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Mina Cho
September 10, 2010Originality (Blink Music) An encounter with gospel music sidetracked South Korean pianist Mina Cho from a career in classical music and into the world of jazz. Originality is the impressive recording debut for the ...
Detroit Jazz Festival: Streaming Online
September 3, 2010The Detroit Jazz Festival is streaming online this weekend, September 3-6th on Livestream.com. jazzplanettv on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free
Inga Swearingen
August 27, 2010First Rain (Rhythome Music) With a voice that stops you in your tracks, Inga Swearingen’s latest release, First Rain, is a compelling vocal music showcase. The album of 12 tracks features some wonderfully ...
Paul Carr
August 24, 2010Straight Ahead Soul (Paul Carr Music) Veteran Houston-born saxophone Paul Carr says his objective is to reach the “soulful essence of jazz”, and he achieves just that on his latest recording, Straight ...
Esperanza Spalding – Then and Now
August 17, 2010It was Sunday, September 2nd, 2006 and we were in Chicago on Labor Day weekend. Leafing through an entertainment newspaper that morning, we saw that Donald Harrison and his band were scheduled to perform at the ...
Esperanza Spalding
August 17, 2010Chamber Music Society (Heads Up International Records) Beyond all of the hype and attention regarding her looks or playing for the President or Nobel Prize ceremonies, or Prince, Esperanza Spalding is an artist ...
Goodbye, Abbey Lincoln
August 14, 2010One of our favorite singers, the great Abbey Lincoln, passed away today. She was 80 years old. Ms. Lincoln was the picture of style and dignity throughout her career. She leaves us with a distinguished body of ...
Bobby McFerrin
August 13, 2010Vocabularies (Emarcy Records) Vocalist Bobby McFerrin’s latest, Vocabularies, is the result of seven years of writing, arranging and editing. McFerrin’s manager had an idea for vocal ensemble music that ...
Jazz In Vietnam
August 12, 2010HANOI, Vietnam — For many visitors new to Hanoi’s Old Quarter, stumbling upon Minh’s Jazz Club is so unlikely it is almost as if it were fated. This section of the city is a maze of wrecked, meandering roads and ...
Gerri Allen and Timeline
August 10, 2010Live (Motema Music) Recorded before a live audience at the Oberlin Music Conservatory in Ohio, pianist Gerri Allen fuses jazz and dance in a work that is an incredible listening experience. Tap dancer Maurice ...