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Pop singer Lorde has released an EP in te reo Maori, the Native language in her home country of New Zealand. Maori artists say that this is just one branch of a larger movement to revive the language.Tuesday, September 21, 2021 from NPR Topics: Music
With its shufflin' rhythm section and a bendy line harmonized by double guitar, "You Gave Me the Key" choogles along to Doiron's bright rasp tinged with a touch of life's uncertainty.Tuesday, September 21, 2021 from NPR Topics: Music
Here is the logical end of the arc that began with "Old Town Road": Lil Nas X has covered Dolly Parton's "Jolene."Tuesday, September 21, 2021 from NPR Topics: Music
On his latest album, K Bay , the singer-songwriter made music in a variety of studios and used a variety of sonic tricks.Tuesday, September 21, 2021 from NPR Topics: Music
The appearance of the popular boy band from South Korea is one of many unexpected moments at the United Nations General Assembly — everything from a U.N. TikTok to a groundbreaking food summit.Tuesday, September 21, 2021 from JazzWorldQuest - Jazz News With A Global Perspective
Futuristic Collective “Family Plan” Revamps Piano Trio Concept Family Plan Out September 24, 2021 on Endectomorph Music, Family Plan recasts the classic jazz piano trio with intricate counterpoint, 21st century...Tuesday, September 21, 2021 from NPR Topics: Music
Sarah Dash is best remembered as the singer and co-founder of the all-female singing group Labelle, best known for their 1974 hit "Lady Marmalade."Tuesday, September 21, 2021 from NPR Topics: Music
Family musicians Dan and Claudia Zanes are releasing their first duo album, a collection of original songs that deal with social justice, anti-racism & joy — conceived during the coronavirus pandemic.Tuesday, September 21, 2021 from All About Jazz News
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Over the course of his first endearing works, 2016's stunning, NPR Debut Of The Year Clockwork (New Fresh Sounds), Earthlings (Criss Cross, 2018) and the lush Thoughts Become Things (Criss Cross, 2019), pianist/composer Victor Gould has...Tuesday, September 21, 2021 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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It is odd that Rebecca DuMaine should have chosen "Alone Again (Naturally)" to decorate a pandemic-influenced recording. Quite a few musicians have, almost perforce, referred to the circumstances of the Covid months, but this song can be...Tuesday, September 21, 2021 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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On the burgeoning Portuguese jazz scene, drummer Pedro Melo Alves is becoming one of the more prolific artists. The multiple award-winning composer has accumulated international praise for four unique recordings in the space of a year....Monday, September 20, 2021 from All About Jazz News
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Over the five weeks of testimony, federal prosecutors presented 45 witnesses, including 11 alleged victims.Monday, September 20, 2021 from NPR Topics: Music
The wooden vessel is called "Noah's Violin." As it floated through Venice's Grand Canal on Saturday, members of the string quartet on board serenaded viewers with their own (real) instruments.Monday, September 20, 2021 from JazzWorldQuest - Jazz News With A Global Perspective
Tuesday September 21, 2021 7:30pm Monks 501 East Pedernales 2E Austin TX 78702 Tickets: https://alex-coke-quartet- psn-september-21-tix. eventbrite.com Saxophone/Flutist Alex Coke takes the stage in quartet at Monks Jazz ...Monday, September 20, 2021 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Colette Maze, now 107, began playing the piano at age 5. She defied the social conventions of her era to embrace music as a profession rather than as a pastime. She has just released her sixth album.Monday, September 20, 2021 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Chattering dances. That's the first image that springs to mind when encountering Human Rites Trio, the fascinating new music from prolific violinist/composer Jason Kao Hwang and his rhythmic, shapeshifting compatriots, drummer Andrew...Monday, September 20, 2021 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Some thirty years after they first recorded together as part of saxophonist David S. Ware 's celebrated Quartet, pianist Matthew Shipp and bassist William Parker convened once more in a Paris studio for Re-Union... [ read more ]Monday, September 20, 2021 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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New York-bred alto saxophonist Jon Gordon has come a long way since he was hailed as something of a prodigy in the mid-1980s and earned first place in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition in 1996... [ read more ]Monday, September 20, 2021 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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The title of Marius Neset's seventh release as leader on the ACT Music label is an optimistic allusion to a post-Covid-19 world and the eventual return to a semblance of normality. But it could also reference a new chapter in the...Sunday, September 19, 2021 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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The group Il Sogno, a piano trio that employs a Wurlitzer piano along with an OB-6 synthesizer, steps back and forth over the line of melodic pop sensibilities into accessible jazz and soundtrack atmospherics to orchestral and sweeping...Sunday, September 19, 2021 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Live in the 20th and 21st Century is not the first collection of Marshall Crenshaw in concert. The Wild Exciting Sounds of Marshall Crenshaw follows collections titled (with equally sardonic wit) My Truck is My Home (Razor and Tie, 1994)...Saturday, September 18, 2021 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Anyone still needing dogged proof that the late Chick Corea (in September 2021 it feels like ages since he passed, but it was only February) ever played anything less than a joyful note best have their cursor hovering over the purchase...Saturday, September 18, 2021 from JazzWorldQuest - Jazz News With A Global Perspective
Al-jiçç (Portugal)-Zadar Composer: Al-jiçç Album: Chants (2021) Label: Al-jiçç ‘Chants’ is Al-jiçç’s fifth album and represents an aesthetic evolution of the band. It was composed and produced during the pandemic, with the...Saturday, September 18, 2021 from All About Jazz News
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The group Detail first played together in December 1981. After a short period when the Norwegian pianist Eiven One Pederson was a member, it stabilised as a trio comprising Norwegian saxophonist Frode Gjerstad , South African bassist...Saturday, September 18, 2021 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
The existence of Chrissie Hynde Sings Bob Dylan might well have been inevitable, if only because she and The Bard share some patently obvious personality traits, not the least of which are a staunch independence and a healthy, if...Saturday, September 18, 2021 from All About Jazz News
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The pioneering music impresario, who created the Newport Jazz Festival in 1954 and the Newport Folk Festival in 1959, died Sept. 13. Originally broadcast in 2003.Friday, September 17, 2021 from NPR Topics: Music
Lil Nas X is breaking Billboard records and barriers through his music — the pop-rap star joins All Things Considered to discuss his debut album Montero .Friday, September 17, 2021 from NPR Topics: Music
On A Southern Gothic , her third full-length album, Adia Victoria emerges as a songwriter capable of nuance and atmosphere.Friday, September 17, 2021 from NPR Topics: Music
"To Kill A Wind-Up Bird," off of multi-instrumentalist and composer Patrick Shiroishi's upcoming solo album Hidemi , layers saxophone and woodwinds in a frantic, yet controlled splatter.Friday, September 17, 2021 from NPR Topics: Music
A new reissue uncovers Mitch Easter's original mix for Love Tractor's most popular song. The jangly rock band was featured in the Athens, Ga.: Inside/Out documentary.