Results for "Meg Okura"

Popsicle Illusion and Sweet Summer Love

by Mary Foster Conklin
September 7, 2019

This midsummer broadcast Included new releases from vocalists Lori Williams, Barb Jungr and Lisa Rich, pianists George Cables, Hiroe Sekine, and a 10th anniversary reissue from bassist John Miller, with birthday shout outs to Jazz Masters Annie Ross and Joanne Brackeen, plus vocalists Lainie Cooke, Janis Siegel, Nnenna Freelon, Karrin Allyson and Carla Hassett, among others. ...

A Conversation with Violinist Meg Okura

by UDEiGWE
February 24, 2019

Meg Okura is a distinguished violinist/composer who has been decorated with several awards. Her latest album, Ima Ima, is a collection of well thought out and very well executed compositions that stem out of her role as a mother. Join Meg and I as we talk about composing, motherhood, David Bowie, and other somewhat related things. ...

IMA IMA

By Meg Okura

Label: Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemle
Released: 2018
Track listing: Ima Ima; A Summer In Jerusalem; A Night Insomnia; Birth of Shakyamuni; Blues In Jade; Black Rain; Tomiya.

NPO Trio - Live at the Stone

By Meg Okura

Label: Chant Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: A Four Forty; Bells, Whistles and Sirens; Oyfn Pripetchik-ish; Travels; Exodus and Emancipation; Pleading; Unkind Gestures; Yiddish Mama No Tsuki.

What We Need Are Hearts On Fire

by Mary Foster Conklin
December 29, 2018

Sample sweet holiday music from Beegie Adair, plus new releases by pianists Harold Mabern and Sue Palmer, with birthday shout outs to Diane Schuur, Frank Sinatra, Joe Williams (celebrating his centennial this year), Jazz Master Bob Dorough, Cassandra Wilson and lyricist Morgan Ames, among others. Playlist Gordon Goodwin Big Phat Band “The Little Drummer ...

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December 31, 2018

All About Jazz has improved its premium musician page service to include a splashier new page design, more promotional opportunities, and for a limited time, a free event spotlight ad (a $40/value). Improved Page The stylish new design is a marked improvement over the previous design. It utilizes a more modern template, is bold in its ...

Meg Okura

Born: August 9

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. 

Dan Bilawsky's Best Releases of 2018

by Dan Bilawsky
November 30, 2018

Every little bit of the year 2018 will soon take form as memory--first recent, then distant--but the fine music gifted to us in those twelve months will be forever present, living on in ears, hearts and minds. I had the pleasure of hearing north of 400 albums this past year, and I had the privilege of ...

Love Songs for August

by Mary Foster Conklin
September 22, 2018

"What fresh Hell is this?" We begin with songs by Dorothy Parker, who, though best known for her sharp wisecracks, turned out several luscious standards in her day. In the second hour, we salute the great Count Basie then usher in the Leonard Bernstein centennial celebration; plus there is a bumper crop of new releases to ...

Honoring Aretha & Timeless Lyrics by Carolyn Leigh

by Mary Foster Conklin
September 15, 2018

This week we remember the legendary Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin in the second hour and enjoy a sampling of standards with lyrics by Carolyn Leigh plus songs by women who wrote with pianist Jimmy Rowles whose centennial is being celebrated this year. Playlist Lynne Arriale “Woodstock" from Give Us These Days ...