Jazz Corner of the World Encore Mondays at 6:00 PM Another Listen to A&M Horizon Host Craig Kessler spins more goodies from this short-lived jazz label. We’ll hear from Dave Brubeck, Jim Hall, Paul Desmond, Dave Liebman, Thad Jones, Mel Lewis, and many others! The Wednesday Night Special Wednesdays …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Pat Metheny has unveiled the latest chapter in his wildly prolific career, “Side-Eye NYC V1.IV,” a new setting featuring the 20-time Grammy winner accompanied by a handpicked and rotating cast of players featuring some of the most exciting and innovative new musicians on the New York scene. Recorded …
Jazz Corner of the World Encore Mondays at 6:00 PM Tribute to Chick Corea, Part 9 Host Craig Kessler continues his chronological salute to the late keyboard master Chick Corea by sharing some stellar material from the late 1990s, and moving into the 2000s. We’ll hear absolutely top-notch, masterful jazz from one of the true geniuses …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify “Sing a Song of Bird” is a collaboration of four New York jazz vocalists who are passionate about Charlie Parker’s music and have rendered new lyrics to six of his compositions. Roseanna Vitro conceived and guided this project but chose not to sing on every tune. …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyTime was when a jazz trio without a piano or guitar was a rare occurrence. But once Sonny Rollins went chordless at the Vanguard the die was cast and it became an important subset in the list of saxophone-fronted jazz groups. For the last three years, tenor saxophonist …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyPianist/composer and 2021 Guggenheim Fellow Helen Sung celebrates the work of influential women composers on her latest album, “Quartet+,” crafting new arrangements of tunes by Geri Allen, Carla Bley, Mary Lou Williams, Marian McPartland and Toshiko Akiyoshi while carrying the tradition forward with her own stunning new works. …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyPianist and composer Renee Roses emerged from a year of relative isolation, experienced by so many, with a reinvigorated appreciation for the many different shapes that love can take. Her impressive new album, “Kinds of Love,” honors and celebrates love through nine brilliant new compositions, performed with an …
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