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Meg Okura
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The New York Times called her music "grandiloquent beauty that transitions easily from grooves to big cascades to buoyant swing"(Giovanni Russonello), Meg Okura is a jazz composer and violinist and the founder of the Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble based in New York. In the last decade, she has won over two dozen prizes and honors, including the 2023 ISJAC Fundamental Freedom Commission and International Women In Music’s 2023 Portland Jazz Composer’s Prize.
Over the last 18 years, her ensembles have graced iconic venues in New York, such as Birdland Jazz Club, Blue Note, Dizzy’s, and Knitting Factory, as well as the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., K.L. Jazz Festival in Malaysia, and other performances in the U.S., Israel, Serbia, and Japan.
Recent releases from Chicago + New Music from Joel Ross and Jahari Stampley
by Hobart Taylor
Agelika Niescier journeys to Chicago to jam with Nicole Mitchell, Mike Reed, Luke Stewart and others. Miki Yamanaka and Mark Turner turn a Monk standard inside out. We get to feel the Spirit with Joel Ross and Maria Grand. Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Jane Ira Bloom/Brian Shankar Adler “Old Orchard Intergalatic Launchpad" from Once ...
Abbey Lincoln, Dorothy Ashby Birthdays, New Releases From Ragan Whiteside, Nicole Zuraitis, Lonnie Plaxico, Tierney Sutton & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast includes new releases from Ragan Whiteside, Nicole Zuraitis, Lonnie Plaxico and Tierney Sutton, with birthday shoutouts to Louis Armstrong, Regina Carter, Abbey Lincoln, Dorothy Ashby, Cyrille Aimee, Terri Lyne Carrington, Trudy Pitts, Meg Okura and Roberta Piket, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear--see them live, buy their music so ...
Sam Sadigursky: Making Things
by Katchie Cartwright
Los Angeles-bred New York-based clarinetist and multi-reedist Sam Sadigursky enjoys a varied and distinguished career, performing and recording with a number of renowned ensembles, including those of composers Darcy James Argue and Philip Glass, pianists Brad Mehldau and Fred Hersch, pop stars David Byrne and Tom Jones, among others, in addition to his own projects.
Home Theme
Album: Solomon Diaries Vol IV & V
By Sam Sadigursky
Label: Adhyâropa Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 09:45
Take Five with Accordionist Nathan Koci
by AAJ Staff
Meet Nathan Koci Nathan Koci is a composer, performer, and music director working across a variety of styles and disciplines, from jazz to theater to dance to improvised and experimental musics. His album Solomon Diaries Vol IV & V (Adhyaropa Records, 2025) with clarinetist Sam Sadigursky is a modern take on Klezmer jazz. As ...
The Hidden World Of Piloo
By Ada Rovatti
Label: Piloo Records and Productions LLC
Released: 2024
Track listing: Make Up Girl;
Hey You (Scintilla Of Sonder) (Feat. Fay Claassen );
Painchiller;
Life Must Go On ( feat. Alma Naidu);
Grooveland;
Take It Home (feat. Niki Haris);
Simba's Samba;
Red August;
The Naked King;
Done Deal (Feat. Niki Haris and Kurt Elling).
Voyages
By Ben Kono
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Yobiyose (The Calling); Bata-Kusai!!; Belong; Across the Pond; Issei; Nisei; Sansei; Yonsei.
