Results for "Roy Nathanson"

Carla Bley, Phil Haynes, & Dan Phillips

by Maurice Hogue
December 11, 2023

I pay tribute to the magnificent Carla Bley in this episode before moving on to drummer Phil Haynes and music from the extensive compilation he assembled to accompany his new memoir “Chasing the Masters: First Takes of a Modernist Drumming Artist." There's music from new releases by the Berlin-based Aut Records, a new two-drummer release by ...

Ohad Talmor, Myra Melford, Roy Nathanson & I.P.A.

by Maurice Hogue
November 20, 2023

Load 'em up and play 'em. That's kind of how it's going these days, with so many interesting new recordings making their way to the show. Ohad Talmor's Ornette Coleman-inspired Back To The Land is already showing up on best-of-lists. He came across some unreleased rehearsal recordings by Ornette & Lee Konitz in Konitz's apartment after ...

French Showcase at the 2023 European Jazz Conference

by Francesco Martinelli
October 9, 2023

Palais du Pharo/Théâtre La Criée European Jazz Conference Showcases Marseille, France September 14-17, 2023 The showcase program of the 9th European Jazz Conference (see separate article) was inaugurated in the comfortable Auditorium of the Palais du Pharo--the main venue of the conference--by the Orchid Big Band. Born inside the musical collective ...

Roy Nathanson, Leap Day Trio, Jimmy Rushing and a Lot More

by Jerome Wilson
May 17, 2023

This episode contains a wide range of jazz artists, from Roy Nathanson and the Leap Day Trio to Jimmy Rushing and Meredith d'Ambrosio. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Paul Smoker Notet “Goodbye, David II" ...

Freedom First

By Albert Marquès

Label: Say It Loud Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Calling All Souls - Alabama; Tell Em The Truth; Resolution; Unintentional Vignettes; Acknowledgement; Alabama (duet); Some Sad Shit We Humans Do To Each Other; No Man's Land; On Living; The Only Freedom; Afro Blue; Be Free; The Drowned and the Saved.

Thomas Chapin, Lara Solnicki, Vijay Iyer and More

by Jerome Wilson
August 31, 2022

From April 2021, this show features a lot of lesser-heard musicians such as Lara Solnicki, Rodrigo Faina, Juhani Aaltonen, and the late Thomas Chapin. There are also more familiar names in the mix such as Paul Motian, Vijay Iyer, and Tom Harrell. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from ...

The Costello Jazz Show, Part 2

by Ludovico Granvassu
September 11, 2021

Certain musicians like to stick to a formula. Others, like Elvis Costello (featured today), continually reinvent themselves. Looking back at Costello's career, it seems like his sense of adventurous restlessness has been both the cause and the effect of his many high-profile collaborations, including those in the jazz world—from Michael Leonhart to Roy Nathanson, from the ...

Heavy Rotation For A Pandemic Summer

by Mark Corroto
August 27, 2020

In the summer of 2020 one result of the COVID-19 isolation, and artists inability to tour and perform is that they have time to deal with projects halted by this pandemic. Musicians, producers, and engineers have mixed, mastered and released an abundance of music. Many of the titles have been, and will be covered by our ...

Roy Nathanson

Born: May 17, 1951

Roy Nathanson has had a varied career as a saxophonist, composer, bandleader, poet, actor and teacher.   

During the thirty years Nathanson has led the Jazz Passengers, the band has recorded 10 CDs and toured extensively. As primary composer for the band, Nathanson has written songs for a variety of singers including Elvis Costello, Deborah Harry, Jeff Buckley, Jimmy Scott and Mavis Staples. Nathanson also leads Sotto Voce, a band that investigates various relationships between text and music in performances and recordings.  

His radio play, You’re The Fool, was performed and commissioned on NPR and his meditation on time, The Rock Concert, was commissioned by the Science Museum of the University of Wisconsin.  

Avant-Retro or Retro-Avant? Part I

by Ludovico Granvassu
February 29, 2020

Rigid categories are not what music should be about. This week we focus on music that some may file under “retro" but is performed by musicians that are often labelled “avant," it may not sound exactly how Count Basie and the Kansas City 7 or Fess Williams and the Royal Flush Orchestra would have played, but ...