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Rhiannon Giddens

IThe acclaimed musician Rhiannon Giddens uses her art to excavate the past and reveal bold truths about our present. A MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient, Giddens co-founded the Grammy Award-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops, and she has been nominated for six additional Grammys for her work as a soloist and collaborator. She was most recently nominated for her collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi, there is no Other (2019). Giddens’s forthcoming album, They’re Calling Me Home, is a twelve-track album, recorded with Turrisi in Ireland during the recent lockdown; it speaks of the longing for the comfort of home as well as the metaphorical “call home” of death, which has been a tragic reality for so many during the COVID-19 crisis

Freedom! Juneteenth National Independence Day

by Katchie Cartwright
June 28, 2026

Caminhos do Jazz celebrates the 160th anniversary of Juneteenth National Independence Day, Emancipation Day here in Texas, with songs of freedom: Simone, Reeves, Harris, Giddens, Staples, Ranky Tanky, Ladysmith, Soares, BaianaSystem, Owens, Horn... Playlist Nina Simone “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free" by Billy Taylor & Dick Dallas from ...

Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi Quartet

by Antonio Baiano
February 21, 2026

Joel Ross and Others at the 2026 Winter Jazzfest's Brooklyn Marathon

by Paul Reynolds
January 15, 2026

Manhattan Marathon | Brooklyn Marathon Joel Ross and Others Winter Jazzfest Brooklyn MarathonNew York, NY January 10, 2026 New York's Winter JazzFest--to its credit--does not present stars of pop and other non-jazz genres to expand its audience and fill the festival coffers. But the January jazz mainstay is not ...

Sonhos, Pesadelos & An American Tune

by Katchie Cartwright
September 21, 2025

Dreams and nightmares this week on Caminhos do Jazz, with a host of superb Brazilian performers, including singers Maria Bethânia, Gal Costa, Alaide Costa, Lenine and the MPB group Nação Zumbi. The set also includes a cut by the extraordinary Norwegian world-jazz ensemble Music for a While, featuring vocalist Tora Augestad, and one from the renowned ...

Niwel Tsumbu: Milimo

by Ian Patterson
January 10, 2025

Congolese-born, Ireland-based guitarist Niwel Tsumbu admits that it took some plucking up of courage to make a solo album. Since moving to Cork in 2004 Tsumbu has always played in collaborative settings encompassing, jazz, rock, classical and folk. Partial credits include Sinead O'Connor, Buena Vista Social Club, Nigel Kennedy, Steve Cooney, Dave Flynn, Baba Maal, the ...

American Railroad: A Musical Journey of Reclamation

By Rhiannon Giddens

Label: Nonesuch Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Invocation (Pura Fé Crescioni); Swannanoa Tunnel / Steel-Driving Man (Traditional, arr. Rhiannon Giddens); Rainy Day (Wu Man); Far Down Far (Maeve Gilchrist); Tamping Song (Haruka Fuji); Rela (Sandeep Das); Wihanblapi Mazachanku (Suzanne Kite); Have You Seen My Man/ (Cecile McLorin Salvant); Swannanoa Strings (Traditional, arr. Silkroad Ensemble); Milimo (Niwel Tsumbu); Fukagu Sanjurokkei (Kaoru Watanabe); Mahk Jchi (Pura Fé Crescioni); O Shout! (Mazz Swift).

Katchie Cartwright's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024

by Katchie Cartwright
December 23, 2024

2024 was another great year for jazz, and here are a dozen more reasons to think so... Hermeto Pascoal Pra você, Ilza Rocinante Records “I saw heaven on earth doing this work." --Hermeto Pascoal Rhiannon Giddens American Railroad: A Musical Journey of ...

Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens: American Railroad: A Musical Journey of Reclamation

by Katchie Cartwright
December 18, 2024

Rhiannon Giddens is not afraid of big projects. American Railroad, the album, is part of a larger work, subtitled A Musical Journey of Reclamation, which Giddens initiated with the widely acclaimed Silkroad Ensemble, a diverse international collective of performers, improvisers and composers created by Yo Yo Ma. American Railroad digs into the building of America's transcontinental ...

Umbria Jazz 2024

by Libero Farnè
July 24, 2024

Varie sedi Umbria Jazz 2024 Perugia 12--21 luglio 2024 Partecipare a Umbria Jazz significa per me affrontare un'esperienza non solo frastornante, per la molteplicità di stimoli che si ricevono nei diversi luoghi della città e in ogni ora del giorno, ma anche anomala, per certi versi schizofrenica. Da un lato ci ...