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The Lost Tune
Album: The Door is Open: The Music of Gregg Hill
By Randy Napoleon
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 07:33
Randy Napoleon: The Door is Open: The Music of Gregg Hill
by Paul Rauch
In and around the formidable jazz studies program at Michigan State University is a plethora of jazz talent devoted to instrumental and compositional excellence. Most of this talent is young, benefiting from a wide array of world-class instructors that includes program director Rodney Whitaker and veteran guitarist Randy Napoleon, among other notables. Within this labyrinth of ...
DreamLand
By Libby York
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Hit the Road to Dreamland; Estrada Branca (This Happy Madness); Mountain Greenery; Cloudy Morning;
Throw It Away; Rhode Island Is Famous for You; Still on the Road; When October Goes; Moonray; An
Occasional Man; Something Cool; It's Love.
Michael Dease, Bob Brookmeyer, Archie Shepp and More
by Jerome Wilson
This program has a wide range of newer and older modern jazz, including recent music from Michael Dease and Anthony Branker and older work from Bob Brookmeyer and the Archie Shepp Attica Blues Big Band. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of ...
New Releases Plus Birthday Celebrations for Ella Fitzgerald, Blossom Dearie & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast includes new releases from the JOI (Jazz Outreach Initiative) Jazz Orchestra, Luis Russell and Grace Garland, plus birthday shoutouts to Blossom Dearie, Ma Rainey, Rebecca Martin, Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald, among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by seeing them live and online. Purchase their music so they ...
Michael Dease: The Other Shoe: The Music of Gregg Hill
by Jerome Wilson
Gregg Hill is a jazz composer favored by several jazz musicians who have recorded entire albums of his work, such as guitarist Randy Napoleon and bassist Rodney Whitaker. Here trombonist Michael Dease joins the party with a full album of Hill pieces arranged for a quintet. Hill's writing on this album delves into a ...
Hit the Road to Dreamland
Album: DreamLand
By Libby York
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 04:14
Puppets: The Music of Gregg Hill
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Andy's Lament; Fan-O-Gram; The Jazzdiddy Waltz; Lyrica; Moonscape; Puppets; Still Life with Tuba; The
Unknown Ballade; Tone Colors; Truck Driver's Blues; Wide River.
Ches Smith, Gretchen Parlato, Sam Rivers and Others
by Jerome Wilson
This is, as usual, an extremely eclectic show, this time featuring big bands, vocalists, some Latin flavors and much more. Artists heard on the show include Ches Smith, Martin Bejerano, Sam Rivers, Gretchen Parlato and the David Sanford Big Band. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete ...
Nathan Borton: Each Step
by Jane Kozhevnikova
Each Step is the debut recording by guitarist Nathan Borton. As his website accurately states, Borton draws heavily from the mid-western tradition of bebop and blues. His influences include Wes Montgomery, Grant Green and Kenny Burrell. The album offers an enjoyable tour through the straight-ahead tradition. There are three standards early on: Cole Porter's ...
