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Celebrate Mothers Day with new releases by Ellie Martin, Lucia, Jamie Shew and the Premazzi/Nasser Quartet, plus birthday shoutouts to Mary Lou Williams, Carla Bley, Tania Maria & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
May 19, 2025

This broadcast celebrates Mothers Day with new releases from Ellie Martin, Lucia, Jamie Shew and the Premazzi/Nasser Quartet, with birthday shoutouts to Mary Lou Williams, Carla Bley, Tania Maria, Gunhild Carling, Jill McCarron, Andrea Superstein, honorable men John Proulx and Lincoln Briney, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear -see them live, ...

The Music of Carla Bley, Part 1: The Early Years

by Larry Slater
April 4, 2025

The Jazz world is full of highly original, creative musicians who forged their own unique paths. Carla Bley, who died on October 17, 2023, followed her own highly individual path as a composer, arranger and bandleader. As one critic commented, “No album by the legendary composer, pianist, and bandleader sounds like anyone else could have created ...

At The Peninsula Library 1972, A Previously Unreleased Live Recording From Jazz Pianist Marian McPartland, Arrives April 11 From Liberation Hall

January 23, 2025

Liberation Hall has announced details of a previously unreleased concert recording by legendary jazz pianist Marian McPartland. Captured before an intimate crowd of fans and students in Long Island, New York, the 18-track At the Peninsula Library 1972 will arrive April 11 on 180-gram vinyl LP, CD and download. All formats will be distributed by MVD ...

Hilary Gardner: On the Trail With the Lonesome Pines

by John Chacona
March 29, 2024

It might be hard for the young'uns to believe, but there was a time when movie houses and television screens were filled with westerns. Tales of cowpokes and their trusty horses, outlaws, dogies and tumblin' tumbleweeds were so popular that various sub-genres of westerns flourished as brand extensions. One of these featured the singing cowboy trope, ...

Jonathan Shank of Terrapin Station Entertainment: From Mickey Hart to Peppa Pig

by Lawrence Peryer
February 10, 2024

Today, the Spotlight shines On music impresario Jonathan Shank, the CEO and Founder of Terrapin Station Entertainment.Jonathan is known for his instincts and successes in sniffing out unique opportunities in under-served spaces in the live entertainment industry, creating business successes in categories and markets often overlooked by the large corporations that dominate so much ...

Christian Parker: Sweethearts: A Tribute To The Byrds 'Sweetheart of the Rodeo'

by Doug Collette
August 21, 2023

In the half-century plus since it came out, the Byrds' Sweetheart of the Rodeo (Columbia Records, 1968) arguably has not received the accolades it deserves for its marriage of country music with rock and roll. But that misperception may be grounded in the reality that the album as it was released is not exactly how it ...

Harvest 50th Anniversary Edition (CD/DVD)

By Neil Young

Label: Reprise
Released: 2022
Track listing: CD 1 - Harvest: Out On The Weekend; Harvest; A Man Needs A Maid; Heart Of Gold; Are You Ready For The Country?; Old Man; There��s A World; Alabama; The Needle And The Damage Done. CD 2 - Words (Between The Lines Of Age). BBC In Concert: Out On The Weekend; Old Man; Journey Through The Past; Heart of Gold; Don��t Let It Bring You Down; A Man Needs A Maid; Love in Mind; Dance Dance Dance. CD 3 - Outtakes: Bad Fog Of Loneliness; Journey Through The Past; Dance Dance Dance. DVD 1: Harvest Time. DVD 2: BBC In Concert - Out On The Weekend; Old Man; Journey Through The Past; Heart of Gold; Don��t Let It Bring You Down; A Man Needs A Maid; Love in Mind; Dance Dance Dance

Monsters from the Jazzlab

by Chris M. Slawecki
March 17, 2022

Rodrigo Almonte Distancia Odradek Records 2021 “Every piece of music on Distancia is an honest representation of a pilgrimage of different distances that I had to walk, musically and geographically speaking, in order to find inspiration and to create a representation of myself as a musical ...

Bad Habits

by H William Stine
October 26, 2021

We all have them. We may try to hide them with varying degrees of success or failure because--let's face it--they totally reveal us, they embarrass us, and the worst ones can? actually define us for the rest of our lives. Of course I'm talking about our high school yearbook photos. Of course I'm not talking about ...