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10/26/2022

When this scrim lifts, we will experience August Wilson's The Piano Lesson. Samuel L. Jackson and John David Washington ((Denzel's son) are among the cast members. The play takes place in Pittsburgh's Hill district, 1936.

09/23/2022

On my walk late afternoon I gathered some foliage. A hawk flew overhead and a wild turkey ducked into the brush. Autumn equinox begins. Break out the sweaters and pumpkins. Post season baseball on deck and all rise for Aaron Judge.

09/22/2022

On my walk late afternoon I gathered some foliage. A hawk flew overhead and a wild turkey ducked into the brush. Autumn equinox begins. Break out the sweaters and pumpkins. Post season baseball on deck and all rise for Aaron Judge.

09/07/2022

Immanuel Wilkins Quartet - Composition IX - Bar Bayeux

Immanuel Wilkins at Brooklyn's Bar Bayeux, an intimate listening room.

This song was recorded during a live stream in the Wednesday Jazz Series at Bar Bayeux, Brooklyn. Please support us by giving us a donation so we can keep th...

08/27/2022

Have a taste of Miles Davis at the 1983 Montreal Jazz Festival, from 'The Bootleg Series Vol. 7'

Miles. Soon to be featured on JazzFlight on WQLN NPR.

"What It Is" was recorded in Montreal on July 7, 1983.

08/25/2022

Avant-garde trumpeter jaimie branch dies at 39

this is so shocking - major loss

jaimie branch, an experimental jazz trumpeter who fused brought a punk mentality to the free jazz tradition, has passed away.

08/14/2022

Mary Halvorson, Julian Lage and Miles Okazaki: Jazz Guitar Gear Hang

For jazz guitar nerds - very worthwhile!

Julian, Miles and Mary go deep down the rabbit hole in a conversation about electric guitars, jazz theory and history with our Artist Relations guru Chris Be...

08/07/2022

Köln 75 - IMDb

Koln 75 is in pre-production. It may shed new light on Keith Jarrett's magnificent Koln Concert.

Köln 75: Directed by Ido Fluk. With John Magaro, Jördis Triebel, Alexander Scheer, Mala Emde. Vera Brandes, who, in 1975 and at the age of 17, staged the famous Köln Concert by jazz musician Keith Jarrett.

07/31/2022

Chris Fishman- Solo Piano No.1

Chris Fishman - piano - has been on tour in Europe this summer with Pat Metheny's Side Eye Trio. They perform September 4 in Buffalo. Good opportunity to hear Chris (with Joe Dyson and Pat Metheny).

Improvised solo piano at home

07/29/2022

Dawn (Live)

classic Ornette

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupDawn (Live) · The Ornette Coleman TrioAt The Golden Circle Vol. 1℗ 2001 Blue Note RecordsReleased on: 2001-01-01P...

07/15/2022

James Brandon Lewis Trio live at Paste Studio on the Road: NYC

James Brandon Lewis - may be coming to Erie in the not-too-distant future!

Recorded LIVE at Ilegal Mezcal HQ - Brooklyn, NYPresented by our friends at Ilegal Mezcal https://www.ilegalmezcal.com/Audio: Juan M SoriaVideo: Brad WagnerM...

07/13/2022

The Genius of Jazz

Jazz fans may enjoy this TED talk!

Wynton Marsalis is an internationally acclaimed musician, composer, bandleader, educator and a leading advocate of American culture. He is the world’s first ...

07/06/2022

Dig.

Miles Davis & Bill Evans

1958

07/02/2022

Eric Person Quartet Full Set Blue Note 2016

Eric Person and Houston Person are the headliners at the upcoming Blues and Jazz Festival, Frontier Park, Erie, PA, August 7. See you there!

Eric Person Quartet at the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City Featuring: Eric Person alto, soprano saxophones/fluteAdam Klipple-keyboardsAdam Armstrong-bas...

06/19/2022

Lee Morgan - Search For The New Land

enjoy

Album: Search For The New LandYear: 1964Label: Blue NoteGrant Green - guitarHerbie Hancock - pianoBilly Higgins - drumsLee Morgan - trumpetWayne Shorter - te...

05/04/2022

Jazz Journalists Association Announces 2022 Winners in Jazz Music & Media

Always a pleasure to vote in this poll.

Promoting the interests of journalists covering jazz View as Webpage promoting the interests of journalists covering jazz PRESS RELEASE Media Contact: Howard Mandel, President, Jazz Journalists Assoc

05/03/2022

Hank Roberts – "Cayuga"

New from Hank Roberts - enjoy!

Hank Roberts featuring pianist Jacob Sacks and drummer Vinnie Sperrazza performing "Cayuga" from his Newvelle album CONGERIES OF ETHEREAL PHENOMENA. CONGERIE...

03/19/2022

Marta Sanchez Quintet: SAAM (Spanish American Art Museum) Album Release

Truly exceptional. Enjoy.

Marta Sanchez’s creative voice is strikingly original – circling rhythms, elaborate forms and criss-crossing counterpoint distinguishes her sonic signature o...

03/14/2022

Bill Cosby on Miles Davis

Bill Cosby on Miles Davis. Interesting.

I discovered a small cassette among 60 boxes of uncatalogued Dan Morgenstern memorabilia at the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University. I was resea...

02/26/2022

Immanuel Wilkins Quartet Live at Smalls Jazz Club 1/14/2021

Immanuel Wilkins at Smalls. Check it out.

Immanuel Wilkins, Kris Davis, Daryl Johns, Kweku Sumbry - Live At Smalls 1/14/21 Sponsored by Clif Hubby P...

01/27/2022

2022 Winter Jazzfest Closing Night presented with Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage

2022 Winter Jazzfest Closing Night presented with Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage

--Mahogany L. Browne----Samara Joy feat. Pasquale Grasso Trio--📍Soap Box Galley, Brooklyn--Makaya McCraven --📍Fulton Street Collective, Chicago--------Abou...

01/27/2022

Winter Jazzfest 2022 - Virtual Marathon Night 4

Winter Jazzfest 2022 - Virtual Marathon Night 4

❄️❄️Virtual Marathon Night 4❄️❄️--Amir Elsaffar--📍 Hermitage Artist Retreat, Florida--“MARS DUO”--Tim Berne & Gregg Belisle-Chi 📍 Soap Box Gallery, Brookly...

01/27/2022

Winter Jazzfest 2022 - Virtual Marathon Night 3

Winter Jazzfest 2022 - Virtual Marathon Night 3

Red BaraatLakecia Benjamin ‘Pursuance’Brandee Younger QuintetSamir LangusSana Nagano ‘Smashing Humans’Oran Etkin ‘Open Arms Project’

01/27/2022

Winter Jazzfest 2022 - Virtual Marathon Night 1

Winter Jazzfest 2022 - Virtual Marathon Night 1

Friday January 14, 2022NYC Winter Jazzfest Virtual Marathon Night 1Weedie Braimah and The Hands Of Time Melanie CharlesJ HoardDavid Binney with Logan Kane an...

01/27/2022

2022 Winter Jazzfest Artist in Residence Angel Bat Dawid

2022 Winter Jazzfest Artist in Residence Angel Bat Dawid

NYC Winter Jazzfest artist-in-residence composer/multi-instrumentalist Angel Bat Dawid presents Afro-Town Topics: A Mythological Afrofuturist R***e. Inspired...

01/26/2022

Branford Marsalis in Erie, February 1. Pat Metheny in Buffalo rescheduled to September 4.

01/18/2022

Photos from Jon Batiste's post

01/17/2022

Jon!

12/17/2021

Sara Serpa & Emmanuel Iduma - Intimate Strangers

Sara Serpa (from Portugal) and Emmanuel Iduma (from Nigeria) collaborate. Heard on JazzFlight, WQLN NPR. One of the finest recordings of 2021.

"How do you know where to go?"from Intimate Strangers, premiered at National Sawdust, November 28th 2018.Sara Serpa- voice, composition, productionEmmanuel I...

12/03/2021

Jaco Pastorius "The Lost Tapes Documentary" PASTORIUS

One of a kind!!! Enjoy.

It all started in 2006, when we, three fans of Jaco Pastorius, decided to self-produce a film to honor the memory of this immense musician, to showcase his a...

11/22/2021

Dizzy Gillespie, Jame Moody, Jon Hendricks Ooo Pa Pa Da Live, Wolf Trap Tribute to Dizzy 1988

Check out the incredible solo by the late great Slide Hampton!

Ooo Pa Pa Da Live at WolfTrap 1988 Legendary Jazz at it's best-- I think the tribute was to Slide Hampton on his birthday (70) though.

11/02/2021

Iphigenia Teaser (2021)

Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. I'll give JazzFlight listeners a report after we retiurn.

An inside look at the new opera by Wayne Shorter & Esperanza Spalding. Coming Fall 2021. Learn more at iphigenia.live Trailer credits Producer: Jeff Tang…

10/28/2021

Lenny Bruce's Greatest Statement about Jazz and Modern Art

Enjoy!

Lenny Bruce had a television special in 1959 entitled "The World of Lenny Bruce." On this program he accentuates every taboo of mass media. In this segment h...

10/21/2021

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme, Pt. IV - Psalm (Live In Seattle / Visualizer)

The complete live in Seattle recording of A Love Supreme is soon to air on JazzFlight, WQLN NPR.

Listen to John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme, Pt. IV – Psalm” live from Seattle in 1965.Order “A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle”: https://JohnColtrane.lnk.to/Liv...

09/27/2021

Fire Music (Official Trailer)

Any interest in this documentary? Sufficient interest to encourage showings in the city where you live?

Although the free jazz movement of the 1960s and ‘70s was much maligned in some jazz circles, its pioneers – brilliant talents like Ornette Coleman, Cecil Ta...

09/23/2021

Wayne's opera with Esperanza.

08/21/2021

Julian Lage - Familiar Flower (Official Video)

Enjoy!

Artist: Julian Lage Song: Familiar FlowerPurchase the new album "Squint": https://JulianLage.lnk.to/SquintID​ Subscribe to the Blue Note Channel: https://blu...

08/20/2021

2020 DC JazzFest - Day 4 - September 27, 2020

Last year's DC JazzFest.

16th Annual DC JazzFest - Day 4 - Sunday, September 27, 2020Lineup:6:30 PM EDT - Jack Kilby & The Front Line7:00 PM EDT - Allison Au (in partnership with the...

08/20/2021

2020 DC JazzFest - Day 1 - September 24, 2020

If you can't make the 2021 DC JazzFest (starts September 1) you can check out the performers on JazzFlight, WQLN NPR.

16th Annual DC JazzFest - Day 1 - Thursday, September 24, 2020Lineup:7:00 PM EST - Ben Williams 8:00 PM EST - Cecily 8:30 PM EST - Danilo Perez Trio with Ada...

08/17/2021

Charles Lloyd-Keith Jarrett 1968

Timeless.

Keith Jarrett(piano/ss)Charles Lloyd (ts/fl)Ron McClure (b)Jack DeJohnette (d)San Francisco june 18 196801.Love ship (Charles Lloyd) 6:4002.Tagore (Charles L...