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Our annual look back at the year in music begins with the first of a two-part episode highlighting the year's best albums, with Sabrina Carpenter, Doechii, Waxahatchee and more. Look for Part 2 on Friday, Dec. 6. See NPR Music's complete...Tuesday, December 3, 2024 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Jazz is littered with examples of starry duos aligning in one-off recording projects that do not quite match expectations. Often the lack of real spark comes down to too much deference being shown. When such duos do come off, however,...Tuesday, December 3, 2024 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
An alternative title for Lovely Music by Russian-born, German -based pianist Simon Nabatov might be Greatest Hits. He has selected some of his most tuneful works from across his career for interpretation by a quintet which includes...Tuesday, December 3, 2024 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
For over three decades innovative saxophonist Ivo Perelman has been a stalwart of the creative music scene. Each addition to his impressive, and uniformly superb, discography is a unique expression of spontaneity that bears his indelible...Monday, December 2, 2024 from NPR Topics: Music
Send us a voice memo about a song that hit you hard in 2024 -- one you listened to on repeat, ugly cried to, or that just made you feel something deeper than any other song this year.Monday, December 2, 2024 from NPR Topics: Music
Portishead's lead singer and lyricist performs songs from her debut solo album, Lives Outgrown .Monday, December 2, 2024 from NPR Topics: Music
Paxton plays guitar, banjo, piano and harmonica — among other instruments. He's known for performing music from the 1920s and '30s. Paxton's new album of original songs is Things Done Changed.Monday, December 2, 2024 from NPR Topics: Music
You can't always know that it's a great year for new music while it's happening, but there was a sense from the very start of 2024 that we were in for a ride.Monday, December 2, 2024 from NPR Topics: Music
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Originally set up in 2015, The Banger Factory is a 20-plus collective led by composer and trumpeter Mark Kavuma . It is also the name of his record label... [ read more ]Monday, December 2, 2024 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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As a doctoral candidate at Columbia University studying 17th-century English literature and working as a teaching assistant, Leslie Pintchik could have moved into a life of academia. But, an old story: jazz called. She wanted a music...Monday, December 2, 2024 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
The release of In Norway: The Konsberg Concert coincides with the sixtieth anniversary of the Konsberg Jazz Festival. Double cause for celebration. The steady flow of archival Evans recordings shows no signs of abating, with In Norway:...Monday, December 2, 2024 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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On each of the three tracks that comprise Innervoice, pianist Joel Futterman begins with just two notes. Each note resounds in the listener's ear long after the auditory perception has faded. These two notes act as Futterman's conjuring...Monday, December 2, 2024 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Most supergroups happen and barely dent the dust. Despite those odds, one or two happen for a reason. That reason is Motion I by Out Of/Into. Formerly known as The Blue Note Quintet--pianist Gerald Clayton , alto saxophonist Immanuel...Sunday, December 1, 2024 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Mention Roberto Roena to any fan of Latin music, and salsa royalty is on the menu. This pioneering band, literally in the works as Neil Armstrong took Apollo 11 to the moon in the summer of 1969, took its name from the space program and...Sunday, December 1, 2024 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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English guitarist Derek Bailey was a regular visitor to Japan, where he was particularly appreciated. Audiences were such that after his first tour in 1978, he reportedly brought home the money to buy a car. As a consequence, he...Sunday, December 1, 2024 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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One would have to think long and hard to find several similarities between composers Adrian Demoč and Linda Catlin Smith. Of different genders, they were born on different continents in different decades. Their routes to becoming...Saturday, November 30, 2024 from NPR Topics: Music
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Traditionalist or avant-garde provocateur? Singer or poet? Dubliner Sue Rynhart is all these things and more, and therein lies her appeal. Her debut, Crossings (Songs For Voice And Double Bass) (Self Produced, 2015), an alluring duo...Saturday, November 30, 2024 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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When gathering material for a new recording, one time-honored rule of thumb is that it is hard to stray too far off course when revisiting the musical handiwork of renowned composer Duke Ellington and/or the Duke's virtuosic alter ego,...Saturday, November 30, 2024 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Spencer Zweifel is an accomplished jazz pianist who graduated in 2019 with a degree in jazz studies from the University of Northern Colorado. He won best pop/rock soloist in the 2018 Downbeat magazine student awards. In 2021, Spencer...Friday, November 29, 2024 from NPR Topics: Music
The Earworm Eraser is a 40-second audio track specifically designed to banish "Jingle Bells," "All I Want For Christmas Is You" and other much-too-catchy seasonal tunes.Friday, November 29, 2024 from NPR Topics: Music
The animated film Piece By Piece traces Pharrell's early life in Virginia Beach and follows his trajectory to a Grammy-winning songwriter, performer and producer. Originally broadcast Oct. 8, 2024.Friday, November 29, 2024 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Charles Tolliver 's Live at the Captain's Cabin is a previously unheard two-CD set captured at an intimate venue in Edmonton, Alberta, on June 24, 1973, produced for release on Reel to Real Recordings by tenor saxophonist and jazz...Friday, November 29, 2024 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Some of life's moments, even when buried in the past, remain almost as fresh and memorable as today's. Such is alto saxophonist Jon Gordon 's memory of his first visit to New York City's then-jazz center, Greenwich Village's 7th Avenue...Friday, November 29, 2024 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Most jazz lovers will likely remember an occasion when the musicians played as if their lives depended on it to an almost empty room. Judging from the applause, the audience on 14 June 2022 at Kulturhalle Eggersdorf in Austria was not...Friday, November 29, 2024 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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