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Kitt Lyles

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Kitt Lyles – Bassist, Composer, Arranger, Educator & Bandleader A graduate of Northwestern University (BM Jazz Studies, 2013), Kitt Lyles is an active performer, composer and educator in the Chicago jazz community. His performing career has brought him to play renowned jazz clubs around North America, Latin America and Asia, as well as major festivals such as the Chicago Jazz Festival (Chicago, IL), Festival Espontáneo (Chiapas, MX) and the Billy Strayhorn Jazz Festival (Chicago, IL). In 2015, Lyles released his debut album, “Real Talk”, featuring all original compositions; “it’s success rests as much on his skills as a writer as his serving as a beacon for the sextet's able rhythm section…his colourful themes… are by and large bright and engaging” (Jack Bowers, All About Jazz)

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Above, Beyond, Within

Label: Desafio Candente
Released: 2025
Track listing: Grace (Above); Retorno (Above; Retreat (Beyond); Inner Realm (Beyond); Dwell (Within); La Nueva JerusaléN (Within).

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Juanjo López: Above, Beyond, Within

Read "Above, Beyond, Within" reviewed by Troy Dostert


In our troubling national moment of intensified nativism and ethnic fearmongering, it can be edifying to encounter the stories of people whose lives are directly affected by the current climate. One of them is Juanjo López, a guitarist now well-established in the Chicago scene but who came years ago to the United States with his family ...

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Live in Chicago

Label: Desafio Candente Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Disc 1: Overture; Hanaki; Wish I Could Be There Now; La Balada del León; Arete. Disc 2: Dialectics of Freedom; Timing Is Everything; The Man of Flesh and Bone; La Ruta de Regreso a Guinea está en el Arcoiris; Pax Britannica.

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Releases From Naylor, Funnell, Stryker, Eaton And More

Read "New Releases From Naylor, Funnell, Stryker, Eaton And More" reviewed by Bob Osborne


This time we have a mixed bag of new releases features a variety of line-ups and includes some newly discovered live music from Joe Henderson, McCoy Tyner, Jack DeJohnette, and Henry Grimes. In this playlist there is jazz in the conventional sense alongside some fascinating new approaches to the music.Playlist Show Intro 00:00 Patrick ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Dan Pugach Big Band, George Cables, Arooj Aftab, Jason Keiser

Read "Dan Pugach Big Band, George Cables, Arooj Aftab, Jason Keiser" reviewed by Mary Foster Conklin


This broadcast includes Grammy nominations, new releases from the Dan Pugach Big Band, George Cables, Arooj Aftab, Jason Keiser plus a single from säje, with birthday shoutouts to Michelle Ann May and Jazz Master Sheila Jordan. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear. See them live, purchase their music so they can continue to ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Maria Schafer, Peggy Lee & Cole Schmidt, Fern Lindzon, George Koller & Coleen Allen, Hayoung Lyou, Entre Amigos & More New Releases

Read "Maria Schafer, Peggy Lee & Cole Schmidt, Fern Lindzon, George Koller & Coleen Allen, Hayoung Lyou, Entre Amigos & More New Releases" reviewed by Mary Foster Conklin


This broadcast includes new releases from Maria Schafer, cellist Peggy Lee & Cole Schmidt, Fern Lindzon, George Koller & Coleen Allen, Hayoung Lyou, Roy McGrath, Hana Fujisaki, Kitt Lyles & Gustavo Cortinas, with birthday shoutouts to George Cables, LaVern Baker, Kelly Green, Holli Ross, Marianne Solivan, Rene Marie, Samara Joy, Diana Krall, Miho Hazama, Nioka Workman ...

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Ghosts of Us

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Ghosts of Us; Respire; In Lieu of Certainty, Movement; When It Rains; When the World is Young; Home.

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Better Worlds

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Better Worlds; 100 Pound Football League; Zeke; Petrichor; Blackbird; Language of the Unheard; Solar Minimum; Hiraeth; Ravenna Park; Ohana; Forrest.

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Article: Album Review

Matt Peterson: Better Worlds

Read "Better Worlds" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


Chicago pianist Matt Peterson is a versatile artist who defies genres. He is both an accomplished, bop-based improviser as well as a sensitive interpreter of the Western classical tradition. Both elements of his style come together on the exuberant and captivating Better Worlds, a collection of 10 of his originals as well as a unique arrangement ...


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