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“All Are Interested in All” 4/23/26: Local historians Steve Strimer & Tom Goldscheider: worker coops in Florence the 1840s and now. ACLU of Mass Exec Dir Carol Rose: Trump v. the fourth estate. Rev Carole Bull: Trump as Jesus & “The Cloud of the Unknowing.” All that Jazz: John Anz with trumpeter and composer Ralph Alessi.

“All Are Interested in All” 4/23/26: Local historians Steve Strimer & Tom Goldscheider: worker coops in Florence the 1840s and now. ACLU of Mass Exec Dir Carol Rose: Trump v. the fourth estate. Rev Carole Bull: Trump as Jesus & “The Cloud of the Unknowing.” All that Jazz: John Anz with trumpeter and composer Ralph Alessi.

“All Are Interested in All” 4/23/26: Local historians Steve Strimer & Tom Goldscheider: worker coops in Florence the 1840s and now. ACLU of Mass Exec Dir Carol Rose: Trump v. the fourth estate. Rev Carole Bull: Trump as Jesus & “The Cloud of the Unknowing.” All that Jazz: John Anz with trumpeter and composer Ralph Alessi.

“All Are Interested in All” 4/23/26: Local historians Steve Strimer & Tom Goldscheider: worker coops in Florence the 1840s and now. ACLU of Mass Exec Dir Carol Rose: Trump v. the fourth estate. Rev Carole Bull: Trump as Jesus & “The Cloud of the Unknowing.” All that Jazz: John Anz with trumpeter and composer Ralph Alessi.

An episode showcasing musicians who meet the listener in a place of honesty, where they can explore creativity in complete freedom. The playlist features Dominique Fils-Aimé; Meg Okura [pictured]; Brian Marsella, Sae Hashimoto; Ben Wendel; PDuRN, Ralph Alessi, Manuel Caliumi. Detailed playlist at https://spinitron.com/RFB/pl/22103632/Mondo-Jazz [from "Life Remains" to "Zermula"]. Happy listening! Photo: Tara Harkness

Laura Camacho Tango Project, Theo Bleckmann, Timo Vollbrecht, Billy Hart, Aaron Parks, Kelsey Mines, Erin Rogers, Brandon Suarez, Zoh Amba, Fieldwork Steve Lehman, Bellbird, Leslie Ting, Way Ahead Trio and Midnight ChannelPlaylist: Laura Camacho Tango Project - Running Up That HillTheo Bleckmann - Love and AngerTimo Vollbrecht, featuring Ralph Alessi, Elias Stemeseder, Chris Tordini, Thomas Stronen - DarkBilly Hart, featuring Mark Turner, Ethan Iverson and Ben Street - Sonnet for StevieAaron Parks, featuring Ben Solomon, Ben Street and Billy Hart - Parks LopeKelsey Mines - AteErin Rogers, Kelsey Mines - Scratching at the SurfaceBrandon Suarez - BarbadosZoh Amba - Fruit GatheringFieldwork - DomainSteve Lehman, featuring Mark Turner, Damion Reid and Matt Brewer - L.A. GenesBellbird - The CallLeslie Ting - Dirt Road - Movements 4 & 5Way Ahead Trio - ObsesionMidnight Channel - Mallard

RAVI COLTRANE “SPIRIT FICTION” New York, December 20-22, 2011Klepto (4), Check out time (4,6), Fantasm (jg,eh,ra out,4,6)Ralph Alessi (tp-4) Ravi Coltrane (ts) Joe Lovano (ts-6) Geri Allen (p-4) James Genus (b-4) Eric Harland (d-4) OLIVER JONES TRIO “COOKIN' AT SWEET BASIL” New York, September 3, 1987My funny Valentine, Jitterbug waltzOliver Jones (p) Dave Young (b) Terry Clarke (d) LAUREN SEVIAN “BLISS” Brooklyn, NY, September 19, 2017Square one, Bliss, Bluesishness, Lamb and bunnyLauren Sevian (bar) Alexa Tarantino (as) Robert Rodriguez (p) Christian McBride (b) E.J. Continue reading Puro Jazz 05 de febrero, 2025 at PuroJazz.

RAVI COLTRANE “SPIRIT FICTION” New York, December 20-22, 2011Klepto (4), Check out time (4,6), Fantasm (jg,eh,ra out,4,6)Ralph Alessi (tp-4) Ravi Coltrane (ts) Joe Lovano (ts-6) Geri Allen (p-4) James Genus (b-4) Eric Harland (d-4) OLIVER JONES TRIO “COOKIN' AT SWEET BASIL” New York, September 3, 1987My funny Valentine, Jitterbug waltzOliver Jones (p) Dave Young (b) Terry Clarke (d) LAUREN SEVIAN “BLISS” Brooklyn, NY, September 19, 2017Square one, Bliss, Bluesishness, Lamb and bunnyLauren Sevian (bar) Alexa Tarantino (as) Robert Rodriguez (p) Christian McBride (b) E.J. Continue reading Puro Jazz 05 de febrero, 2025 at PuroJazz.

Greetings! I've never been a huge fan of end of year "best of" lists, but more appropriately for Pushing The Envelope,  this is the first batch of 2024 releases that made my cochlea's hair cells tingle!  Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joelkru/ Twitter-ish x-thing: https://twitter.com/envpusher1      12-21-24 PTE Playlist: The Most Interesting Releases of 2024, Part 1   Rocket Man - Eva Novoa - Novoa / Drew Gress / Devin Gray Trio, Vol. 1 - 577 Records https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/novoa-gress-gray-trio-vol-1   Political Technology - Devin Gray feat. Ralph Alessi (trumpet) & Myslaure ( “Meez-Lor”) Augustin (piano) - Melt All The Guns II - Rataplan Records (2024) https://devingraymusic.bandcamp.com/album/melt-all-the-guns-ii     Second Meditation - Joseph Benzola - Stained Glass Meditation - Amanita Music (2024) https://josephbenzola.bandcamp.com/album/stained-glass-meditation    O Ignee Spiritus - Larum - The Music of Hildegard von Bingen | Live at Public Records - Puremagnetik (2024) https://larum.bandcamp.com/album/the-music-of-hildegard-von-bingen-live-at-public-records     The Sea of Chairs - Denman Maroney Quintet - The Air​-​Conditioned Nightmare - Neuma Records (2024) https://denmanfmaroney.bandcamp.com/album/the-air-conditioned-nightmare-2     Tweks (Part 4) (Demo) - Petridisch - Tweks (Remastered) - Fish Prints (2024) https://fishprintsinc.bandcamp.com/album/tweks-remastered    Zu sagen was ist (To say what is.) - David Wallraf/Monad Node - Un culte sans r​ê​ve et sans merci (A cult without dreams and without mercy) - digital release (2024) https://monadnode.bandcamp.com/album/un-culte-sans-r-ve-et-sans-merci    Away - David Zucchi - Mandi - People | Places | Records (2024) https://peopleplacesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mandi    Act II (feat. Philippe Melanson on e-drums) - bass: Dan Fortin - Cannon - Elastic Recordings (2024) https://danfortin.bandcamp.com/album/cannon-elastic-recordings    A Solitude of Space / A Solitude of Sea / A Solitude of Death / An Everywhere of Silver - Heavy Cloud - shore​)​lines - digital release (2024) https://heavycloud.bandcamp.com/album/shore-lines    The Basin - Parade - Lullabies After Storms and Floods - Elastic Recordings (2024) https://paradetoronto.bandcamp.com/album/lullabies-after-storms-and-floods    Polytempo Music: Opening / Clockwise  - composer: Brian Baumbusch / emsemble: San Francisco Contemporary Music Players - Polytempo Music - Other Minds Records (2024) https://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/polytempo-music       Trophallaxis (pt. 1) - Fletina & Peter Wullen - Trophallaxis - digital release (2024) https://fletina.bandcamp.com/album/trophallaxis     Enormous Wings - tttc - Foretold - Fruit Exports (2024) https://fruitexports.bandcamp.com/album/foretold     

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In onda Fabio Barbieri. Musiche: Miles Davis, Tom Waits, Memotone, Rolling Stones, Sans Soucis, Lulacruza, Troggs, Hans Otte, Ralph Alessi, Carla Bley and Her Remarkable Big Band, Charles Lloyd. Lettura: Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Greetings!  Quite a bit of international representation on today's program; from Japan (Norio Maeda) to Viet Nam (Keith Beber & Mai Giang Trần), from Brooklyn (Devin Gray) to a plethora of Canadian artists (India Gailey, Eldritch Priest & Kamra).   Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com Twitter-like x-thing: https://twitter.com/envpusher1   9-21-24 PTE Playlist   Mountainweeps: I. glacial light fluttering in the wind /  II. naked of an ancient watery sheath / III. leaking fauna and stones - India Gailey: composer/solo cello - Butterfly Lightning Shakes the Earth - Redshift Music (October 2024 pre-release) https://redshiftmusicsociety.bandcamp.com/album/butterfly-lightning-shakes-the-earth    Tsugaru Jongara Bushi - Norio Maeda & All Stars - Rock Communication Yagibushi - Wewantsounds (1970/2024) https://wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/merch/norio-maeda-rock-communication-yagibushi-cd-edition-with-8p-booklet    Uncle Meat / King Kong (Medley) - Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Beat The Boots I: 2. The Ark - FOO-EEE Records (1968/1991) https://www.zappa.com/releases-archive/beat-boots-i-2-ark/#/    Official Fascimile - Neverending Audit - High Notes - Ingrown Records (2024) https://ingrown.bandcamp.com/album/high-notes    Lugosi - Monster of East Felton - Gasp - Monster of East Felton Records (2024) https://monsterofeastfelton.bandcamp.com/album/gasp    Iris - guitar: Eldritch Priest / composer: Wayne Shorter - Dormitive Virtue - Halocline Trance (October 2024 pre-release)   https://eldritchpriest.bandcamp.com/album/dormitive-virtue    Trosper - Bill Frisell - Trosper - Fantagraphics Books (2001)    Raveen - Keith Beber & Mai Giang Trần - Kara EP - Fruit Exports (2024) https://keithbeber.bandcamp.com/album/kara-ep    Fuego - Eva Navoa (Fender Rhodes) w/ Daniel Carter (wind instruments) & Francisco Mela (drums) - Novoa / Carter / Mela Trio, Vol. 1 - 577 Records (2024) https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/novoa-carter-mela-trio-vol-1    Melt All The Guns II - Devin Gray feat. Ralph Alessi (trumpet) & Myslaure Augustin (piano) - Melt All The Guns II - Rataplan Records (2024) https://devingraymusic.bandcamp.com/album/melt-all-the-guns-ii     An Enormous Aunt - Craig Chin / Barbara Gogan / Max Kutner / Tamara Yadao - An Enormous Aunt - Mother Brain Records (2024) https://motherbrainrecordskc.bandcamp.com/album/an-enormous-aunt    Sun Burns - Kamra - Shift Circuit - People Places Records (2024) https://peopleplacesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/shift-circuit    Breakable - Graham Fitkin - Veneer - self-release (2016) https://fitkin.com/product/veneer/    Drip Drumming - John Oliver - Rubble Drum - John Oliver Music (2024) https://johnolivermusic.bandcamp.com/album/rubble-drum 

Today, the Spotlight shines On drummer and composer Devin Gray.Like me, Devin is a born New Englander who made his way to Brooklyn, though unlike me, he splits his time between Brooklyn and Berlin.Devin has performed with Spotlight On alumni Angelica Sanchez and Satoko Fuji, as well as a who's who of the creative music scene: David Liebman, Sylvie Couvoisier, Tim Berne, Nate Wooley, and many others.Our conversation ranged from Devin's earliest exposures to music, his self-taught approach to drumming, genre divisions in music, local and regional art scenes, the different approaches to arts funding he's encountered in the US and Europe, the appeal of creating an artistic universe of work, sincerity and authenticity, more.Devin will be performing in Seattle in the next few days and I hope to continue our conversation then. Enjoy.(The musical excerpts heard in the interview are from Devin Gray's album Most Definitely)–Dig DeeperVisit Devin Gray at devingraymusic.comPurchase Devin Gray's Most Definitely on Qobuz or Bandcamp, and listen on SpotifyFollow Devin Gray on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter (X), and YouTube7 Questions for Devin GraySatoko Fujii: composing beyond the jazz spiritMelt All the Guns (feat. Ralph Alessi & Angelica Sanchez)Dig into this episode's complete show notes at spotlightonpodcast.com–• Did you enjoy this episode? Please share it with a friend! You can also rate Spotlight On ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ and leave a review on Apple Podcasts.• Subscribe! Be the first to check out each new episode of Spotlight On in your podcast app of choice.• Looking for more? Visit spotlightonpodcast.com for bonus content, web-only interviews + features, and the Spotlight On email newsletter. You can also follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Mastodon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today, the Spotlight shines On drummer and composer Devin Gray.Like me, Devin is a born New Englander who made his way to Brooklyn, though unlike me, he splits his time between Brooklyn and Berlin.Devin has performed with Spotlight On alumni Angelica Sanchez and Satoko Fuji, as well as a who's who of the creative music scene: David Liebman, Sylvie Couvoisier, Tim Berne, Nate Wooley, and many others.Our conversation ranged from Devin's earliest exposures to music, his self-taught approach to drumming, genre divisions in music, local and regional art scenes, the different approaches to arts funding he's encountered in the US and Europe, the appeal of creating an artistic universe of work, sincerity and authenticity, more.Devin will be performing in Seattle in the next few days and I hope to continue our conversation then. Enjoy.(The musical excerpts heard in the interview are from Devin Gray's album Most Definitely)–Dig DeeperVisit Devin Gray at devingraymusic.comPurchase Devin Gray's Most Definitely on Qobuz or Bandcamp, and listen on SpotifyFollow Devin Gray on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter (X), and YouTube7 Questions for Devin GraySatoko Fujii: composing beyond the jazz spiritMelt All the Guns (feat. Ralph Alessi & Angelica Sanchez)Dig into this episode's complete show notes at spotlightonpodcast.com–• Did you enjoy this episode? Please share it with a friend! You can also rate Spotlight On ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ and leave a review on Apple Podcasts.• Subscribe! Be the first to check out each new episode of Spotlight On in your podcast app of choice.• Looking for more? Visit spotlightonpodcast.com for bonus content, web-only interviews + features, and the Spotlight On email newsletter. You can also follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Mastodon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

NYC flutist, composer, Sunnyside Records artist, producer, and clinician, Jamie Baum, has toured the US and over 35 countries performing at major festivals, clubs, and concert halls including the Monterey, Madrid, Oeiras, Bermuda, Edinburgh, North Sea, Winter Jazzfest and London Jazz Festivals, Tampere Jazz Happening, Guimaraes Jazz Festival, Jazztopad, Bimhuis, Unterfahrt, Jazz Gallery, Jazz Standard, 55 Bar, Dizzy's, Blue Note, etc.. She's performed with artists as renowned and diverse as Randy Brecker, Roy Hargrove, Donald Brown, Tom Harrell, Paul Motion, Mick Goodrick and Kenny Barron to Dave Douglas, Fred Hersch, Leni Stern, Louis Cole, Jane Bunnett, David Binney, Ralph Alessi, Ben Monder, Anthony Braxton, Karaikudi Mani, V. M. Bhatt, Navin Chettri and Wadada Leo Smith. Though focusing primarily on jazz, she's been involved in several projects performing classical, new music, Brazilian and Latin music. Receiving critical praise for seven CD's as a leader, with most making several “Best CDs of the Year” lists and four stars from DownBeat, her recently-released What Times Are These received five stars in DownBeat. Inch By Inch (GM Recordings), by the cooperative band Yard Byard: The Jaki Byard Project (w/Jerome Harris, George Schuller), also received four stars from DownBeat. Jamie has appeared on over 40 recordings as a sidewoman including those by Dave Binney, George Colligan, Ursel Schlicht, Frank Carlberg, Patrizia Scascitelli, Taylor Haskins, Monika Herzig, Louise Rogers, Sarah McKenzie, Steve Lampert, Brian Landrus, Laura Andel, Judi Silvano, Shigeko Suzuki, James Hall, etc. Ms. Baum's many awards and grants for composing and touring include the 2022 Cafe Royale Recording Grant, 2021 South Arts Jazz Road Touring Grant, 2020 International Society of Jazz Arrangers & Composers (ISJAC) Covid Relief Commission, Foundation for Contemporary Arts 2020, 2020 Chamber Music America Jazz Presenter Consortium, 2018 USArtists International Touring Grant, 2017 New Music USA Project Grant, and a 2014 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. Baum was selected as a 2014-15 Norman Stevens Fellow/MacDowell resident and has since been awarded residencies again at MacDowell (2021), at UCross (2015), and at VCCA (2020). She won the '99 International Jazz Composers Alliance Award, 2010 CAP Award (American Music Center), the 2003 New Works: Creation and Presentation Award and the 2007 Encore Award, both components of the Doris Duke/CMA Jazz Ensembles Project. Ms. Baum has been in the DownBeat Critics Polls annually since 1998, making #1 “Rising Star Flutist” in '12, #2 “Flutist” in '19, and #3 “Flutist” in '20. She was named a "Major New International Talent” in 2015 lists by both “Musica Jazz” and “Jazzit” (Italy), was #2 “Flutist of the Year” in the 2018 Eleventh Annual International Critics Poll and tied for 4th place with Hubert Laws in the 2018 JazzTimes Critics Poll. Jamie was included in Huffington Post's "Twenty-five Great Jazz Flute Performances”, nominated by the Jazz Journalists Association for “Flutist of the Year“ fourteen times, and The Jamie Baum Septet+ was nominated in 2014 "Best Midsize Ensemble" - in the same list with only two other bands -The Wayne Shorter Quartet and Steve Coleman's Five Elements! Media attention for her recent CD, Bridges, and previously released, In This Life, brought features on WBGO's RADAR and NPR's All Things Considered, reviews in The New York Times, DownBeat, JazzTimes, All About Jazz, etc.. and two hour-long feature/retrospectives on major German and Czech public radio shows. Bridges was voted #4 in the 2018 JazzTimes Readers Poll for “Best New Release,” and In This Life was in the "Best CDs of 2013” lists including Boston Globe, iTunes, and Francis Davis' NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll. Recently, Baum was included in the JazzTimes 10: Essential Jazz Flute Albums (2019), 3 Questions for Today's Jazz Musicians by Lilian Dericq, Cricket Publishers (Paris), the “Woodshed” in DownBeat, January 2019, and was the flutist on “The Essence of the Blues -- Flute: 10 Great Etudes for Playing and Improvising, Book & CD”, (Jim Snidero “play-along” series, 2019). Through a highly competitive auditioning process, Jamie was chosen to tour for the DOS/Kennedy Center Jazz Ambassador program from '99 -'03 in South America and South Asia. The US State Department also sponsored later shorter tours, in addition to several isolated US Embassy-sponsored programs while Baum was on her tours in Europe and South Asia. Baum's two main active projects featuring her compositions include The Jamie Baum Septet+, together since 1999, and her Short Stories band marking five years by performing at the 2020 Winter Jazzfest. In addition, she co-leads Yard Byard: The Jaki Byard Project and is involved in several other projects either as co-leader or side-woman, including The Richie Beirach/Jamie Baum Duo and NYC Jazz Flutes. Baum has been on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music Jazz Arts department at since 2006, on the adjunct faculty roster at the New School University since 2004, and taught at Berklee College of Music (2011-2013). Summer jazz programs Baum has taught composition, improv, and flute technique, and coached ensembles at including the Stanford Jazz Workshop Institute, Litchfield Jazz Camp, Maryland Jazz Camp, etc. A clinician for Altus Flutes/KHS America since 1993, they have sponsored her innovative, pioneering workshop "A Fear Free Approach to Improvisation for the Classically-Trained Musician” TM, "A Fear Free Approach to Composition for the Improvising Musician” TM and “Flute Technique for Doublers” at colleges, conservatories, festivals, flute clubs and “music and art” schools worldwide.  

Enjoy a set featuring Wadada Leo Smith's and Amina Claudine Myers' [pictured] magical collaboration, the return of Flukten and a number of really exciting collaboration between forward looking European and US musicians. The playlist features also The Beat Freaks, Ralph Alessi; Andrea Grossi, Jim Black; Natsuki Tamura; John Escreet; Alex Sipiagin. Detailed playlist at https://spinitron.com/RFB/pl/19003066/Mondo-Jazz [from "Flukten" onward]. Happy listening!

4e émission de la 59e session...Cette semaine, jazz spirituel et freebop! En musique: Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few sur l'album The Almighty  (Division 81); Joy Guidry sur l'album Amen  (Whited Sepulchre, 2024); Alan Braufman sur l'album Infinite Love Infinite Tears  (The Control Group / Valley of Search, 2024); Luke Stewart sur l'album Unknown Rivers  (Pi, 2024); Tom Skinner sur l'album Voices of Bishara Live at "mu"  (International Anthem, 2024); Simon Nabatov Quartet feat. Ralph Alessi sur l'album Lovely Music  (Clean Feed, 2024)...

JAMIE BAUM – SOLACE Hampton, NJ, April 2 & 3, 2007Ives suite: Part 1 – Time traveler (2), Part 2 – Time traveler Ralph Alessi (tp-1,flhrn-1) Shane Endsley (tp) Vincent Chancey (fhr-2) Chris Komer (fhr) Jamie Baum (fl,alto-fl) Douglas Yates (as,b-cl) George Colligan (p,el-p) Johannes Weidenmueller (b) Jeff Hirshfield (d) Kyoko Kitamura (vcl) ETHAN WINOGRAND MADE IN BROOKLYN Oviedo, Spain & Brooklyn, NY, 2002 Projectionisum, Pepper and things, Skip to my bluesDonny McCaslin (ts,sop) Ross Bonadonna (g,b,bar,p) Eric Mingus (el-b) Ethan Winogrand (d,perc) GEORGE COLEMAN QUARTET I COULD WRITE A BOOK (THE MUSIC OF RICHARD RODGERS) New York, January 8 & 9, 1998My funny Valentine, Lover, I could write a book George Coleman (ts,sop) Harold Mabern (p) Jamil Nasser (b) Billy Higgins (d) Continue reading Puro Jazz 29 febrero 2024 at PuroJazz.

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Presentamos diez novedades del panorama internacional llevadas a cabo por trompetistas importantes como Ambrose Akinmusire, Dave Douglas, aTunde Adjuah, Jaimie Branch, Will Miller, Byron Wallen, Chris Botti, Joe Magnarelli y Ralph Alessi. Una trompetada en condiciones para dar la bienvenida al Planeta Jazz.Temas que suenan en el programa:01 2022 Dhafer Youssef - Streets of Minarets 03 SharQ Serenade - Ambrose Akinmusire Rakesh Chaurasia Nguyên Lê Marcus Miller Adriano Dos Santos Vinnie Colaiuta (4' 38'')02 2023 Ambrose Akinmusire - Beauty is Enough 02 2-1 (2' 09'')03 2021 Dave Douglas - Songs of Ascent Book 1 Degrees 04 Peace Within Your Walls - Jon Irabagon Matt MitchellLinda May Han Oh Rudy Royston (4' 14'')04 2023 Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah - Bark Out Thunder Roar Out Lightning 03 Xodokan Iko - Hu Na Ney (3' 51'')05 2018 Jaimie Branch - Fly or Die II 01 Birds of Paradise - Lester St. Louis Jason Ajemian Chad Taylor (3' 28'')06 2023 Resavoir - Plight - Will Miller Sen Morimoto Akenya Lane Beckstrom Peter Manheim Jeremy Cunningham (7' 28'')07 2023 Byron Wallen - Closed Circle - Tony Kofi Oli Langford Danny Keane Kielan Sheard Tom Skinner (7' 14'')08 2023 Chris Botti Vol 1 10 Old Folks - Esteban Castro Zach Moses Vinnie Colaiuta (5' 45'')09 2022 Joe Magnarelli - New York Osaka Junction 02 Lament For Lorraine - Gary Smulyan Akiko Tsuruga Rudy Royston (5' 44'')10 2021 Ralph Alessi Quartet - It's Always Now 06 The Shadow Side - Florian Weber Bänz Oester Gerry Hemingway (3' 45'')Para estar al día de lo que sucede en el jazz en Aragón os recomiento la web jazzaragon de Daniel Zamora.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gemini--6#/An artist interested in multiple musical directions and one who strives for quality and sincerity in his work. His exciting energy has compelled him towards many different musical directions and projects. Considered by his contemporaries as cutting edge, Gray shows promise as an artist that will not only move the music forward, but one who will share his unique musical vision with the world of music.Devin Gray's fresh approach to modern drumming has enabled him to play with many of the worlds great jazz musicians. He has performed and recorded with innovative musicians of contrasting styles and backgrounds such as: David Liebman, Tony Malaby, Gary Thomas, Ingrid Jensen, Dave Burrell, Dave Ballou, Michael Formanek, Nate Wooley, Stephan Crump, George Garzone, Chris Speed, Drew Gress, Sam Rivers, Ralph Alessi, John O'Gallagher, Ellery Eskelin, Kris Davis, Ted Rosenthal, Matt Mitchell, Satoko Fujii, Uri Caine, Andrew D'Angelo, Vardan Ovsepian, Angelica Sanchez, as well as many others.Support the show

Last week we focused our playlist on some of our favorite tracks from the first six months of the year. Evidently two hours were not enough and we could not play them all… so here we are going through the rest of the best. The playlist features Vicente Archer; Enzo Carniel, Hermon Mehari, Damien Varaillon, Stéphane Adsuar; John Hadfield [pictured], Kinan Azmeh; Vinnie Sperrazza, Ethan Iverson, Michael Formanek; Rachel Eckroth; Darren Johnston; Ralph Alessi; Jacob Young, Mats Eilertsen, Audun Kleive; and Asher Gamedze. Detailed playlist at https://spinitron.com/RFB/pl/17612249/Mondo-Jazz (up to "Out Stepped Zim").  Happy listening!

Jairus Sharif, Aaron Leaney, Greenhouse Ensemble, Melissa Pipe, Ally Fiola, Jeff Coffin, Milford Graves, Devin Gray, Eva Novoa, Ralph Alessi, Michael Sarian & Matthew Putman, Jaimie Branch, Rob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra, Tammy McCannPlaylist: Jairus Sharif - Earth IIIAaron Leaney, featuring Guy Thouin - Turtle IslandGreenhouse Ensemble - MedinaMelissa Pipe Sextet - ApotheciumAlly Fiola, featuring Jeff Coffin - UndergroundJeff Coffin, featuring Johnny Vidacovich - MilfordMilford Graves - February 2, 1976 IDevin Gray - Soldier On, MilfordEva Novoa, featuring Masa Kamaguchi and Gerald Cleaver - RectanglesRalph Alessi - Hanging by a ThreadMichael Sarian, Matthew Putman - Rough WatersJaimie Branch - Take Over the WorldRob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra - Future ShamanTammy McCann - Feeling Good

Abrimos nuevo episodio de La Montaña Rusa con el nuevo álbum de Brad Mehldau, Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays The Beatles, publicado este 2023. Después descubriremos la música del pianista Igor Yakovenko, del que escucharemos The Music Machine, publicado en 2021 para Fancy Music. Nuestro Clásico de la Semana fue el prestigioso contrabajista y compositor británico Graham Collier, del que recientemente se ha publicado este concierto de 1969 en Estocolmo, Down Another Road @ Stockholm Jazz Days ’69. Seguir leyendo La Montaña Rusa 22.2023. Brad Mehldau. Igor Yakovenko. Graham Collier. Mostly Other People Do The Killing. Lluis Vidal & David Xirgu. Ralph Alessi. en La Montaña Rusa Radio Jazz.

In the 22nd episode of the ECM Podcast, trumpeter Ralph Alessi talks about his new quartet recording "It's Always Now", on which he is joined by pianist Florian Weber, bassist Bänz Oester and Gerry Hemingway on drums. The album was produced by Manfred Eicher. Ralph gets into the differences of being a musician in the US and Europe, talks about education in music and about the art of naming songs.

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Featuring new music from The Mexico City Experiment on Ropeadope; a vibey modern supergroup comprised of Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, and Shazad Ismaily; trumpet legend Ralph Alessi from his fresh ECM release; Michael Blake's brilliant new Brazilian fusion ensemble; BK guitar master Simon Kafka and his latest joint featuring Duncan Sheik; the ethereal soundscapes of Eulipion Corps; Ligeti Quartet interpreting composer Meredith Solstice; and finally, Peter Gabriel live and direct from the first WOMAD festival in 1982.

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Experiments, from Chicago and elsewhere, technical mastery offset by sense of humor, jazz as sonic story-telling, and transfiguration of jazz standards are some of the main sources of inspiration for this episode. The playlist features Greg Spero; John Zorn, Bill Frisell, John Medeski, Brian Marsella, Kenny Wollesen; Camille Bertault; Daniel Bingert; Michael Blake; Yelena Eckemoff; Francesca Han [pictured], Ralph Alessi; Cory Smythe. Detailed playlist at https://spinitron.com/RFB/pl/17210615/Mondo-Jazz (up to "Emahoy"). Happy listening!

German-born saxophonist and jazz educator Timo Vollbrecht is a mild-spoken man which slightly disarms you. You would not know by first sight that he is a practitioner and scholar of electronic-infused improvised jazz. He has long been a fan of transforming acoustic sounds with synthesizers, including using the saxophone as a tool. Timo is also a scholar of the “nth” degree and a saxophonist who adores the multitude of sounds he can create with electronic tools. Meet Professor Vollbrecht, Director of Jazz Studies at Brown University. Yes, that Brown University. He was, in his previous academic pursuit, an adjunct professor at NYU. His passion is 21st-century experimental electric-infused music, merging the sonic colors and texture of electronic sounds with acoustic intricate song forms. Timo became interested in improvised music at an early age. He fell in love with the saxophone first and later pursued creating the coolest and most captivating sound collages to his music. What's even more important to Timo, though, is community; he keeps it in the broader sense as well as in the studio and on the bandstand. He remarks that he is likely to be seen with his friends in the local pub in his Brooklyn neighborhood. Timo, who has a PhD from NYU Steinhardt, was asked if the old school of learning jazz by ear had fallen off to the wayside. His response reveals the marriage he has as an improvisor and a professor of jazz studies. Students need to step out from behind the classroom walls and hang out at the jazz clubs. Another amazing thing about Timo is the dissertation he wrote about one of the more mysterious characters in the jazz diaspora, ECM owner/producer Manfred Eicher. The dissertation “Manfred Eicher, ECM Records: An Analysis of the Producer as Auteur,” portrays the producer as an improvisor whose ‘instrument' is the studio. A cool thing about this is that he was able to observe Eicher producing albums with Joe Lovano, Ralph Alessi, Ravi Coltrane, among others.   Timo has three albums on the Berthold label. They are Givers and Takers (2022), Fly Magic (2016), and Faces in Places (2018), all released to international critical acclaim. Timo's bold sound is inspired by saxophonist Sonny Rollins while his electric sound concept, combining acoustic with noise was embodied in Jim Black's band AlasNoAxis. “He's an inspiration to his band members, encouraging them to make the sound interesting, to do it in a different way so that the elements shine balancing the music with other components,” says his remarkably talented guitarist Keisuke Matsuno. We had so much to talk about. I was hoping Timo could provide a live display of him playing his saxophone while creating the electronic sounds he is known to do but couldn't figure out how to make it happen via the internet connection. He did, though, pass on an extended piece he recorded so listeners could hear his extraordinary work. Thanks for listening to the podcast. Please leave a review on Apple or my website and subscribe so you can be informed when new episodes and/or jazz news are published. And tell your friends, family and colleagues to go to: https://strictlyjazzsounds.com. Finally, go out and support live jazz.

Tomas Fujiwara is a Brooklyn-based drummer and composer. Described as “a ubiquitous presence in the New York scene…an artist whose urbane writing is equal to his impressively nuanced drumming” (Troy Collins, Point of Departure), Tomas is an active player in some of the most exciting music of the current generation, with his bands Triple Double (with Gerald Cleaver, Mary Halvorson, Brandon Seabrook, Ralph Alessi, and Taylor Ho Bynum), Tomas Fujiwara & The Hook Up (with Jonathan Finlayson, Brian Settles, Halvorson, and Michael Formanek) and The Tomas Fujiwara Trio (with Alessi and Seabrook); his collaborative duo with cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum; the collective trio Thumbscrew (with Halvorson and Formanek); and a diversity of creative sideman work with forward thinking peers like Tomeka Reid and Matana Roberts. In The New York Times, Nate Chinen writes, “Drummer Tomas Fujiwara works with rhythm as a pliable substance, solid but ever shifting. His style is forward-driving but rarely blunt or aggressive, and never random. He has a way of spreading out the center of a pulse while setting up a rigorous scaffolding of restraint...A conception of the drum set as a full-canvas instrument, almost orchestral in its scope.” Support the show

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Jeff Denson has released 16 albums as a leader or co-leader and toured extensively throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe with both his own groups and others at some of the world's most prestigious venues and festivals such as the Village Vanguard, Birdland, The Kennedy Center, JVC Jazz Festival Paris, Montreal Jazz Festival, Berlin Jazz Festival, and SFJazz to name a few. Jeff has worked with some of jazz's finest artists such as Brian Blade, Joe Lovano, Chris Potter, Jane Ira Bloom, Dave Douglas, Walter Smith III, Rachel Z, Omar Hakim, Gerald Cleaver, Warren Wolf, Leo Genovese, Edward Simon, Paul McCandless, Cuong Vu, Ralph Alessi, Dan Weiss, Lionel Loueke, Romain Pilon, and Mimi Fox, among many others and had an ongoing relationship with the legendary Lee Konitz for over a decade until his passing in 2020. Jeff has been ranked in the DownBeat Rising Star Critic's Poll ten times in the Bass, Electric Bass, and Male Vocalist categories, and was voted #1 Rising Star Electric Bassist in 2021. Jeff is the Founder and Artistic Director of Ridgeway Arts, Inc., a 501c3 arts nonprofit organization, and the Dean of Instruction at the California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley. Jeff shares his background, education, and musical journey in this episode of Improv Exchange. If you enjoyed this episode please make sure to subscribe, follow, rate, and/or review this podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, ect. Connect with us on all social media platforms and at www.improvexchange.com

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// ABOUT ANDY MILNE AND UNISON A fearless, versatile explorer as a pianist and composer, Andy Milne has been a distinct and respected voice at the heart of New York's creative jazz scene for almost 30 years, collaborating with dancers, visual artists, poets and musicians spanning jazz, classical, pop, folk, and world music. At the piano, he skillfully blends poetic gravitas with a playful sense of order. He has recorded and toured throughout the world with Ravi Coltrane, Ralph Alessi, Carlos Ward and Carla Cook, and has collaborated with a range of artists including Andrew Cyrille, Sekou Sundiata, Avery Brooks, Bruce Cockburn, Fred Hersch, Ben Monder, Dianne Reeves, Jen Shyu, Tyshawn Sorey and Jamie Baum. A former student of Oscar Peterson, Milne was at the center of the M-BASE Collective as a core member of saxophonist Steve Coleman's bands, as well as performing with Cassandra Wilson and Greg Osby. Milne composed and produced the scores for seven documentary films by acclaimed director William Shatner and has now released eleven recordings as a leader or co-leader. Milne is presently an assistant professor of music at the University of Michigan in their Department of Jazz & Contemporary Improvisation.  Originally from New Orleans, John Hébert, has been a highly sought-after New York bassist since the mid-1990s. A former student of Rufus Reid, he has collaborated extensively with pianists Fred Hersch and Andrew Hill, appearing on celebrated recordings from each pianist. He has also performed with Lee Konitz, Paul Bley, John Abercrombie, Kenny Wheeler, Paul Motian, Uri Caine, Bill Stewart, Mary Halvorson, Tomasz Stanko, David Liebman, and Toots Thielemans, among many others. An accomplished bandleader, Hébert's 2015 Sunnyside release Rambling Confessions — his quartet featuring Milne — received critical acclaim, including 4.5 stars from Downbeat. Over the past decade, he has been named multiple times as a “Rising Star Acoustic Bassist” in Downbeat's Critics Poll and has received multiple GRAMMY Award nominations. Hébert is a full-time professor of bass at Western Michigan University. Clarence Penn is one of the most in-demand jazz drummers in the world. A composer, bandleader, and prolific producer, he performs regularly with Maria Schneider, Dave Douglas and Uri Caine. Since 1991 when he arrived in New York City, Penn has placed his unique blend of mega-chops, keen intellect, and heady musicianship at the service of a staggering array of A-list artists including Ellis and Wynton Marsalis, Betty Carter, Stanley Clarke, Steps Ahead, Makoto Ozone and Michael Brecker. His impressive discography includes several hundred studio albums, including GRAMMY Award-winning recordings from Randy Brecker and Maria Schneider, representing a 360-degree spectrum of jazz expression. He has toured extensively throughout the United States, the Americas, Europe, Japan, and Southeast Asia, as well as composed music for films and commercials, and produced tracks for numerous singers in the pop and alternative arenas. #andymilne #junoawardwinner #jazz

Before his stop in Calgary on July 2nd, for the Calgary Jazz Festival. The Cross Border Interviews with Chris Brown caught up with the Musician on his upcoming tour through Western Canada. A fearless, versatile explorer, two-time Juno Award winning pianist/composer Andy Milne has been a distinct and respected voice at the heart of New York's creative jazz scene for 30 years, collaborating with dancers, visual artists, poets and musicians spanning jazz, classical, pop, folk, and world music. At the piano he skillfully blends poetic gravitas with a playful sense of order. He has recorded and toured throughout the world with Ravi Coltrane, Ralph Alessi, Carlos Ward and Carla Cook, and has collaborated with a range of artists including Andrew Cyrille, Sekou Sundiata, Avery Brooks, Bruce Cockburn, Fred Hersch, Ben Monder, Dianne Reeves, Jen Shyu, Tyshawn Sorey and Jamie Baum. A former student of Oscar Peterson, Milne was at the center of the M-BASE Collective as a core member of saxophonist Steve Coleman's bands, as well as performing with Cassandra Wilson and Greg Osby. Milne composed and produced the scores for seven documentary films by acclaimed director William Shatner and has released 11 recordings as a leader or co-leader. He is the recipient of numerous awards and commissions, including the prestigious Civitella Fellowship. In addition to his multiple projects, Milne is a sought-after educator, serving as an assistant professor of music at The University of Michigan. and the Assistant-Director at The School for Improvisational Music. Milne draws inspiration from politics, philosophy, homeopathy, comedy, and science fiction, with musical influences that bridge Thelonious Monk, Art Tatum, Herbie Nichols, Bela Bartok, Joni Mitchell and Stevie Wonder. *************************************************** Purchase Tickets Today: July 2nd Calgary Show: https://www.jazzyyc.com/jazz-events/andy-milne-unison/ July 3rd Edmonton Show: https://andymilne.com/events/andy-milne-unison-us-canada-summer-tour-5/ *************************************************** Follow the Cross Border Interview Podcast: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crossborderpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/CrossBorderPod Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/CrossBorderInterviews Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI2i25ZVKTO84oUsLyO4jig Website: https://www.crossborderinterviews.ca/ Back the Show: https://www.patreon.com/CrossBoderInterviewPodcast The Cross Border Interview Podcast was Produced and Edited by Miranda, Brown & Associates Inc © 2022

Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Veteran Jazz Pianist & Composer Yelena Eckemoff on the 2022 CD I Am A Stranger in this World .. Released on her own L&H Production label, this album is a new installment in a long-term musical project that began with 2018's Better Than Gold and Silver .. And she again joins up with trumpeter Ralph Alessi and bassist Drew Gress, along with guitarist Adam Rogers and drummer Nasheet Waits. We cover this new album, world events and the future .. Enjoy ..  Click to listen.Thanks for listening and tuning into yet another Neon Jazz interview .. where we give you a bit of insight into the finest players in Illinois, Venezuela, Nashville, Kansas City, and spots all over the USA giving fans all that jazz .. and thanks to Solitaire for her time, honesty and story ..  If you want to hear more interviews, go to Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino on the iTunes store, visit the Neon Jazz Youtube Channel, go The Home of Neon Jazz at  http://theneonjazz.blogspot.com/ and for everything Joe Dimino related go to www.joedimino.com and if you feel like it, you can donate to the Neon Jazz cause - https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=ERA4C4TTVKLR4 Until next time .. enjoy the music my friends

"Pack Up, Coming For You" Tomas Fujiwara's Triple Double: March (Firehouse 12 Records, 2022) Tomas Fujiwara, Gerald Cleaver, Mary Halvorson, Brandon Seabrook, Ralph Alessi, Taylor Ho Bynum. El tema es una composición de Tomas Fujiwara. Tomajazz: © Pachi Tapiz, 2022 ¿Sabías que? La formación de March es un trío de pares de instrumentistas, o un doble trío de figuras de primer nivel y con una configuración no muy habitual: Tomas Fujiwara y Gerald Cleaver tocan la batería; Mary Halvorson y Brandon Seabrook la guitarra; Ralph Alessi y Taylor Ho Bynum la corneta, y el primero también la trompeta. Todos los temas del disco son en formación de doble trío, salvo el extenso "For Alan, Part II" que es un tema a dúo de los bateristas en homenaje a Alan Dawson, que llega casi a los dieciocho minutos de duración. El disco se grabó en 2019 en En Firehouse 12. En este local hay además de un estudio de grabación, un bar y un local de conciertos. También tienen un sello discográfico. La portada es obra de Megan Craig. Este tema va con una dedicatoria a Jorge: ¡recupérate pronto y a seguir haciendo mucho ruido! En anteriores episodios de JazzX5/HDO/LODLMA/Maltidos Jazztardos/Tomajazz Remembers… https://www.tomajazz.com/web/?p=46217 Más información sobre Tomas Fujiwara y Firehouse 12 https://www.tomasfujiwara.com/ http://firehouse12.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

Why is it important to find new ways to create and where do we find inspiration to try new things? This is one of the many topics I covered with this week's guest, Composer Eimi TanakaWe also discuss Eimi's jazz background and its influence on her work, her process for developing themes, and the contrast between composing for television and creating a concert work.Full Transcript.Topics Covered:Where Composing StartsComposing with a Performer in MindDeveloping Themes for a PieceExploring New Techniques and Finding InspirationEimi's Jazz Background and InfluenceBalancing Traditions of Classical Music with Something NewThe Difference in Composing for Film and TelevisionHow Long it Takes to Compose a PieceWorking on Multiple Projects at OnceWorking with Handwritten NotesTeaching Piano and CompositionConnecting with MusicStaying Inspired and Seeing the Big PictureLinks:Eimi Tanaka's Website: www.tanakastudiosnyc.comClip of Shifting Pieces by Eimi TanakaPerformed by: Mavis Pan, pianoRecorded at the National Opera Center's Scorca Hall, NYC, on Oct 31, 2021.Cause of Craft: causeofcraft.comJon's Website: jontilton.comSupport the show: shop.jontilton.comFollow Jon on Instagram @jontilton and follow the show @causeofcraft.More about Eimi:Eimi Tanaka is a freelance composer, pianist, and teacher based in New York City. She started classical studies on the piano at age 8, and then during high school attended at the Mannes College of Music preparatory division with a scholarship. There she studied with pianist Deborah Jamini, as well as classical theory, composition, and chamber music with other world-renowned faculty in New York City. During her senior year of high school, she discovered jazz and began studying improvisation. She attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston for a bachelors degree in piano and music business, and received her masters in jazz studies and composition at New York University with the Steinhardt Graduate Scholarship. In Boston and New York, she has studied with world-renowned faculty such as Joanne Brackeen, Frank Carlberg, Jean-Michel Pilc, Gil Goldstein, Ralph Alessi, Wayne Krantz, and George Garzone, among many others. She has performed in many venues in the Boston and New York City areas, as well as in Florence and Sienna, Italy, through NYU's jazz studies program and Florence's jazz festival.Before attending NYU's master's program, Eimi has worked in various branches of the music industry, including concert production, record labels, and publicity, and worked in well-known companies such as Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group.As a composer, she has created original music for her own jazz trio, scores for short films which have played in festivals in New York and abroad, production music for television shows which are currently in syndication on CBS and the CW networks, and also classical compositions which have been performed by various groups in NYC.

The drummer discusses origins, influences, and compositions with excerpts from his always collaborative projects: 7 Poets Trio (with Patricia Brennan, vibraphone and Tomeka Reid, cello), Thumbscrew (with Michael Formanek, bass and guitarist Mary Halvorson), a duo with bassist Meshell Ndegeocello, and Triple Double for Fujiwara and Gerald Cleaver, drums; Halvorson and Brandon Seabrook, guitars; and Ralph Alessi, Adam O'Farrill, trumpets.