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Laila Biali is taking requests
by Leo Sidran
Singer, pianist and songwriter Laila Biali recently released Your Requests (ACT Music), built around a collection of songs from the Great American Songbook that were requested by her fans. After a string of projects of her original songs and more contemporary covers, the album was a departure for her. After spending years living in ...
Tal Farlow, Herbie Hancock, Hazel Scott & Benjamin Lapidus
by Joe Dimino
We begin the 808th Episode of Neon Jazz with the title track off guitarist Benjamin Lapidus's 2023 album Blues for Ochún. From there, we hear from the legendary Herbie Hancock who Lapidus saw at his first concert. As the show moves forward, we hone in on the female voices in jazz here in 2023 with Jan ...
Nicky Schrire: Nowhere Girl
by Dan Bilawsky
The search for identity is a sine qua non of any artist's experience and development. But for a musician like Nicky Schrire, it goes much deeper than most. Born in London, raised in South Africa, studying and entering the professional ranks in New York and working back through her initial points of origin before relocating to ...
Traveler
Album: Nowhere Girl
By Nicky Schrire
Label: Anzic Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 03:52
Laila Biali: Your Requests
by Dan Bilawsky
While the jazz pipeline produces plenty of artists who pay no mind to an audience's interests, those types--figures with tunnel vision, in many if not most ways--rarely reach their full potential. Instead, it's the musicians who make it a point to communicate who tend to forge the strongest bonds with those on the receiving end. Laila ...
Love Is For The Birds
Album: Nowhere Girl
By Nicky Schrire
Label: Anzic Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 03:38
Frank Sinatra, Spike Wilner, Paul Marinaro & Wayne Maureau
by Joe Dimino
We kick off the first show of 2023 with New Orleans drummer Wayne Maureau and music from his 2022 release At The Water's Edge as well as new music from Laura Ainsworth, Curtis Nowosad, Paul Marinaro and Yotem Silberstein. In between, we go old school with Billie Holiday, Jimmie Lunceford, Frank Sinatra and Bunny Berigan. One ...
New Releases Plus Women Driven Jazz From Terri Lyne Carrington's Book New Standards Vol. 1
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast presents new vocal releases from Samara Joy, Melissa Stylianou, Sonica (Nicole Zuraitis, Thana Alexa, Julia Adamy), and Kate Baker & Vic Juris, with birthday shoutouts to blues legend Koko Taylor, pianists Emily Takahashi, Hyuna Park, Carolina Calvache and vocalists Melissa Stylianou, Laila Biali, among others. Also Part I of music selections from Terri Lyne ...
Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2022
by Mike Chamberlain
Various venues Festival International de Jazz de Montreal Montreal, Quebec, Canada July 5-9, 2022 All hail the return of live music! After a three-year break imposed by Covid-19, the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal (FIJM) was back this year with a scaled-down but user-friendly slate of 350 concerts, about 2/3 ...
Laila Biali's Jazz In The Age Of Lonely Hearts
by Sean Conroy
Releasing art into the wild is an act that is fraught with doubt and second guessing. These feelings are not unique to jazz artists, or even artists of this generation of immediate sharing and viral sensations. Writing of her friends' decision to surprise her by publishing her verse, 17th century American poet Anne Bradstreet was apologetic: ...
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