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JazzWorldQuest Showcase 2020 Jazz & World Music Albums released in 2020 STREAMING Toku(Japan), Hot Club of Los Angeles(USA), Ozma(France), Nastazio Gkoumas(Cyprus), Gordon Grdina’s Nomad Trio(Canada), Robin McKelle(USA), Giuseppe...Tuesday, October 20, 2020 from NPR Topics: Music
The Welsh multi-instrumentalist helped take his self-named band to the Top 10 in the U.S. and the U.K. in the mid-1960s and launched the career of Steve Winwood.Tuesday, October 20, 2020 from NPR Topics: Music
Though he's guided the careers of pop artists including Lorde, Katy Perry and Skid Row, the Lava Records founder is better known lately for his side gig — bringing aid to the wrongfully convicted.Tuesday, October 20, 2020 from NPR Topics: Music
For 30 years, trumpet and flugelhorn player Diego Urcola has toured and recorded with Cuba-born saxophonist Paquito D'Rivera. For his own new album, Urcola hired his boss as featured sideman.Tuesday, October 20, 2020 from NPR Topics: Music
From the '80s on, Kondo stood with a new generation of free-form players, collaborating with a long list of fellow iconoclasts.Tuesday, October 20, 2020 from NPR Topics: Music
The blues prodigy performs a special Tiny Desk show at the Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, Miss.Tuesday, October 20, 2020 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Hulk Hogan? Harry Houdini? Hugh Hefner? As tempting as it is to imagine Lionel Loueke cheerily following some absurdist impulse, the HH of the title instead honors Herbie Hancock --a long-time mentor and source of inspiration to the...Tuesday, October 20, 2020 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Life often unfolds in unexpected ways. For some, like Jakko M. Jakszyk, it has taken some truly surprising twists and turns. That the 62 year-old multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and songwriter has attained considerably greater visibility...Tuesday, October 20, 2020 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
This noteworthy album by Chuck Anderson, one of our finest guitarists, was composed and recorded in the midst of the pandemic but with no mention of it in the liner notes, so you can draw your own conclusions as to whether the "dominos"...Tuesday, October 20, 2020 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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If life were easy, it wouldn’t be worth living, right? Those battles we fight day to day, be them personal or not, are what push us forward, and someone who knows that better than most is Italy’s own Manuel Muzzu. With a...Monday, October 19, 2020 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Margo Price's new album rocks, which might surprise fans who grew to love the Americana star for her crystalline country voice.Monday, October 19, 2020 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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The pop-meet-classical duo perform a quarantine concert from their New York City apartment.Monday, October 19, 2020 from All About Jazz News
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New York-based reedist (bass clarinet, baritone saxophone) Josh Sinton says: "Every day when I wake up, I try to make some stuff." An admirable goal. One of the things he made, in cahoots with his band What Happens In A Year, is a...Monday, October 19, 2020 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Trumpeter Cyrus Nabipoor and his quintet dive headfirst into the deep end of musical conversation in this live performance, with "What Is This." The exchanges between Nabipoor and tenor saxophonist Brad Walker are crisp, spoken with...Monday, October 19, 2020 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Australian vocalist Tom Barton 's "Wherever I Will Be," released as a standalone single in September of 2020, is, at its core, a meditation on life and loss. Extremely personal, revealing lyrics that recall "a beautiful and devastating...Monday, October 19, 2020 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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An award-winning producer, songwriter, composer, arranger, educator and multi-instrumentalist, Jason Goldman (aka "Spicy G") presents the EP Hypnotized, delivering another enchanting masterpiece production of music from The Great...CONTEST: 7 Virtual Jazz Club's Contest – 5th Edition – Deadline is extended until November 1st, 2020
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Leyla McCalla released her first solo album, Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes , in 2014. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks her about its re-release and the new song included on it.Sunday, October 18, 2020 from All About Jazz News
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Saxophonist James Brandon Lewis offers up an introductory statement in the album packaging as a preface to the liner notes of Molecular. His train of thought is difficult to follow. He leaves an impression of not being a "normal" person,...Sunday, October 18, 2020 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Ask a casual fan about Rahsaan Roland Kirk 's impact and you're likely to receive a remark about multi-horn madnessand#151;a man wielding three at once, brazenly blowing the walls down. But Kirk, of course, was so much more than that...Sunday, October 18, 2020 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Eminent drummer Jerry Granelli leads this covers session where the musicians spin diverse interpretations of largely immortal compositions from yesteryear via telepathic output and a modus operandi framed on an outpouring of fellowship...Sunday, October 18, 2020 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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NPR's Scott Simon talks to Philippine-born singer Bea Kristi, better known as "Beabadoobee" about her new album Fake It Flowers.Saturday, October 17, 2020 from NPR Topics: Music
Eavesdrop on the forward-thinking pianist as she talks with musical omnivore Rhiannon Giddens, who has just taken over Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road organization.Saturday, October 17, 2020 from All About Jazz News
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Simon Moullier conjures elemental tides on this remarkably fluid and ear-catching debut. The French vibraphonist--a Berklee College of Music and Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz alumnus, now living in Brooklyn--offers a glowing attack,...Saturday, October 17, 2020 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Agnar Mar Magnusson's blend of Icelandic folk tradition with jazz is of an especially smooth sort. For his newest trio effort--the follow-up to his 2018 adventure Hending, featuring New York guitarist Lage Lund --the Icelandic pianist is...Saturday, October 17, 2020 from All About Jazz Feature Interviews
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My Morning Jacket 's The Waterfall II is a logical step in the progression of this Kentucky band's career. It's a path that's taken a decidedly zig-zag pattern since the debut of The Tennessee Fire (Darla Records, 1999) and its follow-up...Saturday, October 17, 2020 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Something about the vibe of this completely wonderful album, and the milieu which its record label inhabits, puts one in mind of Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti's self-published limited-editions of the 1960s. These were, according to...Saturday, October 17, 2020 from All About Jazz News
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Fiona Ritchie revisits some of the best folk, acoustic and roots releases and debuts from the summer. Featured artists include Anadama, Skerryvore, and The Sultans of String.Friday, October 16, 2020 from NPR Topics: Music
Global superstar Ozuna performs five songs in quarantine for Tiny Desk.