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Article: Book Review

The Midnight Special: The Secret Prison History of American Music

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by Katchie Cartwright

The Midnight Special: The Secret Prison History of American Music Colin Asher 308 Pages ISBN: #978-1-324-05139-8 W. W. Norton 2026 Colin Asher spent the pandemic teaching remotely from his living room while his public-defender partner worked on getting her clients released from “atrocious" conditions on Rikers Island in New ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Walking Down the Freedom Road: Oscar Brown Jr. at 100

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by Katchie Cartwright

October 10, 2026 was the 100th birthday of the great Chicago-born-and-bred singer, songwriter, poet, playwright, and civil rights activist Oscar Brown Jr.. Caminhos do Jazz joined the celebration, focusing on Brown's pathbreaking debut, Sin & Soul (Columbia Records, 1961 [recorded in 1960]), and pulling in choice cuts from Los Angeles-based jazz vocalist Amber Weekes' beautiful 2026 ...

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Article: Album Review

Ami Molinelli, Duo Violão Plus One: Raízes do Choro e Samba (Roots of Choro and Samba)

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by Katchie Cartwright

For the better part of two decades, Ami Molinelli has been a stalwart of the San Francisco Bay Area's Brazilian music scene. Her undergraduate work in Conservation and Resource Studies at University of California at Berkeley led her to spend nine months in Salvador da Bahia, learning about Afro-Brazilian culture and performing with a group of ...

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September Songs

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by Katchie Cartwright

September songs mark the end of a long summer season and the beginning of one that promises to be shorter and cooler. Familiar compositions by the likes of Weill, Lins and Strayhorn stand with newer musings, performed by the composers and others. That's the long and short of it here in San Antonio, Texas, where the ...

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Article: Album Review

Stephanie Borgani: Mímica: Música para Quatro Instrumentos

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by Katchie Cartwright

For a jazz singer to debut with a quartet of unaccompanied voices and saxophones in a program of new music is an audacious move. But on Mímica: Música para Quatro Instrumentos (Mimicry: Music for Four Instruments), Stephanie Borgani wraps her artistic assertiveness in the subtle sounds of her ensemble, with timbres and textures that are transparent ...

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Denny Zeitlin: Odyssey

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by Katchie Cartwright

"Don't count stars or you might stumble," the lyric warns. The song is about falling in love, but Denny Zeitlin zooms in on the cosmos at the outset of his live journey into “It Could Happen to You" on Odyssey. He flashes around the piano's twinkling top end with whole-tone swirls and crystalline dissonances, like Tinkerbell ...

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L'Abîme: L'Abîme II

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by Katchie Cartwright

Montreal-based composer and pianist Jonathan Turgeon, double-bassist Hugo Blouin, and drummer Jean-Philippe Godbout have been together as a rhythm section since 2015, performing, recording, and following in the footsteps of musical heroes as diverse as Herbie Hancock, Olivier Messiaen, and Radiohead. L'Abîme II is their second release as the ensemble L'Abîme (The Abyss), following L'Abîme I ...

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Article: Album Review

Ari & Cecil Alexander: Kaleidoscope

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by Katchie Cartwright

A breezy virtuosity pervades Kaleidoscope from the opening title cut. “I run for the train with you on my mind," vocalist-pianist Ari Alexander sings, “watching the town kaleidoscope by..." She and guitarist Cecil Alexander call their style “rhythmic post-bop," citing Herbie Hancock, Joe Henderson and Betty Carter as influences, but you can also hear a bit ...

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Antonio Adolfo: Balaios

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by Katchie Cartwright

Antonio Adolfo draws a parallel between balaios, the baskets that African Brazilian women have carried on their heads for centuries, and musical albums. “Each piece is placed carefully inside, shaped by the moment in which it was born, yet carried into the present with renewed meaning," he says. He speaks of Balaios as a gathering of ...

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Article: Album Review

Stephen Guerra: Um Violão na Cidade Maravilhosa

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by Katchie Cartwright

Buffalo-based guitarist-songwriter and professor Stephen Guerra's notation has developed a slight Brazilian accent. You notice it in small things like a major chord symbol with a capital “M."  Who is reading these charts? Musicians in several choro communities around the globe, as it turns out. Take “Um Negocinho pro Tito," (track 9). Guerra first ...


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