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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 […]
Joyce Manor – Million Dollars To Kill Me – (Epitaph Records) Joyce Manor is a Punk Rock/Emo band from Torrance, CA. Their highly anticipated new album entitled Million Dollars To Kill Me, which is the band’s third full length release to be put out by Epitaph Records (as well as their fifth full length release […]
by Hobart Taylor Now let us celebrate the orchestra in a box, the piano. Shai Maestro – The Dream Thief – (ECM) Composer pianist Maestro, working here in a trio setting with bassist Jorge Roeder and drummer Ofri Nehemya, is profoundly expressive in his writing and arrangements without being ponderous or overly assertive in differentiating […]
by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett Tell us about your show. My show is called The Crystal Egg . The title comes from a poem I anticipated writing back in the day, specifically the 1970s when I had a show by the same name on KPFT (Pacifica Radio in Houston). The original show was eclectic but mainly featured […]
The legendary Peter Case came by our studios September 7 to play some of his latest songs, a blues or two, and chat about John Coltrane…