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Saxophonist sits in with for New Jazz For Lunch and discusses her prolific career in jazz stemming from right here in Portland!
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It’s a great day for an album to play through & through!
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Rest in Power to Alto Saxophonist & Pianist
David Sanborn has been a beloved Musician giving us some of the smoothest of smooth cuts!
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Happy 74th Birthday to the pioneer himself Stevie Wonder!
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A beautiful sunny Friday in Portland deserves a great hour of curated rarities! But Everybody Loves The Sunshine!
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Today on New Jazz For Lunch with Alex Newman!
We have Portland’s very own super busy drummer himself talking about all the projects he’s dropped and dropping soon! Stay tuned!
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The Trifecta segment features an interview with Gregg A. Smith - a soul singer formerly active in PDX in the 1960s-70s, who is still active in DFW.
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Happy 81st birthday to one of the biggest innovators in American music,
Sly Stone. Tune in at noon today for Rare Jazz For Lunch to hear a small slice of Sly’s influence on jazz and beyond!
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Here, Redman presents cuts from his latest album, Where Are We, a meditation on the complexities of America, featuring new collaborator vocalist Gabrielle Cavassa. In “Chicago Blues,” Redman’s take on a Count Basie classic, and a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “Streets of Philadelphia,” Cavassa and Redman dance over the anchoring grooves from bassist Philip Norris and drummer Nazir Ebo, while pianist Paul Cornish delivers a stunning improvised transition between the two songs.
Happy MLK Day from as we honor the legacies of these two pioneers. Pictured here from les McCann’s book of photography called “Invitation To Openness” we see Les McCann and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Kodak Film.
R.I.P. to these two giants in culture.
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Brice Rosenbloom founder of as we kick off the Winter Jazz Fest In New York for its 20th season!
One weekend, three stages and an old haunt. In 2005, this was the humble beginnings of a new type of jazz festival, one that fused the sounds and energy of the present day, with the foundational music and spirit of yesteryear. Winter Jazzfest was created to be an experience of jazz exploration. A self-described hotbed of cultural discovery. A bridge made by music.
Today, Winter Jazzfest has expanded to over a week of music across several venues and countless stages, featuring more than 500 artists performing on both sides of the Brooklyn Bridge. At the center of it all is Brice Rosenbloom.
-Alex Newman
Celebrating JAZZ WITHOUT BOUNDARIES with a YEAR IN REVIEW! Showcasing the albums from 2023 that made an impact here at like the NEW ALBUM “Dolphins” from Greg Foat & Gigi Masin
Thank you so much for colliding styles on this album!
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The common denominator of Greg Foat’s three releases of 2023 is his collaboration with artists decades older than him. The youngest of the three is 68-year-old Italian synthesizer wizard Gigi Masin. On their record, “Dolphin,” they find a perfect middle ground between Masin’s ambient textures and Foat’s tendency to groove. Listen to the ethereal “Viento Calido” to hear the two keyboardists’ sensibilities mesh perfectly over the drumming of Moses Boyd. — Alex Newman
Celebrating JAZZ WITHOUT BOUNDARIES with a YEAR IN REVIEW! Showcasing the albums from 2023 that made an impact here at like the NEW ALBUM “The Omnichord Real Book” from Meshell Ndegeocello
Thank you so much for this album!
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The Blue Note debut is a journey into Ndegeocello’s planet of exploration where you are transfixed by her vocals and an impressive guest roster of the who’s who in modern jazz sounds. “The Omnichord Real Book” reaches for new depths in soul and songwriting, and teases your mind into thinking about where jazz is coming from and where it is going. Highlights from the album are “ASR” and both versions of “Virgo.” — Meg Samples
Celebrating the life of the great Les McCann!
Les McCann, a prolific and influential musician and recording artist who helped found the soul-jazz genre and became a favorite source for sampling by Dr. Dre, A Tribe Called Quest and hundreds of other hip-hop performers, has died
Celebrating JAZZ WITHOUT BOUNDARIES with a YEAR IN REVIEW! Showcasing the albums from 2023 that made an impact here at like the NEW ALBUM “Brand New Life” from Brandee Younger
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Brandee Younger once again invites attention to the rich, magical and deeply melodic sounds of the harp with the April release of “Brand New Life.” Starting with an homage to Dorothy Ashby, the album is peppered with collaborations by such luminaries as Mumu Fresh, Pete Rock, Meshell Ndegeocello and 9th Wonder. Throughout the album, the harpist continuously demonstrates her unique brilliance and mastery of the instrument with a strong nod to those who influenced her. “Brand New Life” is an exquisite album that reaches the far crevices of the soul and mind, and Younger gently guides the listener through an emotional journey traveling across the landscape of the past, present and future of harp music. — Nicole D’Amato
Celebrating JAZZ WITHOUT BOUNDARIES with a YEAR IN REVIEW! Showcasing the albums from 2023 that made an impact here at like the NEW ALBUM “SPIRITS” from
Thank you so much for this incredibly visionary album!
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To name a fledgling ensemble after the center of our known universe would appear to be hubris courting karma, were it not for the fact that the musicians that make up The Circling Sun had all previously cemented their individual places as titans of New Zealand’s jazz scene. Emerging fully formed as a cerebral supergroup, The Circling Sun meshes spiritual exploration, modal scales and Latin rhythms on their freshman effort with equal parts elegance and daring. From the atmospheric melodies to the gritty solos, “Spirits” is a heavenly listen through and through. — Bri Drennon
Celebrating JAZZ WITHOUT BOUNDARIES with a YEAR IN REVIEW! Showcasing the albums from 2023 that made an impact here at like the NEW ALBUM “LATE AGAIN” from
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Do you know the one that goes “Piero Umiliani, Claude Debussy and Mulatu Astatke walk into a bar”? In most hands, this combination would make for a derivative joke, but that is most fortunately not the case with Sven Wunder’s newest release, “Late Again.” Instead, Wunder deftly weaves his menagerie of influences together like so many constellations on a star map. The result is a soundtrack to a half-remembered dream, filled with music that is both oddly nostalgic and undeniably new. One thing is clear though: Sven Wunder’s fourth album is proof that his talent and vision are as boundless as the night sky. — Bri Drennon
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Happy Holidays from KMHD JAZZ RADIO!
Celebrating JAZZ WITHOUT BOUNDARIES with a YEAR IN REVIEW! Showcasing the albums from 2023 that made an impact here at like the NEW ALBUM “Black Classical Music” from
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Yussef Dayes’ solo album “Black Classical Music” is a fusion-forward jazz cosmic journey into Black music. Dayes, both a fan and student of fusion drummer Billy Cobham, has perfected Cobham’s advice for drumming in this album. Dayes doesn’t beat the drum, he blisters — lightly and intensely. We also get a personal picture of Dayes, a Jamaican, who grew up in South London, who is also now a father. Stand out tracks include “Marching Band” and “Black Classical Music.” — Deena B.
Celebrating JAZZ WITHOUT BOUNDARIES with a YEAR IN REVIEW! Showcasing the albums from 2023 that made an impact here at like the NEW ALBUM “Les Jardins Mystiques, Vol 1” from
Thank you so much for the journeys in sound and love!
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The violinist, composer and arranger Miguel Atwood-Ferguson has long been a stalwart in the creative music scene of his native Los Angeles, working with everyone from Anderson .Paak to Mary J. Blige. This album clocks in at a whopping 3 hours and 30 minutes, with 52 tracks (one for each week of the year) and represents over 14 years of (mostly self-funded) work for this prolific artist. Through this epic sonic experience, the listener is treated to a deep spiritual sound in improvised music, and often transported to a place of resonant peace. — Matt Fleeger
Celebrating JAZZ WITHOUT BOUNDARIES with a YEAR IN REVIEW! Showcasing the albums from 2023 that made an impact here at like the NEW ALBUM “FEATHERS” from &
Thank you so much for the plentiful work and love!
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Another prolific year for keyboardist and composer Greg Foat culminated in the release of his third LP of 2023, a collaboration with Finnish tenor legend Eero Koivistoinen. Recorded at Studio Pelto during a dark and stormy weekend, the music invokes the luminosity and depth of 1970s spiritual jazz while firmly existing in the now due to Foat’s use of myriad synthesizers. “Feathers” is a sublime album, in no small part due to Koivistoinen’s rich and elegant saxophone work. In fractured times, this is the kind of music than can offer us a measure of healing.
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In NYC for a bit with NYC Winter Jazzfest - still thinking about @Ezra Collective and their excellent live show last night. Crushing! A year long US visa for the band, you say? Gotta get 'em to the Soul'd Out Productions festival! 🎥 by: BreadxButta
Hey friends! The new opbmusic.org session with Blossom and Ripley Snell is live now! This tune is called “Mandrake." Follow this link to watch them play more from their new EP, Clout Atlas :: Dormiveglia, and to hear their awesome interview with Isabel of #TakinOff : https://www.opb.org/opbmusic/series/sessions/blossom-ripley-snell-portland-neill-von-tally-eyrst/
the new @opbmusic session with @bamb00banga and @ripleysnell is live now! this tune is called “Mandrake” — follow the link in our bio to watch them play more from their new EP, Clout Atlas :: Dormiveglia, and to hear their awesome interview with Isabel of #TakinOff !!
one more FOMO-boosting #sxsw2018 post from our morning show host, DJ Derek Smith! here’s Kiefer Shackelford lighting up a hot night toward the end of the fest. happy Monday, friends!
Weeeeoooo !! Here's some more goodness from DJ Derek Smith’s week at #SXSW — saxophonist Nubya Garcia doing what she does!! 🔥🔥🔥🌹🌹🌹
Our buds at Jazz Night In America are celebrating #womenshistorymonth with a series of episodes on Women in Jazz! Here's a clip from their recent chat with vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater — here being asked by Nate Chinen of WBGO Jazz 88.3 about what it felt like to be named an NEA Jazz Master in 2017. Full episode here: http://n.pr/2HkAdwp
“Maybe I’ve gotten to a place where I can engage with my father’s music and still feel like I can be myself within it.” - Joshua Redman, Saxophonist and Composer From the mid-’70s to the mid-‘80s, the members of Old and New Dreams — Joshua’s father Dewey Redman on tenor sax, Charlie Haden on bass, plus Don Cherry on trumpet and Ed Blackwell on drums — paid homage of a sort to Ornette Coleman, in whose band they had previously played. Coleman had convened a new collection of misfits: the ecstatic, electric band Prime Time. There was no outlet for the soulful acoustic sound he’d refined in the ’60s, so Old and New Dreams picked up the torch and carried it on. Joshua Redman decided that he would do something similar, a generation down the line. Still Dreaming is his nod to Old and New Dreams, a collective with several worthy partners: drummer Brian Blade, who like Blackwell hails from Louisiana; cornetist Ron Miles Music, a great admirer of Cherry; and bassist Scott Colley, who studied closely with Haden. This new group has come together over the last few years to refurbish a repertory: songs like “Mopti,” by Cherry, and “Rushour,” by Dewey Redman. Full episode at: https://n.pr/2tP1LmZ
Did you see La La Land? Is so, what did you think? This week's episode of Jazz Night attempts to sort fact from fiction.
This week on Jazz Night In America, we're bringing you a new concert film and radio episode, featuring Darcy James Argue's most recent work, Real Enemies, which has earned nominations from both the Grammy and Juno Awards. Watch and listen to the full show here: https://n.pr/2lv3AlV "It can be maddening to deal with a political environment where it seems like the truth has no purchase anymore." Argue has spent a lot of time recently thinking about that maddening environment — not just as a matter of civic engagement during a chaotic election season, but also because it forms the crux of Real Enemies.
Are you tired of hauling records around by hand? SO ANNOYING. Fortunately for you, we've got the brand new KMHD record bag available when you become a member at KMHD.org.
It's day 1 of our spring membership drive! You become a member, and we send you cool stuff. Like our new KMHD slip-mat. Available at KMHD.org
