Theo Bleckmann

Theo Bleckmann. A jazz singer and new music composer of eclectic tastes and prodigious gifts, GRAMMY NOMINATED Theo Bleckmann makes music that is accessibly sophisticated, unsentimentally emotional, and seriously playful. His work provokes the mind to wonder, but connects immediately with the heart. Singer. Bleckmann has released a series of gorgeous and irreverent albums on Winter & Winter, including recordings of Las Vegas standards, of Berlin kabarett, and of popular ��bar songs�� (all with pianist Fumio Yasuda), a recording of newly-arranged songs by Charles Ives (with the improvisational jazz/funk collective Kneebody), and most recently Solos for Voice and Toys, where Bleckmann brought just his stunning vocal technique, his emotional commitment, and his suitcase full of oddly evocative voice-altering gadgets to the project of recording delicate songs and poems alone at a monastery in the Swiss Alps. Collaborator. In addition to his work as a soloist, Bleckmann loves to mix it up with other musicians

Jamie Baum: These Are Her Times

by Dean Nardi
August 25, 2025

Jamie Baum is a world-class composer as well as flutist, who smoothly balances woodwinds with horns, guitar, bass, piano and drums so that they are equals. Her compositions can remind you of a Gil Evans arrangement with several decades of development added to create a thoroughly modern milieu. She mixes high-energy with ballads and Western foundations ...

Michael Dease, NYO Jazz with Sean Jones and Alicia Olatuja, Meltem Ege, Alon Farber & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
June 23, 2025

This broadcast celebrates Fathers Day with new releases from Michael Dease, NYO Jazz with Sean Jones and Alicia Olatuja, Meltem Ege and Alon Farber, with birthday shoutouts to Hazel Scott, Geri Allen, Irene Higginbotham, Roseanna Vitro, Brianna Thomas, Jocelyn Gould, Daryl Sherman, Cy Coleman, Cole Porter, Nancy King, Monika Herzig and Janiece Jaffe, among others. Happy ...

Ingrid Laubrock: Purposing The Air With Music And Voices

by Lawrence Peryer
June 14, 2025

Today, the Spotlight shines on saxophonist and composer Ingrid Laubrock. Ingrid's just released Purposing The Air (Pyroclastic Records, 2025), a double album that sets 60 brief poems by Erica Hunt to music through four different vocal-instrumental duos. It's an ambitious project that transforms Hunt's emotionally sharp koans into what Ingrid calls “a library of ...

New Releases From Tyler Henderson, Sandra-Mae Lux, Zohar Amar Mokady, Chloe Youtsey, Ryan Truesdell & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
June 9, 2025

This broadcast includes new releases from Tyler Henderson, Sandra-Mae Lux, Zohar Amar Mokady, Chloe Youtsey and Ryan Truesdell, with birthday shoutouts to Miles Davis, Clora Bryant, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Jenny Scheinman, Amanda Ekery, Adison Evans, Samantha Boshnack, Lynne Arriale, Kate Baker, Denise Donatelli, Alexa Tarantino, Yissy Garcia, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists ...

Camila Meza, Gillian Margot & Geoffrey Keezer, Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, Amanda Ekery, The Reddish Fetish With the Jersey City All Stars & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
June 2, 2025

This broadcast celebrates Memorial Day weekend with new releases from Camila Meza, Gillian Margot & Geoffrey Keezer, The Reddish Fetish With the Jersey City All Stars, Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, Amanda Ekery, with birthday shoutouts to Rosemary Clooney, Jackie Cain, Sheryl Bailey, Cynthia Sayer, Yoko Miwa, Caity Gyorgy plus honorable man Darcy James Argue, among others. Happy ...

Shai Maestro: Solo: Miniatures & Tales

by Neil Duggan
May 20, 2025

Shai Maestro fired the imagination when he joined Avishai Cohen's trio when only 19 years old, contributing to four well-received albums. In 2010, Maestro formed his own trio and released a string of albums as leader before moving to ECM Records with two excellent trio albums, The Dream Thief (2018) and Human (2021), which enhanced his ...

Past, Present, And, Future Sounds

by Bob Osborne
May 15, 2025

The most fascinating and enduring aspect of jazz, and other improvised music, is its' capacity to surprise the listener. This week a diverse collection of pieces that deliver different and ground breaking new sounds. At the centre Ingrid Laubrock's unique new album which is meets this specification and more. And to close a classic album from ...

Ben Monder: Planetarium

by Vic Albani
March 5, 2025

Ben Monder chi? In Italia �� piuttosto difficile incontrare qualcuno che conosca bene il lavoro di questo sessantatreenne signore newyorchese. Inquadriamolo: chitarrista di spicco nell'area newyorkese da oltre un trentennio, Ben ha lavorato con importanti nomi della musica moderna come (tra i tanti) Marc Johnson, Lee Konitz, Andrew Cyrille, George Garzone, Paul Motian, Maria ...

Morten Duun: Code Breaker

by Jerome Wilson
January 7, 2025

This album by guitarist Morten Duun constructs a delicate and indeterminate beauty from just a few elements: guitar, trumpet, drums and occasional piano and voice. The music is a gauzy blend of sounds set in a lush silence reminiscent of some of the ECM recordings of Ralph Towner. There is a dreamy feel to the interplay ...