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Taiwanese Pianist Yu-Chen Tseng Releases Debut Album Of Original Compositions - 'Gratitude Voyage: Embarking'

July 7, 2024

Taiwanese jazz pianist Yu-Chen Tseng recently released his debut jazz album, Gratitude Voyage: Embarking. The album's title reflects Tseng's gratitude to his family and all those who have supported him. This album has attracted considerable attention in New York for its outstanding performance and arrangements, highlighting Tseng's profound musical expertise and distinctive creative style. The album ...

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Bill Anschell: Unearthing Jazz's Improbable Solutions

by Lawrence Peryer
July 6, 2024

Today, the Spotlight shines On Seattle pianist and composer Bill Anschell. We've had award winners of all types on the podcast, but as far as I can remember, Bill is the first to have won an award for humor: in 2014, Bill was the winner of the inaugural Paul Desmond Award, All About Jazz's ...

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Is Corinne's Tickled Pink The New Black This Summer?

July 5, 2024

Evocative and provocative, Tickled Pink, the latest single release from Corinne, out now and available everywhere, infuses a modern spin on bossa jazz. She flirts with a pop sensibility, as well as her lyrical romantic subject, yet maintains the integrity of the traditional style. The song is both an instant throwback to another time and a ...

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James Blood Ulmer: Family Affair

by Ian Patterson
July 4, 2024

Nobody does blues, funk or jazz quite like singer/guitarist James Blood Ulmer. “Family Affair," from Black Rock (Columbia, 1982), is a slow-grooving, soulful delight. Vocalist Irene Datcher's honeyed tones combine with Ulmer's gravelly blues to wonderful effect, while the guitarist's inimitable knotty playing growls and sparks over Amin Ali's churning bass ostinato and drummer Calvin Weston's ...

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Jahari Stampley: Winner of The 2023 Herbie Hancock Institute Competition

by Hrayr Attarian
July 3, 2024

Chicago-based pianist Jahari Stampley is a prodigious talent who has won, among other accolades, the prestigious Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz International Piano Competition. Born into a musical family (his mother D'Erania is an innovative multi-instrumentalist and educator), Stampley took up music at age 10. His self-released 2023 debut Still Listening features several up-and-coming young talents ...

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John Escreet: Departure No. 1

by John Chacona
July 3, 2024

When you first listen to “Departure No. 1," from John Escreet's The epicenter of your dreams (Blue Room Music, 2024), you might well ask, Who wrote that? At once familiar but tantalizingly hard to pin down, the composition sounds like a Bud Powell tune or maybe an undiscovered Herbie Nichols gem, perhaps in an edition by ...

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Green Means Go!

by David Bixler
July 3, 2024

The colors black, white, brown, beige, and blue have all had a prominent place in music, but in the eyes and ears of saxophonist Troy Roberts the color green piqued his interest due to its ambiguity. Not only can the color green convey greed and envy or rot and decay, it can also represent nature and ...

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Chicago bassist and composer Andrew Vogt gets back to basics with full-length album 'Awakening'

July 3, 2024

Tracks include genius remake of Beatles’ classic “Eleanor Rigby” Album Release Show + Birthday Party 8-10pm CDT, July 17, 2024 Fulton Street Collective 1821 West Hubbard Street Chicago, IL 60622 In the analogue age, it would have been hard for a musician as omni-dimensional as Chicago’s Andrew Vogt to build a credible profile embracing ...

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Jazz Aspen Snowmass June Experience 2024

by Geoff Anderson
July 1, 2024

Jazz Aspen Snowmass June Experience 2024 Aspen, Colorado June 20-22, 2024 The Jazz Aspen Snowmass June Experience returned this year with 20 acts performing over the course of three nights in various venues around downtown Aspen. JAS has been sponsoring two festivals (or “Experiences") each of the last several years. The June ...

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New Releases By Sarah Hanahan, Jihee Heo, Olivia Foschi, Marianne Solivan, Mariah Parker, Lisa Rich & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
July 1, 2024

This broadcast includes new releases from Sarah Hanahan, Jihee Heo, Olivia Foschi, Marianne Solivan, Mariah Parker and Lisa Rich, with birthday shoutouts to Jaimie Branch, Tamuz Nissam, Sasha Berliner, John Proulx, Irina Zubareva, Lolly Allen, Aubrey Johnson and Allison Adams Tucker, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear by seeing them live ...