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Musician

Wayne Alpern

Wayne Alpern is a New York City composer, arranger, and scholar who integrates popular and jazz idioms with classical techniques and repertoire to create a sophisticated contemporary style of cross-genre, or even post-genre music. After years of composing complex new music, he embraced his personal history and indigenous musical culture and fused them with his classical background and training. His work includes numerous jazz arrangements, string quartets, woodwind and brass quintets, mixed ensembles, pieces for string orchestra, and several piano works. Alpern’s innovative compositions, recompositions, and rearrangements have been performed and recorded by distinguished artists from diverse musical traditions

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Birthday Shoutouts To Foremothers Jutta Hipp, Blanche Calloway Plus Carole King & More

Read "Birthday Shoutouts To Foremothers Jutta Hipp, Blanche Calloway Plus Carole King & More" reviewed by Mary Foster Conklin


This broadcast includes new releases from Nicole Zuraitis, Dave Potter and Monique Chao, with birthday shoutouts to foremothers Jutta Hipp (100!) Blanche Calloway (older sister of Cab Calloway) plus Carole King and Carmen Staaf. Happy listening and please support the station and the artists you hear. See them live, purchase their music so they can continue ...

Album

Gotham

Label: Turtle Bay Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Batman; Blue Room; Desafinado; Norwegian Wood; Anyone Can Whistle; Spartacus Love Theme; Lady Madonna; Two Sleepy People; Song for My Father; Have You Met Miss Jones; Little Darlin’; I’ll Be There; When I’m Sixty-Four.

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Article: Album Review

Wayne Alpern: Gotham

Read "Gotham" reviewed by Jack Bowers


There are a number of bright and interesting moments on New York-based arranger Wayne Alpern's album, Gotham, wherein he makes good use of a well-polished tentet on several generally handsome and engaging charts. Alpern's choice of music is eclectic, ranging from Tchaikovsky to Jobim, Rodgers and Hart to Stephen Sondheim, Hoagy Carmichael to Horace Silver, Alex ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Mike Stern, Brad Mehldau, Jim Rotondi & Jesus Molina

Read "Mike Stern, Brad Mehldau, Jim Rotondi & Jesus Molina" reviewed by Joe Dimino


We dive into the 871st Episode of Neon Jazz with the brilliant Colombian-born pianist Jesus Molina and the title track off his 2024 album Selah. From there, we say goodbye to the towering jazz trumpeter of Jim Rotondi and hear new material from Mike Stern, Wayne Alpern, Christian Sands and Greg Johnson. In between, we get ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Bobby Watson, Sonny Rollins, Wayne Alpern & Terell Stafford

Read "Bobby Watson, Sonny Rollins, Wayne Alpern & Terell Stafford" reviewed by Joe Dimino


We begin the 798th Episode of Neon Jazz with trumpeter Terell Stafford followed by music from his mentor, saxophonist Bobby Watson. From there, we hear new music from Jacques Schwarz-Bart, Canadian Jazz Collective, Mike Bell and the combo of Chris Bates & Nathan Hanson. Finally, we hear from Wayne Alpern to round out the show. Dig ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Jazz And Poetry Plus Notable 2021 Releases, Part 2

Read "Jazz And Poetry Plus Notable 2021 Releases, Part 2" reviewed by Mary Foster Conklin


This broadcast presents new releases from Dee Bell and The Greenaway Group featuring vocalist Carla Cook, with a focus in the second hour on the heady combination of Jazz with spoken word featuring recent recordings by Sara Serpa, Jazzmeia Horn, a preview single from Javon Jackson's latest album plus part 2 of a look back to ...

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New Releases Plus Birthday Celebrations for Dinah Washington and Alice Coltrane

Read "New Releases Plus Birthday Celebrations for Dinah Washington and Alice Coltrane" reviewed by Mary Foster Conklin


This broadcast presents new releases from Willie Nelson, who continues his homage to the songs of Frank Sinatra, Wayne Alpern and pianist Rachel Eckroth with birthday shoutouts to Dinah Washington and Alice Coltrane in the second hour, along with guitarist Mimi Fox, vocalists Anita Wardell, Rosana Eckert, Vicki Burns and more. Thanks for listening and please ...

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New Vocal Releases Plus Birthday Shoutouts To Dave Grusin, Kenny Barron, Brandee Younger And More

Read "New Vocal Releases Plus Birthday Shoutouts To Dave Grusin, Kenny Barron, Brandee Younger And More" reviewed by Mary Foster Conklin


This broadcast presents new releases from vocalists Judy Wexler, Angela Wrigley and Tanya Dennis, with birthday shoutouts to honorable men Dave Grusin and Kenny Barron, as well as harpist Brandee Younger and vocalists Madeline Eastman, Aubrey Johnson, Allison Adams Tucker, among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by purchasing their music. ...

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Celebrating Jazz Geminis Valaida Snow and Memphis Minnie Among Others

Read "Celebrating Jazz Geminis Valaida Snow and Memphis Minnie Among Others" reviewed by Mary Foster Conklin


The first hour celebrates the birthdays of Valaida Snow, known as “Little Louis" and “Queen of the Trumpet," a nickname given to her by W.C. Handy — a virtuoso jazz entertainer who became an internationally celebrated talent. Also in the spotlight is Memphis Minnie, a blues guitarist, and songwriter married to Joe McCoy and later Ernest ...


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