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Tom Bancroft's In Common: Love & Stillness

Read "Love & Stillness" reviewed by Roger Farbey

by Roger Farbey
February 25, 2019

A qualified medical doctor and highly experienced jazz musician, Tom Bancroft is co-leader of the bass-less Trio AAB and leads the big band Orchestro Interrupto. He studied drums with Jo Morello, Joey Baron, and Andrew Cyrille, and has played with a host of renowned jazz stars including Sun Ra, Charlie Mariano, Oliver Lake, and Sheila Jordan. ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Big Noise New York

by Mary Foster Conklin
February 2, 2019

The first broadcast of 2019 included a preview of some of the many artists performing in New York at the Winter Jazzfest and APAP annual convention, with new releases by Simone Kopmajer, Something Blue and Stacy Sullivan, plus birthday shout outs to Myra Melford, Carol Sudhalter, James Shipp, and vocalist Christine Tobin, among others.

Article: Live Review

Sheila Jordan at Mezzrow

by Tyran Grillo
January 27, 2019

Sheila Jordan Mezzrow New York, NY January 10, 2019 If the art of song is only as vibrant as the colors from which one draws, then Sheila Jordan perhaps has the broadest palette of any living jazz vocalist. At the tender age of 90, she is blessed with a patience that ...

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Musician

Harvie S

Born: December 6, 1948

Any jazz fan will tell you Harvie S is one of the great bass players on the scene today. He's played with the best and he continues to challenge himself and his peers in new artistic directions. Moreover, Harvie is a producer, bandleader, composer and educator. Harvie S has performed with masters in jazz music and masters in Latin music including Stan Getz, Pat Methany, Chet Baker, Dexter Gordon, Jim Hall, Michael Brecker, Gil Evans, Arturo O'Farrill, Lee Konitz, James Williams, James Moody, Al Cohn and Zoot Sims, Houston Person, Art Farmer, Toots Thielemans, Bob Mintzer, Joe Lovano, Dave Leibman, Vic Juris, Danilo Perez, Paquito D'Rivera, Ray Barretto, Ray Vega, David Valintin and countless others

Article: Out and About: The Super Fans

Meet Jeff Evans

by Tessa Souter and Andrea Wolper
January 8, 2019

Our first Super Fan of 2019 is such a jazz head that he and his wife of 42 years got engaged at a jazz club. These days, Jeff frequently can be seen in the New York clubs indulging several of his passions at once. Living in a city he describes as “richly blessed" with venues, he ...

Album

Lucky to Be Me

By Sheila Jordan

Label: Abeat Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Lucky to Be Me; All or Nothing at All; If I Had You; Autumn in New York; Dat Dere; Spirit of the Queen; Queen Aliquippa; The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress; The Bird; Confirmation; All the Sad Young Men; Oh, Lady Be Good; Workshop Blues; The Crossing.

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Thanksgiving Birthdays and Holiday Jazz

by Mary Foster Conklin
December 8, 2018

An assortment of Thanksgiving-inspired jazz to whet your appetite and get your gratitude on, with birthday shout outs to Mose Allison, Rickie Lee Jones, Johnny Mercer and Sheila Jordan, plus a preview of who's performing in NYC for the holidays. Playlist Jen Hodge “The Swamp Bucket Challenge" from All's Fair in Love and Jazz ...

Article: Catching Up With

Jay Clayton’s ScatLab—A Vocal Jazz Workout

by Suzanne Lorge
December 4, 2018

For the last decade, free-bop vocalist Jay Clayton has been conducting regular “scat labs" out of the Manhattan teaching space that she shares with NEA Jazz Master Sheila Jordan. In ScatLab, jazz singers of all levels of experience meet up to trade twos and fours, riff on traditional blues heads, and improvise on well-known songbook tunes. ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

November New Releases and Revisiting Alice in Wonderland

by Mary Foster Conklin
November 24, 2018

Happy November! Time to bundle up, run a Marathon, vote and enjoy the last weeks of Fall. In this broadcast, there are birthday celebrations for Roger Kellaway, Clifford Brown and singer Ethel Waters, among others. Also exciting new releases from pianists Myra Melford, Larry McDonough and bassist Alexander Claffy. Playlist Carol Robbins “The ...

Article: Interview

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 ...