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The New Jersey Performing Arts Center And The Bethany Baptist Church Celebrate 25 Years Of Free Monthly Jazz Vespers Concerts
February to June 2025 Schedule Includes Cassandra Wilson, Sheila Jordan, Arturo O'Farrill, Rhoda Scott and More First Saturday of every month—February 1, March 1, April 5, May 3 and June 7, 2025. All shows begin at 6:00 p.m. Bethany Baptist Church 275 W. Market Street Newark, NJ 07103 Tickets + Information FREE. For ...
Works—The Brooklyn Trio Finding Freedom in Space
by Lawrence Peryer
"I want to play music with these guys right now!" pianist Daniel Kelly exclaims midway through discussing Scouring for the Elements (Connection Works Records, 2024), the album from Brooklyn trio Works. Works is Kelly, flutist Michel Gentile, and drummer Rob Garcia and Scouring for the Elements is only their second recording in seventeen years.
Dan Pugach Big Band, George Cables, Arooj Aftab, Jason Keiser
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast includes Grammy nominations, new releases from the Dan Pugach Big Band, George Cables, Arooj Aftab, Jason Keiser plus a single from säje, with birthday shoutouts to Michelle Ann May and Jazz Master Sheila Jordan. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear. See them live, purchase their music so they can continue to ...
Lester Bowie, Hayoung Lyou, and Bill Warfield
by Jerome Wilson
This particular show features recent music by Hayoung Lyou and Bill Warfield's Hell's Kitchen Funk Orchestra. It also has older work by Sheila Jordan and Roy Campbell and a pair of selections by Lester Bowie. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of ...
Lisa Rich: Long As You're Living
by Nicholas F. Mondello
With Long As You're Living ace jazz vocalist m: Lisa Rich and a team of New York A-listers soar across a dozen tracks of superior jazz. The album, her first since Highwire (Tritone Records, 2019) is a tour de force of musical talents and it once again validates Rich as one of our finest vocal artists. ...
Jim West: 40 Years and Going Strong at Justin Time Records
by Kerilie McDowall
Owner of Canada's Justin Time Records, the multi-award-winning Jim West, has brought stellar top performers from the Canadian music scene and the USA to the global stage since 1983 for almost half a century, and that's some heavyweight “cred." To celebrate, the label has crafted a compilation, 40 Years of ...
Art Lande and Sam Williams Interview
by Steven Roby
This episode features an interview with Grammy-nominated musician Art Lande and jazz saxophonist Sam Williams. We discussed tracks from their current album Portals, and the duo's upcoming show at Dazzle. Grammy-nominated Art Lande is an internationally known pianist, composer, improviser, drummer, and educator who has performed with a long list of the Who's Who ...
New Releases Plus Birthday Shoutouts To Timeless Jazz Women Going Full Swing
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast includes new releases from Sarah McKenzie, Michael Weiss, Susan Alcorn, Vanessa Perica plus a second posthumous recording from Nora York, with major birthday shoutouts to Joni Mitchell (80!), Betty Bryant (92!), Sheila Jordan (95!), Bertha Hope (87!), Lani Hall (78!), Jen Hodge, Rene Marie, Miho Hazama, Kitty Margolis and Samara Joy, among others. Thanks ...
Remembering Carla Bley: Jazz Innovator Extraordinaire
by Ian Patterson
Carla Bley, composer, arranger, free-jazz pioneer, band leader, pianist and independent, whose compositions became jazz standards, has died at the age of 87. She had been diagnosed with brain cancer in 2018. Bley's most famous recording was her sprawling, genre-elusive triple album Escalator Over the Hill (JCOA Records, 1971). On the back of this ...
The Continuing Evolution of Kurt Elling
by Mathew Bahl
"I feel like at this point in my career I don't have to prove that I can do fifteen different things to greater or lesser degrees of expertise." Kurt Elling is discussing the genesis of his latest record, Flirting With Twilight. “I've made these roller coaster rides every time," says the Chicago-based jazz singer ...
