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Podcast 718: A Few of My Favorite Things 2019

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2019/12/15

As I do every year, this Podcast is "A Few of My Favorite Things" form 2019. It is not intended on being a Top Ten list - I do that for the Jazz Journalist Association - but rather a grouping of recordings that got repeat play in my house, making me take notice over the many recordings I receive. This year, I had the pleasure of hearing the following stellar albums: NEW THINGS FROM OLD FRIENDS Branford Marsalis Quartet - "The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul" Al Foster - "Inspirations and

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Podcast 717: A Conversation with Adam Rudolph

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2019/12/11

Over the past four decades, composer, improviser and percussionist Adam Rudolph has been hailed as "a pioneer in world music" by the New York Times and "a master percussionist" by Downbeats magazine. He has released more than 30 recordings under his own name featuring his groundbreaking compositions and tradition-bridging percussion work. Rudolph composes for his ensembles Moving Pictures, Hu Vibrational, and Go: Organic Orchestra, a 30-piece group for which he has developed an original music

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Podcast 716: A Conversation with Peter Curtis about...

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2019/12/07

A few years back I watched the documentary Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas, which told the story of the Jewish songwriters who have written the soundtrack to Christmas celebrations for almost a century. Some of the most famous songs of the Yuletide season, from “The Christmas Song” and “White Christmas” to “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” were all composed at least partially by Jewish songwriters. Many were immigrants to America from Eastern Europe, and had

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Podcast 715: Some of the Latest Christmas Jazz

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2019/12/01

If you are looking to find some new music for celebrating the Yuletide, please allow me to provide you with a cross-section of new or recent releases that will help make your spirits bright. Podcast 715 is nearly an hour of music from the following artists and albums, many of which may have flown beneath your radar as you look for new tunes: Dave Koz with Jonathan Butler - "It's Beginning to Look at Lot Like Christmas" from Gifts of the Season. Check out Podcast 713 for comments from Koz and

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Podcast 714: Songs for Stuffy Turkey - Thanksgiving 2019

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2019/11/27

For past Thanksgivings, I've just posted two songs that set the mood for me - George Benson's "Giblet Gravy" on the night before, to help out those cooking a festive meal, and Diana Krall's version of "Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep)". The latter, an Irving Berlin masterpiece, is often played for Christmas, but to me it sums up all that the day should be about - sharing with others as we realize the many gifts we are given each day and year. This year, I put those two tunes in an hour plus

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Podcast 713: Christmas Conversations with Dave Koz &...

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2019/11/27

One of the reasons I continue to record this music and tour every year is that the holidays are a reminder for all of us about the things that matter. It’s a time when we seem more capable of living our best lives. It’s easy to get off course during the rest of the year, especially the way the world is these days with all of its antagonism and intolerance. The holidays help bring us back to center.” – Dave Koz If it’s approaching December 1, then it must be time for either a new Dave Koz Christmas

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Podcast 712: A Conversation with Mareike Wiening

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2019/11/24

An in-demand sidewoman on the jazz scenes of both New York City and her native Nuremberg, Germany, drummer Mareike Wiening asserts her talents as composer, player and bandleader on Metropolis Paradise, her first full-length CD and debut on Dave Douglas’ Greenleaf Music label. Ms. Wiening's latest outing features her steady bassist Johannes Felscher, outstanding Toronto-born guitarist Alex Goodman (winner of the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival Guitar Competition in 2014) and veteran tenor

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Podcast 711: A Conversation with Ada Rovatti and...

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2019/11/20

It was only a matter of time before Randy Brecker and Ada Rovatti made a record together. Married for almost twenty years, they have played together in the Brecker Brothers Reunion Band and other projects, but it has taken years for them to play together in a project devoted to Ada’s work. Brecker Plays Rovatti: Sacred Bond is the result, and it includes not only the legendary trumpter Brecker and saxophonist-composer Ms. Rovatti but also their 10-year-old daughter Stella in a vocal cameo appearance

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Podcast 710: A Conversation with Jay Beckenstein of...

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2019/11/01

Forty plus years into their recording and performing career, Spyro Gyra still finds new ways to surprise a listener. Having been a formative band in the fusion scene and then again in the sound that became associated with their time at GRP Records, the band could have every reason to rest on their laurels. However, the past few decades have found the band moving deeper into World Music (A Foreign Affair), deeply improvisational music recorded with no preconceptions in coming into the studio (The

Download some Spooky Songs for Hallowe'en

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2019/10/31

Looking for some spooky jazz sounds for the Hallowe’en holiday? Look on further! Off and on for the run of this podcast, I have been preparing what I call “Spooky Songs” for a semi-annual podcast. Maybe the song titles are scary – “Witchcraft” anyone? – or maybe it’s the sounds or spirit. In any event, here is a list of links to download to make your holiday all the scarier – and cooler, too. Click to listen, or right click to download podcasts from: 2018, 2017, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2009,

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Podcast 709: A Conversation with Ethan Iverson

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2019/10/30

On November 1 and 2, the jazz world will celebrate 50 years of the monumentally influential ECM Records, rightfully called “one of the defining sound-worlds of the past half-century of recorded music” by the New Yorker. Founded by producer Manfred Eicher in Munich in 1969 and still under his artistic leadership, ECM Records has released some of the definitive jazz recordings of the past half century, and continues to set new directions in music and sound. The show, to be held at the Rose Theater at

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Podcast 708: A Conversation with Zev Feldman and the...

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2019/10/28

Resonance Records has lead an archival revolution over the past decade, digging up long lost or previously unknown recordings from the likes of Bill Evans, Wes Montgomery and Stan Getz. But Zev Feldman and George Klaban’s largest, and perhaps most important project is just about to be released. Released in partnership with the Nat King Cole estate, Resonance Records’ Hittin’ The Ramp: The Early Years (1936-1943) is the first large-scale collection of the pivotal early recordings of Nat’s 29-year

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Podcast 707: A Conversation with Shai Maestro

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2019/10/26

The Dream Thief is the first ECM release by pianist Shai Maestro as a leader, and it presents the Israeli pianist fronting the latest incarnation of his uncommonly interactive, atmospherically expansive trio. The group now features new drummer Ofri Nehemya, a fellow Israeli, and its bassist from the start, Jorge Roeder, a native of Peru. Beyond the trio, the album also includes several searching solo performances by Maestro. It seems only appropriate that Shai be part of a major celebration of ECM's

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Podcast 706: Jazzin' on Zeppelin

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2019/10/22

Fifty years ago today, Led Zeppelin released their second album as a group, appropriately enough entitled Led Zeppelin II. Recorded earlier in 1969, it was released just 10 months after their eponymous debut album. The band’s first number one album, it also contained their biggest hit single, “Whole Lotta Love”, a transmogrification of Willie Dixon’s “You Need Love”, the Small Faces “You Need Loving”, through the prism of a dizzying display of special effects. Jazz musicians have never turned to the

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Podcast 705: A Conversation with David Stryker

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2019/10/21

I crossed another name off my “I gotta talk to this guy/girl” list this month when I finally had a chance to have a conversation with guitarist Dave Stryker. I first came to admire Dave’s tasty playing during his tenure with Jack McDuff, and then with Stanley Turrentine during the Eighties. Since then he has carved out a spot for himself as a top player, both as a leader (more than an album a year for the past 30 years) and a sideman with the likes of Craig Handy, Javon Jackson and Don Braden. He

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Podcast 704: A Conversation with Randy Napoleon

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2019/10/20

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Podcast 703: Art Blakey Centennial

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2019/10/11

Today marks the centennial of the birth of perhaps the most influential drummer - if not the most influential band leader - of the second half of the 20th century. I speak of Art Blakey. His career spanned all of modern jazz, from learning in the big bands of Fletcher Henderson and Billy Eckstine to cutting contests with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk. After a conversion to Islam in the late Forties (briefly changing his name to Abdullah Ibn Buhaina) he came to basically invent

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Podcast 702: A Conversation with Monty Alexander

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2019/10/09

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Podcast 701: A Conversation with Jaymes Jorsling

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2019/09/26

Jazz and theatre as art forms have not intersected that often. One thinks of The Connection, a play form the 1950’s featuring music from Freddie Redd and performances onstage by Redd and a young Jackie McLean as one outstanding exception. More recently, Sideman and Blue Paradise dealt with jazz and musicians, but without original music. In his new play (A)loft Modulation, playwright Jaymes Jorsling brings to life 821 Sixth Avenue as it was during the 1950s and ’60s: a dilapidated five-floor walk-up

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Podcast 700: A Conversation with Peter Eldridge

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2019/09/21

For years Peter Eldridge has remained at the forefront of both the singer-songwriter and jazz realms as a vocalist, pianist, composer, and arranger. Head of the Manhattan School of Music’s jazz voice department for eighteen years, he is now Professor of Voice at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Peter and iconic jazz pianist and composer Kenny Werner have joined forces on Somewhere, a collection of lush ballads for voice, string orchestra and jazz trio. The album, dominated by original

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