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Xavier Davis – Rise Up Detroit – (Detroit Music Factory) Dave McMurray – Music Is Life – (Blue Note) Few cities have been as denigrated as Detroit. The stigma attached to the city by riots over half a century ago, the white flight that so severely decimated the city that whole swathes of the landscape […]
by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett Who are some of the artists you play on your show, Ladies Of Voice Entertainment & Music? A few favourite artists: • Céu { Maria do Céu Whitaker Poças } • Emily Jane White • Angel Olsen • Myrkur {Amalie Bruun} • Mika Nakashima • Summer Twins {Chelsea & Justine Brown} • […]
Rachel Barton Pine – Blues Dialogues – (Cedille Records) This is an essential document for our times. In this period of transition and re-assessment about race, culture, and gender in our social and political worlds, it is critical to have a genuine appreciation for the nuanced complexity of the diverse currents in the artistic world […]
KUCI’s Marmar Tha Midboss of LAG Radio interviews Nico (drums) and Ryan B. (guitar) of Super MadNES. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/771/LAGSuperMadNES.mp3 SUBSCRIBE TO KUCI INTERVIEWS WITH MUSICIANS PODCAST
James Francies – Flight – (Blue Note) At 22, composer-pianist Francies pushes past the ranks of the really wonderful pianists currently playing and stands near the front of the line. His playing style is personally precise, identifiable the way of a Tatum or Garner or Monk. It doesn’t hurt to have players of the caliber […]
Miggy Augmented Orchestra – Colorful – (Artists Share) Migiwa Miyajima is Japanese composer/pianist currently living in New York. With stunning arrangements and unbridled intellectual energy she layers melodic fragments and juxtaposes swing tropes with free jazz and neo-classical musics creating an amalgam both familiar and outlandishly different. If there is a difference in how many […]