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Mike Greensill

Ekep Nkwelle, Janis Siegel, Rachel Spencer, Monika Ryan, Lizz Wright, Amy Winehouse & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
September 28, 2026

This broadcast celebrates women composers and lyricists, with new music from Ekep Nkwelle, Janis Siegel, Rachel Spencer, Monika Ryan, Lizz Wright plus a single from Amy Winehouse, with birthday shoutouts to Jazz foremother Lovie Austin, Vi Redd, Emily Remler, Amy Winehouse, Wesla Whitfield, Catherine Russell, Helen Sung, Leigh Pilzer, Kait Dunton and Honorable Men, Jon Hendricks, ...

Blossom-ing!

By Roberta Donnay

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: Roberta’s Blues; Peel Me a Grape; Just One of Those Things; Inside a Silent Tear; Plus Je T’Embrasse; Someone to Watch Over Me; Moonlight Savings Time; A Paris; The Party’s Over; If I Were a Bell; Spring in Manhattan; Unless It’s You; You Fascinate Me So; I Wish You Love; It Amazes Me; Put on a Happy Face.

Roberta Donnay: Blossom-ing!

by Pierre Giroux
November 25, 2022

Pianist, vocalist and composer Blossom Dearie may have been diminutive in stature and voice but certainly never in talent. She began her career in New York in the mid 1940s and then moved to Paris in the early 1950s to form the vocal group The Blue Stars, which eventually morphed into the Swingle Singers. Returning to ...

Roberta Donnay: Blossom-ing!

by Jack Bowers
November 8, 2022

Blossom-ing! is vocalist Roberta Donnay's tribute to one of the most memorable jazz singers who ever lived, Blossom Dearie. She does so via sixteen songs associated with Dearie including Billie Holiday's “Billie's (or Blossom's) Blues," retitled here “Roberta's Blues." After leading with that one, Donnay lends her tremulous little-girl voice (eerily similar to Dearie's) to one ...

Producer Orrin Keepnews To Be Honored At A Memorial Concert At Yoshi's, Oakland, Nov. 29

November 10, 2015

When Orrin Keepnews passed away at his El Cerrito home on March 1, the day before his 92nd birthday, he left behind an unparalleled legacy as a jazz producer, advocate, and entrepreneur. Keepnews’s brilliant career spanned more than 60 years, during which time he founded three forward-thinking labels (Riverside, Milestone, Landmark) and produced hundreds of major ...

Russ Lorenson Celebrates Eight Years Of Christmas In San Francisco

November 1, 2013

For the eighth year, singer and recording artist Russ Lorenson comes home for the holidays with his annual show, Christmas in San Francisco, for two performances only at 7:30pm on December 13 & 14 at Pa’ina Lounge & Restaurant, 1865 Post Street in San Francisco. The guest artists for this year’s show are San Francisco jazz ...

Live at the Plush Room

By Mike Greensill

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2004
Track listing: I've Got Just About Everything, Love for Sale, I Should Care, A Dry Guy, Stella by Starlight, I'll Never Stop Loving You, It Ain't Necessarily So, Blues Noir, A Time For Love, Better Than Anything, Wonder Why/Be My Love, I Thought About You, Girl of my Dreams, Small Day Tomorrow.

Mike Greensill Trio: Live at the Plush Room

by Michael P. Gladstone
June 16, 2004

This new release from pianist Mike Greensill is exactly what the title suggests, a live appearance at San Francisco's Plush Room, and it's a pleasure to listen to. It's a throwback to the days when diners, drinkers and jazz afficionados could just sit back and soak up a well played set by a jazz piano trio. ...