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Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Releases and Birthday Shoutouts To Nancy Wilson and Nina Simone

by Mary Foster Conklin
March 1, 2021

This broadcast includes new releases from vocalists Jacqui Naylor and Mark Winkler with pianist David Benoit plus birthday shout outs to Nina Simone, Nancy Wilson, Nicole Mitchell, Sara Caswell, Elsa Nilsson, Carmen Sandim and Dena DeRose, among others. Thanks for listening and please support all of these fine musicians and buy their recordings through this time ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Joel Ross, Wayne Shorter & Sonny Stitt

by Joe Dimino
February 21, 2021

The 687th Episode of Neon Jazz begins with vibes star Joel Ross off his latest 2020 CD Who Are You? We spend a good portion of this hour looking into a wealth of music released in 2020 from artists including Ian Hendrickson-Smith, Linda Purl, Joanna Berkebile and Alex Koo. Enjoy the jazz. Playlist Joel ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Releases, New Faces and More Jazz Capricorns to Celebrate

by Mary Foster Conklin
January 18, 2021

This broadcast features new releases from vocalists Marya Lawrence, Janis Mann & Kenny Werner, pianist Chris Pattishall with a new look at Mary Lou Williams's Zodiac Suite and the group New Faces featuring Brandon Lee, Markus Howell Nicole Glover, Caili O'Doherty, Adi Meyerson and Cory Cox plus more birthday shoutouts to jazz Capricorns Myra Melford, Anat ...

Album

Fodder On My Wings

By Nina Simone

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2020
Track listing: I Sing Just To Know That I'm Alive; Fodder in Her Wings; Vous Etes Seuls, Mais Je Desire Etre Avec Vous; Il y a un Baume a Gilead; Liberian Calypso; Alone Again Naturally; I Was Just a Stupid Dog to Them; Color Is a Beautiful Thing; Le Peuple en Suisse; Heaven Belongs to You; Thandewye; Stop; They Took My Hand.

Article: Interview

Yilian Cañizares: lo Yin e lo Yang

by Serena Antinucci
November 9, 2020

Nata a L'Havana, naturalizzata svizzera, Yilian Cañizares è tra le più interessanti e promettenti artiste del jazz internazionale. Vincitrice alla Montreux Jazz Festival Competition nel 2008, ha pubblicato a suo nome, Ochumare nel 2013, Invocación nel 2015, e Águas, prodotto in collaborazione con Omar Sosa nel 2018. L'ultimo progetto della cantante, compositrice e violinista, ...

Article: Under the Radar

The Rebel Festival

by Karl Ackermann
August 12, 2020

On the morning of July 4, 1960, there were more than a few signs of the mayhem that had taken place the night before in Newport, Rhode Island. Newport's Millionaires Row woke up to broken store windows, overturned vehicles, and storm drains clogged with garbage and beer bottles. One-hundred-eighty-two people, mostly young, New England college students ...

Article: Building a Jazz Library

Lift Every Voice And Sing: Twenty #BlackLives Albums That Matter

by Chris May
July 23, 2020

Jazz has been inextricably linked with social and political protest since at least the late 1930s, when Billie Holiday made famous the leftist songwriter and poet Abel Meeropol's “Strange Fruit." The song, which has a power to move that is undiminished by familiarity, likens the bodies of lynched African Americans to fruit hanging in trees.

Article: Interview

Jerry Granelli: Updating Music of Past Heroes

by R.J. DeLuke
July 15, 2020

"I've earned the privilege of not playing anything I don't want to play," says drummer Jerry Granelli, whose past is replete with the names of many greats in jazz for whom he supplied rhythmic support—sometimes force—over several decades. “That used to be a fear," he adds, “You figured if you turned something down, the ...

Article: Live Review

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal 2020

by Mark Sullivan
July 14, 2020

2020 Festival International de Jazz de Montréal Various Venues Montréal, Canada June 27-30, 2020 Above all else the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal is a spectacular ten-day event: with around 2 million visitors and 500 concerts on 20 stages, it is ranked as the world's largest jazz ...

Article: Book Review

Playing For Keeps: Improvisation In The Aftermath

by Ian Patterson
July 1, 2020

Playing For Keeps: Improvisation In The Aftermath Edited by Daniel Fischlin & Eric Porter 352 Pages ISBN: 978-1-4780-0814-9 Duke University Press 2020 Musical improvisation is often described as a conversation. A universal language. Musicians trading back and forth seem to be having a blast, which, on occasion, for ...