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Nora McCarthy

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Nora McCarthy has been a steady fixture on the New York music scene since 1996 when she recorded her first CD red&blue with pianist John diMartino, bass-Essiet Okon Essiet, drums-Alvester Garnett, t-sax-Mike Lee and percussionist, Sato Takeishi. She and her various groups have appeared in the top jazz rooms, performance spaces, concert halls, clubs, cafes and galleries in the city and elsewhere in the world. McCarthy possesses the earthiness of an early blues singer, the articulation, phrasing and timbre of a jazz trumpet. An adept and exhilarating improviser, she performs in every situation from duo to a twenty piece large ensemble from straight ahead jazz to the free and avant-garde idioms

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Article: Album Review

Jorge Sylvester Spontaneous Expressions: Mayhem At Large--The Last Baha'i Session

Read "Mayhem At Large--The Last Baha'i Session" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

This two-disc set by saxophonist Jorge Sylvester's Spontaneous Expressions documents the last of the Tuesday evening jazz concerts at the Baha'i Center on East 11th Street in New York City. According to the jacket notes, the event was recorded live in March 2020. If that is so, Sylvester's listeners have earned top prize as the quietest ...

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Mayhem At Large--The Last Baha'i Session

By Jorge Sylvester

Label: RedZen Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: CD 1: By Starlight; Blue Abstract; Improvisation; Improvisation II; Improvisation III; Improvisation IV; Improvisation V; Sketch No.One. CD 2: Is Over; Well You Needn't; Improvisation VI; Improvisation VII; Sketch No.Two.

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Spirit Driven

By Jorge Sylvester

Label: Four (friends Of Unseen Rain)
Released: 2013
Track listing: DISC 1: 1- Construction No.2, 2- Masouc, 3- Paulina's Prayer, 4- The Light Of Truth's Hight Is Not For Tender Leaves, 5- Obeahman DISC 2: 1- Construction No.1, 2- To Be With You, 3- Remember Haiti, 4- Cycle Of Life

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Juno Nominations and Remembering Debra Mann

Read "Juno Nominations and Remembering Debra Mann" reviewed by Mary Foster Conklin

by Mary Foster Conklin

The first Week of the annual WFDU.FM February Fund Drive included new releases from pianists Lisa Hilton, Kait Dunton, Ellen Rowe and saxophonist Jordan Pettay with birthday shout outs to Lil Hardin Armstrong, Jeanne Lee, Jutta Hipp, and Melody Gardot, among others. In the second hour, Debra Mann is remembered after news of her passing and ...

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Article: Album Review

Improvising Trio: Manna for Thought

Read "Manna for Thought" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

This is the house that Ornette Coleman built some 60 years ago. Guitarist Dom Minasi and his like-minded colleagues, vocalist Nora McCarthy and saxophonist Ras Moshe, show that the free jazz tradition is very much alive as we approach the third decade of the new millennium. Minasi has for the past 20 years, progressed further into ...

Album

blesSINGS

By Nora McCarthy

Label: RedZen Records
Released: 2016

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Song of the Day

Passion Dance

Album: blesSINGS
By Nora McCarthy
Label: RedZen Records
Released: 2016
Duration: 7:36

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Song of the Day

You Are There

Album: A Time For Love
By Nora McCarthy
Label: RedZen Records
Released: 2013
Duration: 7:00

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Article: On and Off the Grid

Practice, Do You? Part 2-3

Read "Practice, Do You? Part 2-3" reviewed by Dom Minasi

by Dom Minasi

Continued from Part 1 I began studying the guitar when I was seven years old. I hated my teacher and I didn't practice much, but when I changed teachers' and I went to Joe Geneli, I regained a love for the guitar that I first had when I was four years old when I ...


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