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Article: Live Review

The Chuck Anderson Trio at St. George's

by Mike Oppenheim
June 9, 2019

The Chuck Anderson Trio St. George's Recovery Concert Ardmore, PA May 10, 2019 In his first concert in more than a year, Chuck Anderson returned to the stage at St. George's in Ardmore, PA. After a long illness, Anderson's heavily publicized “Recovery Concert" filled the venue with fans of live ...

Article: Catching Up With

Vivian Sessoms: To Be Black In America

by Kevin Press
June 8, 2019

Vivian Sessoms has built a career in collaboration with a range of world-famous artists. P. Diddy, Michael Jackson, Donna Summer, Sinéad O'Connor, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Stevie Wonder all have a place on her resume. With a new Ropeadope contract in hand, Sessoms has produced a two-part album release called Life. They make an extraordinary pair, from ...

Article: Live Review

Ralph Peterson & The Messenger Legacy At The Blue LLama

by C. Andrew Hovan
June 7, 2019

Ralph Peterson & The Messsenger Legacy The Blue LLama Ann Arbor, Michigan May 25, 2019 Driving distance from both Detroit and Lansing, Ann Arbor has always had a healthy music scene which is further bolstered by the presence of the University of Michigan. Live jazz was on the downtown menu for ...

Article: Live Review

Anat Cohen Tentet at SFJAZZ

by Harry S. Pariser
June 6, 2019

Anat Cohen Tentet SFJAZZ Center San Francisco, CA May 19, 2019 Swinging one moment, meditative the next. That typifies the style of clarinetist Anat Cohen. A native of Tel Aviv, the 39-year-old Cohen studied at Berklee School of Music in Boston before moving to New York City. Over the years, she ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Lee Morgan, Mike Downes & Nick Sanders

by Joe Dimino
June 6, 2019

With a legendary voice out of Cleveland, Ohio on an ablum paying full respects to Tadd Dameron, we start the 599th episode of Neon Jazz with the tune “Kitchenette Across the Hall." From there, we listen to Sarah Vaughan and hear the great Tadd Dameron with his Sextet with the tune “The Squirrel." As the hour ...

News: Recording

Node Records To Release Original Motion Picture Soundtrack “halston” Composed By Jazz Legend Stanley Clarke

June 6, 2019

Node Records is pleased to release Stanley Clarke’s original score for the critically-acclaimed documentary Halston on Friday, June 7th, 2019, through all digital platforms. The film is being distributed by 1091 nationwide on June 7th. Halston Director Frédéric Tcheng ("Dior and I") documents America’s first superstar designer’s rise to international fame in the 1970s through weaving ...

Article: Live Review

Atlanta Jazz Festival 2019

by Mark Sullivan
June 5, 2019

Atlanta Jazz Festival Atlanta, GA May 25-26, 2019 Last year the festival operated under the threat of rain all weekend. This year's 42nd edition saw record-tying high temperatures: 93 and 94 degrees Fahrenheit (ten degrees above the historical averages). No doubt it is a coincidence that the programming was cooler than last ...

News: Recording

Rosana Eckert Offers Diverse Array Of Song Stylings On "Sailing Home," Set For June 21 Release By OA2/Origin Records

June 5, 2019

Vocalist-composer Rosana Eckert channels her eclectic musical influences into a similarly eclectic collection of tunes on her long-awaited fourth album, Sailing Home, set for a June 21 release on OA2/Origin Records. The album is a collaboration with Peter Eldridge, the highly sought-after vocalist, songwriter, and keyboardist, who in addition to producing and playing keyboards on the ...

Article: Hi-Res Jazz

New Music in an Anxious Time: Teis Semey, Peggy Lee and Philipp Gropper

by Mark Werlin
June 4, 2019

Historians of jazz identify the African-American civil rights struggle circa 1945-1965 as the locus for the most active involvement of jazz music in expressions of social and political protest. One of the earliest recorded instances of explicit political protest in jazz, “Strange Fruit," was refused by Decca, singer Billie Holiday's record label, for fear of reprisals ...

Article: Live Review

The Jazz Orchestra of Philadelphia with Joey DeFrancesco at the Kimmel Center

by Victor L. Schermer
June 4, 2019

The Jazz Orchestra of Philadelphia with Joey DeFrancesco Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Philadelphia, PA June 1, 2019 The Jazz Orchestra of Philadelphia (JOP), under the leadership of trumpeter Terell Stafford, has produced a series of action-packed concerts at the Kimmel Center, featuring special guest artists, all ...