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Jennifer Wharton

Jennifer Wharton is a low brass specialist based in New York City. Though getting her start classically, Jen has deep roots in jazz, commercial, chamber and Broadway music. Like a virus, she won’t stop until she has conquered the world. These days, Jennifer can be found performing in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical but has also held positions at The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, Jekyll and Hyde, Scandalous, Wonderland, 9 to 5 and Curtains, as well as performing as a substitute in over a dozen other Broadway productions. Jen is a member of two Grammy-nominated ensembles, Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society and Alan Ferber Extended Ensemble

Urban(e)

By MIKE FAHIE

Label: Greenleaf Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: Prelude, Op. 28 no. 20; Nessun Dorma; Excerpts from The Firebird; La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin from Preludes, Book 1; String Quartet No. 1, III. Allegro vivace; Symphony No. 6, II. Allegro con grazia; “Seufzer, Tranen, Kummer, Not” from Cantata, BWV 21.

Mike Fahie Jazz Orchestra: Urban(e)

By JACK BOWERS

Most Western music, irrespective of its origin and premise, inhabits the same harmonic, chordal and rhythmic universe. So it should not be surprising that classical music, in the hands of a skilled arranger, can be readily recast in a jazz idiom, even one that is housed within a big-band framework. On Urban(e), trombonist Mike Fahie's New ...

Big Long Silidin' Thing - Celebrating Melba Liston

By MARY FOSTER CONKLIN

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 ...

Assembly of Shadows

By REMY LE BOEUF

Label: Soundspore Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Strata; Honeymooners; Assembly of Shadows Suite: I. Introduction; II. Assembly of Shadows; III. Shapeless Dancer; IV. Transfiguration; V. Light Through the Leaves.

Bonegasm

By JENNIFER WHARTON

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: The Year Of Two Summers; Low Ball; Stellar; North Rampart; Softly As A Morning Sunrise; Other Angles; Tricotism; Impromptu; Big Long Slidin' Thing.

Summer City

By MARY FOSTER CONKLIN

This Summer in the City broadcast includes new releases from bassist Marlene Rosenberg, vocalists Greta Matassa and Rosana Ekert, the Akiko/Hamilton/Dechter Trio and the Wayne Wallace Jazz Quartet, with birthday shout outs to Dave Grusin, vocalists Madeline Eastman, Tierney Sutton, Lena Horne and harpist Brandee Younger, among others. Playlist Jennifer Wharton “The Year of ...

Birthday Shout-outs to Betty Carter and Stevie Wonder

By MARY FOSTER CONKLIN

A two hour broadcast with new releases from bassist Linda May Han Oh and vocalist Elizabeth Tomboulian, plus birthday shout outs to Betty Carter, Stevie Wonder, lyricist Betty Comden, flutist Jan Leder, pianist Brittany Anjou, saxophonists Virginia Mayhew and Grace Kelly and vocalist Miles Griffith, among others. Playlist Jan Leder “Bird of Beauty" from ...

Jennifer Wharton: Bonegasm

By ANGELO LEONARDI

Esattamente sessant'anni fa Melba Liston incideva Melba Liston and Her Bones, presentando due ensemble con ognuno quattro tromboni più ritmica. Quel disco dimenticato della grande trombonista è un antecedente significativo di quanto fa oggi Jennifer Wharton. È ovviamente improprio stabilire connessioni con un'opera così lontana nel tempo ma sul versante della ricchezza espressiva, melodica e ritmica ...

Twilight World - Celebrating Marian McPartland, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Joni 75

By MARY FOSTER CONKLIN

The penultimate week of Women's History Month broadcast includes new releases from guitarist Mimi Fox, trombonists Naomi Moon Siegel and Natalie Cressman, pianist Lara Downes, the group Five Play led by drummer Sherrie Maricle and vocalists Sivan Arbel and Patrice Jegou, as well as a first listen to the live recording of Joni Mitchell''s 75th year ...