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Steve Freund

Born: July 20, 1952

High Hat, Trumpet and Rhythm - Celebrating Foremother Valaida Snow Plus New Releases From Tuba Skinny, Esthesis Quartet & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
June 13, 2022

This broadcast presents new releases from Tuba Skinny, Esthesis Quartet (featuring Elsa Nilsson, Tina Raymond, Dawn Clement and Emma Dayhuff , Randy Napoleon and As Is with birthday shoutouts to trumpeter Valaida Snow, guitarist Memphis Minnie, saxophonist Alexa Tarantino, vocalists Dakota Staton, Ann Hampton Callaway, Ian Shaw, and Amanda Eckery, among others. Thanks for listening and ...

Turn The Hose on Me Boys, I'm Burnin' Up Again

by Mary Foster Conklin
July 14, 2019

This week the playlist includes new releases from vocalists Rebecca Dumaine, Chanda Rule, Amanda Ekery, harpist Brandee Younger, the Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra, clarinetist Anat Cohen and The Hot Sardines, with birthday shout outs to guitarist Memphis Minnie, trumpeter Valaida Snow, vocalists Dakota Staton, Boz Scaggs, saxophonist Alexa Tarantino, and pianists Hazel Scott and Mala Waldron, ...

Zora Young: Sunnyland

by John Barron
April 11, 2009

Sunnyland is a straight-up blues release from Chicago vocalist Zora Young. With the help of guitar legend Hubert Sumlin and saxophonist/producer Sam Burckhardt, the veteran Young, who has previously recorded for Delmark Records, pays tribute to the late pianist Albert Luandrew, a.k.a Sunnyland Slim (1907-1995).Both Sumlin and Young worked with Sunnyland, as well as ...

Heat Wave

By Steve Freund

Label: NotTwo Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Heat Wave; Beyond the Horizon; Mosaic; Ring a Bell; Tornado; The Squall in the Sahara; Ameoba; Spiral Staircase; To the Skies.

Heat Wave

By Steve Freund

Label: Not Two Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Heat Wave; Beyond the Horizon; Mosaic; Ring a Bell; Tornado; The Squall in the Sahara; Amoeba; Spiral Staircase; To the Skies.

Satoko Fujii Ma-Do Quartet: Heat Wave

by Budd Kopman
September 17, 2008

As her fiftieth birthday nears, pianist Satoko Fujii continues to release recordings at a furious pace. However, despite always extending her compositional and improvisational language, her musical personality remains recognizable by its unique mixture of melody, rhythm, freedom and structure. An amazing release, Heat Wave presents a new band named the Ma-Do Quartet, ...

Satoko Fujii Ma-Do: Heat Wave

by Dan McClenaghan
August 28, 2008

Ever prolific avant-garde jazz pianist Satoko Fujii has put together yet another band. She fronts numerous ensembles: a dynamic piano trio with bassist Mark Dresser and drummer Jim Black, the trio Junk Box, with drummer Jim Hollenbeck and trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, big bands in New York and Japan, a powerful rock steeped quartet and a bunch ...

I'll Be Your Mule

By Steve Freund

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: I'll be Your Mule / Fine Lookin' Woman / Hung Down Head / Fittin' to Go / You Were a Good Old Ride / Big Blue Mama / A Dollar a Mile / My Life Is Changing / When I Was Young / Something to Remember You By / Ramblin' Bill / Bill Reed's Blues / Rambler's Blues

Steve Freund: I'll Be Your Mule

by Joe Milazzo
July 1, 2001

With a form as venerable and yet malleable as the blues, it is the manner of expression as much aswhatis expressed that carries a performer. Some may bristle at this idea, and say it places style above substance. But style, a personal sense of fashion, an idiosyncratic bearing... whatever you choose to call it, this quality ...