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Joe Romano with trumpeter Richie Vitale
Saxophonist Joe Romano passed away last week. Greg Bell of Jazz@Rochester has a remembrance. Be sure to read the comments below the post from drummer Mike Melito, guitarist Bob Sneider and others.
Joe Romano with...
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Jason Crane interviews vocalist Kate McGarry. Her new album, If Less Is More … Nothing Is Everything (Palmetto, 2008), explores everything from spirituality to The Cars in McGarry’s typically atypical style. McGarry is joined on the record...
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Bret Primack made this video to showcase Sonny’s new CD and DVD. It includes a very cool conversation between Sonny and drummer Roy Haynes: When you’ve watched this, check out my Election Day interview with Sonny Rollins. Read More...
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Jason Crane interviews vocalist Stevie Holland. On her new album, Before Love Has Gone (150 Music, 2008), Holland uses her song selection to tell a personal story. Each song on the album has a particular story behind it, and several are lesser-known gems...
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Jason Crane interviews saxophonist Sonny Rollins. He’s just released Road Shows Vol. 1 (Doxy Records, 2008), a compilation of live performances spanning 20 years. Gary Giddins calls it “one of the finest Sonny Rollins albums ever released...
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Hi friends,
One of the beautiful things about having an online show is that I’m not bound by the restrictions that accompanied the radio version of my show. And so, I’m going to use this forum just this once to ask you to help get out the...
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Calling all jazz fans in and around Los Angeles! I’ve got two tickets to see ECM recording artist Marcin Wasilewski and his trio this Monday, November 3, at the Jazz Bakery in L.A. (You can hear Marcin and his music on this week’s episode...
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Thanks to the wonderful blog BAGNews Notes for the link Read More...
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Today is saxophonist Joel Frahm’s birthday. Happy birthday, Joel!
Let’s all celebrate by checking out Joel’s appearance on The Jazz Session, recorded in August 2007 when Joel released his CD We Used To Dance.
LISTEN TO THE SHOW Read...
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The opening and closing themes of The Jazz Session were written and performed by The Respect Sextet, a wonderful band that started in Rochester, NY, and is now based in NYC. Here’s a video of one of their recent performances: Please check out their...
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Jason Crane interviews Polish pianist and composer Marcin Wasilewski. His new recording, January (ECM, 2008), features his own compositions alongside those of Gary Peacock, Carla Bley, Ennio Moricone and … Prince. Wasilewski’s trio is very...
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A hearty congratulations to the latest batch of CD winners. (The CDs went out today.) Michael from Horseheads, NY (Kenny Garrett CD)
Brian from New York City (Kenny Garrett CD)
Foluwaso from Lagos, Nigeria (Kenny Garrett CD)
Marisa from Glen Mills, PA...
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Jason Crane interviews pianist and composer Satoko Fujii. Fujii has released four new recordings in 2008, her 50th birthday year. These records find her with her New York trio; on accordion in the avant-folk-jazz group of her husband, trumpeter Natsuki...
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Jason Crane interviews saxophonist Kenny Garrett about his new CD, Sketches of MD (Mack Ave Records, 2008). This album features the paired saxophones of Garrett and Pharoah Sanders, who’ve performed together many times but never recorded live. Garrett...
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Lee Ingalls writes the jazz blog The New Low Down. Lee had this to say about The Jazz Session this week:
This is long overdue, but I feel the need to plug The Jazz Session, a fine jazz blog with a great jazz podcast to boot. If I were ever to do a jazz...
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