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World-renowned Smoke Announces September Concert Schedule Including Club Debuts Of Branford Marsalis Quartet And Dave Holland New Quartet, Album Releases By Jazzmeia Horn And Christian Sands And More

July 24, 2024

\Entering its second quarter century as committed as ever to pure jazz (All About Jazz),” SMOKE Jazz Club continues its 25th anniversary season with an exciting month of album release shows and club debuts. September kicks off with a residency featuring pianist Brad Mehldau (Aug 29-Sep 1). For the first time in the club’s history, SMOKE ...

Philip Weberndoerfer

German native Philip Weberndoerfer is a guitarist and composer, who has been thriving in the pursuit of music since his early childhood in the countryside of Bavaria.

He has been portrayed as a resourceful visionary with a highly expressive yet sensitive and intricate voice on the instrument. Inspired by European Classical as well as Gypsy Music and with a profound love for the American Songbook, his compositions resemble a deep exploration of colorful soundscapes without stylistic boundaries. Drawing upon a passion for fragile harmonic structures, the sound of his ensemble is also characterized by the give and take between chordal complexity and the beautiful simplicity of soulful melodies.

New Releases By Lakecia Benjamin, Allyson Briggs, Eric Hollaway, Eric Alexander & Mike LeDonne, Bill Banfield, Madeleine Peyroux & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
July 22, 2024

This broadcast includes new releases from Lakecia Benjamin, Allyson Briggs, Eric Hollaway, Eric Alexander & Mike LeDonne, Bill Banfield and Madeleine Peyroux with birthday shoutouts to ((Mavis Staples}}, Carol Morgan, Hey Rim Jeon, Gayelynn McKinney, Akua Dixon, Amber Weekes and Lauren Sevian, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear by seeing them ...

Ken Peplowski: All the Things You Are

by John Chacona
July 17, 2024

Even if you are new to jazz, you have likely heard “All the Things You Are" dozens of times, maybe hundreds. But you have never heard it like this. Jerome Kern's tour through the circle of fifths, catnip for improvisers, is usually played as a mid-tempo stroll or faster, but it was written as a ballad ...

Five Views From The Piano Bench

by C. Michael Bailey
July 16, 2024

The piano is a versatile instrument that provides different trajectories for those who play it. The view from the piano bench can vary as dramatically as the artist playing it. Yuja Wang The Vienna Recital Deutsche Grammophon 2024 From the biggest of stages... In 2009, ...

New Releases From Eliane Elias, Naama Gheber, John Lee, Ken Peplowski Plus Birthday Shoutouts to Rhoda Scott, Brandee Younger & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
July 15, 2024

This broadcast includes new releases from Eliane Elias, Naama Gheber, John Lee, Rosemary Loar, Monika Ryan, Ken Peplowski plus a second single from Lakecia Benjamin, with birthday shoutouts to Brandee Younger, Rhoda Scott, Caroline Davis, Nancy Erickson Lamont, Lezlie Harrison, Suzanne Pittson and Natalie Cressman, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear ...

Brian Landrus: AGRA

by John Chacona
July 14, 2024

The palette of Duke Ellington, jazz's first notable colorist--and arguably its greatest--drew on a range of instrumental hues that might still be unmatched in jazz history. Picking one as the essential pigment in the Orchestra's sound is a fool's errand. But here goes: it was Harry Carney's baritone saxophone, without which the Ellington sonic signature is ...

New Releases By Tardo Hammer, Michelle Nicolle, April Varner, Karen Mack, Sweet Megg; Remembering Angela Bofill & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
July 8, 2024

This broadcast includes new releases from Tardo Hammer, Michelle Nicolle, April Varner, Karen Mack and Sweet Megg, with birthday shoutouts to writer Joan Whitney (Candy, Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens), Lena Horne, Tierney Sutton, Madeline Eastman, Jocelyn Barth, Erica Seguine and Queen Esther, among others plus a remembrance for the legendary Angela Bofill. Happy listening ...

James Blood Ulmer: Family Affair

by Ian Patterson
July 4, 2024

Nobody does blues, funk or jazz quite like singer/guitarist James Blood Ulmer. “Family Affair," from Black Rock (Columbia, 1982), is a slow-grooving, soulful delight. Vocalist Irene Datcher's honeyed tones combine with Ulmer's gravelly blues to wonderful effect, while the guitarist's inimitable knotty playing growls and sparks over Amin Ali's churning bass ostinato and drummer Calvin Weston's ...

Eric Todd

For two decades, Eric collaborated with Grammy and Clio-winning creatives and C-suite executives in strategic development, A&R, and creative capacities. A career highlight includes a recent UN 2030 SDG music initiative consultancy to engage Gen Z.

Music aspirations came to life in a move to NYC at eighteen with multiple artist development deals, including a career-changing pivotal connection with Julian Lennon, son-of-a-Beatle. An early jazz record deal with iconic artist Chuck Mangione's management team and Columbia Records landed before age twenty, yet stardom was not in the cards. Focus shifted to the business side of music to develop a successful twenty-year consultancy, while producing and discovering emerging talent.

Eric is a Wipf & Stock Books published author, a former recording artist (REX Records), composer, producer, artist manager to emerging jazz artists, Corinne and Audrey Kreitner, and founder of iProdigy.