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2018 Winter Jazz Festival Preview & 2017 Highlights (Part 1)

By Ludovico Granvassu | Mondo Jazz
January 24, 2018
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Happy New Year! In the first 2018 episode of Mondo Jazz we look back at some of the great releases of 2017 and look forward to the Winter Jazz Festival, which every January brings the New York jazz year into full gear, with previews of some of the international artists featured in its program.

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Matteo Pastorino

clarinet

" data-original-title="" title="">Matteo Pastorino "Anima" from Suite for Modigliani (Challenge) 0:00

Marvin Pontiac

b.1932

" data-original-title="" title="">Marvin Pontiac "I Hope She Is Okay" from The Asylum Tapes (Strange and Beautiful) 9:54

Lucia Cadotsch

vocals
b.1984

" data-original-title="" title="">Lucia Cadotsch "Slow Hot Wind" from Speak Low (Enja/Yellow Bird) 11:52

Thelonious Monk

piano
1917 - 1982

" data-original-title="" title="">Thelonious Monk "Rhythm-A-Ning" from Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (Sam) 16:31

Guilhem Flouzat

drums

" data-original-title="" title="">Guilhem Flouzat "Oska T" from A Thing Called Joe (Sunnyside) 22:15

Rez Abbasi

guitar, acoustic
b.1965

" data-original-title="" title="">Rez Abbasi "Dance Number" from Unfiltered Universe (Whirlwind) 28:56

Rudresh Mahanthappa

saxophone, alto
b.1971

" data-original-title="" title="">Rudresh Mahanthappa "Showcase" from Agrima (Self-released) 37:03

Sons of Kemet

band / ensemble / orchestra

" data-original-title="" title="">Sons of Kemet "In Memory of Samir Awad" from Lest We Forget What We Came Here To Do (Naim) 45:02

Jaimie Branch

trumpet
1983 - 2022

" data-original-title="" title="">Jaimie Branch "Theme 002" from Fly or Die (International Anthem) 53:42

Ryan Keberle

trombone
b.1980

" data-original-title="" title="">Ryan Keberle &

Frank Woeste

piano

" data-original-title="" title="">Frank Woeste "Ostinato" from Reverso (Phonoart) 59:04

David's Angels

vocals

" data-original-title="" title="">David's Angels "Break It (Black and Blue)" from Traces (Kopasetic) 1:08:27

Maria Grand

saxophone, tenor

" data-original-title="" title="">Maria Grand "South" from Tetrawind (Self-produced) 1:15:55

Steve Coleman

saxophone, alto
b.1956

" data-original-title="" title="">Steve Coleman "Horda" from Morphogenesis (PI) 1:23:29

Bill Frisell

guitar, electric
b.1951

" data-original-title="" title="">Bill Frisell "Ornen" from Sky Music: A Tribute to Terje Rypdal, Vol. 2 (Rune Grammofon) 1:29:55

Nels Cline

guitar, electric
b.1956

" data-original-title="" title="">Nels Cline &

Erik Friedlander

cello
b.1960

" data-original-title="" title="">Erik Friedlander "What Comes After" from Sky Music: A Tribute to Terje Rypdal, Vol. 2 (Rune Grammofon) 1:37:07

Yazz Ahmed

trumpet

" data-original-title="" title="">Yazz Ahmed "Jamil Jamal" from La Sabeutese (Naim) 1:46:00

Norma Winstone

vocals
b.1941

" data-original-title="" title="">Norma Winstone &

John Taylor

piano
1942 - 2015

" data-original-title="" title="">John Taylor "Carla's Blues" from Like Song, Like Weather (Sunnyside) 1:54:09

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