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Laura Anglade, Ben Paterson, Raagaverse, Allison Au, Jodi Proznick, Mili Hong, Robert Lee, Dan Fortin, Harry Bartlett, Andrew Downing, Carn Davidson 9, Jacob Chung, Curtis Nowosad, Jocelyn Gould, Caity Gyorgy, Martina DaSilva & Alex Goodman, Tony Davis and Brett HansenPlaylist: Laura Anglade - ManhattanBen Paterson - Cookin' in the CouveRaagaverse, featuring Shruti Ramani, Noah Franche-Nolan, Jodi Proznick & Nicholas Bracewell - AkomAllison Au, Jodi Proznick, Mili Hong - L'EspaceRobert Lee - BambooDan Fortin, featuring David Occhipinti - Uh HundredHarry Bartlett, featuring Andrew Downing & Aline Homzy - Eagle RiverAndrew Downing - Sellers and NewelCarn Davidson 9 - JoyJacob Chung - The SageCurtis Nowosad , featuring Andrew Renfroe - We Do WeJocelyn Gould - Can I Tell You a Secret?Caity Gyorgy - Just My LuckMartina DaSilva, Alex Goodman, featuring Andrew Renfroe - Close to YouTony Davis - Can't Find My Way HomeBrett Hansen - DWKE
Geri Allen, Spencer Zweifel, Bobby Wiens & Seth Lewis, The Ostara Project, Curtis Nowosad, Elisapie, Doxas Brothers, Kate Wyatt, Annie Kiviniemi Trio, Nataly Merezhuk, Bryony Jarmon-Pinto, and Luther Thomas & Human Arts EnsemblePlaylist: Geri Allen - Embraceable You/LovermanSpencer Zweifel, Bobby Wiens & Seth Lewis - A Sound for Sore EarsThe Ostara Project - Delta SkyCurtis Nowosad - If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)Elisapie, featuring The Westerlies - Qaisimalaurittuq (Wish You Were Here)Doxas Brothers - Between FriendsKate Wyatt - ArtifactAnni Kiviniemi Trio - Tiu DroparNataly Merezhuk - LiebesfreudBryony Jarman-Pinto - Saffron YellowLuther Thomas Human Arts Ensemble - Una New York
Tricia Edwards, Hilario Duran, Harold Lopez-Nussa, Donald Vega, Joey Alexander, Joshua Redman, Johnathan Blake, Orrin Evans, Caleb Wheeler Curtis, Michelle Lordi, Tarbaby, Alex Louloudis & Zack Clarke, Tina Raymond, Curtis Nowosad, Jocelyn Gould and Peripheral VisionPlaylist: Tricia Edwards - SunnyHilario Duran And His Latin Jazz Big Band, featuring Paquito D'Rivera & Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez - I Remember MingusHarold Lopez-Nussa - Conga a la AmericanaDonald Vega, featuring Lewis Nash, John Patitucci & Luisito Quintero - Beautiful LadiesJoey Alexander - BlueJoshua Redman Featuring Gabrielle Cavassa - Streets of PhiladelphiaJohnathan Blake - Tears I Cannot HideOrrin Evans - The Red DoorCaleb Wheeler Curtis, featuring Orrin Evans, Eric Revis & Gerald Cleaver - SurroundingMichelle Lordi, featuring Orrin Evans, Eric Revis & Nasheet Waits - Never BreakTarbaby, featuring Olliver Lake - BumperAlex Louloudis, Zack Clarke - Another Lake Joint (for Oliver Lake)Tina Raymond, featuring Andrew Renfroe & Karl McComas-Reichl - Swainson's HawkCurtis Nowosad, featuring Andrew Renfroe & Luke Sellick - Heaven is 10 Zillion Light Years AwayJocelyn Gould - Trail BlazerPeripheral Vision - Close the Paper and Play (Live)
laddybirdd, Ambrose Akinmusire, Alex Louloudis & Zack Clarke, saje, Billy Childs, Jalen Baker, Johnathan Blake, Terell Stafford, Bruce Barth, Curtis Nowosad, Tyshawn Sorey, Jessica Ackerley, KneeJerk and Malleus Trio.Playlist: ladyybirdd, featuring Gina Izzo, Ambrose Akinmusire, Immanuel Wilkins, Nick Dunston & Ian Rosenbaum - Where Do We Go?Ambrose Akinmusire - Carvin.Alex Louloudis, Zack Clarke - Carvinitesaje, featuring Ambrose Akinmusire, Sara Gazarek, Amanda Taylor, Johnaye Kendrick & Erin Bentlage - Never You MindBilly Childs, featuring Ambrose Akinmusire, Scott Colley & Brian Blade - The Great Western LoopJalen Baker - Lexi's LullabyJohnathan Blake - Groundhog DayTerell Stafford, featuring Johnathan Blake, Tim Warfield, Bruce Barth, David Wong & Alex Acuna - You Taught My Heart to SingBruce Barth, featuring Vicente Archer & Montez Coleman - Let's Go (for McCoy Tyner)Curtis Nowosad - If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)Tyshawn Sorey - In What Direction Are You HeadedJessica Ackerley, Kevin Cheli, Gahlord DeWald - AloftKneeJerk, featuring Brian Horswill, Karlis Silins & Kenton Loewen - Before the TidesMalleus Trio - On / Off
CANCON EXTRAVAGANZA! Featuring Al Muirhead, Sharon Minemoto, The Ostara Project, Aline's étoile magique, Curtis Nowosad, Chelsea McBride's Socialist Night School, Artie Roth Quartet, Tricia Edwards, Aretha Tillotson, Audrey Ochoa, Joe Sorbara,Dominique Fils-Aimé, OKAN, and Kate WyattPlaylist: Al Muirhead - S'posin'Sharon Minemoto - Bike Path (for Dean)The Ostara Project - LluvionaAline's étoile magique, featuring Aline Homzy, Michael Davidson, Thom Gill, Dan Fortin, Marito Marques & João Frade - CarawayCurtis Nowosad - If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)Chelsea McBride's Socialist Night School - The Righteous and the WickedArtie Roth Quartet - Sky BluesTricia Edwards - FiestaAretha Tillotson - FlareAudrey Ochoa - It Never HappenedJoe Sorbara - They turned this way and that - then laughedDominique Fils-Aimé - Feeling Like A PlantOKAN - TrocadaKate Wyatt - Duet
Aubrey Johnson & Randy Ingram, Caity Gyorgy, Virginia MacDonald, Anat Cohen, Chris Speed, The Bad Plus, Joshua Redman, saje, Sara Gazarek, Sarah Elizabeth Charles, Curtis Nowosad, Spike Wilner, Frank Carlberg, T.S. Monk, Emmet Cohen, Chris AndrewPlaylist: Aubrey Johnson, Randy Ingram - My IdealCaity Gyorgy, featuring Virginia MacDonald - IdealVarious Artists, featuring Virginia MacDonald, Lucian Gray and Dan Fortin - Queen's PawnAnat Cohen - Baroquen SpiritChris Speed - Light LineThe Bad Plus, featuring Ben Monder, Chris Speed, Reid Anderson and Dave King - You Won't See Me Before I Come BackJoshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride, Brian Blade - Disco Earssaje, featuring Terri Lyne Carrington and Daniel Rotem - As This Moment Slips AwaySara Gazarek - VanitySarah Elizabeth Charles, featuring Burniss Earl Travis II - The MessageCurtis Nowasad, featuring Brianna Thomas - See Line Woman (Jesse Fischer Remix)Spike Wilner Trio - Well You Needn'tFrank Carlberg Trio, featuring John Hebert and Francisco Mela - Bemsha CubanoTS Monk - Seven Steps to Heaven (Live)Emmet Cohen - Venus de MiloChris Andrew - Home
In this episode of The Working Artist Project, Darrian Douglas and Gregory Agid talk to Curtis Nowosad about his career, "jazz fame" and immigration. 100 years after the Harlem Renaissance shook the world, there's a whole new cultural and spiritual awakening in that corner of the jazz world. A key player in galvanizing this fresh and dynamic sense of cultural awareness, drummer/composer Curtis Nowosad has been a major force in The Harlem Sessions, organized by renowned pianist Marc Cary. Having made his home in Harlem since 2013, the Canadian native emerges as a powerful musical force for social justice on a groundbreaking self-titled jazz and blues-driven collection that illuminates past and present history while creating some profound history of its own. Co-produced with Cary, it is his first collection to feature the explosive and intuitive chemistry of his NY-based ensemble that has held court in NYC everywhere from Smalls to The Jazz Standard to The Blue Note and full week residencies at Dizzy's Club at JALC. Curtis laid the foundation for this current release with two previous critically acclaimed collections, his debut The Skeptic & the Cynic and the WCMA-winning and JUNO-nominated Dialectics, which made DownBeat Magazine's “Best of 2015” list. A remix project, titled CNRMXD, will be released in late 2022. Curtis has played in the bands of trumpeter Philip Harper, trombonist Craig Harris, saxophonist and vocalist Braxton Cook and Cary (who both make major contributions to the album) while headlining major jazz festivals in the U.S., Canada and Europe. He has also played with five NEA Jazz Masters: Candido Camero, Dave Liebman, Jimmy Owens, Ron Carter and Kenny Barron. He is an endorser of Canopus Drums.
To round out the year, we round up the best jazz of the year. We’ve done this every year for at least the last eightyears. Here are our 2021 picks: “Dark Blue Residue” from Afrika Loveby Alchemy Sound Project “Homeward Bound (for Ana Grace)” from Homeward Bound by Johnathan Blake “Movement 6” from Promises by Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, and The London Symphony Orchestra “It Come ’Round ’Gin” from The Democracy! Suite by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Septet with Wynton Marsalis “Relentless Mind” by Jihye Lee Orchestra featuring Sean Jones and Alan Ferber from Daring Mind by Jihye Lee Orchestra “Leone” from Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World, Volumes 1–10 by The Music of William Parker “Shortie’s Portion” from Raise Up Off Me by Ralph Peterson “Gotham” by Andrew Renfroe featuring Marquis Hill, Braxton Cook, Taber Gable, Rick Rosato, and Curtis Nowosad from Run in the Storm by Andrew Renfroe “Wings” by Scott Robinson and Elan Mehler from Kimbrough by various artists “White Out” from Two Takes, Vol. 1: Quintet by Jared Schonig “The Sports Page” from This Bitter Earth by Veronica Swift “Up North” from Reverso: Live by Frank Woeste, Ryan Keberle, and Vincent Courtois GUESTS: Jen Allen - A pianist, composer, arranger, and educator Noah Baerman - A pianist, composer, and educator Gene Seymour - A film, television, and music critic Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Colin McEnroe, Cat Pastor, and Dylan Reyes contributed to this show.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jonathan Barber, Taber Gable, Andrew Renfroe, Luke Sellick, Curtis Nowosad, Will Bonness, Jocelyn Gould, Braxton Cook, Butcher BrownPlaylist: Jonathan Barber - Haikus (Live)Jonathan Barber - Legacy HolderTaber Gable - Don't Let Life Hold You DownAndrew Renfroe - Dark GreyLuke Sellick & Andrew Renfroe - Wichita LinemanCurtis Nowosad , featuring Michael Mayo & Marc Cary - Song 4 Marielle FrancoWill Bonness - Echo ChamberJocelyn Gould - Center of the UniverseBraxton Cook - Don't Wanna See YouButcher Brown - 1992Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - Songs She Never Heard (Live)Takuya Kuroda - Sweet Sticky ThingMiki Yamanaka - First Day of SpringEmi Makabe, featuring Thomas Morgan - AnniversaryRubim de Toledo - SaddlebackJeremy Gignoux - Extension Chord
Big dig! Band is set to release their debut studio recording Still I Rise on July 10th, 2020. Under the direction of trumpeter, composer, and arranger Derrick Gardner, Big dig! Band is a classic jazz orchestra - spectacular saxophone, trombone, and trumpet sections, studded with world-class musicians are anchored by a rock-solid rhythm section. For Still I Rise, Gardner has gathered musicians from all over North America, and together their depth of experience delivers this seven-track collection of originals with dazzling energy, skill and sophistication. Derrick—an alumnus of the Count Basie Orchestra and an heir apparent to Frank Foster—is joined by his brother Vincent Gardner on trombone, alongside saxophonists Mark Gross, Greg Gatien, Rob Dixon, Tristan Martinuson and Ken Gold; trumpeters Bijon Watson, Jeff Johnson, Curtis Taylor and Andrew Littleford; trombonists Joel Green, Anthony Bryson and Bill Green; pianist Zen Zadravec, bassist Luke Sellick, guitarist Kasey Kurtz and drummer Curtis Nowosad. First dreamed up in 2014 with co-leader Steve Kirby, the Big dig! Band takes its name—and its retro black-and-white aesthetic—from dig! magazine, a bi-monthly publication designed by John Funk which thrived under Steve’s care for over a dozen years.
Nate Smith, Jose James, Corey King, Matthew Stevens, Terri Lyne Carrington, Tendavillage, Thundercat, Braxton Cook, Curtis NowosadPlaylist: Nate Smith , featuring Van Hunt - (If Love Won't) Can We Forgive Ourselves?José James - You Know What It DoJosé James, featuring J Hoard - Baby Don't CryJosé James, featuring Cecily - Feels So GoodERIMAJ - Social LifeCorey King - Fertility FilterMatthew Stevens - Heavy GreenTerri Lyne Carrington & Social Science, featuring Rapsody - The AnthemKassa Overall, featuring Vijay Iyer - Was She HappyEsperanza Spalding - Rest in PleasureTendavillage - Ralph WiggumJoanna Borromeo - For MeCarsten Rubeling - Seattle 2001Thundercat - Interstellar LoveTerrace Martin & Gray Area - For Free? (Live)Joshua Crumbly - New Rock ThingyBraxton Cook - AriesCurtis Nowosad , featuring Brianna Thomas & Marc Cary - See Line Woman
Playlist: Hank Mobley - Git-Go BluesJayden Blockley - Subconscious-LeeHideto Sasaki & Toshiyuki Sekine Quartet + 1 - Turquoise TwiceCurtis Nowosad - 159 & St. NickRachel Therrien, featuring Irving Acao - Bilka's StoryDave Douglas, featuring Dave Adewumi, Matthew Stevens, Fabian Almazan, Carmen Rothwell & Joey Baron - MondrianErnesto Cervini, featuring Nir Felder - Forward MotionAubrey Johnson - KarateNina Simone - I Sing Just to Know That I'm AliveThe Grunions - Dr. PhantomShabaka & The Ancestors - 'Til The Freedom Comes HomeCamaro '67 - Afrocubano Maybe
Once again our slate is full of 2019 releases and once again our reaction is mixed, if not to say bastardly. Mike's favorite pianist appears on one, Pat's written up another for allaboutjazz, and one veers between Hollywood Sax Quartet territory and Steve Lacy with the grumps, so the boys are kept on their toes. Oingo Boingo and Frank Zappa appear on pop matters, so there's contemporary relevance for ya. Jonathan Crompton – INTUIT; Spaza – SPAZA; Curtis Nowosad - CURTIS NOWOSAD; Chase Baird - A LIFE BETWEEN.
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Jazz in Nature SpecialPlaylist: Curtis Nowosad , featuring Marc Cary - The Water ProtectorsEric Alexander Quartet - The Midnight Sun Will Never SetDavid Bowie - Nature BoyNina Simone - Lilac WineMs. Lauryn Hill - Wild is the WindMolly Johnson - What a Little Moonlight Can DoMolly Johnson - RainCory Weeds Little Big Band - Canadian SunsetCassandra Wilson - Blackbird