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Lisa Marie Simmons

Lisa Marie Simmons is a multi-disciplinary storyteller raised in Boulder Co. based in Italy. She is a singer/songwriter (Ropeadope Records), essayist (Huffington Post, Boston Globe, Family Stories Project, Kweli Literary Journal), and published poet

Lisa Marie Simmons: NoteSpeak (In a Word)

by Acacia Grace
August 26, 2026

Lisa Marie Simmons has a story to tell, and she tells it through melody, harmony, spoken word, lively woodwinds, jazz-inflected instrumentation, and a cast of special guests in NoteSpeak (In a Word). This is a unique vocal project, one that feels as much like a work of jazzy poetry and storytelling as it does a traditional album. ...

George Wallington, Oscar Peterson, Yazz Ahmed, Harry Connick, Jr.& Gordon Goodwin

by Joe Dimino
January 4, 2026

We open one of the final episodes of 2025 by tipping our hat to a true jazz giant we recently lost--Los Angeles-based big band titan Gordon Goodwin. Taken from us by complications from cancer, he leaves behind a deep and dazzling legacy of swing, fire, and fearless creativity. As a tribute, we drop the needle on ...

NoteSpeak (In a Word)

By Lisa Marie Simmons

Label: Ropeadope
Released: 2025
Track listing: Intro; Shaping the Yet-to-Be; Worm in a Book; Once Upon This Time; Taijitu; Intent; Solid Ground (Meet Me There); B.A.C.H. Bold as Love; Winner Takes All; Submersion; Frequencies; No Time at All; Outro

Julius Gawlik, Conference Call & Camila Nebbia

by Maurice Hogue
November 25, 2025

German saxophonist Julius Gawlik has captured my attention whenever I've heard him play, particularly of late with Jim Black's The Schrimps. His brilliance has taken him to the NDR Big Band at only 23 years old, and now he's released a very fine debut It's All In Your Head. More saxophone of note comes from the ...

Fujii/Tamura, Earscratcher, Sam Weinberg & Lisa Marie Simmons

by Maurice Hogue
September 8, 2025

Pianist Satoko Fujii and trumpeter Natsuki Tamura definitely are a power couple in the free jazz realm. Whether they are leading their own bands, playing in each other's groups, or collaborating as a duo, the music they make is amazing. Ki is their latest duet album and their tenth as a duo and surprise, it's an ...

Chicago Edge Ensemble, The Exu, Laihonen/Innanen & Don Paul

by Maurice Hogue
February 11, 2025

This episode is a great example of the wide range of improvised music, ranging from the free jazz of the new European trio, The Exu, the Finnish pair of drummer Simo Laihonen and saxophonist Mikko Innanen and the Chicago Edge Ensemble, to solo piano by Joachim Kuhn, to NY underground legend Booker T (Not the Booker ...

Notespeak 12

By Lisa Marie Simmons

Label: Ropeadope
Released: 2023
Track listing: 1. Blaze 5:50 2. Can We Agree? 6:10 3. The Last Supper 7:18 4. I Gotta Hunch 8:32 5. Individually One 2:11 6. Transcend 6:12 7. I Think I Understand 6:19 8. Another Strings Pulled from the Theory 6:42 9. The Longest Night 5:34 10. Elegy 3:11 11. Sparkler 5:11 12. The 12th Thing 2:51

Far Out!

by Michael Ambrosino
March 10, 2023

Inside, outside and all around this genre, exists a remarkable array of music that all flows back to the unique source and sensibility known as jazz. This episode features Jim Snidero, Buster Williams, Nicholas Payton, Rebecca Nash, Kendrick Scott, Diego Rivera, Jane Bunnett & Maqueque, Joe Locke, Vince Mendoza, Nguyên Lê, Theo Croker and Lisa Marie ...

Lisa Marie Simmons: Notespeak 12

by Chris May
March 3, 2023

Poetry & Jazz has a checkered history. When combined, the two art forms are not so much a marriage made in heaven as an obstacle course. The biggest danger is that one of them is verbal and the other is non-verbal and at its best transcends words. The second danger is that the better the poetry ...