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On her critically hailed 2015 album Drive, Michelle Lordi joined forces with pianist/arranger Orrin Evans, who produced the project and accompanied her on a program of emotionally taut ballads featuring an all star Philadelphia band. With her new album Dream a Little Dream, she delivers an intoxicating set of beloved standards with an illustrious cast of Philadelphia jazz veterans, including the storied tenor saxophonist Larry McKenna and guitarist Sonny Troy (who have played together since they met in South Philadelphia in Frankie Avalon's band in the late 1950s). A singer blessed with a sumptuous voice, Michelle Lordi turns each musical encounter into an emotionally charged communion, creating an exhilarating circuit between her voice, her collaborators and the audience

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Amanda Tosoff, Gergana Velinova, Ambrose Akinmusire and Mary Halvorson, Lolivone de la Rosa, Lisa Rich, Michelle Lordi, Kay Kostopoulos

by Mary Foster Conklin
July 6, 2026

This broadcast includes new music from Amanda Tosoff, Gergana Velinova, Ambrose Akinmusire and Mary Halvorson, Lolivone de la Rosa, Lisa Rich, Michelle Lordi and Kay Kostopoulos, with birthday shoutouts to songwriter Joan Whitney (Far Away Places, Candy), Nancy King, Lauren Kinhan, Gillian Margot, Madeline Eastman, Tierney Sutton, Andrea Miller, Aubrey Johnson and Honorable Man Arturo O'Farrill, ...

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Clarinetist Virginia MacDonald's Debut + Steve Bernstein and Carlin Lee

by Hobart Taylor
May 27, 2026

Make way for clarinetist Virginia MacDonald's stunning debut release plus new tunes from Emily Kuhn, Alden Hellmuth, Steve Bernstein and a peace anthem from Qasim Naqvi, Wadada Leo Smith and Andrew Cyrille. Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Daphne Parker Powell “Perpetual Light of the Void" from The Death of Cool (Self-Produced) 00:00:08 Steven Bernstein “Two ...

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New Releases From Nicole Glover, Alyssa Allgood, Cory Weeds Meets Champian Fulton, A Celebration For Bessie Smith's 130th Birthday & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
April 29, 2024

Jazz Appreciation Month continues with new releases from Nicole Glover, Alyssa Allgood, Cory Weeds Meets Champian Fulton, Mahogany L. Browne & Sean Mason and a single from Madeleine Peyroux, with birthday shoutouts to Bessie Smith, Michelle Lordi, Wendy Kirkland, Judy Wexler, Carol Fredette, Roxy Coss and Madeleine Peyroux, among others. Thanks for listening and please support ...

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Out to Lunch Tribute, Nancy Wilson, Ella Fitzgerald

by David Brown
March 5, 2024

This week we celebrate the recording anniversary of Eric Dolphy's Out to Lunch. We'll pay tribute by playing tracks from the LP as recorded by Vandermark 5, Orchestre National De Jazz, James Newton, The Lounge Lizards and Eric Dolphy himself. A vocal set will follow featuring big band era vocalists Antia O'Day, Helen Humes and Ella ...

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Michelle Lordi: Two Moons

Read "Two Moons" reviewed by Geno Thackara

by Geno Thackara
March 1, 2024

The art of the jazz diva does not shy away from the dark and mysterious. From putting a spell on somebody to helplessly falling under that old black magic, the tradition always seems to include some small touch of witchery, and Michelle Lordi, for her part, does not let a modern-day sound obscure those roots. The ...

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Random Acts of Roach, Knoel Scott, Jimmy Rowles

by David Brown
January 16, 2024

This week, we'll kick off our celebration of the Max Roach Centennial with a weekly set titled Random Acts of Max Roach; the show will also include a pair of tunes featuring saxophonist Knoel Scott of the Sun Ra Arkestra, jazz interpretations of Neil Young songs, and a set showcasing pianist Jimmy Rowles. Welcome friends and ...

Album

Two Moons

By Michelle Lordi

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Both; Blue Moon; Never Break; Only Love Can Break Your Heart; Close Your Eyes (intro); Close Your Eyes; Haunted Heart; Scare the Ghost; Moon and Sand; Sailor and the Sea.

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More Fall Releases, Jazz Birthdays, A Celebration of Carla Bley & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
November 6, 2023

This broadcast includes new releases from Angelica Sanchez, Nabou Claerhout Trombone Ensemble, Ramona Horvath, the Affinity Trio (Eric Jacobson, Clay Shaub, Pamela York), with birthday shoutouts to lyricist Dory Previn, Andy Bey, Emily Braden, Dame Cleo Laine, Magos Herrera, Amanda Monaco, Beat poet Fran Landesman (Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most), Dianne Reeves and ...

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Michelle Lordi: Only Love Can Break Your Heart

by John Chacona
October 16, 2023

"Only Love Can Break Your Heart," a minor 1970 Neil Young hit, was ostensibly written for Graham Nash after the latter's split from Joni Mitchell (a claim Young later walked back), a breakup song then. It's a lilting waltz with a simple melody more sweet than sad. Cycling eight-bar verse and chorus sections without a bridge ...