• Fresh Air celebrates July 4 with soul singer Al Green
    Monday, July 4, 2022 from NPR Topics: Music
    Green's string of hits in the '70s include "Let's Stay Together" and "Love and Happiness." He later became an ordained minister, and bought a church in Memphis. Originally broadcast in 1991 and 2000.
  • Camilla George At The MAC
    Monday, July 4, 2022 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Avishai Cohen: Shifting Sands
    Monday, July 4, 2022 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Consistency and excellence are two of the most fundamental requisites for achieving an optimal career in music. The Israeli bassist and composer Avishai Cohen has maintained those standards for many years, and his new trio emerges with a...
  • Sugarpie and the Candymen at Riverberi Jazz Festival 2022
    Monday, July 4, 2022 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Kate Wyatt: Artifact
    Monday, July 4, 2022 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    At this point, in June of 2022, there is not a lot of internet chatter concerning Montreal-based pianist Kate Wyatt. Her website does not include a biography. But a trip to YouTube land reveals a bit of music from her debut CD release,...
  • Stacey Kent reflects on tension, collaboration, and the art of interpretation
    Monday, July 4, 2022 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Myra Melford: For The Love Of Fire And Water
    Monday, July 4, 2022 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Inspired by artist Cy Twombly, pianist Myra Melford has produced a superb album which combines notated signposts with unbridled exchanges. She's helped by an all star agglomeration comprising some of New York's most accoplished...
  • New Releases From ChimyTina, Kate Wyatt, Tasha Smith Godinez, Alan Broadbent Trio and Theo Croker
    Monday, July 4, 2022 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • RECORDING: Dan Papirany's New Album 'I Trio' Is A Unique Individual Project
    Monday, July 4, 2022 from All About Jazz News
  • Barbara Carroll: Barbara’s Piano
    Sunday, July 3, 2022 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Elvis songwriter Mike Stoller looks back on his hits
    Sunday, July 3, 2022 from NPR Topics: Music
    Mike Stoller, 89, the songwriter and producer who, with his producing partner, wrote many of Elvis Mike Stoller and Jerry Leiber wrote hit songs for Elvis, along with a whos-who of other artists including Big Mama Thornton, Ben E. King, and more.
  • BIRTHDAY: Jazz Musician of the Day: Dr. Lonnie Smith
    Sunday, July 3, 2022 from All About Jazz News
  • Dan Olivo: Day by Day
    Sunday, July 3, 2022 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    "Hey there, cutes, Put on your dancin' boots, And come dance with me." Frank Sinatra could get away with that and much more because he had a great voice, great musicians, great arrangers, and great bandleaders. The entire package. Frank...
  • '80s music with John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham, Joe Zawinul, plus new releases
    Sunday, July 3, 2022 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Larry Bluth Trio: Never More Here
    Sunday, July 3, 2022 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Many musicians work diligently to build a career for themselves. Although dedicated to music, these players also try to build a fanbase, book concerts, and score record deals. However, there are an equal number of performers who are...
  • Bill Evans, Brian Landrus and Joel A. Martin
    Sunday, July 3, 2022 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Kind Folk: Head Towards The Center
    Sunday, July 3, 2022 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Kind Folk is a quartet consisting of trumpeter John Raymond , alto saxophonist Alex LoRe , bassist Noam Wiesenberg and drummer Colin Stranahan ... [ read more ]
  • FESTIVAL: 42nd Le Festival International De Jazz De Montreal: June 30-July 9, 2022
    Sunday, July 3, 2022 from All About Jazz News
  • RECORDING: Brazilian Pianist, Vocalist, Composer, And Arranger Ricardo Bacelar Releases First Single, 'O Último Pôr Do So' From His Forthcoming Album Congênito
    Saturday, July 2, 2022 from All About Jazz News
  • JazzWorldQuest Showcase 2022: Rafael Kyriakides Band(Cyprus)-Album: Spiritual World
    Saturday, July 2, 2022 from JazzWorldQuest - Jazz News With A Global Perspective
      Rafael Kyriakides Band(Cyprus)-Damage Disk Composer: Rafael Kyriakides Album: Spiritual World Rafael Kyriakides : Drums-Piano-Synth Ft. Nastazio Gkoumas Guitar Website   CD Store JazzWorldQuest Showcase 2022
  • It only makes sense that 'Running Up That Hill' is everywhere
    Saturday, July 2, 2022 from NPR Topics: Music
    Kate Bush signing records in 1980. This year's song of the summer comes to you from 1985.
  • Torino Jazz Festival 2022
    Saturday, July 2, 2022 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • 5 protest songs that have taken on new meaning post-Roe
    Saturday, July 2, 2022 from NPR Topics: Music
    Olivia Rodrigo teamed up with Lily Allen to perform Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last week, many have turned to music to express the emotion that has overwhelmed them in this moment. We examine five songs and what they mean today.
  • How Russian musicians are raising money for Ukraine
    Saturday, July 2, 2022 from NPR Topics: Music
    JetLAG bills itself as the largest festival of Russian, Slavic and East European musicians in the U.S. But its organizers almost canceled it this summer because of the war in Ukraine.
  • BIRTHDAY: Jazz Musician of the Day: Ahmad Jamal
    Saturday, July 2, 2022 from All About Jazz News
  • Kibrom Birhane: Here And There
    Saturday, July 2, 2022 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Ethiopian keyboardist Kibrom Birhane plants the flag for Ethio-jazz with Here and There, his third album as leader. Exposed to Ethiopian Orthodox chanting and traditional music in his youth, Birhane later studied at the Mekane Yesus...
  • Roxy Coss, Deadeye, Gilad Hekselman, Johannes Wallmann and More New Releases
    Saturday, July 2, 2022 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Billy Mohler: Anatomy
    Saturday, July 2, 2022 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Can we please retire the old cliché about jazz from jny: Los Angeles being limp, wan and bland? One listen to pianist Cameron Graves ' slamming metal-jazz or to the jittery complexity of David Binney 's recent releases should be enough...
  • Silvan Schmid: Augmented Space
    Saturday, July 2, 2022 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Progressive Switzerland and Netherlands-based trumpeter Silvan Schmid (Gamut Kollektiv, KvG's Bottom Orchestra) delves into risky territory via these avant-garde solo performances. The good news is, that these are not cacophonous...
  • TV / FILM: Documentary: The Beach Boys
    Friday, July 1, 2022 from All About Jazz News
  • Scott Wilson: Nurturing Future Generations of Jazz Musicians
    Friday, July 1, 2022 from All About Jazz Feature Interviews
  • EDUCATION: A Revolution In Music Education: Contemporary Musical Arts At New England Conservatory, Celebrating 50 Years Of Training The Complete Musician
    Friday, July 1, 2022 from All About Jazz News
  • A niece remembers her beloved uncle, lost to COVID, with Elvis Presley
    Friday, July 1, 2022 from NPR Topics: Music
    Elida Lozano remembers her uncle, Gerald Thomas, who died of COVID-19 in December 2021. Thomas loved listening to music and encouraged Lozano to go to college.
  • Beyonce? Lizzo? Drake? Here are the early contenders for song of the summer
    Friday, July 1, 2022 from NPR Topics: Music
    What makes a song of the summer? And are there any early contenders for 2022? NPR Music's Stephen Thompson makes his predictions.
  • Pianist David Virelles shows off the depth and breadth of what he can do on 'Nuna'
    Friday, July 1, 2022 from NPR Topics: Music
    Though he's been a New Yorker for over a decade, Virelles remains preoccupied with the rich, rhythmically charged music of his native Cuba. His new album shows where he's been — and where he's going.
  • Essential Voices USA: Tiny Desk Concert
    Friday, July 1, 2022 from NPR Topics: Music
    Essential Voices USA performs a Tiny Desk concert. Watch a world premiere performance of choral songs built on texts from important Washington women, from Kamala Harris and Condoleezza Rice to Eleanor Roosevelt, Elena Kagan and Abigail Adams.
  • Ondara, 'An Alien In Minneapolis'
    Friday, July 1, 2022 from NPR Topics: Music
    Ondara. Ondara delivers a new sonic package that embraces both his intriguing voice and a unique accent that remains present when he sings.
  • WEBSITE: All About Jazz Top 10 Songs: June 2022
    Friday, July 1, 2022 from All About Jazz News
  • Guy Buttery: A Trio Of Heart
    Friday, July 1, 2022 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • RADIO: JazzWeek Radio Chart: July 4, 2022
    Friday, July 1, 2022 from All About Jazz News
  • BIRTHDAY: Jazz Musician of the Day: Erik Friedlander
    Friday, July 1, 2022 from All About Jazz News
  • Xose Miguélez: Contradictio
    Friday, July 1, 2022 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    After an album of Spanish-flavored original tunes, Ontology (Origin Records, 2019), Galicia-based saxophone Xose Miguélez releases Contradictio. Alongside Miguélez, the album features Jean-Michel Pilc on piano, Carlos Barretto on bass...
  • Large Jazz Ensembles, Past And Present
    Friday, July 1, 2022 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Adam Shulman: Just The Contrafacts
    Friday, July 1, 2022 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    For those who may be scratching their heads about the word contrafact, in the jazz medium it designates a musical composition in which a new melody is overlaid on a familiar harmonic structure. This form really became prominent in the...
  • Early Miles Electric music, Bill Laswell Remixes and '80s Jazz Fusion
    Friday, July 1, 2022 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity: Elastic Wave
    Friday, July 1, 2022 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    The last time we heard from Norwegian drummer Gard Nilssen as a leader was with his Supersonic Orchestraand#151;a three-drummer, three-bassist behemoth whose 2020 album, If You Listen Carefully The Music Is Yours (Odin), proved that,...
  • Diversity, democracy and jazz: Wynton Marsalis coming to Hanover Theatre
    Friday, July 1, 2022 from Wynton Marsalis New
    WORCESTER — There’s no doubting that Wynton Marsalis is someone who takes his jazz very seriously. He is a multiple Grammy Award winning trumpeter and composer who has also won a Pulitzer Prize for music, an educator and writer on...
  • VIDEO / DVD: Backgrounder: Charles Earland
    Thursday, June 30, 2022 from All About Jazz News
  • RECORDING: Tenor Saxophonist Walt Weiskopf Reconvenes His Celebrated European Quartet On 'Diamonds And Other Jewels,' Arriving August 19 On Amm Records
    Thursday, June 30, 2022 from All About Jazz News
  • Take Five with Anita Donndorff
    Thursday, June 30, 2022 from All About Jazz Feature Interviews
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