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Joe Lovano/Marilyn Crispell/Carmen Castaldi Trio – Tapestry – (ECM) Lovano is among the most revered saxophonists in jazz. Thirty years with Paul Motian after starting with Woody Herman and Mel Lewis, collaborations with maybe jazz’s finest pianist, Hank Jones, master arranger and dean of third stream music (jazz/classical admixture), Gunther Schuller, and avant garde master […]
Marmar Tha Midboss of KUCI’s LAG Radio interviews Cody Matthew Johnson — a multi-media composer, music producer, sound designer, and multi-instrumentalist whose irreverent, unapologetic, and fresh perspective on music blurs the boundaries of conventional media music. Through fusing traditional musical styles and electronics with hard-hitting modern production, Cody has pushed his way to the forefront […]
by Hobart Taylor, host of The Crystal Egg Dave Liebman and Friends – On the Corner Live!: The Music of Miles Davis – (Ear Up Records) Miles Davis was always a moving target. He was the bridge between Charlie Parker and the distant future. During the late 60’s to mid 70’s he shattered the walls […]
AACM Great Black Music Ensemble – Live @ The Currency Exchange Cafe Volume 1 – (AACM) The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, founded in Chicago over 50 years ago, has sought to offer folks who seek to elude genre traps the opportunity to collaborate and support each other. By replacing the marketing sobriquet […]
You’ve been on the air for what, 40 years? Since you were an UCI student, yes? Forty-two years. Since I was a UCI undergraduate (1977), then alumnus (1979), then UCI graduate (1989), and then alumnus again (since 1992). How has the format of your show changed or evolved over the years? I started with a […]
(Above: KUCI’s Jazz Director Hobart Taylor and JALC’s Wynton Marsalis) Represent. That’s what I did for KUCI and our listeners at the Jazz Congress January 7 and 8 held at New York’s Jazz at Lincoln Center and later that week at NYC’s Winter JazzFest. Jazz Congress is a series of meetings,seminars, and presentations, bringing […]