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Podcast 804: A Conversation with Jakob Bro - Part Two

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2021/03/18

In Part Two of my conversation with Danish composer-guitarist Jakob Bro, we discuss the influence of saxophone great Lee Konitz on Jakob's music, and delve into his latest release on ECM, Uma Elmo. Musical selections from the new album include his tribute to Konitz "Music for Black Pigeons," and the melodic "Sound Flower." Bro also shares news of his coming recording projects, including plans for a live album at the Village Vanguard in late November this year with Mark Turner, Thomas Morgan and

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Podcast 803: A Conversation with Jakob Bro - Part One

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2021/03/17

Danish guitarist-composer Jakob Bro continues to redefine the sound of the guitar in small ensembles with the release of Uma Elmo, his fifth album as a leader for ECM. For this release, he presents a new trio featuring Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen and Spanish drummer Jorge Rossy. While Jakob had played with Rossy in the past, the three musicians had never played together before their arrival in Lugano to record. Without the beat of bass or drums, the trio plays in a shifting and often

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Podcast 802: A Conversation with Bobby Watson

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2021/03/08

Bobby Watson had been scheduled for another busy year in 2020, before it all fell apart in short order last winter. However, listeners are able to hear him on two exception releases last year. One was Keepin’ It Real (Smoke Sessions) with a reconstituted version of his Horizon band, while the other was an epic blowing session with fellow sax giants Vincent Herring and Gary Bartz on Bird at 100. Ironically, Watson has found himself with more time than ever to listen to and contemplate music and how

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Podcast 801: A Conversation with Franco Ambrosetti

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2021/03/01

“There’s a good trumpet player in George Gruntz’s band I heard at the Berlin Jazz Festival. He can play his ass off. If I was picking a trumpet player, I would pick him. He can play anything.” - Miles Davis, talking about Franco Ambrosetti in 1987. The ageless Franco Ambrosetti has kept himself very busy the past few years. In 2019, he put together his dream band - John Scofield on guitar, Scott Colley on bass, Uri Caine on piano and Jack DeJohnette on drums - and recorded Long Waves, a wonderful

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Podcast 800: A Conversation with Chris Pattishall

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2021/02/24

In a recent podcast, we talked about jazz musicians who look forward by looking back. This podcast, featuring pianist Chris Pattishall shows another facet of that idea. Pattishall’s debut CD, Zodiac, is his take on the legendary Mary Lou Williams’ “Zodiac Suite.” Pattishall became aware of Ms. Williams while living in Durham, North Carolina, where the Duke University Center for Black Studies is named after the eminent jazz pianist and composer. He has immersed himself in the piece for a number of

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Podcast 799: A Conversation with Eddie Henderson -...

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2021/02/21

We last left Eddie Henderson discussing his latest releases, both on his own (Shuffle and Deal) and with the super-group The Cookers. But there was no way I was going to end my conversation with Dr. Eddie at that. Not with his resume. Much of Podcast 799 is a discussion of Eddie's development as a teenager and his membership in the groundbreaking electric jazz group Mwandishi. Although the group only lasted for 3 years before imploding under financial constraints, the group has left a legacy that

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Podcast 798: A Conversation with Eddie Henderson -...

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2021/02/20

“I want the audience to really feel the music and start moving. Jazz started as dance music in the first place, so I want to bring that element back into the music. The telltale common denominator when people are really enjoying themselves is when they feel like they want to get up and dance. Not the European concept of listening to music, just sitting still and static, shushing people and politely clapping at the end of the tune. No! I thought it was supposed to be fun. That’s the way I grew up.” –

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Podcast 797: Talking Ballads and Love Songs with...

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2021/02/13

For Valentine's Day this year, I decided to do something different. Most year's I post an hour plus of music appropriate for the holiday, allowing you to download and enjoy the uninterrupted jazz as you celebrate with your valentine. This year I asked myself - what if instead, I asked someone else to come up with a play list? In fact, what if I asked a jazz musician to make a list, and zero in on a singer with an instrumental background as well. Enter Laila Biali. Singer-songwriter and pianist

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Podcast 796: A Conversation with Jacqui Naylor

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2021/02/12

Vocalist Jacqui Naylor is best known for her ability to interpret a diverse repertoire, bringing together music from different genres and generations. On her new CD The Long Game, she moves from jazz arrangements of rock classics from David Bowie, Peter Gabriel and Coldplay to Latin-tinged treatments of standards from Kurt Weill, Jimmy Van Heusen and Ray Henderson. Interwoven throughout are the singer’s own compositions, written with her partner, pianist, guitarist and arranger, Art Khu. Her band -

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Podcast 795: A Conversation with Orrin Evans

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2021/02/09

Another one of my long overdue conversations took place last week when I finally got to chat with Orrin Evans. One of the most versatile and exciting musicians around today, Orrin is nominated for a second Grammy Award for his latest release with his powerful Captain Black Big Band, The Intangible Between. Evans has advanced his career shuffling between various musical entourages, from the Big Band to his smaller groups like Tarbaby (recording with Eric Revis, Nasheet Watts, and Stacy Dillard or

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Podcast 794: A Conversation with Joe Lovano

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2021/02/04

Saxophonist Joe Lovano never ceases to amaze, as his compositions, performance and style continue to grow and evolve as he moves from project to project. Whether he is leading his US5 Quintet in Bird-like flights of fancy, or co-leading the Shorter-esque Sound Prints with trumpeter Dave Douglas, Lovano finds ways to constantly give us more, and better, music as the years go on. His second album with his group Trio Tapestry, Garden of Expression (on ECM Records), builds on the harmonically open,

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Podcast 793: A Conversation with Monty Alexander

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2021/02/03

Last week we talked with Zev Feldman about the release of three previously unknown recordings on Resonance Records late last year. This week, we take a deep dive into Love You Madly: Live at Bubba's with pianist Monty Alexander. Accompanying Alexander on this spirited live date are bassist Paul Berner (Lionel Hampton Orchestra), drummer Duffy Jackson (Milt Jackson, Benny Carter), and percussionist Robert Thomas, Jr. (Weather Report, Jaco Pastorius, Carlos Santana). Drawn from Alexander’s personal

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Podcast 792: A Conversation with Emmet Cohen

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2021/02/01

Emmet Cohen is a jazz musician who finds his future by mining the lessons of the jazz past. There is little about this pianist/composer’s recordings and compositions that speaks of pure nostalgia. Instead, he and his tight trio find modern inspiration in the styles, performances, and artists of the jazz canon to create their take on modern music. The title of his first release on Mack Avenue Records, Future Stride, tells you much of what I mean. It features his versions of classic tunes recorded by

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Podcast 791: A Conversation with Cisco Bradley on...

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2021/01/29

January 29 marks the release date of Migrations of Silence, an ambitious new 10-disc boxed set of all new and original music by bassist/composer William Parker. Parker, who has spent much of the past fifty years pushing the musical envelope with the likes of Cecil Taylor, David S. Ware, Hamid Drake and Peter Brötzmann, plays music that often defies category or genre. His music touches on everything from the blues to free jazz to European art music. Migrations of Silence contains not only solo piano

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Podcast 790: A Conversation with Zev Feldman

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2021/01/26

It’s always a pleasure to have Zev Feldman on the show. Known as “the Jazz Detective,” Feldman has helped bring to light some of the finest unheard music played by jazz masters from John Coltrane to Bill Evans to Sonny Rollins. His projects can be found on a number of labels, but most often on Resonance Records, a division of Rising Jazz Stars, Inc. a California 501(c) (3) non-profit corporation created to discover the next jazz stars and advance the cause of jazz. Record Store Day 2020 found the

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Podcast 789: A Conversation with Ted Nash

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2021/01/15

As America stands at a political crossroads this coming week with the inauguration of a new President, Wynton Marsalis has written and recorded a timely collection of songs that beg to be heard, The Democracy! Suite was composed by Marsalis during the ongoing Covid-19 crisis as a response to the political, social, and economic struggles facing our nation. This swinging and stimulating instrumental rumination on both the issues that have recently dominated our lives, as well as the beauty that could

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Podcast 788: A Conversation with Kenny Rampton

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2021/01/13

Blue Engine Records, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s in-house record label continues to bring us musical recordings the show the many facets of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s sound and repertoire. In late 2020 they released A Swingin’ Sesame Street Celebration, which accompanied a PBS broadcast premiere of a concert film by the same name, bringing us the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s fresh arrangements of classic Sesame Street songs. Often recorded by jazz artists - most recently Delfeayo

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Podcast 787: A Conversation with Jeff Gold about...

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2021/01/12

The great jazz clubs of the 1940's and 1950's are fondly remembered, but what do we actually have to show from that era? There are live recordings for sure, but how do we try to recapture the magic that happened inside those hallowed halls? In Sittin' In: Jazz Clubs of the 1940s and 1950s (Harper Design), Grammy-nominated historian, archivist, author, and record executive Jeff Gold offers an unprecedented look inside the jazz clubs from this era across the United States. In exclusive interviews,

The Official Straight No Chaser Song of New Year's Eve

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2020/12/31

I can't imagine there would be much traveling on this COVID-19 New Year's Eve, but if so, please take extra care and pick that designated driver! A perennial favorite song for New Year's Eve, and the Official SNC Song of the evening is Frank Loesser's classic, "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" It was written in 1947, when Loesser was already an accomplished songwriter, having co-written hits like "Two Sleepy People" and "Spring Will Be a Little Late this Year". However, his greatest work was

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Podcast 786: Noted in Passing 2020

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2020/12/28

2020 was an especially cruel year for jazz musicians, and we lost so many talented masters this year that I don't think I have completely grasped the impact their passing will have. A few we lost to COVID-19, others simply to old age. Some of the eleven musicians I honor in Podcast 786 were friends, and others were true idols of mine. All will be terribly missed. Take some time to listen to "Noted in Passing 2020" featuring the music of: Wallace Roney (pictured above)- "Children of the Light" from

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