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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Alicia Olatuja, Johnny Hartman, Kat Edmonson and More

by Jua Howard
July 28, 2024

Welcome Music Family! It's time for another great episode of the “First Instrument Jazz Show"! I've got a great show in store for you this week including new music from Alicia Olatuja, Roxana Amed, and Planet D Nonet,; and plenty more timeless music from artists such as Johnny Hartman, Gretchen Parlato, Alan Hampton, and Kat Edmonson. ...

Article: Album Review

Ulysses Owens Jr. Big Band: Soul Conversations

Read "Soul Conversations" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
May 9, 2021

Drummer Ulysses Owens Jr.'s Big Band comes out swinging on its debut recording, Soul Conversations, thundering through Michael Dease's incendiary arrangement of the Dizzy Gillespie/John Lewis flame-thrower, “Two Bass Hit." For more such heat, however, the listener must move forward to Track 5, John Coltrane's impulsive “Giant Steps," thence to Track 9 for Charles Turner III's ...

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