Thursday, April 22, 2021 from NPR Topics: Music
As a kid discovering music, you assemble a hodgepodge of other people's opinions. But there's a lot of joy to be found when the urge to agree with the critics melts away, writes critic Laura Snapes.Thursday, April 22, 2021 from All About Jazz Feature Interviews
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Forty-five albums in as many years represents remarkable consistency from pianist Jeremy Monteiro and#151;Singapore's King of Swing. It is worth recounting that Monteiro has played with the likes of Charlie Haden , Benny Golson , Toots...Thursday, April 22, 2021 from All About Jazz Feature Interviews
Thursday, April 22, 2021 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Lightnin' Hopkins was "Laidback, mildly mysterious and the epitome of street corner cool" according to informative liner notes. Well, there is a lot of Hopkins (1912--1982) music coming at you on The King of Dowling Street, a...Thursday, April 22, 2021 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
Thursday, April 22, 2021 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn were collaborators for several decades beginning in the late 1930s. They became so closely intertwined musically that it was frequently impossible to distinguish their work... [ read more ]Thursday, April 22, 2021 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Mongorama is a nine-piece Latin Jazz all-star band built and guided to honor Mongo Santamaria by the hand of José Rizo , a Latin musical legend in California who's been broadcasting from KJazz 88.1FM (Cal State University, Long...Thursday, April 22, 2021 from All About Jazz News
Wednesday, April 21, 2021 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
In 2020, Canadian-born trumpeter, composer and bandleader Lina Allemano , who splits her time between jny: Toronto and jny: Berlin , simultaneously released two contrasting albums on her own Lumo label, one by her Berlin-based trio...Wednesday, April 21, 2021 from NPR Topics: Music
The Small Business Administration experienced a rough launch for its grant program intended to help long-beleaguered venues. After so long without a lifeline, though, time is running thin.Wednesday, April 21, 2021 from NPR Topics: Music
This year's choices include Diane Warren's 12th Oscar nomination, a show-stopper from Eurovision Song Contest and three entries in a subgenre we call "Glorycore."Wednesday, April 21, 2021 from NPR Topics: Music
Performances and speeches honor this year's NEA Jazz Masters award recipients, including Terri Lyne Carrington, Albert "Tootie" Heath, Henry Threadgill & Phil Schaap. Watch live Thu, Apr 22 at 8PM ET!Wednesday, April 21, 2021 from Wynton Marsalis New
Wynton Marsalis, Renowned Musician, Composer, and Bandleader, Opening Plenary Keynote in Conversation with League President and CEO Simon Woods on June 7, 2021 at 3:30pm Examining where orchestras are now and looking ahead to the future,...Wednesday, April 21, 2021 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
These are two recent solo piano releases from Japanese players. One is the latest dispatch from a prolific musician. The other is a farewell statement from a deceased artist. Satoko Fujii Hazuki Libra 2021 Satoko Fujii has been amazingly...Wednesday, April 21, 2021 from NPR Topics: Music
WPLN News reports on Nashville's long-suffering live music scene and the city's lack of a cohesive plan.Wednesday, April 21, 2021 from NPR Topics: Music
The Richmond, Va., band floats between jazz, hip-hop, funk and soul. Watch the group's rooftop Tiny Desk performance.Wednesday, April 21, 2021 from All About Jazz News
Wednesday, April 21, 2021 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
While Live in New York and L.A. is a split-scene production, crossing coasts, spanning several years and utilizing different personnel lists, it offers a cohesive playlist. Not surprisingly, Bob Holz ties everything together with his kit...Wednesday, April 21, 2021 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Some people swear Professor Longhair (1918--1980) was at the very first New Orleans Mardi Gras back in 1699. However, the truth is that he probably started boppin' and hoppin' at the annual celebration a few years after World War I. He...Wednesday, April 21, 2021 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
Wednesday, April 21, 2021 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Released on the St. Petersburg-based Rainy Days label, Arseny Ryklov's Forgotten Melody is categorized, by the pianist himself, as "contemporary jazz." While undoubtedly true, this is an interesting classification, given his background....Wednesday, April 21, 2021 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Listen to music long enough, and it's almost bound to happen: You're not sure exactly what you want to listen to, but you know that whatever you listen to needs must bump and groove. The Ultimate Soul and Jazz Revue, an anthology of...Wednesday, April 21, 2021 from All About Jazz News
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Tuesday, April 20, 2021 from NPR Topics: Music
Closely associated with Meat Loaf, Jim Steinman also wrote over-the-top hits for Bonnie Tyler, Air Supply and Celine Dion, as well as music for the stage.Tuesday, April 20, 2021 from NPR Topics: Music
There's clearly a limit to what the former president will say --even on his own platform. Obama's conversation with the Boss is at its most fluid and introspective when the two discuss masculinity.Tuesday, April 20, 2021 from NPR Topics: Music
Coleman, who died in 2015, had a knack for writing catchy melodies in a distinctive voice. Saxophonist Miguel Zenón loves Coleman's music and put together a quartet to play some.RECORDING: Jade Collective Dreamily Combines Jazz With Brian Eno And Shoegaze Influences On 'Cycles'
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The Spanish superstar performed one of the most ambitious, and yet simple, Tiny Desks we've seen in quarantine.Tuesday, April 20, 2021 from NPR Topics: Music
Michelle Zauner's new memoir, built on her 2018 New Yorker piece of the same name, powerfully maps a complicated mother-daughter relationship cut much too short, with Korean food as a guide.Tuesday, April 20, 2021 from All About Jazz News
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
The two electric guitars, bass and drums ensembles played a big part in shaping popular music. The early 1960s saw the Beatles walk this road. The Rolling Stones rolled that way, too. And prior to that British Invasion, we had the...Tuesday, April 20, 2021 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
On New Leaves, their second recording together, longtime friends and sometime colleagues guitarist Dan Rose and pianist Claudine Francois focus their talents on making beautiful music together, a plan whose success is self-evident but...Tuesday, April 20, 2021 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Among the trombonists of New York's downtown scene, or uptown for that matter, no one even comes close to Steve Swell . His level of artistry, ability to create within any sonic cloud, compositional strengths and sheer fortitude set a...Tuesday, April 20, 2021 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
A Swingin' Sesame Street Celebration pairs two former cultural wunderkids transformed into cultural elder statesmen by their consistent, enduring excellence: The music of Children Television Workshop's Sesame Street, which bedazzled both...Monday, April 19, 2021 from All About Jazz News
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The Japanese British pop star performs three tracks from her 2020 debut album, SAWAYAMA.Monday, April 19, 2021 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
When confronted by an album whose tracks include the names "Creation" (Parts 1 and 2), "Preludes for Memnon," "Wisdom of the Humanities" and "Reaching the Tropopause," among others, one braces for whatever may transpire, buoyed by the...Monday, April 19, 2021 from All About Jazz News
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Monday, April 19, 2021 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
The art of the duo has been all but perfected in the virtuosic recordings of saxophonist Ivo Perelman and pianist Matthew Shipp . The two composer-improvisers have recorded a dozen duo albums and more than twenty other collections in...Monday, April 19, 2021 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
There is an interesting take of "Ever Since the World Ended" on You Tube. It is an evocative video, a kind of visual essay on Mose Allison 's blues which could serve as an anthem to the pandemic and accompanying mess we are in. Lauren...Monday, April 19, 2021 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
