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Ellington Today - Always Hip
by Russell Perry
Every year dozens of top-flight musicians cover tunes from the biggest book in jazz--the Duke Ellington Songbook--with some 1,100 entries. In this hour of Jazz at 100 Today!, we'll listen to a few of the diverse responses to this body of work ranging from pianists Frank Kimbrough, Ahmad Jamal, Fred Hersch and Norah Jones to guitarists ...
Having A Good Time With Alberta Hunter
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast celebrates the birthday of legendary pianist and songwriter Alberta Hunter, who returned to the NYC clubs after a twenty year nursing career. Also featured are new releases from composer/arranger Jihye Lee, and vocalists Clare Foster, Aubrey Logan, Alyssa Allgood and Veronica Swift. Other birthday shoutouts include Norah Jones, Tessa Souter, Tina May, Aimee Allen ...
Playdate
By Norah Jones
Label: Blue Note
Released: 2020
Track listing: Falling; I’ll Be Gone; Street Stranger; Take It Away; Playing Along; I Forgot; Tryin’ To Keep It Together;
Pick Me Up Off The Floor
By Norah Jones
Label: Blue Note
Released: 2020
Track listing: How I Weep; Flame Twin; Hurts To Be Alone; Heartbroken, Day After; Say No More; This LIfe; To Live; I'm Alive; Were You Watching?; Stumble On My Way; Heaven Above;
More Holiday Releases, Grammy Nominations and a Peek into 2021
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast features more nods to Grammy nominees as well as new holiday releases from the 3D Jazz Trio, vocalists Amber Weekes, Jonathan Karrant, Carla Hassett and bassist Brian Bromberg, with other new recordings by Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger, Laura Fernandez, Tom Keenlyside plus a single from Yoko Miwa's upcoming 2021 release. Thanks for listening ...
What, and Give Up Showbiz?
by Doug Hall
What, and Give Up Showbiz: Six Decades in the Music Business Fred Taylor (with Richard Vacca) 276 Pages 978-1493051847 Backbeat Books 2020 In his upcoming biography (December, 2020), What, and Give Up Showbiz?: Six Decades in the Music Business, Boston's late legendary and iconic music impresario Fred Taylor ...
Jochen Rueckert: Fringe Guy
by Leo Sidran
In this wide ranging podcast interview, drummer Jochen Rueckert meditates on his early years in Germany, his time playing with Marc Copeland and later with Will Vinson, why playing with great bass players is like eating great pasta (especially true with Matt Penman), refusing to share hotel rooms, why he is a reluctant teacher, what Lage ...
CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival Rescheduled For Oct 2-10, 2020
Marc Iacona and John Nugent, producers of the CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival, provided an update today on the status of planning for a rescheduled festival, which is proceeding as previously announced. In a message of hope, Nugent and Iacona said, “Rather than giving up during this time of uncertainty, we are continuing to take a ...
Kandace Springs: The Women Who Raised Me
by Peter J. Hoetjes
Cover albums tend to sort themselves pretty neatly into two separate bins. One is filled with tiresome stacks of uninspired music soon to be filed away and forgotten. The other, smaller pile is made up of those few in which the artist on the cover managed to do something more than parrot their predecessors. Those who ...
CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival Announces 19th Edition Lineup
Producers John Nugent and Marc Iacona today announced the full lineup with a record number of shows for the 2020 nine-day CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival. Now in its 19th year, the festival will be held June 19 to 27 and present 335-plus shows including more than 100 free shows and 1750-plus artists performing in 21 diverse venues in downtown Rochester, New ...
