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Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Releases By Cynthia Sayer, Fred Hersch & Rondi Charleston, Sullivan Fortner, Celebrating Nina Simone & More

Read "New Releases By Cynthia Sayer, Fred Hersch & Rondi Charleston, Sullivan Fortner, Celebrating Nina Simone & More" reviewed by Mary Foster Conklin


This broadcast includes new releases from Cynthia Sayer, Fred Hersch & Rondi Charleston and Sullivan Fortner, with birthday shoutouts to Nina Simone, Nicole Mitchell, Sharel Cassity, Elsa Nilsson, lyricist Shelley Nyman and Dena DeRose. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear. See them live, purchase their music so they can continue to distract, comfort, ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Arturo O'Farrill, Allison Miller, Willie Morris and T.K. Blue

Read "Arturo O'Farrill, Allison Miller, Willie Morris and T.K. Blue" reviewed by Hobart Taylor


Arturo O'Farrill celebrates the music of Carla Bley plus new music from Allison Miller, Willie Morris and T.K. Blue.Playlist Jenny Hill “Deluxe Secret Sauce" from Floating (Self Prouced) 0:00 Arturo O'Farrill Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra" Blue Palestine Part 1" from Mundoagua Celebrating Carla Bley (Zoho) 3:06 Allison Miller “Fierce" from Big and Lovely (Royal ...

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Alliance

Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Wingspan; Syl-O-gism; Linger; Gemini; Maiden Voyage; La Tristeza; Something New; Caro-li-na; There But for the Grace of...

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Found in Space: The Music of Gregg Hill

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: The Last Pop Tune; Found in Space; One for Rodney; The Stray Moonduck; The Puppet Thief; Rue De Royal; Chillin With Wess; Anthem; Nostalgia; A Wrinkle in Time.

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Article: Album Review

Alliance: Alliance

Read "Alliance" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Alliance is an impressive all-female co-op quartet whose self-titled debut album, recorded in 2023, offers a luminous snapshot of their remarkable talent and versatility. Reed virtuoso Sharel Cassity, an alumna of New York City's world-class DIVA Jazz Orchestra, oversees the front line, while pianist Hannah Meyer provides an eloquent reciprocal perspective and shares the essential rhythmic ...

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Article: Album Review

Michael Dease: Found in Space: The Music of Gregg Hill

Read "Found in Space: The Music of Gregg Hill" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Even though all but unsung outside his customary locale, Michigan-based composer Gregg Hill has drawn into his orbit a small but well-respected circle of jazz artists including bassist Rodney Whitaker, guitarist Randy Napoleon and trombonist Michael Dease, all of whom have recorded albums dedicated to Hill's diverse and sophisticated music. Found in Space is Dease's second ...

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Michael Dease: Found in Space: The Music of Gregg Hill

Read "Found in Space: The Music of Gregg Hill" reviewed by Paul Rauch


Leaving a legacy in this life is a subject that holds different meanings for people. For some, it involves building a structure of permanence that will stand up to the test of time after one's entrance into eternity. For others, it is more fleeting, something that can be shaped and reshaped, and if desired, completely torn ...

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The Last Pop Tune

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Label: Origin Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 07:37

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Article: Album Review

Jordan VanHemert: Deep in the Soil

Read "Deep in the Soil" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Energy and enthusiasm fairly leap from the speakers--or headphones--on Sharel Cassity's daring “Call to Order," the opening number on Korean-born saxophonist Jordan VanHemert's fifth album as leader, Deep in the Soil. Alas, that same ardor doesn't reappear until track seven (of eight), trombonist Michael Dease's boppish “ST in the House." In between, VanHemert and his companions ...

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Article: Liner Notes

Michael Dease: Found in Space - The Music of Gregg Hill

Read "Michael Dease: Found in Space - The Music of Gregg Hill" reviewed by Bill Milkowski


The title itself is revealing. A clever play on words of the old '60s sci-fi show Lost in Space, it immediately suggests an irreverent wit and slightly twisted perspective; qualities that also permeate the unique music of prolific Michigan-based composer Gregg Hill. How this fairly obscure presence on the national music scene has managed ...


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