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Podcast 844: Previewing the 10th TD James Moody Jazz...

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2021/09/17

The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) is beginning its live, in-person programming in the coming week (see Podcast for a preview) and in six weeks will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of the annual TD James Moody Jazz Festival, showcasing an all-star lineup of the country’s best musicians. Held in and around NJPAC from Nov 6-20, this year’s programing has a little something for everyone, including the New Jersey premiere of Christian McBride’s The Movement Revisited. The Festival

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Podcast 843: A Conversation with Donald Harrison

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2021/09/17

Jazz supergroup The Cookers announce their return to the scene with their first album in five years, Look Out! The band is currently composed of Billy Harper (tenor sax), Cecil McBee (bass), George Cables (piano), Eddie Henderson and David Weiss (trumpet), plus two newly minted Jazz Masters from the National Endowment for the Arts - drummer Billy Hart and alto saxophonist Donald Harrison. Billy Harper, Cecil McBee, George Cables, Eddie Henderson, and Billy Hart all came up in the heady era of the

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Podcast 842: A Conversation with Kate McGarry and...

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2021/09/09

Kate McGarry’s 2018 collaboration with life and stage partner Keith Ganz, The Subject Tonight Is Love was a song cycle that addressed love in its many different forms and iterations. From Rodgers and Hart to the Beatles to their own tunes, the album was uniformly wonderful, and featured many of their long-time musical collaborators, most notably the musical human Swiss army knife, Gary Versace, and drummer Obed Calvaire. Hunkered down in their home in Durham, North Carolina to wait out the

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Podcast 841: A Conversation with Kenny Garrett, Part Two

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2021/08/29

Podcast 841 is Part Two of my two-part conversation with saxophonist Kenny Garrett. His latest album, released August 27th on Mack Avenue Records, is entitled Sounds of the Ancestors, and as the title suggests, it’s a musical trip through Kenny’s past, as he digs into the sounds that have moved him in the past, and chased them from his hometown of Detroit to the Caribbean and Africa and back. He will be heading home to Detroit to play the 2021 Detroit Jazz Festival September 3-6. Garrett has

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Podcast 840: A Conversation with Kenny Garrett, Part One

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2021/08/27

Saxophonist Kenny Garrett makes some of the most uplifting, joyous music on the planet. Whether he is playing his music on the bandstand with some of the greatest performers in jazz history – Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, Woody Shaw, Marcus Miller, and Chick Corea – or writing and recording his own music with his band, this is music charged with a positive message and vibe. He’s well aware of what I speak – his album titles include Black Hope, Happy People and Do Your Dance!. His latest album,

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Podcast 839: A Conversation with Aubrey Johnson about...

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2021/08/26

The loss of Lyle Mays in early 2020 after a lengthy illness deprived the jazz world of a brilliant composer and performer. Although he had been away from music for over a decade, his niece Aubrey Johnson, herself a talented jazz performer, told me that he never stopped working on his craft, or tinkering with compositions. This month sees the release of Eberhard, Lyle’s self-professed “humble tribute” to the great German bassist Eberhard Weber, a former Mays collaborator. The “mini-symphony” was

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Podcast 838: Jazz for the Dog Days 2021

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2021/08/16

It's past the midpoint in summer in New England, so why not some summer themed music for what may still be lazy, hot days? Today is August 16th, the feast day of Saint Roch, the patron saint of Dogs, so why not celebrate the "Dog Days"? Plus, Saint Roch's name is to be invoked to avoid plagues, so need I say anything more? The Romans associated the hot weather with the star Sirius. They considered Sirius to be the "Dog Star" because it is the brightest star in the constellation Canis Major (Large

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Podcast 837: A Conversation with Matthew Whitaker

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2021/08/15

At just 20 years old, Matthew Whitaker has already shared his powerful story and ascent to the biggest stages in jazz with 60 Minutes and The Today Show; but on the young star pianist’s new album Connections (on Resilience Music Alliance), he takes a bold step forward in defining for himself, on his own terms and in his own words, what it truly means to be Matthew Whitaker. After being born three months premature and blind, Whitaker has become perhaps the ultimate piano prodigy, recording and

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Podcast 836: A Conversation with Patricia Barber

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2021/08/13

“The harmonic language of jazz, as well as that of the Great American Songbook, is certainly rich -- look how much has come out of it -- but it’s circumscribed. I started wanting to hear something else” – Patricia Barber Singer/Pianist/Composer Patricia Barber has found success mixing cutting edge projects like her 2019 release Higher, which featured an art song cycle “Angels, Birds and I…,” with her unique takes on popular music and the Great American Songbook. Her latest release on Index Records,

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Podcast 835: Previewing NJPAC's Return to Live...

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2021/08/06

Is the current trend of live jazz performances going to continue through the Fall? Large presenters are certainly moving forward as if they will be swinging along. The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) is welcoming live, in-person jazz back to its stage this Fall beginning with Grammy Award-winning vocalist Gregory Porter (Sep 24). The TD Jazz Series continues in the Fall with “Salsa Meets Jazz” (Sep 25), saxophonist Boney James (Oct 14), and vocal powerhouse duo Tierney Sutton and Ann

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Podcast 834: A Conversation with Carolyn Glenn Brewer...

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2021/07/28

If there is a jazz version of James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, it might well be Beneath Missouri Skies: Pat Metheny in Kansas City 1964-1972 by Carolyn Glenn Brewer. Ms. Brewer, a jazz musician, writer and former educator has a lifelong connection with the Greater Kansas City area. This makes her uniquely qualified to tell the story of a certain place and a certain time, and how the musicians and places where they played help the musical formation of Pat Metheny. A native of

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Podcast 833: A Conversation with Jon Irabagon

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2021/07/25

Like many New Yorkers, when COVID-19 shut down much of their the world, saxophonist Jon Irabagon and his family decided it would be best if they left their city home for a quieter, more secure environment. Unlike almost all New Yorkers, for Jon it meant moving to western South Dakota, the home of his in-laws. Two weeks of quarantine turned into a month away from home, then three months, and eventually almost eight months out of New York. During that time, Jon found Falling Rock, a canyon on the

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Podcast 831: A Conversation with Arturo O'Farrill

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2021/07/20

Pianist/composer Arturo O'Farrill was as locked down as any of us during the pandemic that shut the door on live performances over the last 18 months. However, he and his compatriots at the nonprofit Afro Latin Jazz Alliance used new technology and a whole lot of hard work to create "ALJA Digital Village," streaming programming that reached more than 1 million people in over 25 countries and raised urgently needed funds for New York/New Jersey-based jazz musicians (over $100,000 was raised)

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Podcast 832: A Conversation with Zev Feldman on...

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2021/07/15

The second Record Store Day of 2021 came and went this past weekend, and left in its wake some exciting archival releases from our old friend Zev Feldman and his cohorts at Resonance Records. Two of the albums that dropped on July 17 are of particular note. The first is In Harmony, a rare duet recording of trumpeter Roy Hargrove and pianist Mulgrew Miller. Both jazz titans passed away far too soon, so to hear them performing at the top of their respective games is a real treat. Co-produced by

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Podcast 830: A Conversation with Vince Mendoza

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2021/07/05

Vince Mendoza has been at the forefront of the Jazz and contemporary music scene as a composer, conductor and recording artist for the last 30 years. He has written scores of compositions and arrangements for big band, extended compositions for chamber and symphonic settings while his jazz composing credits read like a “who's who” of the best modern instrumentalists and singers in the world today. He has 6 Grammy awards and 34 nominations. Mendoza's arranging has appeared on many critically

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Podcast 829: A Conversation with Joel Frahm

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2021/07/04

I’ve been following Joel Frahm since his days in the jazz program at the storied Hall High School in West Hartford, Connecticut. Since then, he has assumed his position as one of the leading lights on the tenor sax, releasing seven albums of his lyrical sound as a leader, and serving as a sideman for some of jazz’s best, including former classmate Brad Mehldau, pianist Bill Charlap, and notably with singers Dianne Schuur, Freddy Cole, Jane Monheit and more. The Bright Side is his latest release, his

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Podcast 828: A Conversation with Jim Watt on "1000w"

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2021/06/30

Late last spring, artist Jim Watt and jazz trumpeter Antione Drye began hosting Jazz at The Shop, a bi-weekly donation-only outdoor jazz series at Watt’s Asbury Park studio. For many, and despite their world-class talent, it was their first opportunity to play since the world shut down in March. Onlookers seemed utterly awed by the level of the music. In all, $30,000 was raised over ten performances and all proceeds went to support the performers. Watt is building on that success with his project

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Podcast 826: A Conversation with Andrew Melzer about...

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2021/06/29

Benjamin Sherman ‘Scatman’ Crothers (1910-1986) was a truly diverse star of the stage, film, and television. He first started performing in clubs as a singer and drummer in his teens, and wound up performing on Chicago’s speak-easy circuit in the latter part of the ‘Roaring 20’s.’ In 1931, Crothers found himself hosting his own radio show on WFMK in Dayton, Ohio, where he became well known for scatting over instrumental tracks on the air. Billing himself as ‘Scat Man’, he formed his own trio, Scat

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Podcast 825: A Conversation with Troy Roberts and Tim...

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2021/06/25

The careers of jazz musicians Troy Roberts and Tim Jago have run scarily parallel. Both born and raised in Australia, they both initially re-located to the US to study at the prestigious University of Miami Frost School of Music. Multi-instrumentalist Roberts and guitarist Jago have remained close as they have carved out careers as in-demand sideman for the likes of Joey DeFrancesco, Aretha Franklin, Orrin Evans, Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts, Christian McBride, John Scofield and Terence Blanchard. They are

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Podcast 827: Previewing Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz...

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2021/06/21

It's a pleasure to be able to say that there is a two day live jazz festival happening this weekend, June 25-26, in upstate New York. After a one-year hiatus, the Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival is back! Scaled down in size due to health restrictions, nonetheless Danny Melnick, the festival producer is happy with the results. Any festival that presents Christian McBridge, Dianne Reeves, Joey Alexander, Cecile McLoren Salvant, Artemis, and Al DiMeola is bound to be a winner. Podcast 827 is my

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