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Jazz drummer Henry Conerway III was raised in a musical family and nurtured by the jazz community of his native Detroit. Throughout the album the sounds…
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Listening to an acoustic instrument alone in a beautiful room is a rare experience difficult to translate that experience to a recording, but Stuart weber…
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Kamasi Washington has been called the jazz voice of Black Lives Matter. He was raised in notoriously violent South Central Los Angeles during the gang…
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In the late 1960s Dewey Redman played saxaphone in a band called Old And New Dreaming with Ornette Coleman, charlie Hayden, and Don Cherry. His son Joshua…
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In late April, to celebrate his 85th Birthday Willie Nelson released an album of eleven original songs. There aren’t many artists you can say that about.…
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Peter and the Wolf was written by Serge Prokofiev in 1936, with the purpose of introducing children to the instruments of a Symphony Orchestra. it has…
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What is World music? Its when the sounds of the disparate traditions of Turkey, Bulgaria, Israel, Iran, Greece, Spain, and England come together to…
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Emmet Cohen is emerging as a shining star of jazz piano. He plays with a subtle sensitivity not often heard among young virtuosos. He also has a deep…
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Akokan is a Yoruba word used by Cubans to mean from the soul. The sixteen piece big band Orquesta Akokan brings original songs with an old school mambo…
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Soprano sax master Sidney Bechet was born in New Orleans in 1897. He was the most influential stylist of the soprano saxophone in jazz, and was a teacher…
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Billy Jones is a jazz drummer from Philadelphia. His latest album 3’s A Crowd consists of ten duets with ten different instruments. The music is both…
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Musique Noire is a group of four black women from Detroit. Their music reflects the whirlpool of languages, cultures, and musical heritage projected…