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…