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Article: Bailey's Bundles

October 2022: Smile

by C. Michael Bailey
October 13, 2022

Tawanda Smile Resonance Records 2022 Tawanda Suessbrich-Joaquim, known professionally as Tawanda, tied for first place in the 9th annual Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition held in June 2021. That is fresh talent. Tawanda won this award only a year after making her stage debut, a feat, surpassed only by ...

News: Award / Grant

The 11th Annual Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition Selects Top Five Finalists As Part Of NJPAC’s TD James Moody Jazz Festival

October 13, 2022

A world of jazz just minutes from home, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) today announced the top five finalists of the 11th Annual Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition. Pulled from over 200 submissions from over 25 countries, these gifted young contestants from around the world represent the next generation of great jazz singers. ...

Article: Live Review

Rova Saxophone Quartet at Bop Stop

by John Chacona
October 12, 2022

Rova Saxophone Quartet Bop Stop at the Music Settlement Cleveland, OHOctober 4, 2022 One of the inescapable trends in music over the last decade has been the convergence of two traditions in improvised music, one that was created in the African diaspora and another that evolved in European art music. Classifications ...

News: Music Industry

For Your Grammy Consideration: Players by Eugenie Jones (Best Jazz Vocal Album Category)

October 12, 2022

The four-years, four-cities, 32-musician-project, Players, by singer/songwriter Eugenie Jones is now available for your Grammy consideration. Listeners are invited to review this ten-original, five-jazz classic, two-disc project during round-one consideration. The Players NEW YORK: James Weidman, Julian Priester, Marquis Hill, Reggie Workman, Bernard Purdie, Bobby Sanabria, Asaf Even Zur, Stanley Banks, Jovan Johnson. SEATTLE: Bill Anschell, ...

Article: Interview

Joe Donofrio: Remembering Pat Martino

by Victor L. Schermer
October 10, 2022

Guitarist Pat Martino passed away on November 1, 2021 after an extended bout of respiratory illness. As we approach the first anniversary of his passing, his long-time manager and dear friend Joe Donofrio and the South Jersey Jazz Society are putting together an exciting four days in the New Jersey coastal town of Somers Point, consisting ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Releases Plus Women Driven Jazz From Terri Lyne Carrington's Book New Standards Vol. 1

by Mary Foster Conklin
October 10, 2022

This broadcast presents new vocal releases from Samara Joy, Melissa Stylianou, Sonica (Nicole Zuraitis, Thana Alexa, Julia Adamy), and Kate Baker & Vic Juris, with birthday shoutouts to blues legend Koko Taylor, pianists Emily Takahashi, Hyuna Park, Carolina Calvache and vocalists Melissa Stylianou, Laila Biali, among others. Also Part I of music selections from Terri Lyne ...

News: Recording

Composer/Guitarist Joshua Stamper’s Trademark Blur Between Classical-Jazz-Experimental Textures In Latest Album 'Soma Schema'

October 10, 2022

Straddling the jazz, classical, and experimental worlds, acclaimed Philadelphia composer/performer Joshua Stamper celebrates his 12th release as a leader: soma schema. Featuring his jazz-adjacent sextet color as time, soma schema is an opus of compositions and audio-collages inspired by Olivier Messiaen’s time-stretching processes, chopped-and-screwed remix techniques, and the harmonic worlds of Bill Evans, Joaquín Rodrigo, and ...

Article: Building a Jazz Library

Donald Fagen: An Essential Top 10 Albums

by Peter Jones
October 9, 2022

Actually, the whole notion of a Donald Fagen Top Ten is tricky. Artists like Chet Baker made well over a hundred albums, whereas in half a century Fagen has only released 13 official studio albums, whether with Steely Dan or under his own name, along with a handful of live sets. The process of selecting the ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Betty Carter, Horace Parlan, Shirley Scott & Quentin Baxter

by Joe Dimino
October 9, 2022

Just like we did last week, we travel to South Carolina for our first song from the very esteemed drummer Quentin E. Baxter with a cut off his 2022 album Art Moves Jazz with “For Minors Only." From there, we hear a classic from another South Carolina stronghold in Lucky Thompson. We also profile the nostalgia ...

News: Performance / Tour

World-Renowned SMOKE Jazz Club Announces November 2022 Concert Schedule

October 9, 2022

One of New York City’s premier live music venues, Smoke Jazz Club, presents a stellar line-up of some of music’s greatest artists during the month of November. Acclaimed for its essential music programming and inspired setting, Smoke Jazz Club recently reopened to much fanfare after being closed to indoor performances and dining for over two years. ...