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The Jazz Professors: Blues and Cubes

Read "Blues and Cubes" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
July 31, 2022

Yes, the Florida-based Jazz Professors, as befits the name, are smart—but don't let that throw you. They also swing in the best jazz tradition, even though their fourth album, Blues and Cubes, was inspired by the art of Pablo Picasso. Unlike Picasso's works, however, there is scant abstraction here; the Professors embody far more bop than ...

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Nate Najar: Jazz Samba Pra Sempre

Read "Jazz Samba Pra Sempre" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
June 23, 2022

Pioneered by Brazilian guitarist Joao Gilberto and popularized by Baden Powell, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Roberto Menescal and others in the early '60s, the bossa nova sound resonated strongly with the American jazz audience, and the Stan Getz / Charlie Byrd album Jazz Samba (Verve Records, 1962) became one of the driving forces behind this genre. Guitarist ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Happy Birthday to Mary Lou Williams - A Formidable Jazz Mother

by Mary Foster Conklin
May 16, 2022

This broadcast celebrates Mothers Day featuring music by several notable jazz mothers and their children, plus new releases from pianists Yelena Eckemoff, Ariane Racicot, Alberto Pibiri and Jeremy Siskind, vocalists CeCe Gable and Tierney Sutton, with birthday shoutouts to Mary Lou Williams (a formidable Jazz Mother on so many fronts). Thanks for listening and please support ...

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Florida Rays

By Jeff Rupert

Label: Flying Horse Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: One Mint Julep; Let the Good Times Roll; Hallelujah I Love Her So; I’m Movin’ On; It Should’ve Been Me; Lonely Avenue; What’d I Say; You Don’t Know Me; Watermelon Man; (It’s Not Easy) Bein’ Green; Hit the Road, Jack; Busted; Unchain My Heart.

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Flying Horse Big Band: Florida Rays

Read "Florida Rays" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
January 28, 2021

On its seventh recording, Florida Rays, the University of Central Florida's always dependable Flying Horse Big Band abandons its usual modus operandi—straight-from-the-hip contemporary jazz--to survey music associated with R&B legend (and Florida native) Ray Charles. As Charles, an accomplished musician, was best known as a vocalist, one might anticipate (correctly) that a handful of Charles' progeny ...

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The Ripple

By Jeff Rupert

Label: Rupe Media
Released: 2020
Track listing: Bahia; Go-Go; Stardust; Without a Song; The Shadow of Your Smile; Detour Ahead; The Red Door; Red Top; Hoboken: Beauty Becomes Her; Lester Left Town; Alone Together.

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Jeff Rupert, Betty Carter, Gary Peacock and More

by Joe Dimino
September 27, 2020

This week we focus on brand new material from artists that don't get the attention they deserve in the world of jazz. We begin with Jeff Rupert teamed up with the legendary George Garzone and make our way to trombonist Ryan Keberle. We profile new music from Polish saxophonist Sywester Ostrowski and Bobby Watson paying their ...

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Music Is Forever - Farewell to Annie Ross

by Mary Foster Conklin
August 3, 2020

In the first hour, a special tribute to Jazz Master Annie Ross (who sadly passed days before her 90th birthday), plus new releases from Mark Masters, Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers (a 1959 never released studio recording!), Jimmy Heath, Eva Cortés and Bettye Lavette, with birthday shoutouts to Margaret Whiting, Joanne Brackeen, Lisa Maxwell, Rufus ...

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Jeff Rupert/George Garzone: The Ripple

Read "The Ripple" reviewed by Jim Worsley

by Jim Worsley
April 28, 2020

The Ripple refers to the infectious, warm, intimate, yet big sound developed by the great Lester Young, starting in the late 1930s. While Young pioneered improvisational creativity, Stan Getz later took the baton (well, it was actually a saxophone) and further expanded his idol's stylish approach with new and creatively open-ended visions. Young and Getz collectively ...

Article: SoCal Jazz

George Garzone: Sax In The City

by Jim Worsley
April 9, 2020

George Garzone is not the mayor of the city of Boston. If he was appointed to a position it would more likely be king. He is, at the very least, the toast of the town. This isn't news. King George has reigned with a firm grasp of his mighty tenor saxophone for close to half a ...