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Leni Stern
Leni Stern was named one of the “50 Most Sensational Female Guitarists of All Time” in Guitar Player magazine’s
50 th anniversary issue in 2017, with the publication aptly dubbing her “a genre-defying adventurer.” Leni’s
example shines beyond just prowess on her instrument. The pursuit of her career across more than four decades
has been in effect a political act – a practice in strength and defiance to be a woman and a bandleader, a female
electric guitarist and a composer, an artist who manages her own career along with producing her own albums
and releasing them via her own label. Moreover, in our current political climate, it is more essential than ever to
celebrate the immigrant experience that brought Leni to the U.S
Festival International de Jazz de Montréal 2025
by Mark Sullivan
Various Venues Festival International de Jazz de Montréal Montréal, Canada June 28-July 2, 2025 The headliners of the 45th edition of the festival included names like Gospel legend Mavis Staples, Canadian rockers Blue Rodeo, Canadian Inuk musician Elisapie, New Orleans musician Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Nigerian singer/songwriter Ayra Starr, Canadian ...
New Music From Jizue, Max Walker, Barry Likumahuwa, The Action4s And Kypo
by Len Davis
Discover fresh sounds from across the globe, starting with LA-based guitarist Max Walker, the dynamic Japanese fusion band Jizue, Indonesian bass virtuoso Barry Likumahuwa, and the groove-driven Danish group The Action 4s. From the U.S East Coast, North Carolina's Soften The Glare delivers inventive progressive rock, while Australian guitarists Alex Stuart and Brad Kypo showcase their ...
Dawid Lubowicz: Human Fate
by Ian Patterson
Dawid Lubowicz is not alone in pondering whether we forge our own destiny or whether it is shaped by forces beyond our control. The question has kept philosophers, religions and fortune tellers in steady work for millennia, and it provided the Polish violinist/mandolinist Lubowicz with the inspiration for the music on Human Fate. Whether it was ...
Echoes and Other Songs
By Mike Stern
Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Connections; Echoes; Stuff Happens; Space Bar; I Hope So; Where's Leo?; Gospel
Song; Crumbles; Curtis; Climate; Could Be.
All in Good Time
Label: Zoho Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: All In Good Time; Parade of Sadness; Behind; Right Now; Run the World (Girls); PC; Palermo Chico;
Make It Count; Arrival in Forever; Jamie's Song.
Sarah Hanahan, Samara Joy, Jenny Scheinman, Mavis Pan, Dwayne Clemons, Tania Grubbs, Diane Marino & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast includes new releases from Sarah Hanahan, Samara Joy, Jenny Scheinman, Mavis Pan, Dwayne Clemons, Bill Charlap, Tania Grubbs and Diane Marino, with birthday shoutouts to Lakecia Benjamin, blues foremothers Victoria Spivey (Got The Blues So Bad) and Nellie Lutcher (He's A Real Gone Guy), vocalists Amy London, Anita O'Day, Esperanza Spalding, Laura Nyro and ...
Monika Herzig's Sheroes: All in Good Time
by Dan Bilawsky
Time waits for no woman. In terms of the importance of creating an ensemble to promote and empower female musicians, pianist Monika Herzig came to that realization back in 2014. So she did what was needed, gathering a band of Sheroes to deliver music and message to the people. Now, ten years later, Herzig can look ...
Bassekou Kouyaté At Regional Cultural Centre
by Ian Patterson
Bassekou Kouyaté Earagail Arts Festival Regional Cultural Centre Letterkenny, Ireland July 27, 2024 Few West African musicians have done as much as Bassekou Kouyaté to take the ngoni, an ancient West African string instrument, to the wider world. Born in Garana in 1966, Kouyaté first wowed ...
Leni Stern: The Twenty Year Audition
by Jim Worsley
Composer and musician Leni Stern has big news to share. She chose to do so quietly, with her usual cool, low-key and savoir-faire charm. In conversation with only my wife and I, recently at a jazz club in Los Angeles, she left us elated with the kind of news most other artists would be screaming from ...
