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Charles Lloyd, Enjoying the Comforts and Poetics of Home, at the Lobero

by Josef Woodard
March 28, 2025

Charles Lloyd Delta Trio Lobero Theatre Santa Barbara, CA March 14, 2025 Seasoned saxophonist Charles Lloyd, now 87 and alighting major stages, festivals and accolade zones around the world, is considered one of the last of the old school jazz legends standing--and going strong, in his mellowed, wise and distinctively voiced ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Zakir Hussain, Billy Mohler & Random Pickin’s

by Maurice Hogue
January 20, 2025

This is the second 3-hour holiday joint with music selected from newer releases back to some archival stuff and lots in between. Sampled new releases include music from bassist Billy Mohler and a new quartet featuring guitarist Jeff Parker, Italy's BSDE 4Tet, Finnish pianist Joona Toivanen's trio, and some archival music from Minneapolis/Los Angeles bassist and ...

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Drums of Compassion

By Michael Shrieve

Label: 7D Media
Released: 2024
Track listing: The Call of Michael Olatunji; On the Path to the Healing Waters; As Above, So Below; The Euphoric Pandiero of Airto Moriera; The Fierce Energy of Love; Oracle; The Breath of Human Kindness; Zakir Hussain; Hejira

Article: Play This!

Remembering Zakir Hussain: Making Music

by Ian Patterson
December 19, 2024

It is with great sadness that All About Jazz notes the passing of tabla maestro Zakir Hussain, who died of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis on Sunday, 15 December. He was 73. A virtuoso with few peers, Hussain dazzled diverse audiences throughout the world, by dint of his collaborations with musicians across musical genres. Born in ...

Article: Play This!

Tabla Beat Science: Sacred Channel

by Geno Thackara
December 19, 2024

Bill Laswell must have known he was really onto something special when assembling this lineup, crossing some slick cyber-techno acts with endlessly open-minded Indian classical musicians such as Ustad Sultan Khan and the legendary Ustad Zakir Hussain. It was the kind of all-star group where the members don't outshine each other, but humbly mesh their brilliance ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Red Hook Records

by Hobart Taylor
December 18, 2024

Celebrating Red Hook Records artists Wadada Leo Smith, Amina Claudine Myers, Andrew Cyrille and others, plus new music from Samara Joy. Playlist Aymée Nuviola Kemuel Roig"Imágenes" from Havana Nocturne (Worldwide) 0:00 William Cepeda" Con El Corazón (Plena)" from The Sound of Puerto Rican Jazz (Casabe) 4:39 Sessa “Canção da Cura" from Estrela Acesa (Self ...

Article: Interview

Souvik Dutta: 20 Years of Abstract Logix

by Mike Jacobs
September 27, 2024

If you are a music lover, you may already know the name Souvik (pronounced show-vik) Dutta. Over the last 20 years, he has taken his Abstract Logix enterprise from a pre-YouTube streaming platform to a music retail website to a niche imprint to a respected independent label boasting a top-tier roster that includes the likes of ...

Article: Live Review

Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer, & Zakir Hussain with Rakesh Chaurasia at Ulster Performing Arts Center

by Mike Jurkovic
June 20, 2024

Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer, & Zakir Hussain with Rakesh Chaurasia Ulster Performing Arts Center Kingston, NY June 14, 2024 Given that most of the old space heads who groove on these other forms of communication can't see that well to drive at night anymore, it was a bigger crowd than ...

Article: Album Review

Chick Corea and Bela Fleck: Remembrance

Read "Remembrance" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
May 22, 2024

As much as master banjoist Bela Fleck loves to play, he loves to perform with other like-minded musicians virtually as much. Consequently, in addition to his long-standing role as leader of The Flecktones ensemble, he has continued to explore his love of the bluegrass music by which he first made a name for himself, My Bluegrass ...

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