Podcast appearances and mentions of Oliver Lake

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GRAMMY® Winning TrumpeterIn This Episode, To Get Us in a Celebration of Music I Played  'Black Girl Magic" (feat. Badia Farha, Mumu Fresh & Nikki Grier) & Harlem Shake On "En Motion". Just a Couple Songs from  the Amazing Nabate Isles'.Nabaté Isles is a Grammy-winning trumpeter as well as a composer and producer, born and raised in New York City. Nabaté is releasing his second album called, En Motion, to be released on Ropeadope Records in the Fall of 2022. The album features the core lineup of Sam Barsh (also the album's producer), Eric Harland, Kaveh Rastegar, David Gilmore and Rachel Eckroth & guests include James Francies, Ben Wendel, Victor Provost, Sasha Berliner, Badia Farha. Added featured performers on the album are Mumu Fresh, Kardinal Offishall and Chuck D.Nabaté has performed, toured and/or recorded with unique artists Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def), Christian McBride, Chuck D, Kenny Lattimore, Philip Bailey, Fantasia, Jeffrey Osborne, Jill Scott, Leslie Odom, Jr., Robert Glasper, Dianne Reeves, José James, Savion Glover, Gregory Porter, Freda Payne, Shareefa, Oliver Lake, Steve Coleman, Ravi Coltrane, Steve Wilson, Joey DeFrancesco, Muhal Richard Abrams, Matthew Shipp, Charli Persip, Mike Longo, Uri Caine, Buster Williams, Grady Tate, Jay Hoggard, Holt McCallany, the Mingus Big Band, and the José Limon Dance Company. He composed a solo double bass composition called 'Lessons', which was premiered by world-renowned double bassist James VanDemark at Louisiana State University. Nabaté also received two commissions from the Festival of New Trumpet Music to compose and premiere new compositions entitled, ‘We Need Unity in the Community' and 'Same Strife, Different Life'.Nabaté provided private trumpet instruction to the actor Rob Brown for his role as trumpeter Delmond Lambreaux on the HBO series, ‘Treme'. Nabaté was part of three Christian McBride Big Band's Grammy-winning albums, ‘The Good Feeling', ‘Bringin' It' and 'For Jimmy, Wes & Oliver' as well as the band's performance at the White House for the last concert under President Barack Obama's administration. He has composed five music scores for short films as well as contributing original music to Amos Poe's innovative film, ‘Empire II'. He recently completed a score for his first feature called, 'The Rhythm in Blue'. He recently co-released a record dedicated to the late, great thespian and humanitarian, Chadwick Boseman called, 'Super Hero: Ode to Chadwick Boseman' with Niles, featuring Beth Griffith-Manley. As a sports trivia expert, he is the only person to Stump The Schwab on ESPN (Season 2) and be crowned a Sports Jeopardy champion (Season 1, Episode #8), on Crackle.com.  Now, he created and hosts his own podcast, 'Whe're They At', which profiles prominent retired athletes (https://linktr.ee/Whe_reTheyAt). The show has featured numerous Hall of Famers and luminaries like Chuck D, Dr. John Carlos, Chris Evert, Darrelle Revis, Warren Moon, David Robinson, Marshall Faulk, Tom Glavine, Larry Brown, Branford Marsalis, Taylor Hackford, to name a few.© 2025 All Rights Reserved© 2025 BuildingAbundantSuccess!!Join Me on ~ iHeart Media @ https://tinyurl.com/iHeartBASSpot Me on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/yxuy23baAmazon Music ~ https://tinyurl.com/AmzBASAudacy:  https://tinyurl.com/BASAud

Listen to an interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis. He'll appear at the University of Indianapolis for a series of free events on February 10 and 11.  The New York Times has called Davis one of the “greatest living composers.” Davis has received attention worldwide for his orchestral and chamber compositions, but he's best known for his work in opera, including his groundbreaking 1986 production X, the Life and Times of Malcolm X. In 2020, Davis received the Pulitzer Prize in music for his opera The Central Park Five.  Prior to achieving notoriety as a composer, Davis had a prolific career as a jazz pianist, recording with prominent jazz artists including Marion Brown, Oliver Lake, Leroy Jenkins, David Murray, Wadada Leo Smith, and more.

Narada speaks with Musician and Drummer Aubrey Dayle. Many high profile artists have worked and played with Aubrey since he became a New York-based freelance musician. His diverse experience has allowed him to perform with Garland Jeffreys, Sam Rivers, Sonny Rollins, David Murray, Chico Freeman, Oliver Lake, Lonnie Plaxico and Ernest Ranglin among many others. He has also worked on “Bring In Da Noize, Bring In Da Funk” as a Broadway musician.Visit Narada at his website and socials and leave a comment, like and subscribe if you enjoyed the podcast!Website: https://www.naradamichaelwalden.com/allinpodcastInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/officialnaradaApple Music https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-in-with-narada-michael-walden/id1470173526Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5agWJLSreLNze8Sjxit4Na?si=928a8dd6316d4986

This week on the ole Pavement top 50 podcast, jD welcomes Amir from Providence to talk all about his Pavement origin story and to breakdown song 28!Transcript:Track 1:[0:00] Previously on the Pavement Top 50. Oh, I love this song so much. It's a song, I hadn't, it wasn't on my first wave of songs to study, even though I knew we were going to play it. But it wasn't, like, you know, there were other songs I felt like I had to nail more. So this was towards the end. I said, okay, let me get into this type slow jam. Hey, this is Westy from the Rock and Roll Band.Track 3:[0:24] And you're listening to The Countdown. Hey it's shay d here back for another episode of our top 50 countdown for seminal indie rock band pavement week over week we're going to count down the 50 essential pavement tracks that you selected with your very own top 20 ballots i then tabulated the results using an abacus and the kid from the sixth sense wait a minute am i dead how will your favorite song fare in the rankings. You'll need to tune in to find out. So there's that. This week, I'm joined by pavement superfan Amir from Providence. Amir, how the fuck are you? Hello, I'm calling from Providence, Rhode Island, and I'm very fine. Life is good. Excellent. That is good news. It's great to have you here. Let's just not beat around the bush. Let's get right into this. What is your Or pavement origin story. So that's a long origin story. So I live in Providence, Rhode Island, as I mentioned. By the way, cheers. This is local. Cheers. Watery domestic beer from Rhode Island. Narragansett Atlantic-like lager. So...Track 3:[1:37] A little plug for Atlantic Light Lager. Yeah. But anyway, yeah, that's very watery. Anyway, so I was not born here. I was born in Moscow, not Moscow, Idaho. Moscow, Soviet Union, which is more or less the same thing as Russia. And I grew up there in the 80s. And I loved music since I was, I don't know, since I remember myself. I started playing piano when I was four. So I listened to a lot of music it was also the 1980s were an exciting time for rock music in Russia because Russia was like after many decades of like complete censorship it was starting to open up and, rock music suddenly became legal so it was possible to listen to that, if you if this makes you curious I recommend everybody listen to the Wind of Change podcast It's just an amazing story. Oh, it's amazing. I've listened to it. Yes, it's brilliant. So, but, yeah, so I started, like, loving rock music when I was, like, a child. But we are a Jewish family, so we moved to Israel in 1991.Track 3:[2:52] And even though Russia was opening up back then, Israel was, like, always a very open country, open to everything. So we had MTV, or more precisely, we had MTV Europe, which is not exactly the same thing. Uh mtv like in the united states and mtv europe it's not exactly the same thing mtv europe has a lot of uh uk uh bias and uh like because it broadcasted from the uk uh and uh it's it also tried to incorporate some other european music like italian or german but it was mostly like very uk biased so that's when i was growing up mtv was uh important it was like there was no youtube YouTube kind of replaced MTV now but MTV was important culturally like hugely important not just for myself but for a lot of other people, but initially when I started like watching it it was kind of boring at least during the day but then during the night it got much more exciting because they started like after midnight, they started playing much more interesting stuff and there was a show called Alternative Nation I think it was every Tuesday on MTV Europe and they played stuff like Sonic Youth and Pavement and European what you would say alternative bands, like whatever alternative even means.Track 3:[4:18] I tried to figure out what does it even mean that it's alternative? Is it a certain guitar sound? It actually doesn't mean much at all. It's just rock music that is cooler than Bon Jovi. Well, what's funny, it was alternative to the mainstream and then it became the mainstream. Exactly. Like, if you look back at this, like, it was totally the mainstream. Like, Nirvana was alternative, but it was already quite the mainstream back in 1992. And by now, it's completely mainstream. But, you know, whatever. Names of things are sometimes funny. So, yeah. And they mentioned pavement occasionally. Now, initially, they mentioned, I didn't really dig it. Like I remember, I definitely remember they showed Cut Your Hair, of course. They never showed it during the day. They showed it late at night.Track 3:[5:12] I didn't really understand it. I was like, it just looked weird. And these days, I look at the Cut Your Hair video, and now I'm a Dan and I have children, and they look at it and they just think it's funny with the gorilla and the lizard. Yes. And I was just overthinking it totally. Like I was 15 years old. why what does what does this mean i was totally overthinking it um but yeah they should cut your hair and they i remember they showed the gold sounds video um maybe also yeah rattled by the rush like the weird the weird version with the bathtub okay didn't really understand like what's the deal with that so i did love like i did love a lot of other alternative bands like i loved sonic youth i loved therapy if you if you heard that's a band from northern ireland uh i love the, alternative, rock band, whatever that means.Track 3:[6:03] Anyway, so then I graduated high school. And as pretty much everybody else in Israel, I got drafted to the military. Now, what you don't hear, you often hear about the Israeli military on the news. What you don't hear about the Israeli military is that most people there, they don't do combat and wars and stuff like that. It's just, I work with computers And that's like what most people do. They work with, you know, cars, equipment, computers, whatever. I worked with computers. And I had a friend there. And that friend was much cooler than I am. He's probably still to this day much cooler than I am. And he had many more CDs than I had. And he knew alternative music like way better than I had. I did know Sonic Youth. Sonic Youth, which is another Samuel band. I did know Sonic Youth much better than he did. But other than that, he was like the huge expert. He taught me about cool bands like Mogwai and Mercury Rev and a bunch of others. And he taught me about pavement.Track 3:[7:08] And he gave me the Wowie Zowie CD to listen. Interesting. And I was immediately hooked. That was just incredible. So like from the first seconds of We Dance, oh my God, how did I miss that? We Dance is such a brilliant song. I'm just thinking about this. I will make this really weird comparison, but it kind of makes sense to me. Because like I mentioned that I play piano. I played piano for many years, like almost 40 years now. Oh my God. I'm old. And I...Track 3:[7:43] There's another band called Guns N' Roses. There is. Which is nowhere near as cool as Pavement. Nowhere near. But that's like the not-alternative thing that they were showing a lot on MTV. And I couldn't feel like, why are so many people excited about this band? And then I saw November Rain, which, ooh, it has piano. Piano is classy. So it's classy. It doesn't... No, I'm not comparing. I'm not comparing Guns N' Roses to Pavement, but We Dance had the piano, piano is classy. And so I heard like, Ooh, that's a much like, that's such an interesting song. And I absolutely loved it. And I loved the rest of the album as hectic and eclectic as it is and extremely long. I saw it described somewhere as three six-song EPs or six three-song EPs. That's probably the... That's an interesting way to look at it. Yeah, I saw it described like that somewhere. It's a very weird album, but it's so great. It's absolutely like all of it. I love it. And then I heard the rest of it from that friend. And he gave me like Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, and Brighten the Corners.Track 3:[9:10] And later I just bought them all myself. So slanted, of course. So I have them all twice because they released them with the usual version and then the Lux and Redux and all those. LA Desert, they expanded. So I have them all twice.Track 3:[9:27] Yeah. And yeah, so that's kind of my pavement origin story. And yeah, and I became a super fan, I guess, around 98 or 99. Wow. So you got to experience Terror Twilight when it came out. That one you got to experience, right? In real time? Yep. What did you think of that at the time? It was very different. I did love it. I loved all the songs. I listened to it a lot back then.Track 3:[9:57] It's very different it's very different from if I really have I don't want to but if I really have to pick a favorite album it would probably be Crooked Rain Crooked Rain I really love them all but Terror Twilight is very different, has its own style unlike Wawizawi which has like 20 different styles but yeah, Terror Twilight definitely has a certain and particular.Track 3:[10:25] Integrated feel to it. Yeah, I would agree. So did you ever get a chance to see them live? Yeah. So first time I saw something related to Pavement, it was not Pavement. And it was not Malcolm's solo. It was a show in Israel, in Tel Aviv, in 2004. It was a tribute show, like a bunch of local Israeli bands played a tribute show to Pavement and Malcolm's. Really? It was pretty brilliant. Yeah. Israel has like a very varied music scene. Okay. Rock of all kinds of styles and jazz. I know nothing about it. It's not that known around the world, but it has a very rich, vibrant music scene. Mostly sang in Hebrew, but occasionally in English. So that show had bands singing mostly in English. Like I remember a band that I really loved, they performed Gold Sounds.Track 3:[11:27] And here, I think, uh, that's like, that, that's how I, that's how I found out about that show that like, there was a band that I, that I love. They, they, that band used to be called blush and lure back then. And they sang in English later. They changed the name of the band and they started singing in Hebrew, but, but back then they were singing in English and, uh, yeah. So they performed two songs there. I think it's definitely gold sounds and probably here. Here and uh yeah there was a bunch of other bands and like some of them did like very similar versions to the original some of them completely reworked them as like punk songs some of them translated the lyrics to hebrew like there was a i think it was father to a sister of thought they completely translated it to hebrew that was that was fun so anyway uh yeah that was a cool show. The second time I saw something pavement related was in 2010.Track 3:[12:23] 2010, that was the first big reunion in New York, in Central Park. That was a brilliant show. It's actually possible that you and I went to the same show. Yes, I know. Yeah. And yeah, I absolutely loved it. I think, like you mentioned a couple of times on your podcast, that, how did you describe it? That they seemed tired or something like that?Track 3:[12:48] Yeah, they just didn't seem into it. You know, the same way they did on this newer tour. Maybe, um, maybe I, I was absolutely excited about this. Oh, me too. At least, at least the part, they also seemed like very excited. Uh, the Stanowich was like ecstatic, uh, eyeballed, uh, who is like, usually very like quiet and, uh, serious. He was actually quite chatty on the stage. I remember, like, I remember him speaking to New York and how cool, like he's, he's from New York and how cool New York is and how cool Queens is. He, he mentioned Queens. I don't remember what he's, what did he say exactly, but like, he's like, are there people from Queens or something like that? Like he looked. I don't remember that. Yeah. And he's, he mentioned something like that. So anyway, um, yeah, it was, it was a fantastic show. Such a fantastic show.Track 3:[13:43] Heckler Spray, Summer Babe. Oh, wow. In the Mountain Desert. Uh, just a fantastic, fantastic show. So is the record that you go back to now, like, is it Wowie Zowie when you have a hankering for Pavement, or is it your favorite, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain? I would probably say, it's so hard to say, I would probably say Crooked Rain and Slanted, but I love them all. I love them all. I listen to them all. There was a third Pavement-related thing I saw, and that was Malkmus.Track 3:[14:18] Malcolm's solo I think it was in 2012 or 13 it was the it was it was.Track 3:[14:26] Oh, I'm, I'm blacking out. Which, uh, which, uh, the album with, uh, uh, Senator, uh, which, which album is that? Mirror Traffic? Yes, that one. Uh, yeah. So that was, that was a brilliant show. Uh, that was a really brilliant show. Towards, towards the end, he did, uh, uh, something like, uh, funny, uh, Faith No More impersonation. Really? yeah like towards the end of the show he played he played a couple of famous so he played here and i think uh speaks he remember and uh at one of the songs towards the end they were like the jigs were getting all uh uh in a good mood and uh jamming and at some point they just started started playing um what's the famous faith no more song epic yeah yeah they just I started playing that. That's so cool. Yeah. Anyway, it was a brilliant rock and roll show. So yeah, so these are the three Pavement-related shows I attended. Nice. Well, what do you say we take a quick break and come back and talk about song number 28? Let's do that. Let's do that. Hey, this is Bob Mustanovich from Pavement.Track 1:[15:43] Thanks listening. And now on with a countdown. 28.Track 3:[20:18] Song number 28 on the countdown comes from Crooked Rain. Crooked Rain, amazingly, it's the first song from their sophomore effort to appear on this list. You can exhale now because track 28 is Stop Breathing. Amir. Yeah. What are your initial thoughts about this song? I love this song. It appears in my top 20 that I sent you. I think it's number 14 there. so it's, half of your number I know maybe I should have rated it even higher it's like it's a brilliant song it's kind of special I made a bit of homework so it has the, it has if I'm not mistaken I learned music for many years but maybe I'm mistaken about something but almost all Pavement songs have the quadruple rhythm 1, 2, 3, 4 okay this one is Because the correct term here is probably the six-eighths rhythm. Oh, okay. One, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three.Track 3:[21:27] So there are not a lot of pavement songs in this rhythm. On the studio albums, it's just Our Singer and Stop Breathing. And half of Fight This Generation, the beginning of Fight This Generation. Oh, okay. The rest, and well, there's also 5-4 equals Unity, which begins in 5-4ths. And then I think actually the chorus is also in 3-4ths or 6-8ths. And the rest of the pavement, well, in all the kinds of B-sides and bonus tracks, tracks uh there are a bunch of uh um six eighths uh songs uh mercy snack kentucky cocktail so stark sagano stray fire um and yeah that's about it you did do your homework i did do my homework there's also kneeling bus uh also known as rugrat which is a very weird beat that i couldn't completely understand a very very cool one uh but it's like it's neither four neither three but yeah so that's so it's pretty.Track 3:[22:36] It's pretty unique relatively unique in that regard it's beautifully placed in the track list at the third third spot kind of a different mood between like the big rockers the, uh elevate me later and uh cut your hair yeah so that one has a different mood it has very beautiful uh guitar sound uh throughout the song and especially of course towards the end, um so yeah i absolutely love the song one of the best they the pavement has very, pretty much no songs that uh i would like say that they are bad but this this one is really one one of the best so what's your relationship with this song uh crooked rain crooked rain you said is your favorite record so what do you remember about the first time you heard this song or.Track 3:[23:33] Something like that so so this was the this was the second album i heard uh after wavy zowie and it's relatively much more uh much more of a straightforward rock straight absolutely relatively, compare it compared to wawi especially the first song like it gets a bit weirder towards the end but uh the beginning of it it's like it's a relatively very straightforward i agree.Track 3:[23:58] In a classic rock album i i i heard somewhere that uh malcolm called it like disparagingly classic rock like he said that silent kid is a is a classic rock song in like in a not very good way, but he's wrong well it's maybe he was just sarcastic i don't know it was Because Silent Kid is a brilliant song. And Stop Breathing is a brilliant song. It has this really, really beautiful guitar sound and this beat. And it may be, oh my God, this is such a cool rock band with cool melodies. And they do all these things so easily. And it sounds like they were just having fun. But the song, it's kind of somber, kind of solemn, kind of serious. Yeah, I agree. Relatively. It has this special atmosphere. Nevertheless, it feels like while they're playing it, they're having a lot of fun with these guitars. Like, that's a really special guitar sound, especially towards the end. And it gets stronger and stronger.Track 3:[25:08] And oh my God, it's just so beautiful. It's just so inspirational. Yeah. What do you think the song is about? I have no idea. I barely ever listen to lyrics, to be honest. In music, I mostly listen to the melodies and the playing and the arrangements.Track 3:[25:31] Volley. Like, volley has a... It's kind of a... Like, it probably refers to both things. Like, both to the volley in sports. ports and in the war. And that's kind of a menacing word. It's struck by the first volley. So that gets you in a kind of a tragic mood from the start. And then it says, stop breathing. And there's also this alternative version on LA Desert Origins where he says, start bleeding, like stop breathing and then start bleeding. Really? Yeah. I gotta re-listen to LA Desert Origins. My memory is so shit. Oh, well. Yeah. It's like the comment there is that it's from Louder Than You you think, 1993, and it's probably, I don't know, maybe it's a demo, maybe it's not a demo, maybe it was at some point intended to be released. But in the chorus there, he says, stop breathing and then start bleeding, which makes it even more menacing. Yeah.Track 3:[26:46] Yeah. So there's this menacing song, and right after it, there's Cut Your Hair, which is very fun. The exact opposite. The exact opposite.Track 3:[26:55] But menacing, you know, my attitude to music is embodied in a poem that I really love. It was written by a jazz musician who's very old, but he's still alive, I think. His name is Oliver Lake, a jazz saxophone player. And he wrote a poem. And in the poem, he mentions names of many musical artists that he loves. and they're very different artists.Track 3:[27:26] And he's like, and the poem is built like a conversation between himself and the waiter in the restaurant. And then he says, put all the meals in one, put all my meals in one plate. Don't ask me what kind of music I play. I play the good kind. So I like, I actually, I don't care very much about the genres of music and I don't care very much about the mood of a particular song. Like some songs are happy and some songs are sad and some songs are scary like these are all important things but uh eventually i i i judge all songs by like this is the good song or is it not a very good song and uh this song is is of the good kind uh yeah that's that's the really important thing like it like it definitely has a mood uh definitely has a very identifiable probably intentional mood and it's probably placed intentionally in that sequence uh on the album but it definitely has this character.Track 3:[28:25] So this is going to be I think I know the answer to this because.Track 3:[28:31] You've already told me what you rated it on your list but do you think this song is properly rated overrated underrated on the top 50 28 is lowish, I would be very unpleasantly surprised if it was not in the top 50 at all um i like i would probably rate it a bit higher uh maybe it's not my number one song but it's like it's pretty like it's pretty high it's pretty high on my list it's a great song it is absolutely there's nothing to shake a stick at unless it's a complimentary uh stick shaking your dick fun fun fact about uh the tennis part uh the so the song is like you mentioned it uh You mentioned that you read it from those notes that Malthus had in his own songs. And he mentioned tennis himself, so we have it from himself.Track 3:[29:28] I checked it. So I edit Wikipedia quite often in English and in Hebrew and occasionally in other languages. And I checked what is actually Malthus' relation to tennis.Track 3:[29:41] And the English Wikipedia mentions that he loves playing golf and tennis, but he doesn't, Here's where it gets funny. So Wikipedia editors, good, serious Wikipedia editors, try to fact-check everything. And the fact-check in Wikipedia is done by adding footnotes. You may have noticed that Wikipedia has lots of footnotes. So I checked the footnotes. So where it mentions that he plays golf and tennis, it had two footnotes. Both of them were not very good. One of them was a completely dead link. the other one didn't say anything about any sports so I found another source like it's actually a tennis website where he speaks about actually loving tennis so yeah so there's another confirmation that he loves tennis that other tennis website mentioned the song yeah so I improved the English Wikipedia article about Mr. Stephen Maltmes and now it has a better footnote for the tennis information, So, yeah, that's a kind of thing I do for fun. Cool.Track 3:[30:50] Well, it's been really great talking to you today. I'm curious if you have anything that you want to plug or mention for people to look at on the internet or anything that you've created, anything like that. Well not much I'm kind of I'm trying I'm trying to I moved I lived in Israel for many years and I moved to Providence a few months ago my wife is doing an academic project here so we all moved together with the kids.Track 3:[31:21] But I love as I mentioned I love Israeli music I'm, there's not much to plug I'm trying to start a band that would play covers of Israeli songs which is challenging in the united states i it's i'm slowly finding some people to do that but there's not much to say about this right now uh but uh you know you can you can find in the future there might be a band that we can look for hopefully and uh then i would maybe um i would i would probably i would probably mostly play uh covers of israeli music or maybe in the loop on that amir maybe an occasional pavement song what's that keep me in the loop on that shoot me an email when you get it going and I'll talk about it on the pod. I haven't tried that. Maybe an occasional pavement song. Yeah, that would be cool. Well, like I say, it's been a blast spending this time with you today. I really appreciate you doing this heavy lifting on a podcast that is ostensibly yours.Track 3:[32:21] So, thank you very much for that and make sure to wash your goddamn hands.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/meeting-malkmus-a-pavement-podcast/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Versatile and sophisticated jazz guitarist Ron Jackson has performed, recorded and taught music in over 30 countries. With a varied career as a performer, composer and arranger, Highlights include shows and tours with artists such as Taj Mahal, Jimmy McGriff, Larry Coryell, Benny Golson, Oliver Lake, Russell Malone and Mulgrew Miller. Ron has been featured as a leader in jazz festivals all over the world, including the North Sea Jazz Festival, Edinburgh Jazz Festivals and Winter Jazzfest, NYC. Born in the Philippines, lived in many states as a kid, then settled in Harvard, Massachusetts, west of Boston, Ron was initially influenced by rock guitar greats like Jimmy Page, before falling under the spell of jazz and following the style and career of jazz guitar luminaries like Pat Metheny and George Benson. After attending Berklee School of Music on scholarship, studying jazz composition and arranging, Ron spent two formative years in the mid-1980's living and playing guitar with the lively expat jazz community in Paris, France. Ron moved to New York City where he remains an active participant in Gotham's always vibrant jazz scene. A master of the six, seven and twelve string guitars, Ron appeared on over 40 albums by such artists as Hal Singer, Graeme Norris, Ron Blake, Gisele Jackson and T.K. Blue, before founding the independent record label Roni Music in 2003 which has since released some of his eight of his albums as a leader including The Dream I Had (2003), Flubby Dubby (2008) and Akustik InventYours (2014). His latest project, Jazz Standards and Other Songs (2019) is an alluring mix of familiar jazz numbers and innovative adaptations of songs from other genre's like his trendsetting arrangement for jazz trio of Drake's “Passion Fruit.” Ron was grateful to be selected as the winner of the 1996 Heritage International Jazz Guitar Competition. He has also been a recipient of the 2012 Donald Knutson Memorial Development Fund and the 1991 and 2000 Meet the Composer Performance Fund. He endorses, Eastman Guitars, Kremona Guitars, Aria Classical Guitars, Paul Reed Smith Guitars and Godin Guitars. An acclaimed music educator, Ron currently teaches guitar at Jazz at Lincoln Center, The New School, Midori and Friends, and is the founder and director of the website www.practicejazzguitar.com. Ron has held master classes, concerts and workshops at Jazz at Lincoln Center-Jazz in the Schools, The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, Escuela Creativa Musica in Madrid, Spain and California State University. Ron has made appearances in several major motion pictures including The Greatest Showman, Vulgar, and Fly by Night. He has also performed in pit orchestras on many Broadway and off-Broadway shows including Avenue Q, Fosse, Shuffle Along, and Bring In `Da Noise, Bring In `Da Funk. In recent years, Ron has also developed a side career as a freelance writer for Acoustic Guitar magazine where he's published educational and guitar instructional articles. WEBSITE: https://ronjacksonmusic.com/ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/ronjacksonmusic/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/ronjacksonmusic/ X (formerly Twitter): https://twitter.com/i/flow/login?redirect_after_login=%2Fronjacksonmusic SPOTIFY:

Bassist Reggie Washington was a key participant in the Modern Jazz revolution of the '80s and '90s. He became known touring, recording, and performing with Steve Coleman, Branford Marsalis, Roy Hargrove, Chico Hamilton, Oliver Lake, Cassandra Wilson, Don Byron, Jean-Paul Bourelly, Lester Bowie, and Ronald Shannon Jackson.In 2005, Reggie began successfully touring with his own bands. They were a mix of American & European musicians such as Ravi Coltrane, Gene Lake, Stéphane Galland, Jef Lee Johnson, Erwin Vann, Jacques Schwarz-Bart, E.J Strickland, Jozef Dumoulin, Skoota Warner, Matthew Garrison, Marcus Strickland, Jason Lindner, Poogie Bell, and Ronny Drayton.A versatile, 360-degree musician, Reggie plays Jazz, Funk, R&B, Blues, World, and Experimental music with a natural and contagious energy. His bass lines are both sophisticated and explicit. He is diligent in his work and enjoys mixing people of different cultures as a way to enhance music by learning from others and sharing ideas. Reggie leads the Black Lives Band who has released two stellar albums "Generation to Generation" and "People Of Earth". He also has recorded two albums of songs of his friend, the late great Jef Lee Johnson.Reggie has toured with Archie Shepp, Jacques Schwarz-Bart, The Headhunters, Alex Tassel, Dana Leong, Hervé Samb, Brian Jackson's New Midnight Band “Tribute to Gil Scott Heron”, Rokia Traoré, Randy Brecker, Stanley Jordan, and gospel diva Liz McComb.________"Musicians Reveal with Joe Kelley" Podcast BioRock and Roll Hall of Famer Prince featured the "Upper Room with Joe Kelley and Gi Dussault" on his official website www.npgmusicclub.com. This is the first radio show to have ever received that honor. "Musicians Reveal with Joe Kelley" has been on the radio airwaves since 1982. Joe Kelley and Gi Dussault co-host the show and are well-respected in the music business as creative air personalities and supporters of independent musicians . Our web site is located at www.musiciansreveal.com . The show features creative music in funk, R&B, jazz, blues, rock, hip-hop, latin, and gospel. In addition, Joe Kelley has interviewed renowned musicians such as Victor Wooten, Sheila E. , Foley, Robin Duhe, Jef Lee Johnson, Jellybean Johnson, Monte Moir, Rhonda Smith, Bernie Worrell, Cyndi Lauper, Michael Bland, Larry Graham, Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, Steve Smith, St. Paul Peterson, JD Blair, Tori Ruffin, Kat Dyson, Eric Person, actor Jeff Daniels, Junior Giscombe, John Scofield, EC Scott, John Blackwell, Mystic Bowie, and many others.

Adam Schroeder And Mark Masters Pay Tribute To Clark Terry On CT!Big Band Takes On Fresh Arrangements Of 13 Terry Originals Available January 19, 2024 via Capri Records Host/Producer of The Jazz, Blues and R and B Podcast and Radio Show PERIOD: Tom Gouker PERIOD is found on: Youtube, Itunes, Anchor, Spotify, Amazon Podcasts, Google Podcast, Overcast, Breaker, Castbox, Radio Public, Podbay, Stitcher....and more! Tom Gouker is also featured on a limited-run podcast about the Beatles called, "The Beatles Come To America", Join Tom and the "Beatle Guru" Brooke Halpin as we chat about the US Album Releases of the Beatles ("65", "Yesterday & Today" and "Hey Jude"...they are all there.) How To Get a Hold of The Jazz Blues and R and B Podcast and Radio Show PERIOD! Contacts Information: Email: somethingcamefrombaltimore@gmail.com Twitter: something came from baltimore (@tom_gouker) / Twitter Instagram: Something Came From Baltimore (@something.came.from.baltimore) Did You know that The Jazz Blues and R and B Podcast and Radio Show Period is on "TheBocX.com". TheBocX.com - It is a Podcast and a 30-minute radio show and can be heard weekly (Thursday's at 7pm and 10pm EST). TIPS! (Thank You!) Tom Gouker's Cash App Account: $ThomasGouker Tom Gouker's Venmo Account: Thomas-Gouker ABOUT ADAM SCHROEDER Baritone saxophonist Adam Schroeder has established his influence as a major voice and force within the global jazz community, becoming the first call for a multitude of musical situations in addition to his dedication and devotion towards extensive educational outreach. Holding a BM in Jazz Studies from Texas State University, San Marcos and a MM in Jazz Studies from the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music, California State University, Long Beach, Schroeder presently serves as an Associate Professor of Jazz & Commercial Music at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and was just awarded the University's “Charles Vanda Award for Excellence in the Arts” (2022). He's a prolific studio musician with many album, television, and film credits.ABOUT MARK MASTERSMark Masters is an inventive and prolific composer and arranger from southern California. He organized his first ensemble in 1982. His work has appeared on more than a dozen albums, under his own name and for other bandleaders. Masters has written and arranged music for recordings featuring Billy Harper, Jimmy Knepper, Andrew Cyrille, Oliver Lake, Mark Turner, Tim Hagans, Grachan Moncur III, Peter Erskine, and many others. From 1999 through 2006, Masters was a guest lecturer at Claremont McKenna College. He's been named a Rising Star: Arranger in the DownBeat Critics Poll. PERSONNELSal Lozano, alto saxophone / Bob Sheppard, tenor and soprano saxophones / Kirsten Edkins, tenor saxophone / Adam Schroeder, baritone saxophone / Francisco Torres, lead trombone / Ido Meshulam, trombone / Lemar Guillary, trombone / Dan Fornero, lead trumpet / James Ford, trumpet / Aaron Janik, trumpet / Edwin Livingston, bass / Peter Erskine, drums --- 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

GRAMMY® Winning TrumpeterIn This Episode, To Get Us in a Happy Holiday Mood You Listened to  Black Girl Magic (feat. Badia Farha, Mumu Fresh & Nikki Grier) & Harlem Shake On "En Motion". Just a Couple Songs from Great New Music from Nabate Isles'.Nabaté Isles is a Grammy-winning trumpeter as well as a composer and producer, born and raised in New York City. Nabaté is releasing his second album called, En Motion, to be released on Ropeadope Records in the Fall of 2022. The album features the core lineup of Sam Barsh (also the album's producer), Eric Harland, Kaveh Rastegar, David Gilmore and Rachel Eckroth & guests include James Francies, Ben Wendel, Victor Provost, Sasha Berliner, Badia Farha. Added featured performers on the album are Mumu Fresh, Kardinal Offishall and Chuck D.Nabaté has performed, toured and/or recorded with unique artists Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def), Christian McBride, Chuck D, Kenny Lattimore, Philip Bailey, Fantasia, Jeffrey Osborne, Jill Scott, Leslie Odom, Jr., Robert Glasper, Dianne Reeves, José James, Savion Glover, Gregory Porter, Freda Payne, Shareefa, Oliver Lake, Steve Coleman, Ravi Coltrane, Steve Wilson, Joey DeFrancesco, Muhal Richard Abrams, Matthew Shipp, Charli Persip, Mike Longo, Uri Caine, Buster Williams, Grady Tate, Jay Hoggard, Holt McCallany, the Mingus Big Band, and the José Limon Dance Company. He composed a solo double bass composition called 'Lessons', which was premiered by world-renowned double bassist James VanDemark at Louisiana State University. Nabaté also received two commissions from the Festival of New Trumpet Music to compose and premiere new compositions entitled, ‘We Need Unity in the Community' and 'Same Strife, Different Life'.Nabaté provided private trumpet instruction to the actor Rob Brown for his role as trumpeter Delmond Lambreaux on the HBO series, ‘Treme'. Nabaté was part of three Christian McBride Big Band's Grammy-winning albums, ‘The Good Feeling', ‘Bringin' It' and 'For Jimmy, Wes & Oliver' as well as the band's performance at the White House for the last concert under President Barack Obama's administration. He has composed five music scores for short films as well as contributing original music to Amos Poe's innovative film, ‘Empire II'. He recently completed a score for his first feature called, 'The Rhythm in Blue'. He recently co-released a record dedicated to the late, great thespian and humanitarian, Chadwick Boseman called, 'Super Hero: Ode to Chadwick Boseman' with Niles, featuring Beth Griffith-Manley. As a sports trivia expert, he is the only person to Stump The Schwab on ESPN (Season 2) and be crowned a Sports Jeopardy champion (Season 1, Episode #8), on Crackle.com.  Now, he created and hosts his own podcast, 'Whe're They At', which profiles prominent retired athletes (https://linktr.ee/Whe_reTheyAt). The show has featured numerous Hall of Famers and luminaries like Chuck D, Dr. John Carlos, Chris Evert, Darrelle Revis, Warren Moon, David Robinson, Marshall Faulk, Tom Glavine, Larry Brown, Branford Marsalis, Taylor Hackford, to name a few.© 2023 All Rights Reserved© 2023 BuildingAbundantSuccess!!Join Me on ~ iHeart Media @ https://tinyurl.com/iHeartBASSpot Me on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/yxuy23baAmazon Music ~ https://tinyurl.com/AmzBASAudacy:  https://tinyurl.com/BASAud

THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Cheikh M'hamed Elanka; Fay Victor; Kyriakos Sfetsas & Greek Fusion Orchestra; Greek clarinet from Tassos Halkias;  Henry Cow; Ahi Nana; vintage Algerian vocals from Saloua; vintage Moroccan pop from Jil JIlala; Donald Byrd w/ chorus; Sonic Liberation Front w. Oliver Lake; Famille Nguyên Van Mùi de Hanoi; recent Ida Widawati; Clifford Jordan (new release, old recording); Bhopal & Kelassi Bhopa; raga from Kishori Amonkar; Dimitrios Lantzos; much, much more ...! LISTEN LIVE: Cheikh M'hamed ElankaFriday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI: 88.1FM Ithaca, 89.7FM Odessa, 91.9FM WINO Watkins Glen. and WORLDWIDE online at WRFI.ORG.  via PODBEAN: https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/ via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580 Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere. Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online: PLAYLIST at SPINITRON: https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/17650202/Conference-of-the-Birds and via the Conference of the Birds page at WRFI.ORG https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/  Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks FIND WRFI on Radio Garden: http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR Contact: confbirds@gmail.com

THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Arabo-Andalusian vocalist Nassima; dhrupad from le famille Mallik; vintage soukous from Papa Wemba; from Angola: Sara Chaves; Rob Brown and Daniel Levin (duo); new Music from Jane Bunnett et al. new music from David Virelles et al.; salsa from Sonora Ponceña & Tony Pabon; Jorge Humberto (Cape Verde) address Covid; Archie Shepp w. Jeanne Lee teal. (ca. 1969); new music from OGJB Quartet and Sonic Liberation Front (Both w/ Oliver Lake); 2 from Sélébéyone; Taylor Ho Bynum; and much, much more ...! LISTEN LIVE: Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI: 88.1FM Ithaca, 89.7FM Odessa, 91.9FM WINO Watkins Glen. and WORLDWIDE online at WRFI.ORG.  via PODBEAN: https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/ via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580 Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere. Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online: PLAYLISTS at SPINITRON: https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/17277879/Conference-of-the-Birds and via the Conference of the Birds page at WRFI.ORG https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/  Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks FIND WRFI on Radio Garden: http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR Contact: confbirds@gmail.com

Bruce Williams is a jazz saxophonist who hails from our nation's capital of Washington, D.C. He has made his presence known on the jazz scene by garnering critical attention with his own enthusiastically received CD releases - "Brotherhood" and "Altoicity" - issued on Savant Records. He's made an indelible impression as a sideman on over twenty other CD and video recordings. Bruce has performed, toured, and recorded with a long roster of jazz legends - Little Jimmy Scott, Frank Foster, The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Stanley Cowell, Louis Smith, Cecil Brooks III, The Count Basie Orchestra, The World Saxophone Quartet, Russell Gunn, Curtis Fuller, and Roy Hargrove to name a few. Bruce Williams is a versatile saxophone stylist, performing in a variety of diverse playing environments - from traditional to hip-hop to the avant-garde. He has been an honored recipient of awards from DownBeat magazine and The Charlie Parker Music and More Foundation. His ability to perform masterfully in a range of jazz styles has placed him on two Grammy nominated recordings and sent him to numerous cities throughout the US and abroad in France, Italy, Germany, Scandinavia, the West Indies, Lebanon, and Japan. ​Bruce Williams is currently the newest and youngest member, of the internationally recognized jazz group, "The World Saxophone Quartet". Bruce is currently a member of a newly founded group by legendary drummer Ben Riley, the "Thelonious Monk Legacy Septet". Bruce also leads four bands of his own - a quartet, a quintet, a jazz organ trio, and a progressive electric jazz group. ​A noted jazz educator and mentor to young jazz musicians; Bruce has given master classes at Ohio State, Iowa State, The Jazz Institute of New Jersey, The University of the District of Columbia, Princeton University, The New Jersey Performing Arts Center "Jazz For Teens" program, and the Paris Conservatory in France. He has served as adjunct saxophone instructor at both the New School for Social Research (Mannes School of Music) in NYC, Princeton, and Bard College . He's currently an ensemble coach for the Jazz department at Julliard.  ​Bruce Williams has been mentored by some of the best in the business including Frank Foster, Branford Marsalis, Joe Ford, Laura George, William Shadle,Oliver Lake and Cecil Brooks III. All of the above experiences have aided Bruce Williams in becoming a confident doubler and one of the premier jazz alto and soprano saxophonists in the world today. (Republished from Brucewilliams-saxophone.com)

Broadway Drumming 101 is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Damon DueWhite (drums, percussion) a native of Twin Oaks, Pennsylvania, a Philadelphia suburb, learned to play the drums at the age of six from his father. At fourteen, he played in local bands in the Philadelphia and the New York Tri-State area. Prior to embarking on his first tour with the vocalist Roberta Flack in 1982, DueWhite, attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.DueWhite has performed and/or recorded with Vanessa Williams and The National Symphony Orchestra, Hugh Masekela, Oliver Lake, Regina Carter, Philip Harper, Rachelle Ferrell, Miriam Makeba, Harry Belafonte, Vanessa Rubin, Carla Cook, Craig Harris, Meshell Ndegeocello, Jonathan Butler, George Duke, Roberta Flack, Alex Bugnon, Vivian Reed, Jennifer Holliday, Joe, Joan Osborne, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Chuck Berry, Vernon Reid, Nona Hendrix, Johnny Clyde Copland, Shemekia Copeland, Johnnie Johnson, Sarah Dash, Mick Taylor, Axelle Red and David Linx.His Broadway credits are the first U.S. tour of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical "Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk", the national tour of the Tony Award-nominated blues revue “It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues.” His other work on Broadway includes the Tony Award-winning musical “The Color Purple” and “Holler If Ya Hear Me” based on the music of Tupac Shakur, and the Tony-nominated production of “Motown: The Musical.” The Tony Award-winning show “Hello Dolly.” Featuring Bette Midler and Tina Turner the Musical.DueWhite has also performed in a number of music festivals around the world, including the Montreux Jazz Festival (France), North Sea Jazz Festival (Netherlands), Jazz in Tokyo Festival, Banlieues Bleues Festival(France), Australia's Byron Bay Blues & Roots Festival, International Jazz Festival of Bern, Switzerland, Bastia Equinox Jazz Festival (Corsica), Montreal Jazz Festival, Newport Jazz Festival, JVC Jazz Festival, Long Beach Jazz Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, Chicago Jazz Festival, Fort Meade Jazz Festival, and the Capital Jazz Festival. Along with his countless performances in the United States, DueWhite has toured Africa, Australia, China, South America, Japan, Europe, Canada, the Caribbean, and the Middle East.He has also appeared on The Tonight Show, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, BET Jazz Central, VH-1, C-Span, and WNBC New York Positively Black.For more: https://www.moderndrummer.com/2016/10/beat-damon-duewhite-five-tips-starting/When you subscribe to Broadway Drumming 101, you'll learn everything you need to know about playing drums for broadway musicals and what it takes to be a successful musician.For only $5 a month, or $50 a year, you will receive behind-the-scenes access to the life of a musician who makes a living on Broadway through YouTube videos, bi-weekly podcasts, and articles on what you need to know about being a professional musician.Currently, we have no ads, sponsors, investors, lots of staff, or corporate backers. It is just a small core of us creating valuable content for everyone interested in what we have to offer. We would appreciate any financial contributions you can make to continue the production of high-quality content.If you'd like to become a voluntarily paid subscriber, subscribe here: OR, if you would like to help without becoming a formal subscriber (or supplement your subscription cost, as many generously do…), you can buy us a cup of coffee (or a week's worth) by clicking here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/BD101You can even help with buying us a few drinks (at Manhattan prices) HERE: https://ko-fi.com/broadwaydrumming101• PayPal. https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/broadwaydrumming101• Venmo: https://account.venmo.com/u/broadwaydrumming101We also have merchandise! https://merchandise.broadwaydrumming101.comThanks!Clayton Craddock hosts the Broadway Drumming 101 Podcast and Newsletter. He has held the drum chair in several hit broadway and off-broadway musicals, including Tick, tick…BOOM!, Altar Boyz, Memphis The Musical, Lady Day At Emerson's Bar and Grill and Ain't Too Proud.The Broadway Drumming 101 Instagram page: InstagramThe Broadway Drumming 101 YouTube page: YouTubeFor more about Clayton, click HERE Get full access to Broadway Drumming 101 at broadwaydrumming101.substack.com/subscribe

THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Henri Guédon; Terri Lyne Carrington; Sélène Saint-Aimé; Aparecida; Boy Gé Mendes; Fatou Guewel; Marie Ngoná Ndione (et al); Fama Diabaté (et al); Inna Baba Coulibaly w. Ali Farka Touré; Doug Carn w. Linda Carn; Djo Mpoyi & L'Orchestre Saka Yonsa De Mbole Tambwe; Pamelo Mounk'a; Tarbaby w. Oliver  Lake; Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt; much more...! We have returned to our Friday night slot, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), on WRFI: 88.1FM Ithaca, 89.7fM Odessa, 91.9FM WINO Watkins Glen. and online at WRFI.ORG.  via PODBEAN: https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/ via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580 Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere. WRFI/WINO has improved and expanded its signal, and can now be heard on one of our frequencies from Northern Pennsylvania to Lake Ontario!!! Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online: PLAYLISTS at SPINITRON: https://spinitron.com/m/playlist/view/16855742 and via the Conference of the Birds page at WRFI.ORG https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/  Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks FIND WRFI on Radio Garden: http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR Contact: confbirds@gmail.com

The Shane Schneider Memorial episode,  featuring tracks exclusively from his collection.1)James Blood Ulmer/"Moon Shines"/Tales of Captain Black '782)Brotzmann/Bennink/"No.3"/Ein Halber Hund Kann Nicht Pinkeln '773)Roscoe Mitchell/"Nonaah"/Solo Saxophone Concerts '734)Andrew Cyrille/"The Loop"/The Loop '785)Ornette Coleman/"Him and Her"/Of Human Feelings '796)John Coltrane/"Peace on Earth"/Concert in Japan '667)Heiner Goebbels/Alfred 23 Harth/"Lightning Over Moscow"/Live Victoriaville '878)Braxton & Bailey/"Another Rehearsal Extract"/Live at Wigmor '749)Arthur Doyle/"Hey Minnie Hey Wilbur Hey Mingus"/Plays & Sings From the           Songbook '9210)Shannon Jackson & the Decoding Society/"Small World"/Nasty '8111)Joseph Jarmen/"Little Fox Run"/Song For '6612)Oliver Lake/"Whap"/Passing Thru '74

"You inspire us to work hard to improve the service we do for the music community." In this episode of MFM Speaks Out, Dawoud Kringle offers a retrospective of the progress of the MFM Speaks Out podcast in 2022. The guests mentioned, and / or whose music was included, include Ken Butler, Ariel Hyatt, Neel Murgai, Banning Eyre, Baba Don Eaton Babatunde, William Parker, Bruce Lee Gallanter, Jeff Slatnick, Hubert Howe, and April Centrone.The progress and accomplishments of MFM as a whole during the year 2022 were also briefly discussed. Topics discussed:Our guest for episode 35 in January was musician, experimental musical instrument builder, and visual artist Ken Butler. He builds hybrid musical instruments and other artworks that explore the interaction and transformation of common and uncommon objects, altered images, sounds and silence.He is internationally recognized as an innovator of experimental musical instruments created from diverse materials including tools, sports equipment, and household objects.February's episode 36 featured Ariel Hyatt. Ariel is a digital marketer, writer, and teacher who assists independent musicians in career development. She is the author of Music Success in 9 Weeks, Cyber PR For Musicians, Crowdstart, and other books. Hyatt worked at New York City's WNEW-FM, and the What Are Records? record label. She moved to Boulder CO, where she managed and handled publicity for the funk band, Lord of Word. She is also the founder and owner of the New York-based public relations firm Cyber PR. Her clients included the Toasters and George Clinton.Neel Murgai was our 37th guest in March. Neel is a sitarist, overtone singer, percussionist, composer, teacher, and Co-Artistic Director of the Brooklyn Raga Massive, a raga inspired musician's collective.Banning Eyre is a writer, guitarist and producer, and the senior editor and producer of the public radio program Afropop Worldwide.  He has traveled and done music research in over 20 African countries, as well as in the Caribbean, South America and Europe. His latest initiative is the launch of Lion Songs Records, an independent label dedicated to uplifting overlooked, mostly acoustic music from the African universe. He is the author of several books, and the co-author of AFROPOP! An Illustrated Guide to Contemporary African Music. Eyre is a contributor to National Public Radio's All Things Considered, and his writing has been published in Billboard, Guitar Player, Salon, the Boston Phoenix, College Music Journal, Option, The Beat, Folk Roots, Global Rhythm, and other publications. He also has a background in technology, and worked for 10 years as a software technical writer. Eyre is also on the Advisory Committee of Musicians for Musicians.  Baba Don Eaton Babatunde. He is a percussionist and master of African Drumming and the rhythms of the African Diaspora in the Americas. Baba Don has performed and recorded with Abidun Oyewole and The Last Poets, Pattie Labelle, Joe Henderson, Donald Brown, Jason Linder, Tyrone Jefferson, Tevin Thomas, James Spaulding, Ron Carter, George Clinton, Pharaoh Sanders, the Metropolitan Orchestra, Bill Laswell, and Philycia Rashadto name a few. His work with dance companies and choreographers includes The Dance Theatre of Harlem, Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre, Maurice Hines, Gregory Hines, Andy Williams, Chuck Davis Dance theatre, Frank Hatchet, Geoffrey Holder, Louis Johnson, and Pyramid Dance Company.Episode 40 featured free jazz bass master William Parker. He has also performed and recorded with Cecil Taylor, Peter Brotzmann, Derek Bailey, John Zorn, Hamid Drake, Anthony Braxton, Milford Graves, Oliver Lake, Daniel Carter, Billy Bang, Andrew Cyrille, Matthew Shipp, Roy Campbell, Warren Smith, Joe McPhee, Roscoe Mitchell, Jemeel Moondoc, Joe Morris, Steve Swell, David S. Ware, Leena Conquest, and many others. He was the leader of the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra and In Order to Survive, a member of the Other Dimensions in Music cooperative, and co-founder of the musician's non-profit organization Arts For Art. Our guest for episode 41 was Bruce Lee Gallanter, the owner and proprietor of Downtown Music Gallery (DMG), a Manhattan based music store that specializes in new, used, hard to find, and out of print CDs, Vinyl, DVDs, and books. DMG was started in 1991 by David Yamner & Steve Popkin, with Gallanter working for the store. They remained in their first location on east 4th street in Manhattan for 12 years until 2003, and started having weekly free concerts, an idea that Gallanter had started with Manny Maris when they worked at Lunch For Your Ears. Gallanter became the owner in 1997. Around the time. he and Emperor Mike started the DMG newsletter, In 2003, they moved into a new store on the Bowery, not far from St. Marks Place, Tower Records, and Other Music.Jeff Slatnick was our 42nd guest. Jeff has been an employee and later the owner of Music Inn for over 54 years. Music Inn is one of the oldest music stores in New York City (second in longevity only to Sam Ash). It is a landmark music store in the West Village of NYC specializing in imported world and western instruments, rare and exotic music items, and records. Music Inn has been described as “a museum, rich with music history from around the world.” Music Inn is also the headquarters of Limulus, a company that designs and manufactures unique solid body string instruments. Hubert Howe graced the annals of our podcast as our 43rd guest. Hubert was one of the first researchers in computer music, and became Professor of Music and Director of the Electronic Music studios at Queens College in New York, where he was also Director of the Aaron Copland School of Music from 1989 to 1998, 2001 to 2002, and Autumn 2007. He taught at the Juilliard School from 1974 through 1994. In 1988-89 he held the Endowed Chair in Music at the University of Alabama. He has been a member of the Society of Composers, Inc. , President of the US section of the League of Composers / International Society of Contemporary Music, a member of the International Computer Music Association, and directed the International Computer Music Conference at Queens College, a member of Society for Electro-Acoustic Music, a member of BMI, and the American Composers Alliance since 1974 and served as their President from 2002 to 2011. He is a member of the New York Composer's Circle and has served as Executive Director since 2013. In 2009, he founded the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, and he continues as Director.Our final guest for for 2022 was April Centrone. April Centrone is a multi-instrumentalist (specialising in the riqq, darbuka, frame drum, trap drum, and oud), co-founder of the New York Arabic Orchestra, teacher, composer, film producer and director, and music therapist. She is a Carnegie Hall World Explorer musician and educator, business owner and founder of 10PRL, arts/film/event space on the Jersey Shore. Shehas performed in venues such as the United Nations, NYC Opera House, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, and has toured throughout Europe, the Americas, Middle East and Far East.Music on this episode:"Aurora" by Adam Reifsteck / Sonic Fear"Building a Desert Blizzard" by Ken Butler"Bagheshri Unbound" by Neel Murgai"Today is a New Day" by Voyagers"25 Years" by Abiodun Oyewole, featurning Baba Don Eaton"Give Me Back My Drum" by William Parker"Warm Arms to Hold You" by Dawoud the Renegade Sufi (a.k.a. Dawoud Kringle)"Inharmonic Fantasy No. 7" by Hubert Howe"New Moon" by April Centrone"Welcome New Iran" by SoSaLa (a.k.a. Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi)(All music used by permission)

GRAMMY® Winning TrumpeterIn This Episode, To Get Us in a Happy Holiday Mood You Listened to  Black Girl Magic (feat. Badia Farha, Mumu Fresh & Nikki Grier) & Harlem Shake On "En Motion". Just a Couple Songs from Great New Music from Nabate Isles'.Nabaté Isles is a Grammy-winning trumpeter as well as a composer and producer, born and raised in New York City. Nabaté is releasing his second album called, En Motion, to be released on Ropeadope Records in the Fall of 2022. The album features the core lineup of Sam Barsh (also the album's producer), Eric Harland, Kaveh Rastegar, David Gilmore and Rachel Eckroth & guests include James Francies, Ben Wendel, Victor Provost, Sasha Berliner, Badia Farha. Added featured performers on the album are Mumu Fresh, Kardinal Offishall and Chuck D.Nabaté has performed, toured and/or recorded with unique artists Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def), Christian McBride, Chuck D, Kenny Lattimore, Philip Bailey, Fantasia, Jeffrey Osborne, Jill Scott, Leslie Odom, Jr., Robert Glasper, Dianne Reeves, José James, Savion Glover, Gregory Porter, Freda Payne, Shareefa, Oliver Lake, Steve Coleman, Ravi Coltrane, Steve Wilson, Joey DeFrancesco, Muhal Richard Abrams, Matthew Shipp, Charli Persip, Mike Longo, Uri Caine, Buster Williams, Grady Tate, Jay Hoggard, Holt McCallany, the Mingus Big Band, and the José Limon Dance Company. He composed a solo double bass composition called 'Lessons', which was premiered by world-renowned double bassist James VanDemark at Louisiana State University. Nabaté also received two commissions from the Festival of New Trumpet Music to compose and premiere new compositions entitled, ‘We Need Unity in the Community' and 'Same Strife, Different Life'.Nabaté provided private trumpet instruction to the actor Rob Brown for his role as trumpeter Delmond Lambreaux on the HBO series, ‘Treme'. Nabaté was part of three Christian McBride Big Band's Grammy-winning albums, ‘The Good Feeling', ‘Bringin' It' and 'For Jimmy, Wes & Oliver' as well as the band's performance at the White House for the last concert under President Barack Obama's administration. He has composed five music scores for short films as well as contributing original music to Amos Poe's innovative film, ‘Empire II'. He recently completed a score for his first feature called, 'The Rhythm in Blue'. He recently co-released a record dedicated to the late, great thespian and humanitarian, Chadwick Boseman called, 'Super Hero: Ode to Chadwick Boseman' with Niles, featuring Beth Griffith-Manley. Nabaté Isles' broadcasting and production career is just as vast as his music career. He has covered a plethora of sporting events involving the NFL, NBA, MLB, NCAA Basketball, and world boxing championship prizefights. Nabaté co-hosted a SiriusXM boxing show, Going The Distance with the well-respected Teddy Atlas and Wally Matthews. He was featured and consulted with the ESPN 30-for-30 documentary short, '86-32'. Also, he was an accomplished producer for SiriusXM NBA Radio. As a sports trivia expert, he is the only person to Stump The Schwab on ESPN (Season 2) and be crowned a Sports Jeopardy champion (Season 1, Episode #8), on Crackle.com.  Now, he created and hosts his own podcast, 'Whe're They At', which profiles prominent retired athletes (https://linktr.ee/Whe_reTheyAt). The show has featured numerous Hall of Famers and luminaries like Chuck D, Dr. John Carlos, Chris Evert, Darrelle Revis, Warren Moon, David Robinson, Marshall Faulk, Tom Glavine, Larry Brown, Branford Marsalis, Taylor Hackford, to name a few.© 2022 All Rights Reserved© 2022 BuildingAbundantSuccess!!Join Me on ~ iHeart Media @ https://tinyurl.com/iHeartBASSpot Me on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/yxuy23baAmazon Music ~ https://tinyurl.com/AmzBASAudacy:  https://tinyurl.com/BASAud

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We're LOOKING BACK at Jazz Poetry. Jazz Poetry has celebrated the fusion of music and language for over 18 years. Musicians and poets are brought together by City of Asylum to experiment, collaborate, connect and to express themselves freely, yielding performances greater than their parts . Over the years, Jazz Poetry has featured hundreds of artists from hundreds of countries. This episode is really special, an opportunity to dig through performances from the City of Asylum archive 2011-2019. Unless you were sitting in the audience at the COA tent, or Alphabet City, at any of these performances, you've never heard these before. We're really excited to share. We'll Open with a performance by Sonia Sanchez from 2011. Then we'll follow up with the incredible medley featuring Justin Philip Reed, Ilya Kaminsky, Jenny Johnson, and Yusef Komunyakaa. All the music, the amazing jazz, is brought to you by Jazz Poetry musical director Oliver Lake and various musicians he's recruited to join him across the years.

"Music is Defined as Anything that is Beautiful, and What Makes Something Beautiful is Music"Our guest for this episode of MFM Speaks Out is free jazz bass master William Parker. Parker was born in the Bronx, New York City, and grew up in the Melrose housing project. His first instruments were the trumpet, trombone and cello. Parker had no formal training as a classical player, but in his youth studied with Jimmy Garrison, Richard Davis and Wilbur Ware.In the 1980s, he first came to public attention playing with Cecil Taylor. He has also performed and recorded with Peter Brotzmann, Derek Bailey, John Zorn, Hamid Drake, Anthony Braxton, Milford Graves, Oliver Lake, Daniel Carter, Billy Bang, Andrew Cyrille, Matthew Shipp, Roy Campbell, Warren Smith, Joe McPhee, Roscoe Mitchell, Jemeel Moondoc, Joe Morris, Steve Swell, David S. Ware, Leena Conquest, and many others. He also led several groups, such as the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra and In Order to Survive.His discography is extensive, with dozens of albums as a leader and co-leader, and with the aforementioned artists. They received very favorable reviews from publications such as Downbeat, The Village Voice, The Wall Street Journal, Parker is a prominent musician in the New York City experimental jazz scene, where he leads a number of groups and is associated with the Vision Festival, organized by his wife, dancer / choreographer Patricia Nicholson. He is also a member of the Other Dimensions in Music cooperative, and co-founder of the musician's non-profit organization Arts For Art. He has performed at many prestigious venues and music festivals around the world. In addition to double bass, Parker also plays trumpet, tuba, bamboo flutes, shakuhachi, flute, double reeds, Kora, gembri, and donso ngoni.In 2006, Parker was awarded the Resounding Vision Award from Nameless Sound. In March 2007, his book of political thoughts, poems, and musicological essays, Who Owns Music?, was published by Buddy's Knife Jazzedition in Cologne, Germany.  In June 2011, Parker's second book, Conversations, a collection of interviews with notable free jazz musicians and forward thinkers, mainly from the African-American community, was published by RogueArt. Parker is frequently noted for his community dedication, mentorship, and status as "unofficial mayor of the New York improvisational scene." The Village Voice named him "the most consistently brilliant free jazz bassist of all time" and Downbeat has called him "one of the most adventurous and prolific bandleaders in jazz."Topics discussed:His beginnings as a musician and what led him to free jazz, his work with Cecil Taylor, Roy Campbell, Hamid Drake, Jimmy Garrison, and many others, his work and long association with Arts for Art (AFA), the Vision Festival, the Other Dimensions in Music Cooperative, AFA's kinship with other musician's organizations, his thoughts on hip hop, social media, and modern music technology, racism in America, the spiritual essence of music (especially free / improvised music), the future of free jazz, and his experience, thoughts, and advice about the political and economic climate of the the music business.Music on this episode:"Give Me Back My Drum""It's A Great Day to Be Dead""Canyons of Light"All Music by William Parker

Sortie du double album Black Lives, From Generation To Generation chez Jammin'colorS. Cheick Tidiane Seck, Immanuel Wilkins, Stephanie McKay, Sonny Troupé, Jacques Schwarz-Bart, David & Marque Gilmore, Reggie Washington, DJ Grazzhoppa, Jean-Paul Bourelly, Jeremy Pelt, Grégory Privat, Marcus Strickland, Alicia Hall Moran… et tant d'autres réunis sur un même album en un collectif d‘artistes qui continuent de lutter contre le racisme à travers la musique. "La musique est l'arme du futur". Le slogan du totémique Fela Kuti demeure d'actualité en 2021, tant les problèmes qui divisent depuis trop longtemps le monde en noir et blanc restent prégnants dans une société qui semble avoir dans sa grande majorité été sourde aux messages des artistes. Car le Nigérian est loin d'être le seul à avoir porté le débat des droits civiques sur les scènes publiques. Nina Simone comme Bob Marley, Curtis Mayfield comme Abbey Lincoln, Miriam Makeba, comme James Brown, la liste est trop longue des musiciens qui ont fait de leur médium un instrument de luttes. Si les lignes ont bougé sur le terrain de la musique, les fractures sont encore béantes dans un monde qui tend à se replier vers des identités fermées et des idéologies réactionnaires. C'est tout l'enjeu de ce projet, dont le titre renvoie au grand mouvement citoyen américain, qui essaime depuis à travers la planète. Black Lives, from Generation to Generation, un message plus que nécessaire à l'heure où George Floyd comme Adama Traoré sont décédés.   Cette sélection conçue par Stefany Calembert s'en fait l'écho. La productrice entend démontrer la vivacité de ce message qui traverse depuis des décennies les générations et qui aujourd'hui, plus que jamais, incite à agir. Ici, les plus jeunes n'ont guère plus de vingt ans et le vétéran va bientôt fêter ses quatre-vingt printemps. Ils sont nés à Ségou, Bruges, Washington, Chicago, en banlieue de Pointe-à-Pitre comme dans le Bronx. Ils sont américains, martiniquais, sud-africains ou haïtiens, tous unis autour de cette cause commune, qui en rien ne doit gommer la diversité de leurs origines qui s'exprime ainsi dans une profusion stylistique. C'est l'autre objectif de cette sélection : démontrer en vingt titres la créativité d'une communauté afro-diasporique dont la bande-son raconte à travers un foisonnant éclectisme le destin d'hommes et de femmes qui ont su transcender cet originel arrachement à leur continent. Ce son, c'est celui du fond des cales des navires négriers, c'est celui des rythmes réinventés loin de leur terreau ancestral, c'est celui d'une voix qui parvient à sublimer ses douleurs, celui d'un saxophone qui hurle face à la ségrégation. Ce son, c'est celui de l'Atlantique noir, cet océan composé par tant de vies et de morts, cette zone de flux et de remous, d'allers et désormais de retours, d'où auront émergé aussi bien le blues que le rap, le jazz que la biguine. Au cœur ou dans les marges de cet espace informel et pourtant bien réel, ceux qui n'avaient pas le droit à la parole se sont exprimés, un temps dans le secret, aujourd'hui sur tous les canaux médiatiques, faisant résonner au plus haut ce message d'émancipation.   Black Lives from Generation to Generation Jammin'colorS / l'Autre Distribution. À paraître le 25 mars 2022. La liberté d'expression ne serait qu'un mot vain sans la diversité des voix pour la porter. Que l'on se nomme Cheick Tidiane Seck, piano tambour malien ; ou Sonny Troupé, tambour enchanté guadeloupéen ; Reggie Washington, maître groover dont la basse narre toute l'épopée du jazz ; ou Jean-Paul Bourelly, érudit chercheur de son qui creuse un singulier sillon en direction d'Haïti. C'est de cela dont parle cette sélection : des maux dits blues, de la soul engagée, des phrasés qui tonnent… Tous ceux-là cohabitent autour d'un même désir d'en finir avec cette vision en noir et blanc qui n'a que trop duré, aussi bien Alicia Hall Moran, mezzo-soprano qui entremêle culture classique et improvisation débridée, que Kokayi, chantre hip-hop capable de délirer sur les octaves, DJ Grazzhoppa dont la science des platines se joue au-delà des querelles de chapelles comme Jacques Schwarz-Bart dont le saxophone s'est illustré autant du côté de la bonne vieille nu-soul que du jazz aux accents caribéens. Pas de transes portées sans cette fondamentale diversalité d'horizons, tel un juste écho à la féconde pensée post-moderne d'Édouard Glissant qui, pour avoir été parmi les activistes du premier Congrès des artistes et écrivains noirs à la Sorbonne en 1956, n'en fut moins, dans les mêmes années, engagé dans la lutte contre la guerre coloniale en Algérie. Le poète philosophe martiniquais ne disait-il pas : "Depuis la révolution de Césaire et tout ce qui s'ensuit, nous commençons à comprendre que nous sommes un peuple et une culture composites. Et ceci, aujourd'hui, n'est pas un manque et un vice, c'est pratiquement un avantage". Nos invités sont Cheick Amadou Tidiane Seck, Sonny Troupé, Reggie Washington, Guimba Tamba Kouyaté et Stefany Calembert-Washington (productrice exécutive).   Titres Interprétés à RFI au Grand studio - Sanga Bô, LIVE RFI Vidéo RFI Vidéos - Walk Feat. Alicia Hall Moran, extrait de Black Lives - Siya Woloma, LIVE RFI (version originale sur l'album Mandin Groove 2003) Vidéo RFI Vidéos.   Son : Benoît Letirant & Mathias Taylor.   CHEICK TIDIANE SECK (voix, claviers). Né en 1953 à Ségou, Mali. Compositeur, arrangeur et musicien, Cheick a écrit et joué avec des artistes tels que Fela Kuti, Mory Kanté, Salif Keita, Youssou N‘Dour, Manu Dibango, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Joe Zawinul. Il est connu pour son album avec Hank Jones intitulé Sarala. SONNY TROUPÉ (batterie). Né en 1978 aux Abymes, Guadeloupe. Sonny joue des instruments tels que le tambour ka ainsi que de la batterie, et mélange la musique traditionnelle guadeloupéenne et le jazz moderne. Il collabore avec David Murray, Kenny Garrett, Reggie Washington, Mario Canonge, Grégory Privat, Jacques Schwarz Bart, Magic Malik, Lionel Loueke, Alain Jean Marie. REGGIE WASHINGTON (basse). Né en 1962 à Staten Island, New York. Reggie a été un participant-clé de la révolution Modern Jazz des années 80 et 90. Il s‘est fait connaître en tournée, en enregistrant et en jouant avec Steve Coleman, Branford Marsalis, Roy Hargrove, Chico Hamilton, Oliver Lake, The Headhunters, Cassandra Wilson, Don Byron, Jean-Paul Bourelly et Ronald Shannon Jackson. Et pour cette session, le guitariste malien Guimba Tamba Kouyaté était présent. Il est déjà venu dans notre studio avec Oumou Sangaré. + Bonus Tracks - Super Biton de Ségou Ndossoke (AfroJazzFolk Collection Vol.1/ Mieruba/Deviation 2022) - Vieux Farka Gabou Ni Tie (Les Racines/ World Circuit/BMG 2022).   Réalisation : Steven Helsly.

9e émission de la 53e session... Cette semaine, post-bop et avant-jazz! En musique: Imperial Quartet sur l'album All Indians  (Compagnie Impérial, 2022); Matt Slocum sur l'album With Love and Sadness  (Sunnyside, 2022); Tarbaby feat. Oliver Lake sur l'album Dance of the Evil Toys  (Clean Feed, 2022); Anteloper sur l'album Pink Dolphins  (International Anthem, 2022); Sun of Goldfinger sur l'album OZMIR  (Screwgun, 2022)...

As you know if you've been listening this season, we have a single subject we're going to be exploring across ten episodes, and that subject is fusion. Fusion means much more, I think, than just the music that most people think of when they hear the word. I'm not talking exclusively about the big-name bands from the 1970s: the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever, and Weather Report. Those groups, and the Miles Davis bands from 1969 to 1975, and many other less immediately recognizable groups, all did the classic fusion thing, playing extremely complex music that blurred the lines between progressive rock and jazz. We talked about those acts in the second and third episodes this season, when I interviewed drummer Lenny White and trumpeter Randy Brecker, both of whom were around then and were actively participating in making that music.If you think of fusion as a mindset, though, rather than a style of music, the discussion gets a lot more interesting. And that's really how I prefer to think about it. It's not just a specific narrow slice of music, it's a way you approach any kind of music you make. KRS-One said rapping is something you do, hip-hop is something you live. And that's kind of close to what I'm talking about here, conceptually speaking. Fusion can be a style of music, or it can be a way you approach the making of music. And the people who fall into the latter category are the ones who I find to be the most interesting, and the ones who are more likely to have careers where almost every record they play on is at least worth hearing, worth giving a chance. You may not like all of it. But they're creative enough that they've earned the benefit of the doubt.Brandon Ross is one of those guys. He's been on a hell of an artistic journey over the course of the last forty-some years. His first recording was on an Archie Shepp album from 1975, There's a Trumpet in My Soul. He worked with violinist Leroy Jenkins. He worked with saxophonists Marion Brown and Oliver Lake. He worked with Henry Threadgill for something like ten years, in multiple bands or one evolving band. He worked with Cassandra Wilson on her breakout album, Blue Light Til Dawn, and the follow-up, New Moon Daughter. He's made albums under his own name. The reason a lot of people probably know his name right now is he's the guitar player in Harriet Tubman, with bassist Melvin Gibbs, who's been on this podcast before, and drummer JT Lewis.And now here's the really interesting part – Brandon Ross has an album coming out a little later this year on my label, Burning Ambulance Music. He's got a new group, see, called Breath Of Air, which is a trio featuring violinist Charles Burnham and drummer Warren Benbow. Something I learned in this interview, by the way, is that Brandon has done the guitar-violin thing several times, with Leroy Jenkins and also with Terry Jenoure, a very interesting violin player who isn't nearly as well known as she ought to be. When I was researching Brandon to come up with questions for this interview, I learned about her and now I'm gonna be diving into her catalog, and I suggest you do the same. Some of her music is on streaming services; she released a 3CD set called Portal last year that's fantastic. Anyway, Breath Of Air has a self-titled debut, most of which was recorded live in February 2020, right before the pandemic started and live music went away, and like I said it'll be out a little bit later this year.In the meantime, enjoy this conversation between me and Brandon Ross. We talk about his work with Henry Threadgill, about his work with Cassandra Wilson, about Archie Shepp and Oliver Lake and Marion Brown, about Harriet Tubman, about the sort of No Wave punk-funk jazz scene of the late '70s and early '80s that included Ornette Coleman's Prime Time and Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society and all the other guitarists that came out of that scene, including Michael Gregory Jackson and Kelvyn Bell and Jean-Paul Bourelly and James "Blood" Ulmer and Vernon Reid… we also talk about his particular approach to the guitar and to sound. There's a lot to learn and a lot to think about in the hour or so of conversation you're about to hear. I hope you enjoy listening to it.Music in this episode:Breath Of Air, “No One On Earth Can See You Anymore” (from Breath Of Air)Henry Threadgill, “Little Pocket Size Demons” (from Too Much Sugar For A Dime)Harriet Tubman, “Farther Unknown” (from The Terror End Of Beauty)

Sortie du double album Black Lives, From Generation To Generation chez Jammin'colorS. Cheick Tidiane Seck, Immanuel Wilkins, Stephanie McKay, Sonny Troupé, Jacques Schwarz-Bart, David & Marque Gilmore, Reggie Washington, DJ Grazzhoppa, Jean-Paul Bourelly, Jeremy Pelt, Grégory Privat, Marcus Strickland, Alicia Hall Moran… et tant d'autres réunis sur un même album en un collectif d‘artistes qui continuent de lutter contre le racisme à travers la musique. "La musique est l'arme du futur". Le slogan du totémique Fela Kuti demeure d'actualité en 2021, tant les problèmes qui divisent depuis trop longtemps le monde en noir et blanc restent prégnants dans une société qui semble avoir dans sa grande majorité été sourde aux messages des artistes. Car le Nigérian est loin d'être le seul à avoir porté le débat des droits civiques sur les scènes publiques. Nina Simone comme Bob Marley, Curtis Mayfield comme Abbey Lincoln, Miriam Makeba, comme James Brown, la liste est trop longue des musiciens qui ont fait de leur médium un instrument de luttes. Si les lignes ont bougé sur le terrain de la musique, les fractures sont encore béantes dans un monde qui tend à se replier vers des identités fermées et des idéologies réactionnaires. C'est tout l'enjeu de ce projet, dont le titre renvoie au grand mouvement citoyen américain, qui essaime depuis à travers la planète. Black Lives, from Generation to Generation, un message plus que nécessaire à l'heure où George Floyd comme Adama Traoré sont décédés.   Cette sélection conçue par Stefany Calembert s'en fait l'écho. La productrice entend démontrer la vivacité de ce message qui traverse depuis des décennies les générations et qui aujourd'hui, plus que jamais, incite à agir. Ici, les plus jeunes n'ont guère plus de vingt ans et le vétéran va bientôt fêter ses quatre-vingt printemps. Ils sont nés à Ségou, Bruges, Washington, Chicago, en banlieue de Pointe-à-Pitre comme dans le Bronx. Ils sont américains, martiniquais, sud-africains ou haïtiens, tous unis autour de cette cause commune, qui en rien ne doit gommer la diversité de leurs origines qui s'exprime ainsi dans une profusion stylistique. C'est l'autre objectif de cette sélection : démontrer en vingt titres la créativité d'une communauté afro-diasporique dont la bande-son raconte à travers un foisonnant éclectisme le destin d'hommes et de femmes qui ont su transcender cet originel arrachement à leur continent. Ce son, c'est celui du fond des cales des navires négriers, c'est celui des rythmes réinventés loin de leur terreau ancestral, c'est celui d'une voix qui parvient à sublimer ses douleurs, celui d'un saxophone qui hurle face à la ségrégation. Ce son, c'est celui de l'Atlantique noir, cet océan composé par tant de vies et de morts, cette zone de flux et de remous, d'allers et désormais de retours, d'où auront émergé aussi bien le blues que le rap, le jazz que la biguine. Au cœur ou dans les marges de cet espace informel et pourtant bien réel, ceux qui n'avaient pas le droit à la parole se sont exprimés, un temps dans le secret, aujourd'hui sur tous les canaux médiatiques, faisant résonner au plus haut ce message d'émancipation.   Black Lives from Generation to Generation Jammin'colorS / l'Autre Distribution. À paraître le 25 mars 2022. La liberté d'expression ne serait qu'un mot vain sans la diversité des voix pour la porter. Que l'on se nomme Cheick Tidiane Seck, piano tambour malien ; ou Sonny Troupé, tambour enchanté guadeloupéen ; Reggie Washington, maître groover dont la basse narre toute l'épopée du jazz ; ou Jean-Paul Bourelly, érudit chercheur de son qui creuse un singulier sillon en direction d'Haïti. C'est de cela dont parle cette sélection : des maux dits blues, de la soul engagée, des phrasés qui tonnent… Tous ceux-là cohabitent autour d'un même désir d'en finir avec cette vision en noir et blanc qui n'a que trop duré, aussi bien Alicia Hall Moran, mezzo-soprano qui entremêle culture classique et improvisation débridée, que Kokayi, chantre hip-hop capable de délirer sur les octaves, DJ Grazzhoppa dont la science des platines se joue au-delà des querelles de chapelles comme Jacques Schwarz-Bart dont le saxophone s'est illustré autant du côté de la bonne vieille nu-soul que du jazz aux accents caribéens. Pas de transes portées sans cette fondamentale diversalité d'horizons, tel un juste écho à la féconde pensée post-moderne d'Édouard Glissant qui, pour avoir été parmi les activistes du premier Congrès des artistes et écrivains noirs à la Sorbonne en 1956, n'en fut moins, dans les mêmes années, engagé dans la lutte contre la guerre coloniale en Algérie. Le poète philosophe martiniquais ne disait-il pas : "Depuis la révolution de Césaire et tout ce qui s'ensuit, nous commençons à comprendre que nous sommes un peuple et une culture composites. Et ceci, aujourd'hui, n'est pas un manque et un vice, c'est pratiquement un avantage". Nos invités sont Cheick Amadou Tidiane Seck, Sonny Troupé, Reggie Washington, Guimba Tamba Kouyaté et Stefany Calembert-Washington (productrice exécutive).   Titres Interprétés à RFI au Grand studio - Sanga Bô, LIVE RFI Vidéo RFI Vidéos - Walk Feat. Alicia Hall Moran, extrait de Black Lives - Siya Woloma, LIVE RFI (version originale sur l'album Mandin Groove 2003) Vidéo RFI Vidéos.   Son : Benoît Letirant & Mathias Taylor.         CHEICK TIDIANE SECK (voix, claviers). Né en 1953 à Ségou, Mali. Compositeur, arrangeur et musicien, Cheick a écrit et joué avec des artistes tels que Fela Kuti, Mory Kanté, Salif Keita, Youssou N‘Dour, Manu Dibango, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Joe Zawinul. Il est connu pour son album avec Hank Jones intitulé Sarala. SONNY TROUPÉ (batterie). Né en 1978 aux Abymes, Guadeloupe. Sonny joue des instruments tels que le tambour ka ainsi que de la batterie, et mélange la musique traditionnelle guadeloupéenne et le jazz moderne. Il collabore avec David Murray, Kenny Garrett, Reggie Washington, Mario Canonge, Grégory Privat, Jacques Schwarz Bart, Magic Malik, Lionel Loueke, Alain Jean Marie. REGGIE WASHINGTON (basse). Né en 1962 à Staten Island, New York. Reggie a été un participant-clé de la révolution Modern Jazz des années 80 et 90. Il s‘est fait connaître en tournée, en enregistrant et en jouant avec Steve Coleman, Branford Marsalis, Roy Hargrove, Chico Hamilton, Oliver Lake, The Headhunters, Cassandra Wilson, Don Byron, Jean-Paul Bourelly et Ronald Shannon Jackson. Et pour cette session, le guitariste malien Guimba Tamba Kouyaté était présent. Il est déjà venu dans notre studio avec Oumou Sangaré. + Bonus Tracks - Super Biton de Ségou Ndossoke (AfroJazzFolk Collection Vol.1/ Mieruba/Deviation 2022) - Vieux Farka Gabou Ni Tie (Les Racines/ World Circuit/BMG 2022).   Réalisation : Steven Helsly.

Fra i nuovi rapporti che Leo Smith allaccia col suo trasferimento in Connecticut, c'è anche il musicista bianco Bobby Naughton, pianista e organista che negli anni sessanta era rimasto folgorato dal free jazz ed era passato al vibrafono, e nei primi anni settanta si era fatto vivo con Leo Smith. Nel '76 Smith, Naughton e altri musicisti danno vita al Creative Music Improviser's Forum, che riprende il modello della AACM di Chicago e che fino all'84 organizza concerti di musica creativa in Connecticut. Alla metà dei settanta Naughton concepisce un album in trio, senza batteria, con l'obiettivo di suonare musica che non fosse basata su un ritmo stabile ed esplicito. Naughton compone la musica al pianoforte, la prova separatamente con Smith e col clarinettista Perry Robinson e il trio si riunisce però per la prima volta solo in studio al momento della registrazione, nell'aprile del '76. L'album, intitolato The Haunt, e cointestato ai tre musicisti, è un significativo esempio di combinazione di composizione e improvvisazione, ed è tra le incisioni più originali realizzate nel jazz d'avanguardia nella seconda metà dei settanta. Nell'agosto del '76 Leo Smith torna ad incidere un album personale - il suo terzo - con un organico più ampio di New Dalta Akhri, comprendente, oltre ad Anthony Davis al piano e a Wes Brown al contrabbasso, anche il sassofonista Oliver Lake e il ventunenne betterista Pheeroan Ak Laaf: l'album esce per l'etichetta di Smith, la Kabell, col titolo Song of Humanity.

Fra i nuovi rapporti che Leo Smith allaccia col suo trasferimento in Connecticut, c'è anche il musicista bianco Bobby Naughton, pianista e organista che negli anni sessanta era rimasto folgorato dal free jazz ed era passato al vibrafono, e nei primi anni settanta si era fatto vivo con Leo Smith. Nel '76 Smith, Naughton e altri musicisti danno vita al Creative Music Improviser's Forum, che riprende il modello della AACM di Chicago e che fino all'84 organizza concerti di musica creativa in Connecticut. Alla metà dei settanta Naughton concepisce un album in trio, senza batteria, con l'obiettivo di suonare musica che non fosse basata su un ritmo stabile ed esplicito. Naughton compone la musica al pianoforte, la prova separatamente con Smith e col clarinettista Perry Robinson e il trio si riunisce però per la prima volta solo in studio al momento della registrazione, nell'aprile del '76. L'album, intitolato The Haunt, e cointestato ai tre musicisti, è un significativo esempio di combinazione di composizione e improvvisazione, ed è tra le incisioni più originali realizzate nel jazz d'avanguardia nella seconda metà dei settanta. Nell'agosto del '76 Leo Smith torna ad incidere un album personale - il suo terzo - con un organico più ampio di New Dalta Akhri, comprendente, oltre ad Anthony Davis al piano e a Wes Brown al contrabbasso, anche il sassofonista Oliver Lake e il ventunenne betterista Pheeroan Ak Laaf: l'album esce per l'etichetta di Smith, la Kabell, col titolo Song of Humanity.

Listen to Laura Ekstrand's take on things and you'll hear from a classmate who has built a creative community. She was co-founder of Dreamcatcher Reparatory Theater (now, Vivid Stage) with Janet Sales in 1994. She has her own podcast, Local with Laura Ekstrand, and an impressive body of work, which you can read about on her website: https://www.lauraekstrand.com/ She has appeared at Dreamcatcher in Be Here Now, The Lucky Ones, What Stays; Sister Play; Rapture, Blister Burn; Motherhood Out Loud, and Shakespeare in Vegas, among many others, and is a member of The Flip Side improv comedy troupe. New Jersey Theatre: Bickford Theatre, Passage Theater, 12 Miles West, The Theater Project, Luna Stage, and the Pushcart Players. New York Theatre: Naked Angels, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and New Georges. Film: Fat Ass Zombies; Split Ends, High Art and I Shot Andy Warhol. Television: Hack, Sex And The City, Law & Order, and The Guiding Light. As a director: Dead and Buried, Every Brilliant Thing, The How and the Why, Things Being What They Are, Next Fall, Distracted, The Pursuit Of Happiness, Melancholy Play, Pride's Crossing, Full Bloom and many others. Podcast directing: The Weirdness and Young Ben Franklin for Gen Z Media. As a playwright: What Stays (with Jason Szamreta), Whatever Will Be, The Neighborhood (Book and Lyrics; Music by Joe Zawila), Brink of Life (Book; Lyrics by Steve Harper; Music by Oliver Lake) and Astonishment, How to be Old: A Beginner's Guide, and At Ninety-Three (Adaptations). Laura is a private monologue and public speaking coach and holds a BA from Yale University and an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Laura is a member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA and the Dramatists Guild.

For Video Edition, Please CLick and Subscribe Here:  https://youtu.be/vsLJM9r6zdY Random Act of Kindness Day - Want to change the world? Start with a random act of kindness! One random act of kindness could be to tell a friend about this show! We will be joined by three special artists to be announced later this week who are creating against the odds of Covid. Versatile and sophisticated jazz guitarist Ron Jackson has performed, recorded and taught music in over 30 countries. With a varied career as a performer, composer and arranger, Highlights include shows and tours with artists such as Taj Mahal, Jimmy McGriff, Larry Coryell, Benny Golson, Oliver Lake, Russell Malone and Mulgrew Miller.  Ron currently teaches guitar at Jazz at Lincoln Center, The New School, Midori and Friends, and is the founder and director of the website www.practicejazzguitar.com. Chuck Muckle (director/playwright/actor/composer) directed IN LOVE WITH THE ARROW COLLAR MAN and MOURNING BECOMES RIDICULOUS at the New York New Works Festival last year. Lance Ringel's career as a writer and journalist has spanned more than four decades. His novel Flower of Iowa, an epic romance between two soldiers in the First World War, has met with unexpected success in the United States and Europe, receiving accolades from Kirkus Reviews and Stephen Fry, among many others. Both Arrow Collar Man and the musical Animal Story, for which Ringel wrote book and lyrics to Chuck Muckle's score, made the semifinals of the New York New Works Theatre Festival.  He also wrote the narrative for At Home in the World, a joint production of Vassar and Japan's Ashinaga Foundation, which played in Tokyo, New York, Washington, D.C., and Kampala, Uganda, under the direction of John Caird.

“Ode to O" The OGJB Quartet: Ode To O (Tum Records, 2022) Oliver Lake, Graham Haynes, Joe Fonda, Barry Altschul. El tema es una composición de Altschul. Tomajazz: © Pachi Tapiz, 2022 ¿Sabías que? El OGJB Quartet toma su denominación a partir de los nombres de sus componentes: O(liver Lake), G(raham Haynes), J(oe Fonda), B(arry Altschul). Ode To O es la segunda grabación de este cuarteto tras su estreno de título Bamako. Una grabación que pasó por la octava entrega de JazzX5, allá por el mes de julio de 2019. Según se indica en el completísimo libreto que acompaña al CD, "'Ode to O' es una melodía que le apareció a Barry Altschul en un sueño después de enterarse del fallecimiento de Ornette Coleman". El autor de la portada fue el pintor Ahti Lavonen (1958-1979). El título del cuadro es "Hopea-aihe", que se puede traducir como "tema plateado". Como ya se ha indicado en alguna otra ocasión, una formación como The OGJB Quartet en otros ámbitos se podría calificar como superformación... ahí están las carreras y los músicos con quienes han tocado Barry Altschul, Joe Fonda, Oliver Lake y Graham Haynes. Con motivo del número de la entrega estuvo en la mente de quien escribe estas líneas hacer algún tipo de broma o similar, pero como quizás no se entienda, finalmente esta idea tan fabulosa se va a quedar en una frase al final de la sección "¿Sabías qué?". En anteriores episodios de JazzX5/HDO/LODLMA/Maltidos Jazztardos/Tomajazz Remembers… https://www.tomajazz.com/web/?p=44207 Más información sobre Tum Records https://tumrecords.com/ Más información sobre JazzX5 JazzX5 es un minipodcast de HDO de la Factoría Tomajazz presentado, editado y producido por Pachi Tapiz. JazzX5 comenzó su andadura el 24 de junio de 2019. Todas las entregas de JazzX5 están disponibles en https://www.tomajazz.com/web/?cat=23120 / https://www.ivoox.com/jazzx5_bk_list_642835_1.html. JazzX5 y los podcast de Tomajazz en Telegram En Tomajazz hemos abierto un canal de Telegram para que estés al tanto, al instante, de los nuevos podcast. Puedes suscribirte en https://t.me/TomajazzPodcast. Pachi Tapiz en Tomajazz https://www.tomajazz.com/web/?cat=17847

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Andrew Cyrille is the last man standing from the first wave of free jazz drummers. He and Milford Graves, Sunny Murray, and Rashied Ali really revolutionized jazz rhythm in their playing with Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, John Coltrane and other musicians in the early to mid '60s. Their influence was huge, and each of them brought a different perspective and instantly identifiable style to the music. What I hear when I listen to Andrew Cyrille, whether he's playing with Cecil Taylor or Anthony Braxton or in any other situation, is an incredible precision and consideration. He really seems to be thinking about every single strike and placing it with unbelievable care, even when he's playing ridiculously fast.In the last few years, Cyrille has been making some really interesting records as a leader for ECM. He started in 2016 with The Declaration of Musical Independence, which featured Bill Frisell on guitar, Richard Teitelbaum on synth, and Ben Street on bass, then he made Lebroba with Frisell and Wadada Leo Smith, and now he's got a new album out, The News, which features Frisell and Street again but has David Virelles on piano instead of Teitelbaum. And right before that string of records, in 2015, he was on guitarist Ben Monder's album Amorphae. And I also want to mention a record he did in 2017, Dione, a trio record with Ivo Perelman and Matthew Shipp. He's had an incredible career as a sideman, too, working with David Murray, Leroy Jenkins, Muhal Richard Abrams, Marion Brown, Horace Tapscott, Peter Brötzmann, and of course he's also one of the members of Trio 3 with Oliver Lake and Reggie Workman — they played at the 2021 Vision Festival, where he also presented a solo tribute to Milford Graves.We talk about Graves a lot in this interview, as well as Cyrille's approach to rhythm and to music generally, and a lot of other things. It's funny, the conversation has kind of a false ending, because I had been told by his publicist that he only wanted to talk for a half hour, and I negotiated us up to 45 minutes, and then at the 45 minute mark I started saying goodbye and thanking him for his time, and he showed no interest in stopping, so we kept going and probably could have talked for another half hour. If you do enjoy this podcast, please consider visiting patreon.com/burningambulance and becoming a subscriber. For just $5 a month, you can help keep this show and Burning Ambulance as a whole active and thriving. Thanks!Music featured in this episode:Andrew Cyrille/Wadada Leo Smith/Bill Frisell, “Worried Woman” (Lebroba)Andrew Cyrille, “Go Happy Lucky” (The News)Support Burning Ambulance on Patreon • Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter

Andrew Cyrille is the last man standing from the first wave of free jazz drummers. He and Milford Graves, Sunny Murray, and Rashied Ali really revolutionized jazz rhythm in their playing with Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, John Coltrane and other musicians in the early to mid '60s. Their influence was huge, and each of them brought a different perspective and instantly identifiable style to the music. What I hear when I listen to Andrew Cyrille, whether he's playing with Cecil Taylor or Anthony Braxton or in any other situation, is an incredible precision and consideration. He really seems to be thinking about every single strike and placing it with unbelievable care, even when he's playing ridiculously fast.In the last few years, Cyrille has been making some really interesting records as a leader for ECM. He started in 2016 with The Declaration of Musical Independence, which featured Bill Frisell on guitar, Richard Teitelbaum on synth, and Ben Street on bass, then he made Lebroba with Frisell and Wadada Leo Smith, and now he's got a new album out, The News, which features Frisell and Street again but has David Virelles on piano instead of Teitelbaum. And right before that string of records, in 2015, he was on guitarist Ben Monder's album Amorphae. And I also want to mention a record he did in 2017, Dione, a trio record with Ivo Perelman and Matthew Shipp. He's had an incredible career as a sideman, too, working with David Murray, Leroy Jenkins, Muhal Richard Abrams, Marion Brown, Horace Tapscott, Peter Brötzmann, and of course he's also one of the members of Trio 3 with Oliver Lake and Reggie Workman — they played at the 2021 Vision Festival, where he also presented a solo tribute to Milford Graves.We talk about Graves a lot in this interview, as well as Cyrille's approach to rhythm and to music generally, and a lot of other things. It's funny, the conversation has kind of a false ending, because I had been told by his publicist that he only wanted to talk for a half hour, and I negotiated us up to 45 minutes, and then at the 45 minute mark I started saying goodbye and thanking him for his time, and he showed no interest in stopping, so we kept going and probably could have talked for another half hour. If you do enjoy this podcast, please consider visiting patreon.com/burningambulance and becoming a subscriber. For just $5 a month, you can help keep this show and Burning Ambulance as a whole active and thriving. Thanks!Music featured in this episode:Andrew Cyrille/Wadada Leo Smith/Bill Frisell, “Worried Woman” (Lebroba)Andrew Cyrille, “Go Happy Lucky” (The News)Support Burning Ambulance on Patreon • Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter

Episode 2 of "HEY BALTIMORE" - KRAFT with Mike Kuhl Live at An Die Musik! Kuhl/Ballou/Stewart/Dierker An die Musik Live! 409 N. Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21201 https://andiemusiklive.com/ Facebook: Mike Kuhl https://www.facebook.com/mike.kuhl.16 Facebook: Dave Ballou https://www.facebook.com/dballou Facebook: Luke Stewart https://www.facebook.com/luke.stewart.902266 Facebook: John Dierker https://www.facebook.com/john.dierker.3 Drummer, recording artist, educator, Michael Kuhl hails from the musically diverse city of Baltimore. Kuhl studied and performed in numerous genres, making him a first call drummer for any situation. A graduate of Towson University, Kuhl has performed locally and throughout the globe alongside jazz greats Dave Liebman, Tony Malaby, Michael Formanek, Dave Ballou, Ellery Eskelin and Claudio Roditi. Outside of jazz, Kuhl has shared the stage with many international acts such as Beach House, Arboretum, Cigarettes After Sex, Tom Tom Club, and The Ravonnettes. As a leader, Kuhl performed with his trio every Tuesday night at Bertha's in Fells Point before the pandemic. Alongside his musical career, Mike is an accomplished martial artist of Bagua Kung Fu, in which he says the two arts go hand in hand. Trumpeter/Composer Dave Ballou can be heard in a variety of settings; from solo trumpet improvisations to large ensembles. His recordings can be found on the Steeplechase, CleanFeed and pfMentum record labels. Ballou has performed or recorded with Rabih Abou-Kahlil, Steely Dan, Michael Formanek, Mary Halvorson, Woody Herman, Andrew Hill, John Hollenbeck, Sheila Jordan, Oliver Lake, Dave Liebman, Dewey Redman, Maria Schneider and Gunther Schuller. His compositions have been performed and recorded by the Meridian Arts Ensemble, trumpeter Jon Nelson, French hornist Adam Unsworth, saxophonist Ellery Eskelin and the TILT Brass Ensemble. Ballou is a Professor of Music at Towson University and Division Leader of the Jazz and Commercial Music Division. He is the founding director of the Bill and Helen Murray Jazz Residency. Luke Stewart is a DC/NYC-based musician and organizer of important musical presentations. He has a presence in the national and international professional music community. He was profiled in the Washington Post in early 2017 as “holding down the jazz scene,” selected as “Best Musical Omnivore” in the Washington City Paper's 2017 “Best of DC,” chosen as “Jazz Artist of the Year” for 2017 in the District Now, and in the 2014 People Issue of the Washington City Paper as a “Jazz Revolutionary,” citing his multifaceted cultural activities throughout DC. In DC his regular ensembles include experimental jazz trio Heart of the Ghost, Low Ways Quartet featuring guitarist Anthony Pirog, and experimental rock duo Blacks' Myths. He has been compiling a series of improvisational sound structures for Upright Bass and Amplifier. Steward holds a BA in International Studies and a BA in Audio Production from American University, and an MA in Arts Management and Entrepreneurship from the New School. Multi-reedman John Dierker has become a major improvisational stylist, interweaving concepts augmented by howling lines, injections of blues-drenched choruses and Albert Ayler-like display of energy." (All About Jazz.) A Baltimore native, Dierker has worked in a wide variety of musical settings collaborating with Peter Zummo, Jason Willett, Jad Fair, The Basement Boys, Michael Formanek, and Marty Ehrlich. He is a longtime member of Lafayette Gilchrist and The New Volcanoes. Currently, he is working with Quartet Offensive, Lubbock, and Microkingdom and freelancing in the Baltimore/D.C. area. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/somethingcame-from-baltim/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/somethingcame-from-baltim/support

Violinist/composer Tom Chiu leads the Flux Quartet, a cutting edge quartet from NYC who've taken on the massive 6-hour, "String Qt No.2 by Morton Feldman. Tom has collaborated with Oliver Lake, Muhal Richard Abrams, and Henry Threadgill. Tom and I worked with Ornette Coleman in Ornette's Harmelodic Chamber Players. We chat about that wild project, Tom's composition, "RETROCON," and more.

This week: Mayra Andrade; Nour el Houda; Odean Pope Saxophone Choir; Şükrü Tounar; Adam Lane; Oliver Lake; Grachan Moncour III; Ioanna Georgakopoulou; René McLean; Jesse Sharps Quintet; Betty Carter; Abdelhadi Belkhayat; Saïd Meftahi; Sonny Stitt; Rromano Dives; Brian Landrus w. quartet; Jho Archer; Doug Carn;  much more...   Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program on WRFI, or stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast: via PODBEAN: https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/ via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580 Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.   In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Conference of the Birds playlists will be updated live, in real-time, on the pop-up player on the WRFI website (for those listening live via WRFI's live-stream), and on Spinitron at the Conference of the Birds page. This will offset any lapses in back-announcing.https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/12143531/Conference-of-the-Birdsand via the Conference of the Birds page at WRFI.ORG:https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/ We will continue to update playlists at confbirds.blogspot.com 24-48 hours of the program's posting  online. Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks FIND WRFI on Radio Garden: http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR Contact: confbirds@gmail.com

Bassist Reggie Washington was a key participant in the Modern Jazz revolution of the 80's and 90's. He became known touring, recording and performing with Steve Coleman, Branford Marsalis, Roy Hargrove, Chico Hamilton, Oliver Lake, Cassandra Wilson, Don Byron, Jean-Paul Bourelly, Lester Bowie and Ronald Shannon Jackson. In 2005, Reggie began successfully touring with his own bands. They were a mix of American & European musicians such as Ravi Coltrane, Gene Lake, Stéphane Galland, Jef Lee Johnson, Erwin Vann, Jacques Schwarz-Bart, E.J Strickland, Jozef Dumoulin, Skoota Warner, Matthew Garrison, Marcus Strickland, Jason Lindner, Poogie Bell and Ronny Drayton. Originally aired June 29th 2015 https://reggiewashington-official.com/ (https://reggiewashington-official.com) https://my.captivate.fm/www.joekelleyradio.com (www.joekelleyradio.com) https://reggiewashington-official.com/

"An Alternative (music business) infrastructure is one of the things that helps us keep this sustainable."In this episode of MFM Speaks Out, Dawoud Kringle interviews Oakland, California based guitarist Karl Evangelista is among the new wave of  21st century experimental / improvisational musicians. His work blends contemporary improvised music with popular song, 20th century composition, psychedelic rock, free jazz, and multicultural concepts. The topics discussed include his beginnings and inspiration as a professional improvisational / experimental musician, his work with Oliver Lake, Fred Frith, Eddie Gale, Trevor Watts, Hafiz Modizradeh, Muhal Richard Abrams, Roscoe Mitchell and many others, his involvement in music education (including lecturing at UC Berkeley and directed guitar ensembles at the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts and San Francisco Waldorf High School, and as a licensed instructor in the Kinderguitar method), his prolific recording output, his GREX project with Rei Scampavia, his iconoclastic interpretation of John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, his approach to the music business, the production of four "Lockdown Festivals" during the coronavirus pandemic, music activism, and his involvement with MFM.Visit Karl Evangelista at grexsounds.comThe following music featured in this episode areOpening track: "Apura!" by Karl Evangelista w/Alexander Hawkins, Louis Moholo-Moholo, and Trevor WattsMiddle track: "The Other Mouses: by GrexEnding track: "Acknowledgement: A Love Supreme" by Grex

Grammy Award, Sirius XM The Grammy-winning trumpeter and composer was born and raised in New York City. Nabaté's debut album called, 'Eclectic Excursions' dropped in the Summer of 2018 and until that point, he's had a glorious career journey. During his high school years, Nabaté represented the fifth generation of jazz for the preview of the Louis Armstrong Archives, with trumpet greats Dr. Donald Byrd, "Doc" Cheatham, "Dizzy" Gillespie, Jimmy Owens, Jon Faddis and Wynton Marsalis. Nabaté also appeared in a Coca-Cola commercial, directed by John Singleton and produced by Roy Eaton. While attending Eastman, Nabaté was a featured soloist with the Rochester Pops Orchestra. Nabaté also participated in the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz summer program at Aspen Snowmass and its Jazz Gala at the Kennedy Center. He went on to receive his BM from the Eastman School of Music and his MA from New York University. Nabaté has performed, toured and/or recorded with unique artists Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def), Christian McBride, Kenny Lattimore, Philip Bailey, Fantasia, Jeffrey Osborne, Jill Scott, Robert Glasper, Dianne Reeves, José James, Savion Glover, Gregory Porter, Freda Payne, Shareefa, Oliver Lake, Steve Coleman, Ravi Coltrane, Steve Wilson, Muhal Richard Abrams, Matthew Shipp, Charli Persip, Mike Longo, Uri Caine, Buster Williams, Grady Tate, Jay Hoggard, Holt McCallany, the Mingus Big Band, and the José Limon Dance Company. He composed a solo double bass composition called 'Lessons', which was premiered by world-renowned double bassist James VanDemark at Louisiana State University. Nabaté also received a commission from the Festival of New Trumpet Music to compose and premiere a new piece which he entitled, 'We Need Unity in the Community'. Nabaté provided private trumpet instruction to the actor Rob Brown for his role as trumpeter Delmond Lambreaux on the HBO series, 'Treme'. Nabaté was part of both of Christian McBride Big Band's Grammy-winning albums, 'The Good Feeling' (2012) and 'Bringin' It' (2018) as well as the band's performance at the White House for the last concert under President Barack Obama's administration. He has composed five music scores for short films as well as contributing original music to Amos Poe's innovative film, 'Empire II'. He recently completed a score for his first feature called, 'The Rhythm in Blue'. Also, Nabaté is an accomplished producer and host for SiriusXM NBA Radio & he hosts his own weekly television show called 'So Much to Talk About' on MNN (Manhattan cable). Also, a sports trivia expert, Nabaté excelled on TV gameshows, ESPN's Stumb The Schwab and Crackle/NBC Sports' Sports Jeopardy. Nabaté Isles' Eclectic Excursions featuring the joined talents of: Nabaté Isles - Trumpet Alex Han - Alto and Soprano Saxophone David Gilmore - Guitar Theo Hill - Keyboards Brad Jones - Bass Rudy Royston - Drums Special Guests: Alita Moses - Vocals Michael Mayo - Vocals Find Nabaté Isles via social media: Instagram: @nsi.universal Twitter: @NabateIslesSMTA Facebook: www.facebook.com/NabateIslesTrumpet The trumpeter Nabaté Isles recently released his debut album, “Eclectic Excursions,” and it lives up to its title. Mr. Isles has worked most often as a side musician for artists across hip-hop, jazz and R&B, and his own record manages to throw it all together — making room along the way for a few guest singers and rappers — while keeping a firm center. Playing with a quintet, Mr. Isles started off with “Minute Pieces of Wozzeck,” a trippy, motivic original composed around a set of 12-tone harmonies from Alban Berg’s experimental opera, “Wozzeck.” As Adam Klipple’s organ and Joshua Crumbly’s bass hit a stopped-up, two-chord pattern, Mr. Isles retorted with a circular phrase. The guitarist David Gilmore ran snaky improvisations around them, leading your ear gently astray until the rhythm section dropped decisively into a thrashing rock beat. Mr. Isles and the soprano saxophonist Ian Young played in wet blasts of harmony, and Mr. Isles drove headlong into a rugged solo. He pushed hard, leaning into the song’s screwball-fusion vibe but maintaining a measured sense of swing. Midway through the set, the rapper Elzhi — a onetime member of Slum Village, and a guest on the album — guested on two songs, and the band switched comfortably to a radiant, festive mode. Then the vocalist Alita Moses came on to sing “Find Your Light,” a standout from “Eclectic Excursions,” with a strong redolence of Esperanza Spalding’s dreamy neo-soul side. Over a mid-tempo groove, Ms. Moses sang the song’s lyrics of invitation with acrobatic poise, moving deliberately at cloud altitude. Mr. Isles responded with a solo of sharp bursts and grounded rumbles, filling some of the vertical space in the atmosphere below her. A version of this above article appears in print on , on Page C5 of the New York edition with the headline: Contradictions and Fresh Material Abound. ©2020 Building Abundant Success!! 2020 All Rights Reserved Join Me on iHeart Radio @ https://tinyurl.com/iHeartBAS Spot Me on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/yxuy23ba

This week: Pierre Akendengue x 2; Enrique Morente x 2; Estrella Morente x 2; Creative Arts Ensemble; Joseph Bowie w. Oliver Lake; Salmonete; Coumba Gawlo; Fernando Mauricio; Simone de Oliveira; Pan-Afrikan People's Arkestra; Freddie Redd; William Parker; Charles Mingus; Henry Threadgill;  much more...#papanoel #dhoad #Abu Bakr Salem #Carmelilla Montoya #Tulpa NegraAlways FREE of charge to listen to the radio program on WRFI, or stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast:via PODBEAN: https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Conference of the Birds playlists will be updated live, in real-time, on the pop-up player on the WRFI website (for those listening live via WRFI's live-stream), and on Spinitron at the Conference of the Birds page. This will offset any lapses in back-announcing.https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/11694242/Conference-of-the-Birdsand via the Conference of the Birds page at WRFI.ORG:https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/ We will continue to update playlists at confbirds.blogspot.com 24-48 hours of the program's posting  online.Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarksFIND WRFI on Radio Garden: http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBRContact: confbirds@gmail.com

Ronald Carter - Distinguished Professor, UNC-Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC. Mr. Carter is former director of the world-renowned Northern Illinois University (NIU) Jazz Ensemble and former Director of Jazz Studies is continuing to educate students in jazz education and performance on university, high school and performing arts schools and campuses across the country, South America and Canada. As an educator, Mr. Carter has presented workshops as guest conductor, artist, clinician, or adjudicator at numerous schools across America and abroad.Mr. Carter, who worked 18 years in the East St. Louis School District as the former director of the Lincoln Senior High School Jazz Band, also performed professionally in the St. Louis metropolitan area as a freelance musician on saxophone, clarinet, flute, and as a vocalist. He co-directed the group Infiniti and performed with the legendary George Hudson Orchestra. Mr. Carter has also performed professionally with Clark Terry, Jimmy Heath, Lena Horne, Lou Rawls, The Jimmy Dorsey Band, Wallace Roney, The Temptations, The Dells, Oliver Lake, Hamiett Bluiett, Leon Thomas, Art Davis, Fareed Haque, Joseph Bowie, Frank Mantooth, Terell Stafford, Orbert Davis, Carl Allen, Rodney Whitaker, and many others.An abbreviated list of his honors and awards includes Downbeat Magazine’s Jazz Educators Hall of Fame, The Woody Herman Music Award (Birch Creek Music Center), The 1991 Milken National Distinguished Educator Award, Southern Illinois University Excellence in Teaching Award, and the St. Louis American Newspaper’s Excellence in Teaching Award and Northern Illinois University Board of Trustees Professorship.He has recently accepted appointment as Felton J. Capel Distinguished Professor of Performing and Fine Arts UNC – Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC.Mr. Carter’s projects include former International Consultant for the Essentially Ellington Jazz Competition sponsored by Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York; former Lead Artist for the Jazz At Lincoln Center Band Director’s Academy; Co-Author for Alfred Publications “Swingin’ On The Bars”, and co-author of GIA Music Publications “Teaching Music Through Performance in Jazz – Book I & II as well as a contributing author to the Beginning Jazz Ensemble Textbook.Mr. Carter is currently an artist for Conn-Selmer Inc. and D’Addario Woodwinds –(Rico Reeds)Keep The Music Playing Grantwww.cartersclinics.comIf you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests.For show notes and past guests, please visit dougstonejazz.com/podcast-1Interested in sponsoring the podcast? Please fill out the sponsor formDiscover Doug’s music: dougstonejazz.com/musicInstagram: instagram.com/dougstonejazzsaxophoneFacebook: facebook.com/dougstoneBoston Sax Shop

This week: Don Cherry; Idjah Hadidjah; Kostas Soukas; Christos Govetas et al.; Din Mohammed Zamak-Zahi; Tani Tabbal; Satoko Fujii w. Tatsuya Yoshida et al. (Toh-Kichi); Oliver Lake; Toshiyuki Miyama; Susie Ibarra; Caetano Veloso; Aline de Lima; Tenores de Sarule; Lucianao Berio; Malini Rajurkar; Guy Adjovi; Sabir Mateen w. Federico Ughi & Patrick Holmes; Sun Ra; Kenny Garrett;  much more...  Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program on WRFI, or stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast: via PODBEAN: https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/ via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580 Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere. ***In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Conference of the Birds will be broadcasting remotely, with little to no back-announcing, for the foreseeable future. Playlists will be updated live, in real-time, on the pop-up player on the WRFI website (for those listening live via WRFI's live-stream), on Spinitron at the Conference of the Birds page:  https://spinitron.com/WRFI/show/92902/Conference-of-the-Birds and via the Conference of the Birds page at WRFI.ORG:https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/ We will continue to update playlists at comfbirds.blogspot.com 24-48 hours of the program's airing Friday evenings on WRFI. Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks Contact: confbirds@gmail.com

Il denominatore comune fra i due album è il contrabbassista statunitense Joe Fonda, che abbiamo incontrato in diverse novità che abbiamo presentato quest'anno. L'etichetta italiana Long Song Records pubblica 4, quarto album realizzato da Fonda e dalla pianista giapponese Satoko Fujii: il loro duo è nato nel 2015 e da allora Fonda e Fujii hanno collaborato intensamente, con molti concerti in giro per il mondo. La loro è una improvvisazione senza schemi, varia come situazioni e ricca timbricamente: notevoli anche i brani in cui il duo cresce a trio con l'aggiunta del trombettista Natsuki Tamura. L'OGJB Quartet è nato nel 2016: l'acronimo deriva dalle iniziali dei nomi dei suoi componenti, che sono il sassofonista Oliver Lake, il cornettista Graham Haynes, Joe Fonda e il batterista Barry Altschul, dei veterani del jazz d'avanguardia, chi dai sessanta, come Lake e Altschul, chi dai settanta come Haynes e Fonda. La musica di questo loro primo album, pubblicato dalla finlandese Tum, ha una forte vena free ma anche una grande comunicativa, e ci dà il senso e il piacere di una avanguardia profondamente vissuta.

Il denominatore comune fra i due album è il contrabbassista statunitense Joe Fonda, che abbiamo incontrato in diverse novità che abbiamo presentato quest'anno. L'etichetta italiana Long Song Records pubblica 4, quarto album realizzato da Fonda e dalla pianista giapponese Satoko Fujii: il loro duo è nato nel 2015 e da allora Fonda e Fujii hanno collaborato intensamente, con molti concerti in giro per il mondo. La loro è una improvvisazione senza schemi, varia come situazioni e ricca timbricamente: notevoli anche i brani in cui il duo cresce a trio con l'aggiunta del trombettista Natsuki Tamura. L'OGJB Quartet è nato nel 2016: l'acronimo deriva dalle iniziali dei nomi dei suoi componenti, che sono il sassofonista Oliver Lake, il cornettista Graham Haynes, Joe Fonda e il batterista Barry Altschul, dei veterani del jazz d'avanguardia, chi dai sessanta, come Lake e Altschul, chi dai settanta come Haynes e Fonda. La musica di questo loro primo album, pubblicato dalla finlandese Tum, ha una forte vena free ma anche una grande comunicativa, e ci dà il senso e il piacere di una avanguardia profondamente vissuta.

Il denominatore comune fra i due album è il contrabbassista statunitense Joe Fonda, che abbiamo incontrato in diverse novità che abbiamo presentato quest'anno. L'etichetta italiana Long Song Records pubblica 4, quarto album realizzato da Fonda e dalla pianista giapponese Satoko Fujii: il loro duo è nato nel 2015 e da allora Fonda e Fujii hanno collaborato intensamente, con molti concerti in giro per il mondo. La loro è una improvvisazione senza schemi, varia come situazioni e ricca timbricamente: notevoli anche i brani in cui il duo cresce a trio con l'aggiunta del trombettista Natsuki Tamura. L'OGJB Quartet è nato nel 2016: l'acronimo deriva dalle iniziali dei nomi dei suoi componenti, che sono il sassofonista Oliver Lake, il cornettista Graham Haynes, Joe Fonda e il batterista Barry Altschul, dei veterani del jazz d'avanguardia, chi dai sessanta, come Lake e Altschul, chi dai settanta come Haynes e Fonda. La musica di questo loro primo album, pubblicato dalla finlandese Tum, ha una forte vena free ma anche una grande comunicativa, e ci dà il senso e il piacere di una avanguardia profondamente vissuta.

Grammy Award, Sirius XM The Grammy-winning trumpeter and composer was born and raised in New York City. Nabaté's debut album called, 'Eclectic Excursions' dropped in the Summer of 2018 and until this point, he's had a glorious journey. During his high school years, Nabaté represented the fifth generation of jazz for the preview of the Louis Armstrong Archives, with trumpet greats Dr. Donald Byrd, "Doc" Cheatham, "Dizzy" Gillespie, Jimmy Owens, Jon Faddis and Wynton Marsalis. Nabaté also appeared in a Coca-Cola commercial, directed by John Singleton and produced by Roy Eaton. While attending Eastman, Nabaté was a featured soloist with the Rochester Pops Orchestra. Nabaté also participated in the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz summer program at Aspen Snowmass and its Jazz Gala at the Kennedy Center. He went on to receive his BM from the Eastman School of Music and his MA from New York University. Nabaté has performed, toured and/or recorded with unique artists Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def), Christian McBride, Kenny Lattimore, Philip Bailey, Fantasia, Jeffrey Osborne, Jill Scott, Robert Glasper, Dianne Reeves, José James, Savion Glover, Gregory Porter, Freda Payne, Shareefa, Oliver Lake, Steve Coleman, Ravi Coltrane, Steve Wilson, Muhal Richard Abrams, Matthew Shipp, Charli Persip, Mike Longo, Uri Caine, Buster Williams, Grady Tate, Jay Hoggard, Holt McCallany, the Mingus Big Band, and the José Limon Dance Company. He composed a solo double bass composition called 'Lessons', which was premiered by world-renowned double bassist James VanDemark at Louisiana State University. Nabaté also received a commission from the Festival of New Trumpet Music to compose and premiere a new piece which he entitled, 'We Need Unity in the Community'. Nabaté provided private trumpet instruction to the actor Rob Brown for his role as trumpeter Delmond Lambreaux on the HBO series, 'Treme'. Nabaté was part of both of Christian McBride Big Band's Grammy-winning albums, 'The Good Feeling' (2012) and 'Bringin' It' (2018) as well as the band's performance at the White House for the last concert under President Barack Obama's administration. He has composed five music scores for short films as well as contributing original music to Amos Poe's innovative film, 'Empire II'. He recently completed a score for his first feature called, 'The Rhythm in Blue'. Also, Nabaté is an accomplished producer and host for SiriusXM NBA Radio & he hosts his own weekly television show called 'So Much to Talk About' on MNN (Manhattan cable). Also, a sports trivia expert, Nabaté excelled on TV gameshows, ESPN's Stumb The Schwab and Crackle/NBC Sports' Sports Jeopardy. Nabaté Isles' Eclectic Excursions featuring the joined talents of: Nabaté Isles - Trumpet Alex Han - Alto and Soprano Saxophone David Gilmore - Guitar Theo Hill - Keyboards Brad Jones - Bass Rudy Royston - Drums Special Guests: Alita Moses - Vocals Michael Mayo - Vocals Find Nabaté Isles via social media: Instagram: @nsi.universal Twitter: @NabateIslesSMTA Facebook: www.facebook.com/NabateIslesTrumpet The trumpeter Nabaté Isles recently released his debut album, “Eclectic Excursions,” and it lives up to its title. Mr. Isles has worked most often as a side musician for artists across hip-hop, jazz and R&B, and his own record manages to throw it all together — making room along the way for a few guest singers and rappers — while keeping a firm center. Playing with a quintet, Mr. Isles started off with “Minute Pieces of Wozzeck,” a trippy, motivic original composed around a set of 12-tone harmonies from Alban Berg’s experimental opera, “Wozzeck.” As Adam Klipple’s organ and Joshua Crumbly’s bass hit a stopped-up, two-chord pattern, Mr. Isles retorted with a circular phrase. The guitarist David Gilmore ran snaky improvisations around them, leading your ear gently astray until the rhythm section dropped decisively into a thrashing rock beat. Mr. Isles and the soprano saxophonist Ian Young played in wet blasts of harmony, and Mr. Isles drove headlong into a rugged solo. He pushed hard, leaning into the song’s screwball-fusion vibe but maintaining a measured sense of swing. Midway through the set, the rapper Elzhi — a onetime member of Slum Village, and a guest on the album — guested on two songs, and the band switched comfortably to a radiant, festive mode. Then the vocalist Alita Moses came on to sing “Find Your Light,” a standout from “Eclectic Excursions,” with a strong redolence of Esperanza Spalding’s dreamy neo-soul side. Over a mid-tempo groove, Ms. Moses sang the song’s lyrics of invitation with acrobatic poise, moving deliberately at cloud altitude. Mr. Isles responded with a solo of sharp bursts and grounded rumbles, filling some of the vertical space in the atmosphere below her. Mr. Isles released his album“Eclectic Excursions” in July. A version of this above article appears in print on , on Page C5 of the New York edition with the headline: Contradictions and Fresh Material Abound. ©2019 Building Abundant Success!! 2019 All Rights Reserved Join Me on ~ iHeart Radio @ https://tinyurl.com/iHeartBAS See you on @ facebook.com/BuildingAbundantSuccess'

As we ramp up towards Ragas Live Festival 2019, we are sharing all 24 sets of last years incredible festival.  3AM-4AM was a special moment for us all.   Ross Hammond (guitar), Pawan Benjamin (sax/bansuri), Sameer Gupta (drums)   Special Guests Renald St. Juste (percussion), Morgan Zwerlein (percussion) join in for the last jams.     Sacramento guitarist Ross Hammond has played on large stages and in small corners throughout the United States and beyond. His sound is equal parts jazz, folk, blues, spirituals and world music.  He has played for Hillary Clinton, to audiences of five and all points in between.  Ross has collaborated/gigged/recorded with: Kevin Seconds, Oliver Lake, Pheeroan AkLaff, Vinny Golia, Vladimir Tarasov, Tetuzi Akiyama, Nicole Mitchell, Lizz Wright, Dwight Trible, Calvin Weston, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Alex Cine, Suzuki Junzo, Amy Reed, Nels Cline, Jeff Parker, Max Johnson, Steve Adams, Ken Filiano, Mike Pride, Catherine Sikora, Scott Amendola, Steuart Liebig, Sameer Gupta, Tony Passarell and more.      

Por Pachi Tapiz. En HDO 514 suenan media docena de grabaciones que se mueven por los terrenos del jazz libre y de la improvisación con artistas como Satoko Fujii, Mark Alban Lotz, Joe Fonda, Oliver Lake, Ferran Besalduch o la Anti Ruber Brain Factory. Toda la información en https://www.tomajazz.com/web/?p=43838 Tomajazz: © Pachi Tapiz, 2019 HDO 514 te gustará… si te gusta el jazz… si te gusta la improvisación libre… si te gusta el jazz libre… HDO es un podcast de jazz e improvisación (libre en mayor o menor grado) que está editado, presentado y producido por Pachi Tapiz. Para quejas, sugerencias, protestas, peticiones, presentaciones y/u opiniones envíanos un correo a hdo@tomajazz.com

Por Pachi Tapiz. El trombonista suizo Samuel Blaser (integrante del Cuarteto Europa de Baldo Martínez), ha publicado en septiembre de 2018 Early In The Mornin' (Out There Music - Out Note Records). Al igual que ocurre con alguna de sus grabaciones anteriores, esta obra está centrada en una temática determinada, que en este caso es la del blues. En esta inmersión musical aparecen revisiones de temas tradicionales como "Black Betty", "Creepy Crawler" o "Lonesome Road Blues" de Sam Collins, junto a sus composiciones que se introducen en esta tradición musical. Para este nuevo proyecto (que en su gira de presentación tendrá una parada en Cádiz), cuenta con la colaboración del pianista y teclista Russ Lossing, el contrabajista Masa Kamaguchi y el baterista Gerry Hemingway, así como con la participación como invitados especiales en algunos de los temas de Oliver Lake (saxo alto), y Wallace Roney (trompeta). En HDO 470 escuchamos a Samuel Blaser (en inglés) hablar sobre la grabación, y como no podía ser de otra manera, algunos de los temas de Early In The Mornin': "The House Carpenter", "Mal's Blues", "Black Betty" y "Lonesome Road Blues". Tomajazz: © Pachi Tapiz, 2018 HDO es un podcast de jazz e improvisación (libre en mayor o menor grado) que está editado, presentado y producido por Pachi Tapiz. Para quejas, sugerencias, protestas, peticiones, presentaciones y/u opiniones envíanos un correo a hdo@tomajazz.com

Con la entrega 443 de HDO lanzamos un especial dedicado al saxofonista, flautista, compositor e ideólogo musical Henry Threadgill, en los que repasaremos su carrera. Nacido en Chicago en 1944, Henry Threadgill es un músico perteneciente a la AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians), y al que siempre se le ha situado en la vanguardia del jazz. En 2018 sigue en activo y en plena forma, habiendo publicado sendas grabaciones en el sello Pi Recordings con sus formaciones Ensemble Doble Up y 14 or 15 Kestra: Agg. Comenzamos el amplio especial con un repaso a la música de los Loft en los años 70 en Nueva York:, que supuso una nueva manera de concebir la expresión del jazz, poniendo en cierta manera al día el concepto de las jam sessions, y buscando una nueva manera de que los músicos pudieran desarrollar sus carreras. En los dos primeros programas del especial escuchamos a algunos de los músicos de esa escena que aparecían en el triple CD Wildflowers: Loft Jazz New York 1976 (Douglas Records), grabado en en directo entre el 14 y el 23 de mayo de 1976 en el loft del saxofonista Sam Rivers, el famoso Rivbea Studio de Nueva York. Como preludio a la música de Threadgill, en HDO 443 suena la música de Randy Weston, Sam Rivers, Anthony Braxton, Wadada Leo Smith, Oliver Lake, Anthony Davis, Barry Altschul, George Lewis y Anthony Davis, entre otros, muchos de los cuales -tal y como se podrá escuchar en próximos programas- han sido compañeros de las andanzas musicales de Henry Threadgill. Tomajazz: © Pachi Tapiz, 2018 HDO es un podcast de jazz e improvisación (libre en mayor o menor grado) que está editado, presentado y producido por Pachi Tapiz. Para quejas, sugerencias, protestas, peticiones, presentaciones y/u opiniones envíanos un correo a hdo@tomajazz.com.

Support the Burning Ambulance podcast on Patreon: http://patreon.com/burningambulance Episode 22 of the Burning Ambulance podcast features an interview with violinist Regina Carter. She's one of the best known jazz violinists in the world, as well as a MacArthur fellow and a Grammy nominee. She’s originally from Detroit, and she got her start in an all-female group called Straight Ahead. From there, she moved to New York, joined the String Trio of New York with guitarist James Emery and bassist John Lindberg, and also started making solo records starting in 1995. She’s made 10 albums in all, including one that was a duo with pianist Kenny Barron. She’s worked with a broad range of musicians including Wynton Marsalis, Cassandra Wilson, Oliver Lake, Madeline Peyroux, Steve Turre, Terri Lyne Carrington, and James Carter, who’s also her cousin. Winning a Macarthur fellowship in 2006 has allowed her to work on some really interesting projects without having to convince a label of their value beforehand. Southern Comfort was an album that explored Appalachian and southern roots music as a way of tracing her own family’s history, and her latest album, Accentuate the Positive, which came out last year, was a tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, but it doesn’t feature the songs you’d expect. A lot of the pieces are obscure, and as a consequence she doesn’t really feel the need to perform them in a way that the listener might identify with Ella Fitzgerald. I met up with Regina Carter at NJPAC’s All-Female Jazz Residency, a week-long program for students from 14-25 in Newark, New Jersey. She was the artistic director, taking over from Geri Allen, who founded the program but who passed away suddenly a little over a year ago, in June 2017. The residency combines lectures and seminars with rehearsals and master classes, so that the women who are taking part learn from each other as well as from people who are already making careers in jazz. And it goes beyond music, as we talk about in this interview – they also learn about branding yourself and maintaining a social media presence, about what radio expects from an artist and how to make an impression on journalists and DJs, and other things that will allow them to become professionals and avoid pitfalls in their careers. I had originally planned for this to be a joint interview with Regina Carter, saxophonist Tia Fuller, and drummer Terri Lyne Carrington, all of whom participated in the residency, but it wound up just being a conversation with Ms. Carter. I think it’s really interesting, though, and she’s got a lot to say not only about her music but about the residency and the state of the jazz business, so I hope you’ll enjoy it.

It's the podcasts' fifth anniversary so the albums discussed feature quintets. Laughs, insights, and just a few sentimental moments as the boys contemplate this milestone. Oh, and they rant about Microsoft just a little bit. Ronald Shannon Jackson – SHANNON’S HOUSE; Oliver Lake – PROPHET; Jimmy Lyons – GIVE IT UP; Kenny Cox – INTRODUCING KENNY COX AND THE CONTEMPORARY JAZZ QUINTET.

La edición 254 de HDO del 29 de marzo de 2017 es un 3X3 dedicado a esos veteranos del jazz que siguen en la brecha: Lee Konitz que se ha estrenado en Impulse! con frescalalto, grabación en la que le acompañan Kenny Barron, Peter Washington y Kenny Washington; Billy Hart, integrante del trío de Aaron Parks (que completa Ben Street), con el que el pianista ha publicado Find The Way en ECM; finalmente Trio 3, o lo que es lo mismo los veteranos -todos ellos- Andrew Cyrille, Reggie Workman y Oliver Lake, que publican en Intakt Visiting Texture. Tomajazz: © Pachi Tapiz, 2017 HDO es un podcast editado, presentado y producido por Pachi Tapiz.

Inspirados por el universo del cineasta ruso, el Tarkovsky Quartet, del pianista François Couturier, presenta "Nuite blanche", tercer disco de su trayectoria. En esta edición de 'Club de Jazz' del 23 de marzo de 2017 escuchamos "Diürna", dúo del saxofonista Martí Serra y el pianista Sergi Sirvent. Además, tercer disco de un clásico del jazz barcelonés: el guitarrista Dani Pérez presenta "Resumen" junto a David Mengual (cb) y David Xirgu (bt). El guitarrista argentino Lucio Balduini firma su tercer trabajo propio. "El bosque brillante" recoge temas propios y dos versiones de música de 'El Flaco' Spinetta. Septuagenarios y heterodoxos, los componentes de Trio 3 (Andrew Cyrille, Reggie Workman y Oliver Lake) firman "Visiting texture". Toda la información y derechos: http://www.elclubdejazz.com

Inspirados por el universo del cineasta ruso, el Tarkovsky Quartet, del pianista François Couturier, presenta "Nuite blanche", tercer disco de su trayectoria. En esta edición de 'Club de Jazz' del 23 de marzo de 2017 escuchamos "Diürna", dúo del saxofonista Martí Serra y el pianista Sergi Sirvent. Además, tercer disco de un clásico del jazz barcelonés: el guitarrista Dani Pérez presenta "Resumen" junto a David Mengual (cb) y David Xirgu (bt). El guitarrista argentino Lucio Balduini firma su tercer trabajo propio. "El bosque brillante" recoge temas propios y dos versiones de música de 'El Flaco' Spinetta. Septuagenarios y heterodoxos, los componentes de Trio 3 (Andrew Cyrille, Reggie Workman y Oliver Lake) firman "Visiting texture". Toda la información y derechos: http://www.elclubdejazz.com

7e émission de la 35e session... Cette semaine, clin d'oeil à Horace Parlan, freebop et free from Chicago ! En musique Horace Parlan sur l'album Us Three  (Blue Note, 1960); Horace Parlan sur l'album Up & Down  (Blue Note, 1961); Dan Phillips' Chicago Edge Ensemble sur l'album Decaying Orbit  (Indépendant, 2017); Marquis Hill, Jeff Parker, Joachim Florent, Denis Fournier sur l'album Escape Lane  (The Bridge Sessions, 2017); Vinny Golia, Oliver Lake, Ross Hammond and Adam Lane sur l'album Live At The Downtown Music Gallery NYC  (Downtown Music Gallery, 2016); Art Ensemble of Chicago sur l'album Certain Blacks  (America, 1970); Queen Mab Trio sur l'album Réunion  (Mikroclimat, 2017)...

7e émission de la 35e session... Cette semaine, clin d'oeil à Horace Parlan, freebop et free from Chicago ! En musique Horace Parlan sur l'album Us Three  (Blue Note, 1960); Horace Parlan sur l'album Up & Down  (Blue Note, 1961); Dan Phillips’ Chicago Edge Ensemble sur l'album Decaying Orbit  (Indépendant, 2017); Marquis Hill, Jeff Parker, Joachim Florent, Denis Fournier sur l'album Escape Lane  (The Bridge Sessions, 2017); Vinny Golia, Oliver Lake, Ross Hammond and Adam Lane sur l'album Live At The Downtown Music Gallery NYC  (Downtown Music Gallery, 2016); Art Ensemble of Chicago sur l'album Certain Blacks  (America, 1970); Queen Mab Trio sur l'album Réunion  (Mikroclimat, 2017)...

Oliver Lake is an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and poet who co-founded The World Saxophone Quartet in 1977. In this edition of Liner Notes, Rabbi and jazz historian Neil Blumofe talks about the way in which Lake’s music offered a portal for us to understand the civil rights movement and social justice through art. When...

Oliver Lake is an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and poet who co-founded The World Saxophone Quartet in 1977. In this edition of Liner Notes, Rabbi and jazz historian Neil Blumofe talks about the way in which Lake’s music offered a portal for us to understand the civil rights movement and social justice through art. When […]

Oliver Lake is an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and poet who co-founded The World Saxophone Quartet in 1977. In this edition of Liner Notes, Rabbi and jazz historian Neil Blumofe talks about the way in which Lake’s music offered a portal for us to understand the civil rights movement and social justice through art. When...

WILLIS EARL BEAL, Questions, da "Experiments In Time" 04:35 OLIVIA LOUVEL, Burst, da "Beauty Sleep" 09:33 LUC EX' ASSEMBLÉE, L'Assemblage, da "Assemblée" 14:07 ORLANDO JULIUS WITH THE HELIOCENTRICS, Aseni, da “Jaiede Afro” 19:20 PANDELIS KARAYORGIS QUINTET, Sway, da "Afterimage" 25:40 TARBABY w. OLIVER LAKE & MARC DUCRET, Black Skin With Mask, da "Fanon" 31:05 THE HELIOCENTRICS & MELVIN VAN PEEBLES, Blue Mist / The Cavern, da "The Last Transmission" 37:10 TRICKY, Sun Down, da "Adrian Thaws" 40:45 AHMADU JARR, Kathung Gbeng, da "Spiritual Jazz 5: The World" 44:50 KING AYISOBA, Bayeti Boi, da "Wicked Leaders" 48:58 FHLOSTON PARADIGM, Never Defeated, da "The Phoenix" 52:45 MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND, This Is My Hand, da "This Is My Hand" 56:00 WADADA LEO SMITH, Lake Superior, da "The Great Lakes Suites" 66:24 MIKE COOPER, Goodbye Blues, Goodbye, da "Places I Know/Machine Gun Co." 71:00 SHABAZZ PALACES, Dawn In Luxor, da "Lese Majesty"

"Breakin the lab!" recoge la sesión improvisada del trío formado por el pianista Agustí Fernández, el saxofonista Mats Gustafsson y el baterista Ramón Prats en el Jamboree de Barcelona el 23 de abril de 2013. Es nuestra apertura de temporada en esta edición de "Club de Jazz" del 4 de septiembre de 2013. Una edición en la que viajamos al espacio con la Cosmic Band del trombonista Gianluca Petrella en su homenaje a Sun Ra. Tiempo también para "Refraction - Breakin´ Glass", trabajo que reúne a los veteranos Trio 3 (Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman y Andrew Cyrille) con el pianista Jason Moran. El "Tren Azul" de Luis Díaz García arranca temporada con Lester Young. Los "Rtimos Latinos" de Anxo bailan al ritmo de Al Supersonic and The Teenagers y el "Jazz Porteño" de Alberto Varela se deja mecer por el "Oblivion" de Astor Piazzolla. Toda la información y derechos: http://www.elclubdejazz.com

"Breakin the lab!" recoge la sesión improvisada del trío formado por el pianista Agustí Fernández, el saxofonista Mats Gustafsson y el baterista Ramón Prats en el Jamboree de Barcelona el 23 de abril de 2013. Es nuestra apertura de temporada en esta edición de "Club de Jazz" del 4 de septiembre de 2013. Una edición en la que viajamos al espacio con la Cosmic Band del trombonista Gianluca Petrella en su homenaje a Sun Ra. Tiempo también para "Refraction - Breakin´ Glass", trabajo que reúne a los veteranos Trio 3 (Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman y Andrew Cyrille) con el pianista Jason Moran. El "Tren Azul" de Luis Díaz García arranca temporada con Lester Young. Los "Rtimos Latinos" de Anxo bailan al ritmo de Al Supersonic and The Teenagers y el "Jazz Porteño" de Alberto Varela se deja mecer por el "Oblivion" de Astor Piazzolla. Toda la información y derechos: http://www.elclubdejazz.com

Première de la septième session. La nouvelle saison débute sous l'égide d'un thème commun. On entre de le jazz à saveur de blues pour 2 heures avec une sélection variée. Au menu, que des pièces ayant le mot Blues dans le titre. S'enchaîne les Sydney Bechet, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Oscar Peterson, Stan Getz, Oliver Nelson, Benny Golson, Groover Washington Jr., Brandford Marsalis, Oliver Lake. De plus, parce que Jack Kerouac est dans l'air, lecture de quelques pages du récit Le vagabond américain en voie de disparition.

Première de la septième session. La nouvelle saison débute sous l'égide d'un thème commun. On entre de le jazz à saveur de blues pour 2 heures avec une sélection variée. Au menu, que des pièces ayant le mot Blues dans le titre. S'enchaîne les Sydney Bechet, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Oscar Peterson, Stan Getz, Oliver Nelson, Benny Golson, Groover Washington Jr., Brandford Marsalis, Oliver Lake. De plus, parce que Jack Kerouac est dans l'air, lecture de quelques pages du récit Le vagabond américain en voie de disparition.