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Article: Bailey's Bundles

March 2022: Send For Me

by C. Michael Bailey
March 15, 2022

Catherine Russell Send For Me Dot Time Records 2021 Where can one separate nostalgia from performance practice? Vocalist Catherine Russell prefers to engage her art using older formats. On Send For Me, Russell infuses her performances with a certain New Orleans-cum-Chicago flavor, circa 1930. She does not do this as a ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Celebrate Women's History Month With New Releases From Melissa Aldana, Somi, Birthday Shoutouts and More

by Mary Foster Conklin
March 14, 2022

Happy Women's History Month! This broadcast celebrates with new releases from saxophonist Melissa Aldana, vocalist Somi's tribute to the great Miriam Makeba, pianist Yuko Mabuchi plus singles from Tierney Sutton and Natalie Cressman with birthday shoutouts to Carol Sloane, Flora Purim, Rachelle Garniez, Tomoko Ohno and Eric Comstock, among others. Thanks for listening and please support ...

News: Recording

Recording Artist And Songwriter Sylvia Brooks' anticipated Release 'Signature' On May 30th!

March 14, 2022

Since her captivating debut in 2009, jazz vocalist Sylvia Brooks has displayed a gift for inhabiting different personas, with a subspecialty in film-noir inspired femmes fatale. On this—Signature (Rhombus Records)—her fourth album, she embraces the most challenging role of all, defining herself with a set of beautifully crafted original songs. Her evocative lyrics and emotionally direct ...

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Article: First Time I Saw

Incomparably Quiet: Bill Evans

by Rob Mariani
August 1, 2004

It was another one of those sticky, half-sunny, end-of-summer New York Sunday afternoons at The Village Vanguard. Down in the tiny, odd-shaped cellar space on lower Seventh Avenue, it wasn't the usual mid-sixties crowd of jazz fans. Most of the people weren't there to hear jazz, they were there to see comedian Lenny Bruce. Bruce was ...

Article: Live Review

Tom Guarna And The Ted Ludwig Trio At Jazz At The Joint

by C. Michael Bailey
March 13, 2022

Tom Guarna The Joint Little Rock, AR March 7, 2021 One of the curious results of 2005's Hurricane Katrina was its diasporic sequelae. Every order of New Orleans inhabitants interpreted the thrown bones of that event and elected to leave for safer climes. One of the greatest beneficiaries of this ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Ernie Andrews, Elvin Jones & Kassa Overall

by Joe Dimino
March 13, 2022

We start the 742nd Episode of Neon Jazz with a new force in jazz by the name of Kassa Overall with music from his album Go Get Ice Cream and Listen to Jazz. From there, we hear from his mentor in Elvin Jones. The remaining hour is a cascade of quality new jazz from the likes ...

News: Recording

Saxophonist/Composer Jean Fineberg Makes Her Long-Awaited Leadership Debut With 'Jean Fineberg & Jazzphoria,' Set For April 8 Release On Pivotal Records

March 12, 2022

Tenor saxophonist-flutist Jean Fineberg puts the icing on the cake of a 50-year career with the April 8 release of Jean Fineberg & JAZZphoria on her Pivotal Records imprint. While the album is her first under her own name, Fineberg is anything but a newcomer to the music world: She has since the early 1970s been ...

News: Recording

Bassist Mark Wade Trio Releases 'True Stories'

March 11, 2022

Modern jazz composer and bassist Mark Wade is open to appreciating and co-creating great music in all its forms, and clearly not limited by genre. True Stories, his fourth album, shows the breadth of his musicality and inventive compositional style. Eight original tracks (and one cover) were inspired by a wide range of influences, drawing on ...

News: Contest

The 7 Virtual Jazz Club’s Contest 7th Edition Officially Begins - Applications for 2022 edition are now open

March 9, 2022

The seventh edition of the 7 Virtual Jazz Club contest officially begins today. Deadline May 15, 2022 2022 Categories Under 25: soloists and bands aged 25 years or younger. All nationalities welcome, provided the artist is fully independent (i.e. no booking agent, no recording company or publisher); Pros & Amateurs: all other musicians not belonging to ...

Article: Live Review

Krantz, Carlock, Lefebvre At Bop Stop

by C. Andrew Hovan
March 8, 2022

KCL: Wayne Krantz, Keith Carlock, Tim Lefebvre Bop Stop Cleveland, OH February 25, 2022 Back in the late '90s, chameleon-like guitarist Wayne Krantz started building a reputation by banding together with bassist Tim Lefebvre and drummer Keith Carlock for a residency at The 55 Bar in New York. By sharing their ...