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Tomoko Ohno

International Women's Day Celebration With John Pizzarelli, Champian Fulton, Ana Hoffman (The BLCK Madonna), Kristen Mather de Andrade, Claire Dickson & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
March 16, 2026

This broadcast celebrates International Women's Day, and includes new music from Ana Hoffman (The BLCK Madonna), Kristen Mather de Andrade, John Pizzarelli, Champian Fulton and Claire Dickson with birthday shoutouts to Carol Sloane, Miriam Makeba, Flora Purim, Jeffrey Gimble, Jenny Hill, Tomoko Ohno, Anat Fort, Rachelle Garniez, Eric Comstock and Carole Bayer Sager among others. Happy ...

Dug and Jazz Spot Intro in Tokyo

by Sanford Josephson
August 2, 2025

I owe my love of jazz to the time I spent in Japan in the mid-1960s when I was working as a writer in the public information office of the American Red Cross' Far Eastern Area headquarters, located on a U.S. Army base about 45 minutes from Tokyo. While there, I saw Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, ...

The Empress, 3 Cohens/WDR Big Band, Nnenna Freelon, Sylvie Courvoisier/Mary Halvorson and Kaisa's Machine

by Mary Foster Conklin
March 24, 2025

This broadcast includes new releases from The Empress (Pureum Jin, Lauren Sevian, Erena Terakubo, Chelsea Baratz), 3 Cohens/WDR Big Band, Nnenna Freelon, Sylvie Courvoisier/Mary Halvorson and Kaisa's Machine, with birthday shoutouts to Shirley Scott, Carol Sloane, Jeanie Bryson, Anne Mette Iversen, Mark Murphy, Tomoko Ohno, Arooj Aftab and Bobby McFerrin. Happy listening and please support the ...

New Releases from Ernesto Cervini, Remy Le Boeuf, Grace Kelly, Dan Pugach With Birthday Shoutouts to Miriam Makeba, Keely Smith, Carole Bayer Sager & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
March 18, 2024

Women's History Month continues with new releases from Ernesto Cervini's Turboprop, Remy Le Boeuf's Assembly of Shadows, Grace Kelly, Dan Pugach Big Band and Cecilia Sanchietti, with birthday shoutouts to Miriam Makeba, Eric Comstock, Anat Fort, Marya Lawrence, Rachelle Garniez, Frank Senior, Keely Smith, Carol Sloane, Tomoko Ohno and Carole Bayer Sager, among others. Thanks for ...

"30": Live at Dizzy's Club

By Sherrie Maricle

Label: Diva Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Something’s Coming; In a Mellow Tone; Here’s to Life; I’m Gonna Go Fishin’; Every Day I Have the Blues; I Feel Pretty; Three Sisters and a Cousin; A Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald (The Object of My Affection/How High the Moon/A Tisket, a Tasket/Oh, Lady Be Good); Inka Dinka Doo; Airmail Special.

Diva Jazz Orchestra: "30": Live at Dizzy's Club

by Jack Bowers
October 19, 2023

The “30" in the title of the superlative all-woman Diva Jazz Orchestra's latest album stands for 30 years, which, believe it or not, is how long the orchestra and its remarkable drummer and leader, Sherrie Maricle, have been up and running and making beautiful music at home and abroad. Among U.S.-based big bands, it would seem ...

Celebrate Women's History Month With New Releases By Ally Fiola, Emily Braden, Danielle Wertz, Jane Bunnett & Maqueque, Jackie Ryan & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
March 13, 2023

This broadcast celebrates the beginning of Women's History Month with new releases from Bill Mays, Ally Fiola, Emily Braden, Danielle Wertz, Jane Bunnett & Maqueque, Jackie Ryan and Markus Rutz, plus birthday shoutouts to Carol Sloane, Miriam Makeba, Sara Serpa, Tomoko Ohno, Roseanna Vitro and Kirk Nurock, among others. Thanks for listening and please support the ...

Swings Broadway

By Sherrie Maricle

Label: Diva Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Heart; Pure Imagination; The Man I Love; With Every Breath I Take; The Sound of Music; Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’; Seventy-Six Trombones; Love Who You Love; Get Me to the Church on Time.

The DIVA Jazz Orchestra: Swings Broadway

by Jack Bowers
May 26, 2022

At the ripe old age of thirty (closer to a hundred in big-band years), the superlative New York-based, all-female DIVA Jazz Orchestra remains as frisky as a newborn colt, swinging up, down and around Broadway with abandon on its thirteenth album, a brisk and colorful tribute to the Great White Way that shines brightly from start ...