that program masterpiece you ...

Article: Album Review

Brain Salad: Brain Salad

Read "Brain Salad" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
May 21, 2020

Hell-bent on establishing a jazz fusion group in Nashville, eager to perform not only its smart original music but also the complex works of such high-profile raconteurs as Hiromi, guitarist Mike Stern and Herbie Hancock, Nashville bassist Ben Griego sent the call out through Music City's flourishing jazz underground in the summer of 2018. Brain Salad ...

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Take Five with Bartosz Hadala

by AAJ Staff
May 1, 2020

Meet Bartosz Hadala Bartosz Hadala was born in Stalowa Wola, Poland and started his musical education at the age 7 at the local School of Music. Still as a teenager he participated in competitions, workshops and festivals. He became the youngest finalist in the Mieczyslaw Kosz International Jazz Piano Competition at the age 15. Two years ...

Article: Album Review

Joan Torres's All Is Fused: Revolution

Read "Revolution" reviewed by Paul Naser

by Paul Naser
April 15, 2020

Amidst the chaos that is the year 2020, Joan Torres's All Is Fused has found the time to release an alt take of the closer from their 2019 album, Revolution (Self Produced). The new version of “Finale" is a collaboration with bass virtuoso Bubby Lewis. Of the collaboration, Torres says: “I wanted someone who was a ...

About Hiromi

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Musician

Hiromi

Born: March 26, 1979

Japan has produced an impressive assemblage of jazz pianists, from Toshiko Akiyoshi and Makoto Ozone. And now, well into the change of the 21st century, the pianist/composer Hiromi is the latest in that line of amazing musicians. Ever since the 2003 release of her debut Telarc CD, Another Mind, Hiromi has electrified audiences and critics east and west, with a creative energy that encompasses and eclipses the boundaries of jazz, classical and pop parameters, taking improvisation and composition to new heights of complexity and sophistication. Her latest album, the vivid solo piano outing Spectrum, offers a dazzling evocation of the vibrant array of colors that imbue her music.

Article: Radio & Podcasts

My Dear Acquaintance - A Happy New Year

by Mary Foster Conklin
January 17, 2020

My last broadcast of the decade included several women-penned songs for New Years Eve, with new releases by Boogaloo Joe Jones, Kris Davis and Cathy Segal-Garcia, plus birthday shout outs to Cab Calloway, Una Mae Carlisle, Chris McNulty, Katie Bull, Annie Lennox and Janice Friedman, among others. Also remembering those artists lost in 2019 with a ...

Album

Spectrum

By Hiromi

Label: Telarc Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Kaleidoscope; Whiteout; Yellow Wurlitzer Blues; Spectrum; Mr. C. C.; Once In a Blue Moon; Rhapsody in Various Shades of Blue; Sepia Effect.