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Jazz Clubs In Midwest Rally Around Mission
“Midwest Jazz Collective” — Jazz clubs in the Midwest organize with a mission and announce first collaboratively routed tour in Spring of 2025. More than a dozen Jazz clubs across Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan align to form the Midwest Jazz Collective (MJC). With a shared passion for the preservation and advancement ...
Cymande at the Bluebird Theater
by Geoff Anderson
Cymande Bluebird Theater Denver, CO February 21, 2025 Zombies, vampires, the Phoenix bird--few bands use these as role models in formulating a career path. Actually, Cymande did not consciously decide to follow in their footsteps, but that is what happened. Cymande formed in the early 1970s in England and ...
Vocalist Kim Maguire Releases 'A Case Of You'
As a girl, Kim spent hours at the piano in her parents’ basement, playing and singing through the agony and ecstasy of what it was to be a gauche teenager with not a lot of social skills, and definitely not a lot of attention from “the right” kind of boy. It was the early 1970’s and ...
Cecile McLorin Salvant at Slee Hall
by Frank Housh
Cecile McLorin Salvant Slee Hall at University of Buffalo Buffalo, NY February 9, 2024 The word is “trobairitz;" it refers to female troubadours of the Middle Ages who performed some of Western music's first secular songs (and the first composed by women) in the area south of the Loire Valley, what ...
New Releases By Cynthia Sayer, Fred Hersch & Rondi Charleston, Sullivan Fortner, Celebrating Nina Simone & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast includes new releases from Cynthia Sayer, Fred Hersch & Rondi Charleston and Sullivan Fortner, with birthday shoutouts to Nina Simone, Nicole Mitchell, Sharel Cassity, Elsa Nilsson, lyricist Shelley Nyman and Dena DeRose. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear. See them live, purchase their music so they can continue to distract, comfort, ...
Chicago's Joanie Pallatto And Bradley Parker-Sparrow Release New Album, 'Song'
Duets for voice and piano from vocalist-composer Joanie Pallatto and pianist-composer Bradley Parker-Sparrow. These twelve tracks of original music and Lyrics create a mood of intimacy, improvisation and reflection. Their personal songs of harmonizing energy are presented as the first duet recording released from Chicago's renowned couple, featuring gentle songs, swinging grooves, scat singing and expansive ...
The Attucks Jazz Club: Fall 2024
by Mark Robbins
In 2008, under the auspices of the Virginia Arts Festival and the leadership of professor/pianist John Toomey, the Attucks Jazz Series was born in the historic Attucks Theater. Before becoming a full-time jazz professor at Old Dominion University, Toomey spent time on the road with jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson, singers Mark Murphy, Rene Marie, and others. ...
Dorothy Lawson: ETHEL's String Theory For Quartets
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, the Spotlight shines On legendary cellist Dorothy Lawson.Dorothy and the group ETHEL have spent years breaking down walls between classical, jazz, rock and world music.On March 13, 2025, at New York City's Carnegie Hall, Dorothy teams up with bass legend Ron Carter to reimagine his landmark Kronos Quartet recording from 40 ...
Benny Goodman, Terry Gibbs, Al Jolson, George Gershwin & Bill Charlap
by Joe Dimino
Tune in for the 894th show, a jazz-filled hour celebrating the legendary artists featured in Kosher Jammer, the latest book by London-based jazz journalist Mike Garber. This deep dive explores how the Jewish community intertwined with African-Americans and other minority groups to shape jazz into the timeless art form it is today. We kick things off ...
Mikkel Ploug Reunites With His Original Trio To Release 'Hope' On Songlines Recordings
Danish guitarist-composer Mikkel Ploug has had a long association with Songlines. The first of three recordings by the avant chamber-jazz trio Equilibrium, which he co-leads with Sissel Vera Pettersen and Joachim Badenhorst, appeared in 2009, and those were followed by two solo acoustic guitar titles, Alleviation (2017) and Day in the Sun (2022). Hope is the ...
