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Wilco Celebrates the Twentieth Anniversary of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
by Dave Kaufman
Wilco has been touring celebrating the 20th anniversary of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (YHF); their fourth album is often heralded as their masterpiece. The album has an interesting backstory recounted in the documentary I am Trying to Break Your Heart named after the opening song on the album. I caught the final performance of a five-night stand ...
Happy Birthday to Mary Lou Williams - A Formidable Jazz Mother
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast celebrates Mothers Day featuring music by several notable jazz mothers and their children, plus new releases from pianists Yelena Eckemoff, Ariane Racicot, Alberto Pibiri and Jeremy Siskind, vocalists CeCe Gable and Tierney Sutton, with birthday shoutouts to Mary Lou Williams (a formidable Jazz Mother on so many fronts). Thanks for listening and please support ...
Roberto Carlos at Radio City Music Hall
by Ernest Barteldes
Roberto Carlos Radio City Music Hall New York, NY May 8, 2022 Backed by a 17-piece band that included eight horns under the musical direction of maestro Eduardo Lages, Brazilian singer Roberto Carlos took to the stage at Radio City Music Hall opening with “Emoções," a song that has been his ...
The Django Welcomes Summer With Today’s Premier Swing Band, 15+ Vocalists, And Hot Latin Tuesday Nights
The Django, downtown Manhattan’s premier jazz club, brings another month of stellar jazz by some of the field’s heroes alongside young, emerging artists. Two new albums are released on The Django stage in June: Together Again by the leading swing band, Danny Jonokuchi and The Revisionists (6/8) followed by The Lighting of the Lamps by saxophonist ...
Celebrating Jazz Foremothers Ma Rainey, Ella Fitzgerald, Blossom Dearie and Shirley Horn
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast celebrates the first of May with new releases from the San Gabriel 7 featuring Sinne Eeg, Rebecca Martin, Sven Anderson and Jackie Messina, with birthday shoutouts to Duke Ellington, Ma Rainey, Ella Fitzgerald, Blossom Dearie and Shirley Horn, among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by purchasing their music ...
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Ron Carter
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Ron Carter is among the most original, prolific, and influential bassists in jazz. With more than 2,000 albums to his credit, he has recorded with many of music's greats: Tommy Flanagan, Gil Evans, Lena Horne, Bill Evans, B.B. King, the Kronos Quartet, Dexter Gordon, Wes Montgomery, and Bobby Timmons. Ron Graduated the Eastman School in 1959 and packed up his belongings and moved to New York City with his wife, Janet. Later that year, Downbeat magazine listed Ron as #15 of 23 in their bass player poll. A great start. In the early 1960s he performed throughout the United States in concert halls and nightclubs with Jaki Byard and Eric Dolphy
Jack Kleinsinger's Highlights In Jazz Presents The Return Of The Jam Session on May 12
Celebrates “The Return of the Jam Session,” May 12, 2022, 8:00pm 49th Season Finale of Famed Highlights in Jazz Series The Return of the Jam Session Saxophonists Peter and Will Anderson Pianist Ted Rosenthal Guitarist James Chirillo Trombonist Wycliffe Gordon Drummer Victor Lewis Trumpeter Brian Lynch Plus, surprise special guest! ...
Songs of Spring and More New Releases for April
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast presents new releases from from Callum Au & Claire Martin, Natalie Cressman & Ian Faquini with a special single of Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most from Sarah Moule and Simon Wallace in honor of the centennial of T.S. Eliot's poem The Wasteland, which was the song's inspiration, plus birthday shoutouts to ...
Shambhu Releases New Single, 'Life Passage,' Dedicated To Chick Corea
Acclaimed new age/jazz guitarist Shambhu released his new single, “Life Passage,” on April 27th. The song features Shambhu’s transcendent guitar music in a soulful dedication to the late pianist Chick Corea. Life Passage is also the title song of Shambhu’s new EP due early this summer. Stream “Life Passage” here. “Life Passage” was composed, arranged and ...
