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Article: Live Review

Kandace Springs Quartet / Sasha Berliner Quartet at Jazz Alley

by Paul Rauch
March 8, 2022

Kandace Springs Quartet/ Sasha Berliner Quartet Jazz Alley Seattle, WA February 27, 2022 Seattle's premier jazz showroom, Jazz Alley, celebrated its 40th anniversary in anonymity during the pandemic lockdown. John Dimitriou's 400-seater in the Belltown neighborhood grew from humble beginnings in the city's University district, where “The Alley" was hatched as ...

Article: History of Jazz

Bebop, Beats, and the Drive of Beat Literature

by Arthur R George
March 7, 2022

"Mulberry-eyed girls in black stockings, Smelling vaguely of mint jelly and last night's bongo drummer... fling their arrow legs / To the heavens / Losing their doubts in the beat" of San Francisco nights, announced poet Bob Kaufman's “Bagel Shop Jazz." (Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness, New Directions Publishing, 1965; Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman, City Lights, ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Early Spring Releases from Brandee Younger, Yvonne Flores, Kristen Lee Sergeant and duo Natalie Cressman & Ian Faquini

by Mary Foster Conklin
March 7, 2022

This broadcast presents new releases from vocalists Yvonne Flores, Kristen Lee Sergeant, harpist Brandee Younger plus a single from duo Natalie Cressman]] & {{Ian Faquini (offering a prayer to Oxum, goddess of rivers, waterfalls and fresh water) with birthday shoutouts to Ida Cox, Mayu Saeki, Melissa Manchester, Sara Caswell, Carmen Sandim, Roseanna Vitro and Claire Daly, ...

News: Performance / Tour

The Django Announces April Line-Up Including Charles Mingus Centennial Celebrations

March 7, 2022

The Django, downtown Manhattan’s premier jazz club, celebrates Jazz Appreciation Month with a spectacular April line-up. To commemorate what would have been the 100th birthday (April 22, 2022) of iconic jazz composer/bandleader/bassist Charles Mingus (1922-2022), The Django hosts performances by the Grammy Award-winning Mingus Big Band (April 1, April 11, April 18) and Mingus Orchestra (April ...

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Article: First Time I Saw

Modern Jazz Quartet: Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise

by Rob Mariani
November 6, 2006

New York City empties out like a condemned playground on a Sunday afternoon in July. People cooped up in air-dried apartments and offices all week escape in search of sunshine and trees. The good things that still happen in the City on weekends happen mostly inside of little hidden enclaves, isolated places well below street level. ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Dottie Dodgion, Rubén Blades and Luba Mason

by Joe Dimino
March 6, 2022

We start the 741st Episode of Neon Jazz with actress, singer and artist force Luba Mason with a song off her latest album Triangle. After that, we hear from her husband in Panamanian Grammy Winner Ruben Blades. We also honor the life of late drummer Dottie Dodgion as we hear from Wayne Enstice, the co-author of ...

News: Award / Grant

New England Conservatory Students And Alumni Win Grow Your Art Grants

March 6, 2022

New England Conservatory’s Entrepreneurial Musicianship team is proud to announce the winners of this year's Grow Your Art grants. Totaling $12,000, the grants have been awarded to Akenya Seymour (‘14), Amanda Ekery (’18 MM), and Anna Abondolo (’22) and Jonathan Starks (’20). They will support “Moon in the 4th,” a sonically eclectic and deeply personal work ...

Article: In Pictures

Mdou Moctar At The Brooklyn Academy Of Music Opera House

by Dave Kaufman
March 5, 2022

Mdou Moctar has a reputation for engrossing live performances and this concert at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Opera House (BAM) on Friday, 25 February, was no exception. He is riding the crest of the popularity of his most recent album, the excellent Afrique Victime, (Matador Records) which made end-of-year best album lists for 2021 in ...

News: Performance / Tour

Los Angeles Philharmonic Presents World Premiere Of New Work By Iconic Composer And Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith on March 8

March 5, 2022

A new work by groundbreaking composer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic will be premiered on Tuesday, March 8, 2022. The new work, part of Smith’s Earth series, is titled “Gondwana: Earth, a Blue Sanctuary, Oceans, Seas, Lakes, Rivers, Springs and Lagoons; Paradise Gardens and Skies.” Members of the LA Phil ...

Article: Live Review

Unhinging and Swinging Mythology at the Opera

by Josef Woodard
March 4, 2022

Wayne Shorter and Esperanza Spalding Broad Stage Southern California premiere of opera ...(Iphigenia) Santa Monica, CA February 19, 2022 When last I interviewed Wayne Shorter, in his panoramic view-endowed Hollywood Hills home, the ostensible primary subject was his then-new and ambitious three-disc-plus-graphic-novel project, Emanon. But his ever active, creatively restless ...