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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.Monday, July 4, 2022 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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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...Monday, July 4, 2022 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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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,...Monday, July 4, 2022 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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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...Monday, July 4, 2022 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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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.Sunday, July 3, 2022 from All About Jazz News
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"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...Sunday, July 3, 2022 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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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...Sunday, July 3, 2022 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Kind Folk is a quartet consisting of trumpeter John Raymond , alto saxophonist Alex LoRe , bassist Noam Wiesenberg and drummer Colin Stranahan ... [ read more ]Sunday, July 3, 2022 from All About Jazz News
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This year's song of the summer comes to you from 1985.Saturday, July 2, 2022 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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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.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.Saturday, July 2, 2022 from All About Jazz News
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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...Saturday, July 2, 2022 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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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...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...Friday, July 1, 2022 from All About Jazz News
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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.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.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.Friday, July 1, 2022 from NPR Topics: Music
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.Friday, July 1, 2022 from NPR Topics: Music
Ondara delivers a new sonic package that embraces both his intriguing voice and a unique accent that remains present when he sings.Friday, July 1, 2022 from All About Jazz News
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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...Friday, July 1, 2022 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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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...Friday, July 1, 2022 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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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,...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...Thursday, June 30, 2022 from All About Jazz News
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