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Take Five With Saxophonist / Composer Wataru Uchida

by AAJ Staff
October 5, 2024

About Wataru Uchida Wataru Uchida is a saxophonist and composer who has been leading jazz projects in New York City since 2003. He studied saxophone performance and composition with Chico Freeman. In 2001, Wataru worked as a teaching assistant of Rory Stuart's rhythm analysis class at New School University Jazz & Contemporary Music program. ...

Announcing Smoke Jazz Club’s November Line-up Celebrating Steve Davis' New Smoke Sessions Records Album, 80th Birthday Of George Cables, Thanksgiving Weekend With Vocalist Tierney Sutton And More

October 3, 2024

SMOKE Jazz Club continues its 25th anniversary season with a month of some of today’s most essential jazz artists. November begins with audience favorites: trumpeter Nicholas Payton leading his improvisational project Nouveau Standards (Oct 30-Nov 3) followed by trombonist Steve Davis at the helm of his All-Star Sextet celebrating a new SMOKE Sessions Records album (Nov ...

Benjamin Boone, Bevan Manson, Julieta Eugenio, Ginetta's Vendetta, Music Soup Organ Trio and Miki Yamanaka

by Mary Foster Conklin
September 30, 2024

This broadcast includes new releases from Benjamin Boone, Bevan Manson, Julieta Eugenio, Ginetta's Vendetta, Music Soup Organ Trio and Miki Yamanaka, with birthday shoutouts to Emily Remler, Lovie Austin (Downhearted Blues), Marlena Shaw, Vi Redd, Margo Guryan, Catherine Russell, Kait Dunton and Jo Harrop, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear. See ...

Devin Gray: Most Definitely's Solo Drum Universe

by Lawrence Peryer
September 28, 2024

Fraser A Campbell Brings His Unique Musical Expertise To The United States

September 27, 2024

Fraser A Campbell has earned a reputation as a Music Director, Performer, Composer, and Multimedia Producer and is set to bring his skill set to a number of high-profile projects in the United States. An internationally-recognized Music Director/Performer/Multimedia Producer, Campbell is known for not only overseeing and directing live performances, concerts, and recording projects for high-profile ...

John Coltrane And Johnny Hartman

by Ian Patterson
September 23, 2024

When little in the world seems to make much sense anymore, when all the noise, turmoil and strife is getting to be too much, there can be no better medicine than beautiful music to soothe the troubled mind. The pairing of tenor saxophonist John Coltrane and baritone singer Johnny Hartman might have seemed like a left-field ...

Marie Goudy's Paloma Sky, Gino Amato, Caroline Davis, The Danish Radio Big Band and Kurt Elling New Releases

by Mary Foster Conklin
September 23, 2024

This broadcast includes new releases from Marie Goudy's Paloma Sky, Gino Amato, Caroline Davis, April Aloisio & Joanie Pallatto, The Danish Radio Big Band and Kurt Elling, with birthday shoutouts to composer Doris Tauber (Them There Eyes, Drinkin Again), Helen Sung, Bobby Short (100), Wesla Whitfield, Amy Winehouse, Lorraine Feather, Champian Fulton and Maria Muldaur, among ...

Nico Moreno

Born: May 23, 1997

Guitarist and composer Nico Moreno is a young guitar player who currently resides in New York City. His playing is characterized by the convergence of different styles such as Latin American music, rock, and pop, deeply rooted in the jazz guitar tradition.

Nico began his guitar journey at the age of nine when his mother gifted him an acoustic guitar. He started playing rock and began performing at local venues when he was thirteen. His musical journey went from rock to heavy metal, progressive rock, fusion, and eventually jazz and Latin American music. He started to study jazz and improvisation at the age of seventeen and since then, he has been deeply inspired by the idea of composing in real-time and writing music inspired by the jazz and Latin American traditions.

Leslie Pintchik, Claire Martin, Delfeayo Marsalis, Neta Raanan, Birthday Shoutouts To Jazz Virgos & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
September 16, 2024

This broadcast includes new releases from Leslie Pintchik, Claire Martin, Delfeayo Marsalis and Neta Raanan, with birthday shoutouts to Jazz Virgos Sherrie Maricle, Greta Matassa, Christie Dashiell, Gabrielle Stravelli, Tomoko Omura, Alyssa Allgood, Cecilia Coleman, Michael Feinstein and Julia Dollison, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear. See them live and purchase ...

Vision Festival 2024

by Luciano Rossetti
September 13, 2024

A collection of photos from the Vision Festival 2024 in Brooklyn at the Roulette Theatre, from June 18 to June 23, 2024 featuring William Parker, James Brandon Lewis, Dave Burrell, Matthew Shipp, Orrin Evans, Darius Jones, Ingrid Laubrock, Jen Shyu, Ava Mendoza, James Blood Ulmer, Amina Claudine Myers, Isaiah Collier, Marshall Allen Sun Ra Arkestra, Rob ...