Podcasts about jazz life

Join me for an inspiring episode featuring China Moses, a multifaceted singer, songwriter, producer, tv and radio hostess and performer, as she shares her artistic journey and the challenges she has faced along the way. Despite the weight of being the daughter of jazz legend Dee Dee Bridgewater, China has carved out her own path, performing with icons at international jazz festivals and venues battling through identity crises and self-doubt. The conversation delves into crafting new music, the joy of creation, and the significance of art in sustaining community and hope during turbulent times. With reflections on her experiences and lessons from legendary figures like Angelique Kidjo and Diane Reeves, China offers invaluable advice for aspiring artists on resilience, authenticity, and the power of art. Don't miss this heartfelt dialogue about overcoming doubts, finding joy, and staying true to oneself.Resources :You can learn more about China Moses here :SpotifyInstagramFacebookYoutubeIf you are enjoying the podcast, I think you'll enjoy my Mic Masters Newsletter. Get weekly insights, mindset changes, useable information and so much more for professional and aspiring singers. Join today.Musically,Monique

Jazz legend, Randy Weston, more than any contemporary jazz artist, understood, honored and explored the roots of American music in Africa. He lived there, traveled there often, and spoke of his connections to his African ancestors in every interview during his 92 years. In this program, we revisit our musical conversation with Weston in 1998, and sample some of his late solo piano recordings. Produced by Sean Barlow and Banning Eyre. APWW #789

Sunday: Why is it Good? Monday: Live Tuesday: Do The Hustle Wednesday: Special Neon Jazz Interview Thursday: Living the Jazz Life Friday: Klezmer Music Saturday: Songs of Snark & Despair NEW ALBUM: "Clown with a Stick" https://sethkibel.hearnow.com/clown-with-a-stick INFO on Seth Kibel: https://sethkibel.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/somethingcame-from-baltim/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/somethingcame-from-baltim/support

CIEL - "Somebody" a 2023 single on Jazz Life With today's Song of the Day, Brighton-based trio Ciel share a sneak peek at their upcoming EP Make It Better, which will be released July 7th via Jazz Life.  “'Somebody' is a song that came together for most part on the spot in the studio," frontwoman Michelle Hindriks explained in a press release. "It's about starting to feel a deep urge to socialise, connect with others, party and be more outwards again after a period of needing solitude. Spring time is always a time when this naturally happens to me – getting out of my kind of winter hibernation and feeling that urge to be around people.” The track definitely has a '90s-influenced fuzzed-out jubilance that will have you pogo'ing any leftover winter doldrums right off.  Read the full story at KEXP.orgSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sonny Igoe, Al Grey, Ruth Brown and Joe Wilder offer more road tales both poignant and humorous. Racial discrimination plays a role in these road travails.

Musicians need gigs and they need to go anywhere they can find them. The “romance” of the road becomes realistic with tales from Bucky Pizzarelli, Kenny Davern, Carmen Leggio and Jimmy Lewis.

We wrap up Season 1 with a second slice. Stories from Benny Powell, Bill Watrous, Charles Davis, Ronnie Zito and Glenn Zottola make it clear that the jazz life itself is an improvisation.

The life of a jazz musician is never boring. George Shearing, Marian McPartland, Terry Gibbs and Milt Hinton regale us with behind-the-scenes scenarios, both poignant and absurd.

Die Resterampe und die Beschaffungskriminalität. ## Juli 2022 (#2) * Musik für die Nacht, queer Beet. 1. Francie Moon — Starts At The Bay (What Are We Really Even Doing? — 22. Juni 2022 — HALFSHELL RECORDS) 2. CIEL — Baby Don't You Know (Baby Don't You Know — 6. Juli 2022 — Jazz Life) 3. Sick Burn — Fun, Fun, Fun (Big Boys) (A Grand Exclamation of GO!-ing: Japan Tour 2019 — 11. April 2022 — Crew For Life Records) 4. K Wata – In A Mug On A Rug (Da Capo Al Coda — 3. Juni 2022 — Grid) 5. 市大テクノ部 = Ocutechno — MAN@T: In the night (春風怒涛 = Frühlingswind — 2. Mai 2022 — Not On Label) 6. [ bsd.u ] — whatever u are (whatever u are — 9. Juli 2022 — Not On Label) 7. King Ralph — Raw Hyde (Fuck Babylon — 30. Juni 2022 — Not On Label) 8. Paavo — I Made A Deal Tonight (Tears Will Always Tell Volume 1 — 13. Mai 2022 — Not On Label) 9. Yaruga — Karcolist (Karcolist – 26. Juni 2022 — Not On Label) 10. TNS — One End (Future Nuggets Sounds Of The Unheard From Romania Volume 4 — 1. Juli 2022 — Future Nuggets / Fun in the church) 11. Naujawanan Baidar — Raftim Az Ayn Baagh = رفتیم از این باغ. (Khedmat Be Khalq — 8. Juli 2022 — Radio Khiyaban) 12. Kizer — Murk (Murk — 8. Juli 2022 — more creativity) 13. Caterina Barbieri — Pinnacles of You (Ecstatic Computation — 3. Mai 2019 — Editions Mego) 14. H&I — In sfar it (Future Nuggets Sounds Of The Unheard From Romania Volume 4 — 1. Juli 2022 — Future Nuggets / Fun in the church) 15. Rattanakosin Breakin Crew — T.K.O.: Technical Knockout: Live Session (Rattanakosin Breakin Crew Live Session at Seoul Thai Festival Online 2022 — 22. April 2022 — Zudrangma Records) 16. Iki — Nuke Them All (Terror/Is/Me: Original Theatre Soundtrack — 11. Juni 2022 — IKIKI Music) 17. Iki — If I Was A Terrorist (Terror/Is/Me: Original Theatre Soundtrack — 11. Juni 2022 — IKIKI Music) 18. april the cruelest — A TERROR (hard bop: or how i started hating myself — 1. Juli 2022 — april the cruelest) 19. Liars — Mr Your On Fire Mr. (They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top: Reissue — 22. Juli 2022 – Hyped To Death) 20. Khold — Skarpretter (Svartsyn — 24. Juni 2022 — Soulseller Records) 21. Paavo — Call The Phantom A Perv (Tears Will Always Tell Volume 1 — 13. Mai 2022 — Not On Label) 22. Lhin & Oletar — ฟ้ามิอาจกั้น = 萬水千山總是情 (Memoir of Chinese TV Hits — 18. Dezember 2021 — Baichasong) 23. murchgurl — sweatitout.mp4 (S/T — 6. Juli 2022 — Not On Label) 24. Alex Roca — Xaman (Certezas Inseguras — 8. Juli 2022 - Alejandro Rojas Carranza) 25. Tomb of Butchery – Liquefaction of the Epidermis (Kneeling at the Obelisk of Writhing Flesh — 6. Juni 2022 — Not On Label) 26. Medicine Singers — Sunset: Feat. Jaimie Branch (Medicine Singers — 1. July 2022 — Joyful Noise Recordings) 27. Tirzah — Hips: Loraine James Remix (Highgrade — 17. Juni 2022 — Domino) 28. Caro C — Ton Klang Klingt: Catenation Remix (Electric Mountain Remixes — 8. Juli 2022 — Caro C) 29. µ-Ziq — Brown Chaos (Magic Pony Ride — 10. Juni 2022 — Planet Mu) 30. Penza Penza — Stompin & Motorik'n (Neanderthal Rock — 5. Juli 2022 — FnR) 31. Stazy Lore — Rip it Up: This is the Way (Terminator — 10. Juni 2022 — OLd iNTErNET) ### Informationen * Augustsendung auf Pi Radio: 26. August 2022 um 1:00 Uhr * Augustsendung auf dem Nachtprogramm der Freien Radios (zZ Radio Corax, Radio Blau, u.a.): 26. August 2022 und 29. August 2022 um 0:00 Uhr (Wenn alles gut geht) # Subtracks Neuste Errungenschafften und ungespielte Neuveröffentlichungen. Das was von einer Hitparade übrigbleibt, trocken wiederverwendet, um die Datenhalden abzubauen. * https://subtracks.funkwelle.org

Recorded in São Paulo, 30/04/2021. Photo: Joe William at the Paramount Theatre, Philadelphia, 1960. Photography was taken from the book "JAZZ LIFE" by William Claxton and Joachim E. Berendt

Welcome to episode 222 of the LJS Podcast where today we have on special guest Kyle Younger on the show to discuss the history of jazz and its ties to the racial oppression of the African American community. Jazz is African American music, and we cannot understand or play this music without recognizing the oppression of those who created this music. Listen to episode 222 When we play jazz music and when we practice jazz music, it's important that we remember that it is African American music and it was born out of slavery. It was born out of racism, injustice, oppression, and it developed under injustice and oppression.  And music is always the reflection of the times. It's always the reflection of the people who are playing the music. And we can never untie jazz and playing jazz, or not connect the two together. They are so intertwined.  And so it's important that when we play this music, we have a reverence, we have an understanding of what this music really means, just even outside of the notes and the theory and how to play it.  Now, I am not the right person to deliver this message, obviously. So I've got a very special guest on the show today, multi-instrumentalist, educator, and jazz aficionado, Kyle Younger, to share what jazz music means.  Not only what it means to the African American community, but what it should mean to us, and what we should think about when we play this music. In this episode: 1. Jazz is a music born out of slavery, injustice, and oppression. 2. When we play this music we need to understand the context of which the music was created. 3. Jazz is music created by African Americans but shared with all. Jazz is love. Important Links 1. Kyle's Book Suggestions: Beneath the Underdog 2. Music is My Mistress 3. The Jazz Life

Jazz legend, Randy Weston left us on September 1, 2018. He, more than any contemporary jazz artist, understood, honored and explored the roots of American music in Africa. He lived there, traveled there often, and spoke of his connections to his African ancestors in every interview during his 92 years. In this program, we revisit our musical conversation with Weston in 1998, and sample some of his late solo piano recordings. APWW #789 Produced by Banning Eyre

Jazz legend, Randy Weston left us on September 1, 2018. He more than any contemporary jazz artist understood, honored and explored the roots of American music in Africa. He lived there, traveled there often, and spoke of his connections to his African ancestors in every interview during his 92 years. In this program, we revisit our musical conversation with Weston in 1998, and sample some of his late solo piano recordings. [APWW #789]

Oregon Playwright Shoots True With 'The Gun Show' - 1:15“The Gun Show” tells five stories about guns drawn from the life of the award-winning playwright E.M. Lewis. She grew up in rural Oregon, where she was surrounded by guns, and she learned to shoot on a date with her husband-to-be. But then she found herself on the other end of a barrel during a robbery, followed by two other deeply troubling experiences, one of which ended in the death of her husband. Suffice it to say, she knows firsthand the whole range of emotions guns elicit, and her one-man (yes, a man plays her) show is a powerful and provocative ride of humor and emotion. It stars Vin Shambry at Coho Theater through Oct. 1.Portland's Living Room Explodes With Art This Weekend - 11:45This weekend, Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square will transform into a three-day art party. Libby Werbel of the Portland Museum of Modern Art — or P-MOMA — will take over through the Square’s cool new residency series, Houseguest, bringing in visual artists and performers like Portland punk royalty Fred & Toody Cole and San Francisco dynamo Dynasty Handbag for all day entertainment from 11am to 7pm.Werbel's also programming the Works, the raucous nightly afterparty for PICA’s Time Based Art Festival, on Friday, Sept. 9 with some of her Houseguest performers and a few choice Portland artists like the Strange Babes DJ trio.Portland Musician Admits To Attempted Rape On Facebook - 22:37Last weekend, a Portland musician who plays in several bands made a shocking admission on his Facebook page. Joel Magid described in graphic terms how he’d tried to rape a woman, until, he says, a friend intervened. A torrent of responses exploded across social media, and the story got picked up from San Francisco to London. We spoke with some people in the Portland music scene who had strong thoughts on the post and on the broader music culture that is not always helpful to victims of sexual violence. A Jazz Life: Paul Knowles Remembers The Cotton Club - 32:20The music venue that set the rhythm of life for black Portlanders during the 1960s was the Cotton Club in Northeast Portland on Vancouver Avenue. And the man who made the Cotton Club happen has shared several stories with KMHD Jazz Radio’s oral history project, A Jazz Life. Today we’re bringing you one about the early days at the club.The Final Works Of NW Icon Rick Bartow - 35:40Rick Bartow, one of the region’s most accomplished artists, passed away in April. His boldly colorful, emotive, and idiosyncratic works refused to be contained by medium or style or even species. Inspired by his Native American heritage and travels to Mexico, Japan, and beyond, his works depicted beings that blended human and animal, creatures on the cusp of the material and the spiritual world. Bartow’s final months were his most productive, and Froelick Gallery is now showing them in an exhibition called “Sparrow Song.” We talked with gallerist Charles Froelick, a longtime friend of Bartow’s, in February, about Bartow's final months and his legacy.The Real Bob Ross: Meet The Man Behind Those Happy Trees - 43:49The hypnotic voice, the poofy hair, the beard: Bob Ross passed away more than 20 years ago, but apparently he’s as timeless as the happy trees he painted on his PBS show, “The Joy of Painting.” Time to get out those oil paints: Netflix is streaming episodes, which got NPR producer Danny Hajek thinking, what’s Bob’s story.

This week: we travel from the front lines of forest fires to the trailer parks of outer space. It's all in a day's work for the Labor Day weekend.Graphic Novelist Craig ThompsonWe start with the singular Craig Thompson. His incredible, 600-page autobiography “Blankets,” about growing up in a fundamentalist Christian family in Wisconsin, was a game-changer, sweeping the awards and redefining the literary depths a graphic novel memoir could reach. Then Thompson completely changed gears with “Habibi,” an epic set in a modern Arabian Nights fantasia. Now Thompson has released “Space Dumplins.” It’s the zany adventure of a girl who has to save her family from giant planet-eating whales whose excrement has replaced oil as the universe’s fuel. Did we mention there are sartorial, talking chickens?How Do Bands Decide?As you check out the fall concert calendar — you probably noticed we have some big acts coming to town, like Madonna’s first visit in years — have you ever wondered how bands decide where to book stops on their tours? Our pal Mitchell Hartmann looked into it for Marketplace.Musician Craig FinnBest known as the frontman of the Hold Steady, Craig Finn is famous for his storytelling, both in his songs and between them. He’s on tour this summer to promote his new solo album, “Faith In The Future.” During a live session for OPB Music, Finn performed the song “Newmyer’s Roof” and told the story behind the music. Alien SheThis weekend the Museum of Contemporary Craft and the Pacific Northwest College of Arts opens the exhibition called “Alien She” designed to unlock the history and impact of the Riot Girl Movement. The curators tell us about it.Painter Rachel DavisRachel Davis’s newest exhibition, “A Trace History,” explores the interplay of ancient and modern China. In her whimsical watercolors, skyscrapers spring up as tall as mountains, and trucks go barrelling over land while terra cotta warriors wait buried below the surface. It’s a juxtaposition close to Davis’s heart. Both of her adopted daughters were born in Central China. Davis told us about how she’s riveted by the speed with which China has hurtled ahead during her daughters’ childhood here. The Astoria Music Festival Gets A New BoardThe festival’s onstage presence can be peaceful and sublime. But offstage, there’s been some drama. The Festival’s entire board announced in late July they were resigning, en masse. This week, a new board has signed on. We talk check in with “Daily Astorian” reporter Erick Bengel for an update.A Jazz LifeOur sister station KMHD runs a series called “A Jazz Life,” where jazz artists and fans talk about moments when a musical experience changed their lives. They’re starting up a new season with this story from Jennifer Mayerle, a Portland-based marketing content strategist, who happened to sit behind an idol at a small New York jazz club.Wallowa Fiddle Tunes CampOne day in July we were driving through the small town of Wallowa in the far Northeast corner of Oregon on our way to Joseph to record a show from the Fishtrap writers’ retreat. As we drove past the school, we couldn’t help but notice the front lawn was filled with tents. What was the reason for a full-scale summer camp out at school? Meet Fiddle Tunes Camp.Fire Fighting Meets PhotographyAlan Thornton’s photography career has taken him from the deserts of the Southwest U.S. to distant lands like Turkey and Cambodia, but there was one shot that he could never get close enough to snap: a forest fire. So this spring, Thornton took a wildland firefighting course. Since then, he has found a new job working as a photographer and a firefighter. You can hear to the full conversation on Think Out Loud.

Everything looks different this week somehow — bigger, brighter, more vivid. Is it us? A new projector? A bird? A plane? Or is it the Wonder? Come hear what we have for you: 1:13 - Oregonian reporter Bryan Denson tells us about a breaking art forgery caper. 5:34 - The Hollywood Theatre raises the curtain on its new 70mm projection system with "2001: A Space Odyssey." We hear about the treasure hunt behind tracking down the now defunct technology. Well, almost defunct: the Hollywood might just debut Quentin Tarantino's new film with it, too 15:29 - New in paperback: Rene Denfeld's affecting novel of prison life,"The Enchanted." 23:49 - KMHD sits down with Nicholas Payton for "A Jazz Life." 27:26 - More details on which historic figures will represent Oregon at the National Statuary Hall Collection. 33:23 - Feast on an opbmusic session with Ural Thomas & the Pain as the band goes on tour around the state for McMenamins' Great NW Music Tour. 37:28 - Painter Roger Shimomura's vibrant, provocative show at Hallie Ford Museum. 46:19 - A new story collection called "The Uncanny Reader" walks the line with “possibly supernatural” fiction.

1:18 - We tour PNCA’s new home in the old federal post office building downtown and sit down with President Tom Manley to discuss the college’s modern metamorphosis. These digs will make you want to go back to school!12:56 - Actor Rainn Wilson and producer Hart Hanson talk about the new Fox TV series "Backstrom:" set in Portland, shot in Vancouver B.C. (Wait, wha—?)24:11 - Cellist-in-residence Nancy Ives shares music that will lift you up on gloomy days—or help you embrace the gloom.30:06 - We revisit artist John Simpkins in his psychedelic monastic retreat in southeast Oregon.30:39 - Portland musician Nick Jaina stops by the studio to talk about his new novel and play a couple tunes.44:23 - Grammy-winning trumpeter Thara Memory remembers trying to sit in with jazz great Eddie Harris and ending up drenched in sweat. His story is part of KMHD's awesome oral history series, "A Jazz Life."47:35 - Bend sets a schedule for it's new cultural tourism fund. Applications are due March 31.

•0:00: Intro•1:10: Wild gets its Portland premier! We were there on the red carpet, and we’ll hear from Cheryl Strayed on what’s next for her.•18:00: Imago Theatre tells us how holiday show Frogz changed its entire history.•23:25: Shawn Levy talk about the many faces of Robert DeNiro.•31:00: Sallie Ford and her blasting new band play at an opbmusic session.•33:45: KMHD‘s A Jazz Life takes us through a jam session with John Coltrane•39:00: Mic Crenshaw debriefs on his recent trip to Africa and new sounds coming from hip-hop in Kenya, South Africa and elsewhere.Image: scene from "Frogz"Photo credit: April Baer

Do It Again 5:56 Steely Dan Can't Buy A Thrill 1972 Only A Fool Would Say That 2:58 Steely Dan Can't Buy A Thrill 1972 Turn That Heartbeat Over Again 5:00 Steely Dan Can't Buy A Thrill 1972 Brooklyn (Owes The Charmer Under Me) 4:21 Steely Dan Can't Buy A Thrill 1972 The Boston Rag 5:41 Steely Dan Countdown To Ecstasy 1973 Razor Boy 3:11 Steely Dan Countdown To Ecstasy 1973 Pearl Of The Quarter 3:51 Steely Dan Countdown To Ecstasy 1973 Your Gold Teeth 7:03 Steely Dan Countdown To Ecstasy 1973 Through With Buzz 1:33 Steely Dan Pretzel Logic 1974 Rikki Don't Lose That Number 4:34 Steely Dan Pretzel Logic 1974 Any Major Dude Will Tell You 3:08 Steely Dan Pretzel Logic 1974 Pretzel Logic 4:32 Steely Dan Pretzel Logic 1974 Steely Dan has always been my favorite band . They are, for me, the All Time Greatest Artists ( with the Beatles and Bob... ). It is impossible to describe the Steely Dan's Style... It sounds very californian but with a New Yorker touch'.... These 3 albums sounds very 70' with very good quality of recording. Welcome in the 70's wild side music... The Pre-Dan Era Donald Fagen is born in Passaic, New Jersey on January 10, 1948. Walter Becker is born in New York City on February 20, 1950. They both grew up as disaffected suburban youths, going to school in the daytime and listening to the music of their idols Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington and John Coltrane at night. They both feel an affinity with the "Jazz Life." Donald Fagen meets Walter Becker at Bard College in Annandale-On Hudson, New York in 1967. Fagen, a piano player, hears someone playing blues guitar in a student lounge and decides he must introduce himself. He discovers Becker playing a red Epiphone guitar and finds that they share the same interests in music and ironic senses of humor. A partnership is born. They form several college bands including "The Leather Canary" (which fellow Bard student Chevy Chase sat in with a couple of times) and "The Don Fagen Trio." Fagen and Becker also start to write songs together. Fagen graduates Bard in 1969 with an English degree. Becker also leaves Annandale. The two of them move to Brooklyn, New York and decide to peddle their songs at the famous Brill Building in Manhattan. They don't meet with much success, but they make an important early connection with Kenny Vance of Jay and the Americans. Vance helps them record some demos of their early material and gets them some odd jobs including doing the soundtrack for the low-budget Richard Pryor film "You Gotta Walk It Like You Talk It." Vance also gets Becker and Fagen gigs as back-up musicians on Jay and the Americans' 1970-71 tour. Jay Black disaffectionately labels Donald and Walter as "Starkweather and Manson." Fagen and Becker also meet another aspiring producer, Gary Katz, in New York. Shortly afterwards, Katz gets a job as staff producer at ABC Records in Los Angeles and also secures two staff songwriter positions for Fagen and Becker. With the hopes of making it big as songwriters, Donald and Walter move to L.A. in November 1971. The Early Steely Dan Era After realizing that the songs they were writing were too sophisticated for the other artists on the ABC roster (Three Dog Night, Dusty Springfield), Donald and Walter secretly begin to put together their own band with Gary Katz as their producer. They enlist Denny Dias as a guitarist, whom Becker and Fagen had met earlier in New York through an advertisement Dias placed in "The Village Voice" newspaper, reading "Looking for keyboardist and bassist. Must have jazz chops!" Dias flies out to the west coast to help the boys put together the band. "Can't Buy A Thrill" With Fagen on keyboards and vocals and Becker on bass, they decide to sign up guitarist Jeff "Skunk" Baxter and drummer Jim Hodder. With the core band recruited, Donald and Walter need a name for their group. Since both of them were avid readers of 1950's "Beat" literature, they decided to name the band "Steely Dan" after a dildo in William Burroughs' "Naked Lunch." The band begins rehearsing after work in a cramped, abandoned office in the ABC building and begins recording with Roger (The Immortal) Nichols, a former nuclear engineer, as their recording engineer, a relationship that continues to this day. Since Fagen was uncomfortable as the lead singer, they also decided to sign up vocalist David Palmer as the front man. Since Palmer's vocal style didn't convey the attitude that Becker and Fagen wanted for most of the songs, and they also needed to finish the album, Donald reluctantly sang lead vocals on all but three songs on their debut album, which they named "Can't Buy A Thrill." An interesting portent of things to come, however, is the credited use of outside studio musicians such as Elliot Randall and Jerome Richardson on several solos. The album is released in October 1972 without much fanfare, but surprises everyone by spawning a runaway hit "Do It Again" which reaches #6 on the charts. ABC pressures the band to do a quick tour and Becker and Fagen reluctantly acquiesce. A second hit "Reelin' In The Years" emerges and reaches #11 on the charts. "Can't Buy A Thrill" becomes a gold record and peaks at #17 on the charts. As the band begins to record their next album, Fagen takes over on all lead vocals and David Palmer leaves the group. "Countdown to Ecstasy" Following the surprising commercial success of "Can't Buy a Thrill", Steely Dan come under tremendous pressure from ABC Records to continue touring to promote the album, while at the same time recording a new one. Consequently, the songs for their second album are hurriedly recorded in between tour stops during 1973. Fagen and Becker later said this gave the recorded songs a live kind of feel, since they were in the studio with basically their touring band. The songs that become the "Countdown to Ecstasy" album, released in July 1973, thus are more stretched-out, as they are in the live settings of the time. "Showbiz Kids" is the first single to be released, and despite Rick Derringer's amazing slide guitar work, it only reaches #61 on the charts. It was speculated later that the expletive used in the song did not popularize it with radio program directors. "My Old School", an homage to their days at Bard, also does not fare well as a single and peaks at #63. Despite the lack of a hit single, "Countdown" receives excellent reviews and spawns such radio favorites as "Bodhisattva" and "My Old School", with the latter becoming a classic encore sing-along for their live shows in the 90's. "Pretzel Logic" Under ABC's pressure to produce more hit singles, Fagen and Becker write some shorter songs for their next album "Pretzel Logic." This album is released in March, 1974 and spawns their biggest hit, "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" which reaches #3 in March 1974. Becker and Fagen are expanding on their practice of bringing in other studio musicians as they increasingly find the core band unable to achieve the sound they want on all of their songs. One of the session men is Jeff Porcaro and a long and fruitful relationship with Fagen and Becker begins. A second tour is arranged including Porcaro as second drummer, a new Katz discovery Michael McDonald on back-up vocals and keyboards, and another vocalist Royce Jones (Ambrosia). While this band was musically superior to the one on the first tour, the rigors of tour travel and opening for heavy metal bands is not to Fagen and Becker's liking. After a July 4, 1974 show at the Santa Monica Civic Center in California, they swear off touring for the immediate future and decide to focus on writing and recording. This prompts Baxter, who loves the road life, to leave and join the Doobie Brothers. Jim Hodder also quits as "Pretzel Logic" goes gold and reaches #8 on the charts. > From Wikipedia

The Inside is forty-six minutes of tranquil, yet massively intense jazz; this album is fulminating with artistic invention.   "Entrapping, calmly-incendiary, luring, provocative-these are only a few ways to describe Daryl Johnson's boon to the jazz realm. His latest album release From The Inside is forty-six minutes of tranquil, yet massively intense jazz; this album is fulminating with artistic invention" Join the party with Veteran Broadcaster and Host Ms. Bridgette Lewis aka the Coffeelady. Follow the show on Twitter: @CoffeeTalkJazz  

°°Para descargar este audio, por favor dale click al siguiente enlace DeScArGaR En este episodio, presentamos a un pianista un tanto desconocido, pero con un talento extraordinario: Hasaan, acompañado del talentoso contrabajista Art Blakey y el maestro Max Roach. Después, seguimos con una propuesta que conjunta a Mozart con ritmos y voces mezclados bajo el oído eléctrico de Antoine Herve. A continuación “Honeysuckle Rose”, un clásico vocal bajo la novedosa perspectiva de Jane Monheit y, finalmente, un poco de nuestro talento latino Tunacka y su “Me huele a parrilla”. Esto es Jazz Life. ¡Qué lo disfruten!

°°Para descargar este audio, por favor dale click al siguiente enlace DeScArGaR Cinco piezas representativas de los primeros cinco años de existencia de Acahertz. Un homenaje a la música, la comunicación y las nuevas herramientas empleadas para generar proyectos y compartirlos. Felicidades a todos los que han participado en Acahertz.

°°Para descargar este audio, por favor dale click al siguiente enlace DeScArGaR En esta segunda edición de Jazz Life, incluímos a uno de los cantantes más propositivos y originales por su estilo y personalidad. Asimismo, presentamos a un extraordinario músico surgido en los sesenta, quien además de establecer nuevos horizontes en aquella época, mantuvo siempre una cercanía directa con las raíces del jazz. De ahí, nos deleitamos con la voz de una vocalista que hace tributo a la extraordinaria Billie Holiday, para finalmente viajar a Francia y sumergirnos en una de las nuevas tendencias sonoras del jazz.

°°Para descargar este audio, por favor dale click al siguiente enlace DeScArGaR La genialidad de un pianista de excepción, la frescura de una mujer que hizo del Sonido Hammond su voz más interior, y la impactante personalidad de otra jazzista controvertida y singular. Tres estrellas reunidas en la primera edición de Jazz Life, el podcast que intenta conjuntar lo más destacado del jazz mundial de todos los tiempos, así como sus aristas en amplio espectro.