Results for "Ray Brown"

Dug and Jazz Spot Intro in Tokyo

by Sanford Josephson
August 2, 2025

I owe my love of jazz to the time I spent in Japan in the mid-1960s when I was working as a writer in the public information office of the American Red Cross' Far Eastern Area headquarters, located on a U.S. Army base about 45 minutes from Tokyo. While there, I saw Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, ...

Paul Vornhagen: Live at the Blue LLama

by Jack Bowers
May 19, 2025

Saxophonist and composer Paul Vornhagen, a durable pillar on Detroit's jazz scene for almost three decades, puts his working quartet straight to work on this inspiring concert date, recorded in November 2023 at the Blue Llama Jazz Club in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The group's precision and empathy are clear from the outset, as ...

Roberto Magris, Claire Ritter, and Jessica Jones

by Jerome Wilson
April 2, 2025

This show features recent music from Roberto Magris. Claire Ritter, and Jessica Jones. It also contains older work from Yusef Lateef, Tomasz Stanko, and Dizzy Gillespie. It also has a tribute to the late Jesse Colin Young. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia ...

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Joni Mitchell Jazzed: Ten Essential Mitchell Covers

by Ian Patterson
January 3, 2025

Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell's spectacular transition from acoustic folk singer in the '60s through folk-rock 'n' roller in the early '70s to leader of jazz-inflected bands in the mid-'70s was a gradual process. This musical transformation can be traced over the course of five albums for Asylum, beginning with the multi-million seller and Grammy-winner Court and ...

Together Again!!!!

By Teddy Edwards

Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2024
Track listing: Together Again; You Stepped Out of A Dream; Up There; Perhaps; Misty; Sandy.

Christian McBride: Jazz Notes from the Engine Room

by Lawrence Peryer
November 9, 2024

Today, the Spotlight shines On Christian McBride, a musician, recording artist, prolific composer, arranger, producer, cultural curator, dedicated educator, and mentor.Christian has been called the hardest-working person in jazz and the above list might be underselling it. From his early days in Philadelphia soaking up the sounds of Philly Soul to sharing stages with ...

Quincy Jones: An Evening With A Legend

by Solomon J. LeFlore
November 4, 2024

This article was first published on All About Jazz on October 31, 2014. I love jazz! I love everything about it... the improvisation, syncopation, the forceful rhythm, and the fact that it is truly America's original art form. Its unique and innovative use of brass and woodwind instruments and the piano is jazz. And, ...

My Summer with Sonny

by Patrick Burnette
October 1, 2024

Raise your hands, jazz fans, if you've been thinking about jazz legend Sonny Rollins during the last few months. After all, the great man is still with us at age 94. Reaching such an age is an accomplishment for anybody, but a miraculous feat for an African-American jazz musician born in the early decades of the ...

Bill Warfield, Elias Haslanger, Paul Carlon, Natalie Jacob and more

by Benjamin Boddie
September 4, 2024

Today's Music--Right Now!... Fantastic music by Bill Warfield, Elias Haslanger, Paul Carlon, Natalie Jacob, Michael Wolfe, Ben Wolfe, Zachary Bartholomew, Antonio Farao, Bria Skonberg, Monika Herzig, Cornelia Nilsson, Monika Herzig, Alexis Cole, Alvin Queen, Brian Ho, Louis Hayes, Zaccai Curtis, Markus Howell, Conrad Herwig, Ken Peplowski and more. Playlist Bill Warfield “Nusia's Poem" from ...