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Racing Across the Land
Album: Migrations
By Allison Au
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Duration: 05:03
Allison Au's Migration Project: Transition, Trauma, and Transcendence
by Dave Kaufman
"Human beings are both fixed and wandering, settlers and nomads. Our history is the story of the nomad giving way to the settler but when people are unsettled, they have to migrate." (Ruth Padel, On Migration, 2013) Human migration has exerted a profound and far-reaching influence on the evolution of our civilization and the ...
Allison Au: Migrations
by Dan McClenaghan
Canadian saxophonist Allison Au says she was drawn to the simplicity of a jazz quartet “as a vehicle for realizing the visions of my original compositions." Charlie Parker must have felt the same way; Art Pepper, too. And John Coltrane. Au stuck to this format for her Wander Wonder (Self Produced, 2018) and 2017's self-produced Forest ...
Bye Bye Blackbird
Album: Your Requests
By Laila Biali
Label: Empress Music Group (North America) / ACT Music (Europe) / CORE PORT (Japan)
Released: 2023
Duration: 4:18
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
