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Straight No Chaser - A Jazz Show

The Award-winning jazz podcast, hosted by Jeffrey Siegel.

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Repost: Independence Day - Red State Blue State

Straight No Chaser - A Jazz Show ·

2022/07/04

I posted Podcast 689 - "Independence Day 2019 - Red State Blue State" with the hopes that the coming year and election might improve things in America. To some degree the ousting of the Trump administration has helped. However, America remains hopelessly, and I feel forever, divided. I prepared a Podcast which intends to bring across in music the great frustrations so many of us feel about America. I begin once again with “America the Beautiful” – a song sung by an African-American (Ray Charles),

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Podcast 917: A Conversation with Kirk Knuffke (Part Two)

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2022/07/02

In the previous podcast, Kirk Knuffke discussed the making of his trio album, Gravity Without Airs, with pianist Matthew Shipp and bassist Michael Bisio. Part Two of my conversation with Kirk Knuffke begins with a chance for him to look back at some of the great talent he has worked with or learned under. While he has played and recorded with the likes of Roswell Rudd, Marshall Allen, Tootie Heath, Frank Kimbrough, William Parker, Myra Melford, Billy Hart and Ben Allison, we discussed three other

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Podcast 916: A Conversation with Kirk Knuffke (Part One)

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2022/06/30

Cornetist Kirk Knuffke has made some 20 albums as a leader or co-leader over the past two decades, while also being a key member of groups led by Matt Wilson, Alison Miller (Boom Tic Boom) and Mary Halvorson (Sifter). His latest release, an intimate, double album. Gravity Without Airs, features him with pianist Matthew Shipp and bassist Michael Bisio. On the album they perform Knuffke compositions as well in a number of free improvisations, making for a a constantly changing and engaging release

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Podcast 915: A Conversation with Keith Hall

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2022/06/23

Drummer and composer Keith Hall spent nine years on the New York scene, as well as a lengthy time backing vocalist Curtis Stigers and as part of Betty Carter’s prestigious Jazz Ahead. He returned to the Midwest where he has been deeply immersed in the Kalamazoo, Michigan community for some 20 years. After playing with the likes of Wycliffe Gordon, Sir Roland Hanna, Janis Siegel, Luciana Souza, Terrell Stafford and Steve Wilson, Hall now makes his long-awaited debut as a leader. Made in Kalamazoo

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Podcast 914: A Conversation with Grant Stewart

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2022/06/18

The hard-swinging saxophonist Grant Stewart has been leading quartets for years. His latest album, The Lighting Of The Lamps (Cellar Music), features regular collaborators, bassist David Wong, pianist Tardo Hammer and drummer Phil Stewart. However, in a twist, the group is joined by special guest trumpeter Bruce Harris for a searching, straight-ahead date. The Toronto-born bandleader has collaborated with the likes of Jimmy Cobb, Harold Mabern, Louis Hayes and Clark Terry in the past, as well as

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Podcast 913: Jaki Byard@100

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2022/06/15

June 15th is the 100th anniversary of the noted pianist Jaki Byard, and Podcast 913 celebrates his diverse musical talents with an hour plus of tunes in which Jaki is leader or sideman. Byard played a number of instruments, but is best known as a pianist. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, after spending much of the 1950's in the Boston club scene, he moved to New York and immediately hit it off with Charles Mingus. Byard worked with a wide variety of artists, from then on, from early days with

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Podcast 912: A Conversation with Stephen Philip Harvey

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2022/06/14

By day, Stephen Philip Harvey appears to be a mild-mannered saxophonist, music teacher and choir director in sleepy Salisbury, MD. But when he leads the estimable team of musicians known as the Stephen Philip Harvey Jazz Orchestra, he shows his superpowers as composer and bandleader. With the release of the big band’s debut album, Smash! (Next Level label), that identity should become a lot less secret. It was Saturday morning cartoons, not comics, that introduced Harvey to the superhero mythos

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Podcast 909: A Conversation with Eliane Henri on...

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2022/06/13

Hargrove, a vérité style documentary chronicling the last year of legendary trumpeter Roy Hargrove’s life, will debut at the Tribeca Film Festival on Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 8PM at Waterfront Plaza at Brookfield Place (230 Vesey Street, NYC). Executive produced by Janine Sherman Barrois and Erykah Badu, Hargrove offers unprecedented access to Roy like never before through intimate and insightful interviews along with stunning live performances. A Q&A, moderated by music and culture critic Nelson

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Podcast 911: A Conversation with Dee Alexander about...

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2022/06/11

The name of this band tells you what you need to know - think of all the great post-bop soul-jazz sounds that came out of the 1950s and ‘60s, putting groove and feeling above analytics and theory. Decades later, here comes the Chicago Soul Jazz Collective, co-led by saxophonist John Fournier and trumpeter Marques Carroll, doubling down on this storied jazz idiom and allowing a new generation to dig the sound. For their CSJC's third album, On the Way to Be Free, the group raises the ante by

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Podcast 910: Previewing the 2022 Freihofer's Saratoga...

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2022/06/09

In my opinion, Summer unofficially begins on Memorial Day, but officially kicks off when the Freihofer’s Saratoga Jazz Festival takes place. This year the event is back at full strength after a COVID-reduced event in 2021. It will take place on the wooded grounds of SPAC on June 25 and 26th. Danny Melnick of Absolutely Live Entertainment joins us again to discuss the bookings, surprises and future highlights of the event. The Festival will again have two stages, the large Amphitheater and the more

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Podcast 908: A Conversation with Jean-Michel Pilc

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2022/06/02

“Since a while ago, all my concerts are totally improvised – no set list, nothing prepared, just let the music lead the way. I come on stage as a newborn, ready for a new life, a new journey, a new experience every time. My bandmates are part of that experience as much as I am myself, every note they play becomes part of this life we are living together on the stage.” - Jean-Michel Pilc Alive–Live at Diese Onze Montreal (Justin Time Recors) is a rare treat for fans of improvised music in general,

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Podcast 907: A Conversation with Lynne Arriale

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2022/05/30

Pianist Lynne Arriale's last few trio albums have had something of a thematic structure. Chimes of Freedom were tunes that expressed Lynne’s solidarity with democratic values and reaffirmed her support of cultural diversity and racial equality. Give Us These Days took on a spiritual flavor - given the unpredictability and impermanence of life, her music suggests, savor each moment. Both of those albums feature Ms. Arriale with bassist Jasper Somsen and drummer E.J. Strickland, as does The Lights

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Podcast 906: A Conversation with Mark Turner

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2022/05/29

With the release of Return from the Stars (ECM) earlier this year, Mark Turner cemented his place as not only one of the top tenor saxophone players around, but also as an artist who can write and arrange at rarified heights. The album, is a quartet project with Jason Palmer on trumpet; Joe Martin on double bass; and Jonathan Pinson on drums. The absence of a chordal instrument like piano leaves Turner and Palmer's sound suspended over the rhythm. By this I mean that the compositions, performance

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Podcast 905: A Conversation with Jacob Garchik

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2022/05/24

Acclaimed for creating concept albums that riff on gospel, heavy metal, and rhythm section-less big bands, Jacob Garchik (#1 Rising Star trombonist, 2018 Downbeat Critics Poll) has released his jazziest album yet, but one that is still imbued with his sense of experimentalism and surprise. The result is the aptly titled Assembly, and it continues to show Jacob as a musician who enjoys the cutting edge in composition, production and performance. His long-time friends and collaborators Jacob Sacks

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Podcast 904: A Conversation with Aaron Seeber

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2022/05/22

Aaron Seeber is no rookie. A native of Washington D.C. and a graduate of the highly regarded jazz program at SUNY-Purchase, the drummer has been part of groups assembled by Tim Green, Pete Malverni and Warren Wolf, and hosted weekly after-hour jam sessions at Small’s in New York. First Move is the aptly titled initial release by Seeber as a bandleader, and what a band he has assembled! He repaid Green and Wolf for previous gigs by putting them in the front line, and added pianist Sullivan Fortner

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Podcast 903: A Conversation with Fabian Willmann

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2022/05/13

On his debut album, Balance, Berlin-based saxophonist Fabian Willmann pairs himself with two long-time friends and mentors to create a consistently fresh sounding and lyrical work. Willmann's clear tone on the tenor saxophone recalls the best eras of a Dexter Gordon or a Stan Getz, or even Wayne Marsh. The rhythmic meshing contributed by bassist Arne Huber and drummer Jeff Ballard is starkly modern. keeping things consistently interesting and moving. Willmann has been connected to Jeff Ballard

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Podcast 902: A Conversation with Nick Finzer

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2022/05/12

Like many jazz musicians today, trombonist Nick Finzer's success has come from working in a number of different capacities over a long period of time. There are his recordings and performances as a leader, and again as a sideman; his teaching, giving lessons, owning and operating his own label, and writing instruction books, In his first Music Business book, Create, Connect, Repeat, Finzer reaches out to fellow musicians and unpacks his multifaceted approach to building an audience with work that

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Podcast 901: Record Store Day 2022

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2022/04/22

Ah, Record Store Day! This is the 15th year that the biannual event celebrates independent record stores, and increasingly popular vinyl records. There are a number of notable jazz releases seeing the light of day for the first time this Saturday, either as newly discovered works, limited edition or remastered vinyl. These include: Dave Brubeck Trio - Live from Vienna 1967 Art Pepper - Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section Max Roach - We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Suite Podcast 901 brings back Zev

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Podcast 900: Mingus@100 - Mingus the Composer

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2022/04/22

What can we say here that hasn't already been said about Charles Mingus, not one of a handful of true geniuses of the jazz world, but one of the towering figures in 20th century music as a whole. Having learned music and composition from classical figures, his career began in the groups of Louis Armstrong, Kid Ory and Lionel Hampton in the 1940's. His work would covered jazz history for another three decades, playing bebop with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, Money Jungle with Duke Ellington and

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Podcast 898: Mingus@100 - A Conversation with Zev...

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2022/04/20

Resonance Records, the top U.S. independent label for previously unreleased jazz treasures, will issue The Lost Album from Ronnie Scott’s, a never-before-heard 1972 club performance by bassist/composer Charles Mingus’ powerful sextet, as a three-LP Record Store Day offering on April 23 (one day after what would have been Mingus’ 100th birthday). The album will be issued as a three-CD set and digital download on April 29. The two live sets, comprising nearly two-and-a-half hours of music, were

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