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��For the most part, when I play music, I smell it and see colors. Every song has its own personality, its own soul, and if I can��t feel it, I can��t play it with feeling. I don��t understand what it is that makes me different, but I feel I have very little in common with anybody else. I seem to be my own strange character. If I��m right in my motivations and attitude, amazing things happen.��Monty Alexander, 2010 ��I love Jamaica. I love America. I love them both together more than each one separately. I inhabit the rhythmic aspect of both things. I can��t explain why. I do it naturally and joyfully

Article: Radio & Podcasts

George Freeman, Ermelinda Cu��llar, Bennie Moten & Lonnie McFadden

by Joe Dimino
April 20, 2025

We're kicking off the 902nd episode in style--with none other than the King of Kansas City Jazz himself, Lonnie McFadden. We drop the needle on a fiery cut from his 2018 album Live at the Green Lady Lounge, and it sets the tone just right. During a recent chat with Lonnie, he gave us the lowdown ...

Article: Live Review

David Pastor trio featuring Anna Pauline & Mattias Nilsson at Barcelona Jamboree Sala 3

by Artur Moral
March 14, 2025

David Pastor Trio featuring Anna Pauline & Mattias Nilsson Jamboree Sala 3 Barcelona, Spain Pur Jazz March 4, 2025 If David Pastor had been born, say, in Sedalia, Missouri, instead of in Sedav��, in the Spanish Valencia province, his professional career and its media impact would probably have been quite ...

Article: Live Review

Jazz at Lincoln Center JALC Jazz Congress 2025

by Katchie Cartwright
January 31, 2025

Jazz at Lincoln Center JALC Jazz Congress 2025 New York, NYJanuary 8-9, 2025 In Frederick P. Rose Hall, the gorgeous home of Jazz at Lincoln Center overlooking Columbus Circle in New York City, the JALC Jazz Congress brought artists and industry professionals together for two days of panels and ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Large Ensemble Releases By Ryan Middagh Jazz Orchestra and Allison Miller & One O'Clock Lab Band

by Mary Foster Conklin
January 20, 2025

This broadcast includes new releases from Ryan Middagh Jazz Orchestra and Allison Miller & One O'Clock Lab Band, with birthday shoutouts to Ingrid Jensen, Mina Agossi, Christine Tobin, Michelle Walker, Sandy Denny (Who Knows Where The Time Goes), and Georgia Mancio, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear. See them live, purchase ...

Article: Building a Jazz Library

Joni Mitchell Jazzed: Ten Essential Mitchell Covers

by Ian Patterson
January 3, 2025

Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell's spectacular transition from acoustic folk singer in the '60s through folk-rock 'n' roller in the early '70s to leader of jazz-inflected bands in the mid-'70s was a gradual process. This musical transformation can be traced over the course of five albums for Asylum, beginning with the multi-million seller and Grammy-winner Court and ...

Album

Montreux Alexander: The Monty Alexander Trio Live! At the Montreux Festival

By Monty Alexander

Label: MPS
Released: 2024
Track listing: Nite Mist Blues; Feelings; Satin Doll; Work Song; Drown In My Tears; Battle Hymn Of The Republic.

Article: Live Review

Detroit Jazz Festival 2024: The Year of Alice

by Paul Rauch
September 12, 2024

Detroit Jazz Festival 2024 Hart Plaza & Campus Martius Detroit, MI August 30-September 2, 2024 An annual pilgrimage to the Detroit Jazz Festival allows a jazz fan, or in this case, a jazz journalist, to reset to an internal default setting for what this music means to us on a very ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Bobby Broom, Eric Alexander, Amina Figarova, Jeremy Pelt and more

by Benjamin Boddie
July 3, 2024

It's All About the Music ... Fantastic music by Bobby Broom, Eric Alexander, Zaccai Curtis, Amina Figarova, Ray Obiedo, Gabriel Genest, Jon Gordon, Ben Sidran, Stuart Mack, Queen Esther, Allen Dennard, Rachel Z, Radam Schwartz, Tony Monaco, Dayna Stephens, The Jazz Defenders, Dave Bass, Nicole Glover, Jeremy Pelt and more. Playlist Bobby Broom “Superstition" ...

Article: Album Review

Etienne Charles: Creole Orchestra Featuring Ren�� Marie

Read "Creole Orchestra Featuring Ren�� Marie" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
June 12, 2024

Trinidad-born Etienne Charles has been fortunate in his associates during his development as a jazz musician. One of the first friends he made on arrival in the U.S.A. in the early 2000s to study at Florida State University was faculty member Marcus Roberts. Among much else, the pianist taught Charles the importance of keeping in touch ...