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The Jazz Session #220: Rudresh Mahanthappa

November 30, 2010

Saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa teams up with fellow saxophonist Bunky Green for Apex (Pi Recordings, 2010), an album of original compositions featuring Jason Moran, Francois Moutin, Jack DeJohnette and Damion Reed. In this interview, Mahanthappa talks about his first exposure to Bunky Greens playing; why this all-star cast feels like a working band; and the thought process ...

The Billy Strayhorn Songbook

November 29, 2010

Night Lights celebrates the 95th anniversary of Billy Strayhorn's birth with “The Billy Strayhorn Songbook," a program featuring interpretations of Strayhorn's music by the Duke Ellington orchestra, Ellingtonians such as Johnny Hodges, Ray Nance, and Ben Webster, John Coltrane, the Dutch Jazz Orchestra, and Strayhorn himself. Strayhorn was Ellington's writing partner for 27 years, contributing scores ...

The Jazz Session #219: Either/Orchestra's Russ Gershon

November 23, 2010

The Either/Orchestra is celebrating 25 years of making music with their new CD, Mood Music For Time Travellers (Accurate Records, 2010). In this interview, founder and leader Russ Gershon talks about how the band got started; how it has survived for 25 years; and the music on the new album, which returns to the classic E/O ...

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November 24, 2010

Continuum, A Journey Through Jazz - "Thanksgiving Moods & Reflections"

November 24, 2010

Soulandjazz.com Presents: Continuum, A Journey Through Jazz Episode 32—"Thanksgiving Moods & Reflections" Hosted & Produced by J. Scott Fugate, “The Jazz Evangelist" Happy Thanksgiving! I know this is an American Holiday—but whether you celebrate it or not . . . it's a wonderful time for reflection & gratitude anywhere you happen to ...

Riverwalk Jazz Interviews Nat Hentoff

November 27, 2010

Author and columnist Nat Hentoff is one of America's most revered commentators on jazz. This week on Riverwalk Jazz, host David Holt caught up with the 85-year-old at his home in Greenwich Village to talk about the people and personalities covered in his new book, At the Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene. ...

A Brief History of Mary Lou Williams

November 27, 2010

Does anybody embody the history of 20th-century jazz as much as Mary Lou Williams? The arc of her career extends from the territory bands and Kansas City swing of the 1930s to the heights of the big-band era, the bebop movement of the 1940s, the American expatriate jazz of the post-World War II era, the sacred-jazz ...

JazzWeek Radio Chart: November 15, 2010

November 23, 2010

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 2 1 Houston Person Moment To Moment (HighNote) 209 209 0 0 49 1 5 2 3 2 Denise Donatelli When Lights Are Low (Savant) 198 198 0 0 55 2 8 3 6 3 The Clayton Brothers The New Song And Dance (ArtistShare) 195 172 +23 0 52 ...

New Concept in Music Distribution Gains Momentum

November 23, 2010

The “Intro to Indie Artists" series was created as a way for online radio stations to receive a constant flow of music from indie artists. Built in 5, 3, and 2 song program lengths, these short blasts of new music are easily downloaded and scheduled by internet radio station owners. (Station Information) “Intro to Indie Artists" ...

Jazz Radio Commentaries: Rusty Hassan PT. 2

November 17, 2010

Rusty Hassan has a kind of mystery about his look in this photo, but though he is indeed a nuanced gentleman, there seems little mystery about this thoughtful, even-tempered man-about-jazz; he remains one of DC's go-to guys when it comes to the history of the music and his weekly program on WPFW is a pillar of ...