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Take Five with Meg Okura
by AAJ Staff
Meet Meg Okura Hailed as “the queen of chamber jazz (All About Jazz)," Tokyo-native Meg Okura is a Grammy-nominated jazz composer and violinist based in New York, known for her music praised by The New York Times as “grandiloquent beauty that transitions easily from grooves to big cascades to buoyant swing." Ms. Okura leads her 10-piece ...
The New Day Bends Light
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Reel; States; Tangoing with Delusion; In Dreams; Ose Shalom; …and the Tire Swing Keeps Spinning…; The New Day Bends Light.
Introspection
By Eunmi Lee
Label: You&Me Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: Gimmick; Suspicion; 5.19; Narcissism; Mr. Weird; Wavelength;
Azure.
Mr. Weird
Album: Introspection
By Eunmi Lee
Label: You&Me Music
Released: 2023
Duration: 04:55
Narcissism
Album: Introspection
By Eunmi Lee
Label: You&Me Music
Released: 2023
Duration: 06:53
Erica Seguine/Shon Baker Orchestra: The New Day Bends Light
by Jack Bowers
The New Day Bends Light, the debut recording by the twelve-year-old Erica Seguine/Shon Baker Orchestra, is interesting on a number of levels, not the least of which is emotional. The leaders and their twenty-one piece ensemble are clearly committed to the music and do their best to breathe life into each of the album's seven numbers, ...
Close Your Eyes: Celebrating Bernice Petkere, The Queen of Tin Pan Alley
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast begins with a celebration of composer Bernice Petkere ("Close Your Eyes," Lullaby of the Leaves") along with new releases from pianist Haeun Joo and bassist Adi Meyerson. Other birthday shoutouts include Jeri Southern, Terri Lyne Carrington, Roberta Piket, Noa Fort, Tony Bennett, Meg Okura and Cyrille Aimee, among others. Thanks for listening and please ...
Dime Dancing: The Music Of Steely Dan
By Andrew Green
Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Black Cow; Aja; Any World (That I'm Welcome To); Reelin' in the Years; Dirty Work; Daddy Don't Live in That NYC No More; Everything You Did; Rikki Don't Lose That Number.
A Pride of Jazz Leos - Louis Armstrong, Abbey Lincoln, Dorothy Ashby & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
Lots of Jazz Leos to celebrate on today's broadcast. Included are new releases from Beth Duncan, Regina Carter, Ken Steele plus a special pandemic single from Lauren Lee, with birthday shoutouts to Abbey Lincoln, Louis Armstrong, KJ Denhert, Hendrik Meurkens, Kat Gang, Dorothy Ashby, Kat Edmonson, Roberta Piket, Terri Lyne Carrington and more. Thanks for listening ...
Women's History Month Begins and A Broad Spectrum Celebrates Four Years!
by Mary Foster Conklin
Happy fourth birthday to A Broad Spectrum! We hope to be on the air for many years to come. The first broadcast of Women's History Month includes new releases from vocalists Sinne Eeg, Aubrey Johnson, Judy Niemack and Gina Saputo, pianists Lara Driscoll, Jen Allen, saxophonist Jimmy Greene and ukulele master Jake Shimabukuro, with birthday shout ...
