Seasonably Appropriate Music I don’t do Christmas music per se, but on tomorrow’s highly eclectic program will include what I will simply call seasonably appropriate music. Yes, the show will be without a specific theme or themes. I will merely be covering several artists and…
WPFW Fundraiser This Friday, 20 December 2019, WPFW will host a year-end holiday bash and fundraiser at Bethesda Blues & Jazz, featuring multi-talented, multi-genre, genre bending vocalist Nona Hendrix and her band Mamafunk. The evening begins at 6:00 when WPFW’s own, DJ’s Lance Reynolds (House…
The Art Ensemble of Chicago will visit the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’s Terrace Theater this evening for two performance (7:00 & 9:00 p.m.) as part of their 50th Anniversary Tour. Founder and newly named NEA Jazzmaster, Roscoe Mitchell, and long-time member,…
Artist Song Title Album Label John Coltrane My Favorite Things Coltrane, Live at the Village Vanguard Again! Impulse The Art Ensemble of Chicago Ja Nice Guys ECM Roscoe Mitchell A Cactus and a Rose Duets with Tyshawn Sorey and Special Guest Hugh Ragin Wide Hive…
Artist Song Title Album Label John Coltrane My Favorite Things live Trane, The European Tours Pablo Ran Blake Let’s Stay Together/Brazil Grey October, Live in Rome Tompkins Square Max Roach Tears for Johannesburg We Insist! Freedom Now Suite Candid Max Roach and Anthony Braxton Rebirth…
This week’s show will focus on winners of MacArthur Foundation fellowships in Music Composition and Performance. Of the fellows in this category since 1988, about half, maybe even slightly more, have been jazz musicians or from closely related genres of gospel, blues, voice, and Americana.…
I will be attending the Bela Fleck and the original Flecktones concert tomorrow evening, 2 December 2019, at the Music Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda, Maryland, https://www.strathmore.org/. While Strathmore is one of my very least favorite concert venues, both architecturally and acoustically, I do…
This is the playlist from my serving as guest proprietor of Robyn’s Place, sitting in for my friend and DJ extraordinaire, Robyn Holden, on Friday evening 29 November 2019, 7:00-10:00 PM Artist Song Title Album Label Carmen McRae The Best is Yet to Come Sarah…
Artist Song Title Album Label John Coltrane My Favorite Things My Favorite Things, The Stereo & Mono Versions Green Corner Miguel Zenón Prayer #2 (Thanksgiving) Looking Forward Fresh Sounds New Talent Takuya Kuroda Sextet Pepper Caramel Six Aces P-Vine Records World Saxophone Quartet Potato Vamp…