Results for "Roy Kral"

Roy Kral

Born: October 10, 1921

Camila Meza, Gillian Margot & Geoffrey Keezer, Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, Amanda Ekery, The Reddish Fetish With the Jersey City All Stars & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
June 2, 2025

This broadcast celebrates Memorial Day weekend with new releases from Camila Meza, Gillian Margot & Geoffrey Keezer, The Reddish Fetish With the Jersey City All Stars, Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, Amanda Ekery, with birthday shoutouts to Rosemary Clooney, Jackie Cain, Sheryl Bailey, Cynthia Sayer, Yoko Miwa, Caity Gyorgy plus honorable man Darcy James Argue, among others. Happy ...

Suzanne Pittson: Emerge Dancing

by Nicholas F. Mondello
August 21, 2024

Emerge Dancing is a fascinatingly intriguing album from New York vocalist (and pianist/composer) Suzanne Pittson and her husband, pianist Jeff Pittson. Primarily a duo album, the pair is joined on a trio of tracks by their son, violist Evan Pittson. Team Pittson has delivered a buffet of jazz, pop, rare-find and well-known standard fare that emerges ...

New Releases from Marta Sanchez, Myra Melford, Julieta Eugenio and More

by Mary Foster Conklin
May 30, 2022

This broadcast presents new releases from flutist Ragan Whiteside, the Yu Nishiyama Big Band, saxophonist Julieta Eugenio, vocalist Bidi Dworkin, pianist Marta Sanchez, and Myra Melford's Fire and Water Quartet with birthday shoutouts to KJ Denhert, Jackie Cain, Tania Maria, Carmen Souza, Brittany Anjou, Yoko Miwa and Jennifer Wharton, among others. Thanks for listening and please ...

I Wished on the Moon and The Jitterbug Waltz - Celebrating Rosemary Clooney and Fats Waller

by Mary Foster Conklin
June 1, 2020

The Memorial Day weekend broadcast included new releases from trumpeter Carl Saunders, guitarist Henry Robinett, vocalist Leslie Beukelman, pianist Carolina Calvache, groups DreamRoot and Ajoyo, plus birthday shoutouts to Rosemary Clooney (pictured), Jackie Cain, Fats Waller and Bob Dylan. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by purchasing their music in this time ...

Get It Straight - Thelonious Monk Is Still Cooking at 102

by Mary Foster Conklin
November 11, 2019

Big birthday shout outs to Thelonious Monk and Roy Kral (pictured with Jackie Cain), along with singers Nancy Kelly, Emma Larsson, Amy Cervini, Lee Wiley, Nona Hendryx, drummer Eve Sicular, trumpeter Pam Fleming, pianists Linda Presgrave and Johnny O'Neal among others; with a bounty harvest of new releases from trumpeter Bria Skonberg, pianists Leslie Pintchik and ...

Elizabeth Tombulian: Love's in Need of Love Today

by Nicholas F. Mondello
July 14, 2019

By the third track on Elizabeth Tomboulian's Love's in Need of Love Today , you discover three observations: that the album is probably going to be a rainbow of diverse grooves and textures; that Tomboulian is definitely adept at all of them; and that she takes great joy in doing so. The eleven ...

Roy Kral and Thelonious Monk birthdays; RIP Carol Hall

by Mary Foster Conklin
November 3, 2018

Celebrating mid-October birthdays with songs by pianist/composer Roy Kral, who with his wife vocalist Jackie Cain formed the duo group Jackie & Roy, and also Thelonious Monk a year after his centennial. Also remembering songwriter Carol Hall (1936-2018) best known for the Broadway musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, but who also contributed lyrics to ...

Alan Broadbent: Intimate Reflections on a Passion for Jazz

by Victor L. Schermer
October 12, 2018

Pianist, composer, and arranger Alan Broadbent doesn't just “dig" jazz. He has a deep and enduring passion for it. Growing up in mid- 20th-century New Zealand, he quickly went beyond piano lessons to reading musical scores and learning jazz standards. Then, when the Dave Brubeck Quartet came to his relatively isolated hometown of Auckland, his love ...

Ginger Berglund & Scott Whitfield: Solitary Moon

by Jack Bowers
September 22, 2014

The unabridged subtitle of this endlessly charming album is “Ginger Berglund & Scott Whitfield Sing the Johnny Mandel Songbook." For those who were unaware that there is a Johnny Mandel Songbook apart from “Emily," “The Shadow of Your Smile" and “Close Enough for Love," this scintillating summary is a guaranteed eye-(and ear-) opener, lovingly packaged and ...