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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...Sunday, August 9, 2020 from NPR Topics: Music
Alt.Latino contributor Stefanie Fernández shares the latest Latin music releases — rock, rap and hip-swiveling tunes — from a diverse group of artists.Sunday, August 9, 2020 from NPR Topics: Music
The National Virtual Medical Orchestra brings together health care workers and gives them a creative outlet during the pandemic.Sunday, August 9, 2020 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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It has often been said that art is all about risk, and there certainly is a lot of truth to that statement. There is no greater forum in modern art for risk than jazz music, the degree of that factor being multiplied exponentially when...Sunday, August 9, 2020 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
It's hard to imagine Bruce Hornsby 's listeners being fazed much by anything he does anymore. Harmonic layers of semi-processed voice drones in an ambient haze? Classy strings crossed with jarringly angular piano and over-jokey lyrics...Sunday, August 9, 2020 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Maria Schneider , jazz pianist, orchestral composer and 2019 NEA Jazz Master, has just released a new double-album, Data Lords (artistShare, 2020), which creates poignant musical imagery about our data-driven world. Schneider, who has...Sunday, August 9, 2020 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Pianist Simon Nabatov is well-known for his explosive semi-structured presentations and freely navigated improvisational advances within this seemingly limitless musical space. But Nabatov is a composer who often stretches the perceived...Sunday, August 9, 2020 from All About Jazz News
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Singer, songwriter, and satirist Tim Minchin's new series opens with a bang: A frazzled man is driving an upright piano across the bare Australian landscape when he collides with a mouthy teenager.Saturday, August 8, 2020 from NPR Topics: Music
Almost a decade ago, Canadian singer-songwriter Kathleen Edwards gave up music and opened a cafe called Quitters Coffee. She returns now with Total Freedom , her first album in eight years.Saturday, August 8, 2020 from All About Jazz News
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A time capsule is opened carefully, and its contents are respectively honored and revered. This is the purposeful and respectful sensation revealed on Fredrik Lindborg 's faithful homage to the music of Swedish baritone sax legend Lars...Saturday, August 8, 2020 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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On his fifth recording as leader, pianist / composer Falkner Evans has expanded his group size from trio (the first three) and quintet (the fourth) to sextet with vibraphonist Steve Nelson added on three of the album's ten numbers, the...Saturday, August 8, 2020 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Generally speaking, legacy bands are created to preserve the music of an artist. They feature innovative interpretations of an artist's compositions or past performances to share with future generations of listeners. In the case of...Saturday, August 8, 2020 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Alec Wilder was born in 1907 and died in 1980, and might well have been described as an eccentric renaissance man. He composed opera, musicals, film music, popular songs, and chamber music, along with publishing in 1975 one of the most...Saturday, August 8, 2020 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
History hasn't left behind many traces of Cry Babies--its 1969 debut has until now been extraordinarily difficult (and expensive) to find on vinyl--other than these sounds. Most musician credits only list first names except for organ...Saturday, August 8, 2020 from All About Jazz News
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MR. CAPEHART: Good afternoon. I’m Jonathan Capehart, opinion writer for The Washington Post, and welcome to Washington Post Live. You are in for a fun and provocative conversation on race with two outspoken men I’ve...Friday, August 7, 2020 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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NPR Music has launched The South Got Something To Say, a canon of Southern hip-hop. Its creator, critic Briana Younger, and NPR's Rodney Carmichael explained the project on All Things Considered .Friday, August 7, 2020 from NPR Topics: Music
Esther Ngumbi, a professor from Kenya, and Ifeanyi Nsofor, a doctor in Nigeria, react to the megastar's movie-length music video — and to criticism from other Africans.Friday, August 7, 2020 from NPR Topics: Music
In the early 1990s, you might not think rappers from Atlanta had much in common with rappers from New Orleans or Miami. So when and how did "Southern hip-hop" get to be recognized as an entity?Friday, August 7, 2020 from All About Jazz News
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From Gucci Mane making Tiny Desk history as our first trap performer to Megan Thee Stallion repping Houston while headlining the very first Tiny Desk Fest, the South is legion at the Desk.Friday, August 7, 2020 from All About Jazz News
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Bassist Antti Lötjönen is anything but a small name in the Finnish jazz cosmos. Holding down the deep frequency spectrum in some of the country's most renowned instrumental outfits, such as the electronica-infused jazz trio 3TM...Friday, August 7, 2020 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Brazilian performer/composer Milton Nascimento has given the pop, jazz, contemporary and rock worlds an amazon of music that is almost impossible to comprehend in its entirety. With BruMa pianist-composer Antonio Adolfo and a cadre of...Friday, August 7, 2020 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
One sure-fire way for up-and-coming musicians to get attention is to convene an all star combo. Though Bay Area-based Filipino-American guitarist (and sometime AAJ scribe) Karl Evangelista follows that route on his fourth album Apura! he...Friday, August 7, 2020 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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The Greek pianist Markos Chaidemenos has released a wonderfully uplifting tribute to the late McCoy Tyner with this track, in anticipation of a full-length album. The song was recorded live in Athens at The Zoo. It has a feel of focused...Friday, August 7, 2020 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
"Ever since I formed Klezmer Madness! in the mid 1990's I've been exploring the possibilities of adding funk, jazz, and lately hip-hop influences to klezmer," explains David Krakauer, an expert clarinet voice in jazz, klezmer and...Friday, August 7, 2020 from All About Jazz News
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Microphones in 2020 is a single 45-minute track written to "unburden myself from the weight of all this memory," says Phil Elverum, "even though I also think it has so much value."Thursday, August 6, 2020 from NPR Topics: Music
The pandemic has shut down most of the summer music festivals. But that did not stop two banjo players from organizing an online banjo contest.Thursday, August 6, 2020 from NPR Topics: Music
The Disney+ documentary Howard features the life and work of Howard Ashman, a lyricist known for Little Shop of Horrors and one half of the duo that brought the music for three classic films to life.Thursday, August 6, 2020 from All About Jazz News
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Although her album's title is a bit unwieldy, vocalist Kadi Vija 's summer 2020 release does convey the artist's distinctive approach to living in challenging times. Rather than aiming for dramatic gestures or the boldest imaginable...Thursday, August 6, 2020 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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You may not know the name Dave Pietro offhand, but it is likely, if you are a jazz fan of any sort, that you have heard him play. As a saxophone/woodwind artist, composer, educator, sideman, and bandleader, he has performed across a...Thursday, August 6, 2020 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Suura is a Belgian band (Ghent based) formed by guitarist Nicolas Van Belle . Joined by double bassist Emanuel Van Mieghem , tenor saxophonist Reindert Spanhove and alto saxophonist Werend Van Den Bossche , they are an acoustic, chamber...