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Vocalist Kim Maguire Releases 'A Case Of You'

February 25, 2025

As a girl, Kim spent hours at the piano in her parents’ basement, playing and singing through the agony and ecstasy of what it was to be a gauche teenager with not a lot of social skills, and definitely not a lot of attention from “the right” kind of boy. It was the early 1970’s and ...

Cecile McLorin Salvant at Slee Hall

by Frank Housh
February 16, 2024

Cecile McLorin Salvant Slee Hall at University of Buffalo Buffalo, NY February 9, 2024 The word is “trobairitz;" it refers to female troubadours of the Middle Ages who performed some of Western music's first secular songs (and the first composed by women) in the area south of the Loire Valley, what ...

New Releases By Cynthia Sayer, Fred Hersch & Rondi Charleston, Sullivan Fortner, Celebrating Nina Simone & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
February 24, 2025

This broadcast includes new releases from Cynthia Sayer, Fred Hersch & Rondi Charleston and Sullivan Fortner, with birthday shoutouts to Nina Simone, Nicole Mitchell, Sharel Cassity, Elsa Nilsson, lyricist Shelley Nyman and Dena DeRose. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear. See them live, purchase their music so they can continue to distract, comfort, ...

Chicago's Joanie Pallatto And Bradley Parker-Sparrow Release New Album, 'Song'

February 24, 2025

Duets for voice and piano from vocalist-composer Joanie Pallatto and pianist-composer Bradley Parker-Sparrow. These twelve tracks of original music and Lyrics create a mood of intimacy, improvisation and reflection. Their personal songs of harmonizing energy are presented as the first duet recording released from Chicago's renowned couple, featuring gentle songs, swinging grooves, scat singing and expansive ...

The Attucks Jazz Club: Fall 2024

by Mark Robbins
February 23, 2025

In 2008, under the auspices of the Virginia Arts Festival and the leadership of professor/pianist John Toomey, the Attucks Jazz Series was born in the historic Attucks Theater. Before becoming a full-time jazz professor at Old Dominion University, Toomey spent time on the road with jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson, singers Mark Murphy, Rene Marie, and others. ...

Dorothy Lawson: ETHEL's String Theory For Quartets

by Lawrence Peryer
February 23, 2025

Today, the Spotlight shines On legendary cellist Dorothy Lawson.Dorothy and the group ETHEL have spent years breaking down walls between classical, jazz, rock and world music.On March 13, 2025, at New York City's Carnegie Hall, Dorothy teams up with bass legend Ron Carter to reimagine his landmark Kronos Quartet recording from 40 ...

Benny Goodman, Terry Gibbs, Al Jolson, George Gershwin & Bill Charlap

by Joe Dimino
February 23, 2025

Tune in for the 894th show, a jazz-filled hour celebrating the legendary artists featured in Kosher Jammer, the latest book by London-based jazz journalist Mike Garber. This deep dive explores how the Jewish community intertwined with African-Americans and other minority groups to shape jazz into the timeless art form it is today. We kick things off ...

Mikkel Ploug Reunites With His Original Trio To Release 'Hope' On Songlines Recordings

February 23, 2025

Danish guitarist-composer Mikkel Ploug has had a long association with Songlines. The first of three recordings by the avant chamber-jazz trio Equilibrium, which he co-leads with Sissel Vera Pettersen and Joachim Badenhorst, appeared in 2009, and those were followed by two solo acoustic guitar titles, Alleviation (2017) and Day in the Sun (2022). Hope is the ...

Jazzmeia Horn at SFJAZZ

by Ronald Davis
February 22, 2025

Mingus Dynasty Septet at Slee Hall

by Frank Housh
November 15, 2024

Mingus Dynasty Septet Slee Hall at University of Buffalo Buffalo, NY November 1, 2024 The Mingus Dynasty Septet performed on Friday, November 1, 2024, at UB's Slee Hall (SUNY Buffalo) as part of its Visiting Artist Series. The Septet's personnel and the concert's set list are at the bottom of this ...