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Article: Album Review

Leap Day Trio: Live at The Cafe Bohemia

Read "Live at The Cafe Bohemia" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


Drummer Matt Wilson and tenor saxophonist Jeff Lederer have worked on many projects together, over a thirty-year period, covering everything from Christmas songs to the poetry of Carl Sandburg. This particular album finds them in a stripped-down trio, playing some of their most intense music ever, live at New York's reopened Cafe Bohemia. The ...

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Article: Album Review

Matt Wilson: Live at The Cafe Bohemia

Read "Live at The Cafe Bohemia" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


From its modest opening in 1955 until its closing in 1960, 15 Barrow Street in Greenwich Village, aka Cafe Bohemia, housed such progressive jazz creators as Oscar Pettiford, Horace Silver and Kenny Dorham. Charlie Parker, who lived across the street, was booked to open the club and play for drinks but passed away before his run ...

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Article: Play This!

Michael Blake: Afro Blake

Read "Michael Blake: Afro Blake" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


Africa seems to have been a special source of inspiration for Michael Blake, as compositions like “Addis Abeba" (Elevated), “Malagasy" (Combobulate), “Mauritania" (Buzz), “Road to Lusaka" (In the Grand Scheme of Things), “Africa Used to Be Home" (More Like Us) or “Surfing Sahara" (Elevated ) attest. They are all characterized by memorable themes and an instantly ...

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Article: Liner Notes

CeCe Gable: Next Year's Song

Read "CeCe Gable: Next Year's Song" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


To hear CeCe Gable sing is to encounter pure truth. A late bloomer whose early passion for dance was eventually eclipsed by the lure of jazz, she's spent the past three decades honing her craft and establishing herself as a sincere storyteller adept at honoring a lyric and elevating every number she inhabits. Since first taking ...

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Article: Building a Jazz Library

Ron Miles: The Best Of The Denver Jazz Doyen

Read "Ron Miles: The Best Of The Denver Jazz Doyen" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Ron Miles left the planet all too soon, but the Denver cornetist and trumpeter has left a lasting mark, both in terms of the music he made and in the people whose lives he touched. This list, a guide to ten of Miles' most significant recordings as both leader and as a sideman, reflects his playing ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Choose Joy

Read "Choose Joy" reviewed by John Chacona


What should music sound like as the world emerges from the musical Ice Age of the pandemic years? An elegiac tone is an inevitable and perhaps necessary acknowledgment of the desolation of those years. Equally valid is an expression of joy and gratitude for the transformative power of music to heal and uplift. In their own ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Releases Plus A Celebration Of Grammy winners (A Good Year For Women And For Jazz)

Read "New Releases Plus A Celebration Of Grammy winners (A Good Year For Women And For Jazz)" reviewed by Mary Foster Conklin


This broadcast includes new releases from Eric Hoffman & Ken Hatfield, Hey Rim Jeon, Leap Day Trio and Eric Goletz, plus birthday shoutouts to Jessica Jones, Elsa Nilsson, Carmen Sandim, Nicole Mitchell, Shirley Crabbe and Roberta Flack, with a nod to the Grammy winners (overall a good year for women and Jazz). Thanks for listening and ...

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Frank Kimbrough 2003 - 2006

Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Volume One—Lullabluebye: Lullabluebye; Centering; Kid Stuff; Ode; Whirl; Ghost Dance; You Only Live Twice; FU BU; Ben's Tune; Eventualities. Volume Two— Play: Beginning; The Spins; Lucent; Waiting In Santander; Conception Vessel; Jimmy; Play; Regeneration; Little Big Man; Beginning 2.

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Next Year's Song

Label: Self Released
Released: 2022
Track listing: Next Year's Song; No Moon at All; Two for the Road; Just One of Those Things; Like a Lover (O Cantador); I'm Gonna Laugh You Right Out of My Life; The Last Goodbye; My Romance; Moments Like This; Come Rain or Come Shine; From Me To You.

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Air

Label: LAIKA Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Air; (Give Me Some)G-String; Beatles Medley; Birdland; Silence; I'd Rather Eat;Tell Her You Saw Me; Iceland Romance; Air ( Trio Version)


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