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T-Lokes: Tucson Local BusinessEpisode 32: Jeffrey McBride - Yellow Rose StudioHowdy Folks, we have an awesome interview with Jeffrey McBride, founder and owner of Yellow Rose Studios here in Tucson. Yellow Rose Studios offers Custom Framing as well as adult art sessions. Join us as we dive into the passion and creativity that inspired Jeffrey to start Yellow Rose Studios, and how they inspire that same creativity in the hearts of Tucsonians. With topics ranging from the most amazing things Jeffrey has framed, to the inspiration he ignites during their live art sessions, this episode will have you contemplating the art in your home, and the art you could c...2025-02-2437 min
The Tank Commander PodcastEp 20 - Week 1 Dynasty MythbustersThe NBA regular season is finally here! We go over the early trends for the young players in dynasty hoops, and dispel any myths on early returns. Most of the rookies had it rough so far, but which performances are true, and which ones are myths that need to be busted? Stay tuned for next week, where we take a closer look at these players with double the sample size and make our early picks for RotY, All-Rookie Teams, and Most Improved Player. 00:57 General Trends and Dynasty Myth Busters...2024-10-2854 min
Ripollsworkshop Reads7 October Mini EpisodeRecommended BooksDrop Dead Sisters (The Finch Sisters Book 1) by Amelia Diane CoombsNeuromancer by William GibsonTuesday Author InterviewDanny the Duck Paperback by Kale SudhoffWednesday Author InterviewNINJA PUNKS @*&% OFF! By Jeffrey NelsonThursday Author InterviewDeath's Pale Flag by Gary Simonds
LinksSupport the Podcast https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ripollsworkshopNewsletter https://mailchi.mp/30a7be3e81ef/69wqrzezob Follow usRipollsworkshop Reads Podcast Instagram https://instagram.com/ripollsworkshopreadspodcast?igshid=YmMyMTA2M...2024-10-0705 minRipollsworkshop Reads10 June Mini EpisodeRecommended BooksBroken Bayou by Jennifer MoorheadDad, I Want to Hear Your Story: A Father’s Guided Journal To Share His Life & His Love by Jeffrey MasonTuesday Author InterviewThe Tales of Alexandria Stecklar: The Locket by Tiara J. BrownThursday Author InterviewLelya Dorche and the Coney Island Cure by David RothmanPublished Short StoryBroken Trust: A Short Story by Courtney Mae (Author
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Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 957: A Conversation with Michael Dease and Gregg Hill Perennial DownBeat Critics Poll winner trombonist Michael Dease has embraced his role as a torchbearer for his mentors and the great jazz ancestors over his 15 deeply-swinging, state-of-the-art mainstream recordings. For The Other Shoe (Origin Records), Dease teams with the formidable composer Gregg Hill, expanding his rhythmic & harmonic palette with a flexible, in-the-moment perspective while remaining true to the sensibilities at his musical core. With the prodigiously talented pianist Geoffrey Keezer as a central foil, Dease brings along a wide-ranging collection of musicians, each specifically brought in for their unique outlooks and talents. Most notable is the inclusion of clarinetist V...2023-11-1826 min
Ask The Tech Coach4 Success Stories (and One Non-Success Story) From a Brand-New Instructional Coach (Featuring Jud Hartman)
Welcome to "Ask the Tech Coach," a podcast for Instructional Coaches and Technology Integration Specialists.
In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach,” Jeff speaks with first year Instructional Coach, Jud Hartman to learn about how he is successfully bringing Project Based Learning and UDL into his brand new coaching program.
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Our favorite part of recording a live podcast each week is participating in the great conve...2022-12-0544 min
Beyond the PrescriptionJeffrey Blount on Elevating Underrepresented Children to Improve Health & Well-beingJeffrey Blount is an Emmy-award-winning story-teller. During his 34 years at NBC News, Jeffrey directed a decade of Meet The Press, The Today show, and NBC Nightly News. As the first African American Director of the Today show, he credits his parents for insisting on quality education for him and his brothers. Keenly aware of the toll of racial injustice on one’s mental and physical health, Jeffrey left his television career to directly reach people of all ages and races with his poignant and emotionally robust novels. Through his writing, Jeffrey is helping Black youth feel seen, heard, and em...2022-11-0940 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 931: A Conversation with Sasha BerlinerAfter an impressive foray on her debut album, Azalea, rising star vibraphonist Sasha Berliner has followed up with a vigorous, unabashedly avant-garde sophomore recording, Onyx on JMI Recording. Her band is packed with familiar names who happen to be fellow students and friends of Sasha’s, including Marcus Gilmore on drums, Burniss Travis II on upright and electric bass and James Francies on piano and Fender Rhodes. Special guests include Jaleel Shaw on alto saxophone, Julius Rodriguez on analog synths and vocalist Thana Alexa. The album has a dense, shaded sound, creating soundscapes that serve as strong backing...2022-09-0731 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 932: Joey DeFrancesco (1971-2022)After the deaths earlier this week of legendary producer-record label impresario Creed Taylor and brilliant young trumpeter jaimie branch, the jazz world had another shock on Friday, when the news spread that legendary organist Joe DeFrancesco had died suddenly at the age of 51. No cause of death was immediately released. I had the pleasure to see Joey D several times, and to have two podcast interviews with him (Podcasts 666 and 846). first fell in love with the music of Joey DeFrancesco twenty years ago, when I booked him on an epic Organ Summit triple bill with the late Cha...2022-08-261h 07
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 928: A Conversation with Geoffrey KeezerA conversation with keyboardist Geoffrey Keezer crossed another name off my list of top-notch artists I have not had the pleasure to meet. His career began with roles in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, and bands led by Ray Brown and Art Farmer, all before his 30th birthday. Since then, he has grown as a writer, performer, arranger and band leader, to say nothing of being a first call sideman for the likes of Benny Golson, Christian McBride, and Chris Botti. On his 23rd album as a leader, Keezer continues to augment and refine his distinctive style. Playdate...2022-08-2533 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 926: A Conversation with Steve Davis (Part Two)Podcast 926 completes my conversation with noted trombonist Steve Davis. Steve's latest album is a sextet release on the Smoke Sessions label called Bluesthetic, and it features Steve on trombone, Peter Bernstein on guitar, Steve Nelson on vibes, Christian McBride on bass, Geoffrey Keezer on keys and Willie Jones III on drums. In Part Two of our conversation, Steve talks about his times with the likes of Jackie McLean and Art Blakey, as well as his coming projects with the collective One For All. Musical selections include the Davis composition "Fire Waltz" from One For All's album Incorrigible. Th...2022-08-1024 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 925: A Conversation with Steve Davis (Part One)Year in and year out, Steve Davis is at or near the top of the trombone category in all the important jazz polls. A veteran writer-performer-educator his career runs from the final version of the Jazz Messengers through runs backing the likes of Jackie McLean and Chick Corea. He has lead any number of bands under his own name, and co-leads the collective One For All. During my time as a member of the Hartford, Connecticut scene, Steve was always a key figure in playing, teaching and organizing important events for the community. His latest album, Bluesthetic (Sm...2022-08-0824 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 909: A Conversation with Eliane Henri on "Hargrove"Hargrove, a vérité style documentary chronicling the last year of legendary trumpeter Roy Hargrove’s life, will debut at the Tribeca Film Festival on Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 8PM at Waterfront Plaza at Brookfield Place (230 Vesey Street, NYC). Executive produced by Janine Sherman Barrois and Erykah Badu, Hargrove offers unprecedented access to Roy like never before through intimate and insightful interviews along with stunning live performances. A Q&A, moderated by music and culture critic Nelson George featuring first-time director Eliane Henri and musicians in the film, will immediately follow the June 12 screening. Filmed in the jazz clubs of Ne...2022-06-1326 min
Ask The Tech CoachSummertime Strategic Planning to Jumpstart the New School Year
Welcome to "Ask the Tech Coach," a podcast for Instructional Coaches and Technology Integration Specialists.
In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach,” Jeff and Susan welcome Instructional Coaches Dr. Ashley McBride and Lisa Hockenberry on the program to discuss a variety of ways that we can support both our districts and school buildings in their summertime strategic planning.
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Lyles Movie FilesNo Carol and Daryl spinoff? The Batman sequel newsJayce, Chief and I discuss the shocker with The Walking Dead spinoff slated to feature Carol and Daryl that is in jeopardy with Melissa McBride's departure. Justin Lin is exiting Fast and Furious 10, but does a new director matter that much? Spider-Man's 20th anniversary is being hailed as the restart of the comic book movie genre. We debate if that was really the case. And with the news of a sequel to The Batman, we discuss the possibilities for Matt Reeves' follow-up.2022-04-2858 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 894: Mingus@100 - A Conversation with Sarah HanahanWith the start of the month of April, Straight No Chaser begins a month long celebration of the life and music of Charles Mingus, one of the most important jazz performers, composers and personalities ever. Six years ago I interviewed Kris Gabbard, the author of Better Git It in Your Soul: An Interpretive Biography of Charles Mingus (University of California Press), who considered Mingus not just one of the most important figures in jazz, but in American 20th century music as a whole. At that time I wrote: Classically trained on cello, (Mingus) moved to ja...2022-04-0129 min
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Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 863: A Conversation with Christian McBrideThere is no doubt that Christian McBride is one of the most versatile musicians on the music scene today. His artistry has been documented in recordings and performances with the widest possible range of musicians in the most varied settings and genres one might imagine. His collaborations have been as diverse as duets with the revered classical bassist Edgar Meyer and avant-garde composer and violinist Laurie Anderson; performances with iconic artists like Sting and James Brown; ensembles with his fellow native Philadelphian, Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson, of The Roots; not to mention a host of jazz masters from Sonny Rollins and...2021-11-2331 minthe wave AROUND: w/JMACSEASON CLOSEOUT!!2021-11-1035 minthe wave AROUND: w/JMACITS CHAMPIONSHIP WEEKEND!!!2021-11-0553 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 853: A Conversation with Benito GonzalezWith the release of Sing to the World on the St. Petersburg, Russia label Rainy Days Records pianist Benito Gonzalez takes a stellar step into the future of his jazz journey. He’s assembled an impressive team of collaborators to perform the ten tunes, including Christian McBride, Essiet Okon Essiet, Jeff “Tain” Watts, and Nicholas Payton as well as rising stars Russian drummer Sasha Mashin, trumpeter Josh Evans and saxophonist Makar Kashitsyn. Gonzalez describes the album as a musical exploration into the concept of freedom, one that recognizes the dignity of us all as individuals. Music, he says in our co...2021-10-1330 minthe wave AROUND: w/JMACDega Recap: BUBBA gets the JOB DONE!!2021-10-0653 min
The Adam McBride ShowAn Artists View on NFTs, Art, and Apes - Jeffrey Alan ScudderJeffrey is one of only a handful of the pioneering artists in the NFT space who first launched their art on Bitcoin.
I am by no means an art expert - though my artsy friends tell me Jeffrey is world-class - but I do know NFTs, and the work he did with Harm van den Dorpel and the Left Gallery beginning in 2016 set the stage for today's NFT art revolution.
We discuss the early days of his art, putting works on the blockchain, and where he sees art NFTs...2021-10-051h 15the wave AROUND: w/JMACTHE DEGA FALL RACE SPECIAL!!2021-10-0250 minthe wave AROUND: w/JMACViva Las Boring2021-09-3046 minthe wave AROUND: w/JMACIts Bristol Baby!! (chicken wings vs subway subs)2021-09-2358 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 846: A Conversation with Joey DeFrancescoWe need more music. That’s true almost anytime, but it rings even truer in the world we live in today An that’s where Joey DeFrancesco comes in, bringing us More Music, his latest release on Mack Avenue Records. The legendary organ player has expanded his recorded legacy over the past five years, releasing the politically charged Project Freedom and the intensely spiritual In the Key of the Universe. In addition, Joey and his band backed Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Van Morrison on a pair of soulful albums on the Sony Lega...2021-09-2326 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 844: Previewing the 10th TD James Moody Jazz FestivalThe New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) is beginning its live, in-person programming in the coming week (see Podcast for a preview) and in six weeks will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of the annual TD James Moody Jazz Festival, showcasing an all-star lineup of the country’s best musicians. Held in and around NJPAC from Nov 6-20, this year’s programing has a little something for everyone, including the New Jersey premiere of Christian McBride’s The Movement Revisited. The Festival begins with the Pedro Giraudo Tango Quartet and Nimbus Dance presenting the world premiere of “Raucous Caucus Ta...2021-09-1724 minthe wave AROUND: w/JMACgood ole richmond, MTJ does it again!2021-09-1538 minthe wave AROUND: w/JMACDarlington Disasters, Its Playoff Time!!!2021-09-0835 minAsk The Tech CoachWhat does an ISTE Standards Based Coaching System Look Like?
Welcome to "Ask the Tech Coach," a podcast for Instructional Coaches and Technology Integration Specialists.
In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach,” Jeff and Susan welcome Ashley McBride, author of EdTech Coaching Primer as we talk about the state of and role of coaching in today’s schools.
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Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 841: A Conversation with Kenny Garrett, Part TwoPodcast 841 is Part Two of my two-part conversation with saxophonist Kenny Garrett. His latest album, released August 27th on Mack Avenue Records, is entitled Sounds of the Ancestors, and as the title suggests, it’s a musical trip through Kenny’s past, as he digs into the sounds that have moved him in the past, and chased them from his hometown of Detroit to the Caribbean and Africa and back. He will be heading home to Detroit to play the 2021 Detroit Jazz Festival September 3-6. Garrett has performed with many jazz greats throughout his career. He speaks warml...2021-08-2936 minthe wave AROUND: w/JMACMICHIGAN WAS AWESOME!! TIME FOR DAYTONA2021-08-2540 minthe wave AROUND: w/JMACNASCAR IS BACK AND SO ARE WE!!!2021-08-1024 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 835: Previewing NJPAC's Return to Live PerformancesIs the current trend of live jazz performances going to continue through the Fall? Large presenters are certainly moving forward as if they will be swinging along. The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) is welcoming live, in-person jazz back to its stage this Fall beginning with Grammy Award-winning vocalist Gregory Porter (Sep 24). The TD Jazz Series continues in the Fall with “Salsa Meets Jazz” (Sep 25), saxophonist Boney James (Oct 14), and vocal powerhouse duo Tierney Sutton and Ann Hampton Calloway (Oct 15). Celebrating its 10th anniversary is the annual TD James Moody Jazz Festival showcasing an all-star lineup of the c...2021-08-0630 minthe wave AROUND: w/JMACTeaser trailerJust a little teaser for you guys.2021-07-2801 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 825: A Conversation with Troy Roberts and Tim JagoThe careers of jazz musicians Troy Roberts and Tim Jago have run scarily parallel. Both born and raised in Australia, they both initially re-located to the US to study at the prestigious University of Miami Frost School of Music. Multi-instrumentalist Roberts and guitarist Jago have remained close as they have carved out careers as in-demand sideman for the likes of Joey DeFrancesco, Aretha Franklin, Orrin Evans, Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts, Christian McBride, John Scofield and Terence Blanchard. They are both members of Roberts’ Nu-Jive group and have separately made recordings as leaders. And, just to keep the symmetry going, both have b...2021-06-2535 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 827: Previewing Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival with Danny MelnickIt's a pleasure to be able to say that there is a two day live jazz festival happening this weekend, June 25-26, in upstate New York. After a one-year hiatus, the Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival is back! Scaled down in size due to health restrictions, nonetheless Danny Melnick, the festival producer is happy with the results. Any festival that presents Christian McBridge, Dianne Reeves, Joey Alexander, Cecile McLoren Salvant, Artemis, and Al DiMeola is bound to be a winner. Podcast 827 is my annual conversation with Danny, as he talks about the long road to return h...2021-06-2129 min
It Just Makes SenseEpisode 36: 1990's the Deadliest Decade: Soldier of MisfortuneThis episode we start with a HAPPY BIRTHDAY shout out to your favorite host. Sam!! She then goes on to completely forget what day she is born on and spouts off true crime facts for April 20th and not April 19th the actual day of her birth. This will be addressed next episode, but THANK GOD she's pretty!We continue with the 1990's the Deadliest Decade series with the episode Soldier of Misfortune . Tracie McBride's one goal in life was to enlist in the US Army. She was a fun. warm. and determine woman and soon after...2021-04-2329 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 795: A Conversation with Orrin EvansAnother one of my long overdue conversations took place last week when I finally got to chat with Orrin Evans. One of the most versatile and exciting musicians around today, Orrin is nominated for a second Grammy Award for his latest release with his powerful Captain Black Big Band, The Intangible Between. Evans has advanced his career shuffling between various musical entourages, from the Big Band to his smaller groups like Tarbaby (recording with Eric Revis, Nasheet Watts, and Stacy Dillard or Oliver Lake) and trios with artists from Christian McBride and Kariem Riggins to Dave King...2021-02-0937 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 785: A Few of My Favorite Things 2020As I do every year, this Podcast is "A Few of My Favorite Things" from 2020. It is not intended on being a Top Ten list - I do that for the Jazz Journalist Association - but rather a grouping of recordings that got repeat play in my house, making me take notice among the many recordings I receive. While 2020 seemed to be a cursed year for many reasons, there was much to be optimistic about in jazz recordings that came across my desk during the past twelve months. And while the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic may strike j...2020-12-2039 min
The Soundtrack to Your Imagination with Free AudiobookGo Live!: Turn Virtual Connections into Paying Customers Audiobook by Jeffrey GitomerListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 464769
Title: Go Live!: Turn Virtual Connections into Paying Customers
Author: Jeffrey Gitomer
Narrator: Jeffrey Gitomer
Format: Unabridged
Length: 03:17:12
Language: English
Release date: 12-15-20
Publisher: Ascent Audio
Genres: Business & Economics, Sales & Retail
Summary:
Learn how to go online with a winning sales and marketing strategy
Go Live!: Turn Virtual Connections into Paying Customers helps listeners understand and take advantage of several online tools to boost their sales and increase their revenue. Accomplished salesperson, consultant, and online personality Jeffrey Gitomer describes how tools like Facebook Live and podcasting can...2020-12-153h 17
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 766: A Conversation with Christian McBrideWe are almost three-quarters of the way through the dumpster-fire that has been 2020, and Christian McBride has done more than his share to try to keep our minds on new music. No less than three of the top releases of this troubled year have his imprint, with a new release coming out this week. Early in the year we finally got the long-awaited recording of his multi-part suite The Movement Revisisted: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons, dropping just as the battle of racial justice was once again hitting the headlines. This summer saw the 25th anniversary of...2020-09-1942 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 761: A Conversation with John BeasleyWhen bandleader/composer/arranger John Beasley began to reimagine the music of Thelonious through the vehicle of his inventive, versatile MONK’estra, it might have been easy to assume that he had created a continuing homage to one of jazz’s singular talents. Perhaps it would morph into something like the Mingus Big Band? But if that is what you thought, you would have been wrong. While both MONK’estra, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 garnered a pair of Grammy Award nominations apiece alongside widespread critical acclaim, the MONK’estra veers off in new directions on newest release...2020-08-2739 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 759: A Conversation with David GilmoreDavid Gilmore’s second album for Criss Cross, From Here to Here, is just his sixth release as a bandleader. This seems to be a criminal lack of material, as Gilmore has spent the past 35 years as a key member of performances and recording sessions with the likes of Steve Coleman, Randy Brecker, Christian McBride, Cassandra Wilson and Wayne Shorter. Gilmore began his career as part of the M-Base Collective, and soon found himself in great demand, both as a jazz player and backing pop and rock acts as well. His latest album features his playing with a...2020-08-2248 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 757: A Conversation with Greg SperoI’ve been a big fan of the Ropeadope Experiment series, beginning back in June 2001 with The Philadelphia Experiment - featuring ?uestlove, Christian McBride, and Uri Caine with special guest Pat Martino. The Detroit Experiment, produced by Aaron Luis Levinson and Carl Craig, followed soon after with a stellar cast including Amp Fiddler, Geri Allen, Karriem Riggins and many more. 2007 saw the release of The Harlem Experiment, once again produced by Levinson, which dug into a crossover blend of Latin Jazz and Funk with a diverse cast including Steven Bernstein, Carlos Alomar, Don Byron, Taj Mahal, Olu Dara, Queen Esther...2020-08-1941 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 754: Memories of Newport PastThis weekend should have been the annual Newport Jazz Festival. Regrettably, the worldwide pandemic that has stopped liver performances everywhere has made it impossible for the Festival organizers and Artistic Director Christian McBride to go forward. Summer just isn't summer for me without the great jazz festivals I normally attend, or for that matter from simple one-off local shows on the Town Green. This is a m ost difficult time for performers, for those who put on festivals, and those who attend. Here's hopeing things are better for 2021. So my suggestion is to listen to P...2020-08-0859 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 750: A Conversation with Christian SandsIt’s been a pleasure to watch pianist Christian Sands grow as a composer, musician and bandleader. By the time he was ready to graduate from Manhattan School of Music, he had released three trio albums and been nominated for a Latin Grammy as part of the School’s Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra, led by Bobby Sanabria. Tabbed by Christian McBride to be part of his quintet Insight Straight, Sands quickly became known as one of finest young pianists of his generation. Be Water is his fourth release on the Mack Avenue label, and it finds him to mature...2020-07-0549 min
The Soundtrack to Your Imagination with Free AudiobookRelentless Pursuit: My Fight for the Victims of Jeffrey Epstein Audiobook by Bradley J. EdwardsListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 419135
Title: Relentless Pursuit: My Fight for the Victims of Jeffrey Epstein
Author: Bradley J. Edwards
Narrator: Steven Weber
Format: Unabridged
Length: 13:42:10
Language: English
Release date: 03-31-20
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio UK
Genres: Biography & Memoir, General
Summary:
This is the definitive story of the case against Jeffrey Epstein and the corrupt system that supported him and Ghislaine Maxwell, told in thrilling detail by the lawyer who has represented Epstein’s victims for more than a decade.
In June 2008, Florida-based victims’ rights attorney Bradley J. Edwards was thirty-two years old...2020-03-311h 42
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 736 : A Conversation with Daniel Kelly and Frederick Johnson about "Shakespeare in Jazz"The works of William Shakespeare and the jazz world have had a limited connection. Sure, Duke Ellington released Such Sweet Thunder, a twelve-part suite based on Shakespeare’s work in 1957, and Dame Cleo Laine recorded the moving Shakespeare and All that Jazz with her husband Sir John Dankworth in 1964. There is a somewhat obscure but very interesting album from singer Maxine Sullivan entitled Sullivan, Shakespeare, Hyman in 1971. But other than the occasional track here and there, and some tours (most notably saxophonist Andy Sheppard’s collaboration with French pianist Guillaume de Chassy and drummer Christophe Marguet called “Shakespeare Songs”), there ha...2020-03-2648 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 718: A Few of My Favorite Things 2019As I do every year, this Podcast is "A Few of My Favorite Things" form 2019. It is not intended on being a Top Ten list - I do that for the Jazz Journalist Association - but rather a grouping of recordings that got repeat play in my house, making me take notice over the many recordings I receive. This year, I had the pleasure of hearing the following stellar albums: NEW THINGS FROM OLD FRIENDS Branford Marsalis Quartet - "The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul" Al Foster - "Inspirations and Dedications"2019-12-1547 min
The Soundtrack to Your Imagination with Free AudiobookGet Sh*t Done: The Ultimate Guide to Productivity, Procrastination, & Profitability Audiobook by Jeffrey GitomerListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 403893
Title: Get Sh*t Done: The Ultimate Guide to Productivity, Procrastination, & Profitability
Author: Jeffrey Gitomer
Narrator: Jeffrey Gitomer
Format: Unabridged
Length: 03:52:37
Language: English
Release date: 12-10-19
Publisher: Ascent Audio
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Self Development, Health & Wellness, Bibles
Summary:
The must-have guide for getting sh*t done!
Written for those who finds it hard to Get Sh*t Done, this book is designed to have a profound, life-changing effect on anyone who wants to adopt and implement the elements of greater productivity. New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey...2019-12-103h 52
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 695: Jazz for the Dog Days 2019It's past the midpoint in summer in New England, so why not some summer themed music for these lazy, hot days? Today is August 16th, the feast day of Saint Roch, the patron saint of Dogs, so why not celebrate the "Dog Days"? The Romans associated the hot weather with the star Sirius. They considered Sirius to be the "Dog Star" because it is the brightest star in the constellation Canis Major (Large Dog), as well as the brightest star in the night sky. The term "Dog Days" was used earlier by the Greeks in Aristotle's Physics.2019-08-1658 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 668: A Conversation with Ulysses Owens JrPerformer! Producer! Musical Director! Arranger! Composer! Educator! Ulysses Owens Jr checks all the boxes as he continues to develop and grow his career in jazz. Since his graduation from Juilliard as a member of its jazz inaugural class in 2001, he has been in demand as drummer and musical director. You are likely familiar with his contributions to recordings with Christian McBride’s Trio and Big Band, the latter of which won him his second Grammy Award. His first Grammy came in 2010 for his work with Kurt Elling on his live album Dedicated to You. Songs of Freedom is...2019-03-0456 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 666: A Conversation with Joey DeFrancescoI first fell in love with the music of Joey DeFrancesco twenty years ago, when I booked him on an epic Organ Summit triple bill with the late Charles Earland and Dr. Lonnie Smith for the Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz. What an evening that was! Significantly younger than the other greats sharing the stage that night, he more than held his own, and seemed as excited as any fan in attendance to be part of a very special event. Since then, DeFrancesco has perhaps done more than anyone to expand the manner in which the organ ca...2019-02-2736 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 659: Joshua Redman @ 50Much like was said about Bruce Springsteen 15 years earlier, it sometimes seems that if Joshua Redman had not existed, the jazz press would have had to make him up. The story is too perfect – the son of noted African-American jazz saxophonist Dewey Redman and dancer/librarian Renee Shedroff who was, the daughter of Polish Immigrant Jews, picks up the clarinet and saxophone before his tenth birthday, and excels at both. He listens to earth, Wind & Fire and Led Zeppelin as often as he hears John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman. He stars as part of the award-winning Berkeley (CA) High Scho...2019-02-011h 13
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 653: A Few of My Favorite Things 2018It’s the time of the year when all the “Best Of” lists start to appear, and Straight No Chaser is no exception. Well, maybe a little exception, since I prefer to call this Podcast “A Few of My Favorite Things 2018.” I decided a few years back that it wasn’t prudent to compare a new release by say, Kamasi Washington to an archival release by say, Dexter Gordon, and say which is “better.” Instead, I have created a few flexible categories that allow me to feature twenty-five or so of the releases that I played and re-played during the year, and tha...2018-12-1946 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 645: Roy Hargrove (1969-2018)The passing of Roy Hargrove this past weekend at the age of 49 comes as an unwelcome shock. Hargrove, who died of cardiac arrest brought on by kidney disease, had carved out a spot for himself in the jazz world with music that was particularly important to me. His loss to the music world is virtually immeasurable. As one of the young lions that followed the arrival of Wynton Marsalis on the scene, Hargrove was a peer of Joshua Redman, Antonio Hart, Carl Allen, Stephen Scott and Christian McBride, and recorded with all of them. Having cut his...2018-11-0459 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 631: Previewing the 2018 Newport Jazz FestivalIf summer begins with the Freihofer’s Saratoga Jazz Festival and the Montreal Jazz Festival, then it reaches its apex with the Newport Jazz Festival. Year after year, for three days at Fort Adams State Park in lovely Newport, Rhode Island, three stages (and more!) are constantly filled with the best performers the world of jazz has to offer. This year is no exception. Artistic Director Christian McBride has helped provide us with an exception lineup, topped each day with Charles Lloyd leading a different group, in honor of his 80th birthday. Artists include: Friday, Au...2018-08-0137 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 630: Hank Jones CentennialOne of the most influential – and yet to my mind, underrated – jazz pianists of our time would have been 100 years old today. Hank Jones is constantly named by some of our finest jazz musicians as a key influence, and today in honor of the Centennial of his birth, you get an hour plus of his music. One of seven children, Jones was raised in a musical family. His mother Olivia Jones sang; his two older sisters studied piano; and his two younger brothers—Thad, a trumpeter, and Elvin, a drummer—have both earned their place in the jazz pant...2018-07-311h 03
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 624: A Conversation with Mike ClarkWhen we talk about the top jazz drummers of the past fifty years, particularly in the area of jazz-funk and fusion, the short list of real greats has to include Mike Clark. Already a veteran jazz drummer by the time Herbie Hancock picked him for his immortal Headhunters band, Clark wrote the book on jazz-funk, and went on to play in almost all genres of jazz, blues and funk. His credits range from Hancock, Vince Guaraldi, Woody Shaw, Albert King, Eddie and Joe Henderson and Larry Coryell to Christian McBride, John Scofield, Nicholas Payton, and Donald Harrison. With the...2018-06-3055 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 584: Previewing the Newport Jazz Festival with Danny MelnickThe Summer Jazz Festival season is in full swing, and the first weekend in August will bring us the Newport Jazz Festival (presented by Natixis) August 4-6 at Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island. One of the oldest and most important Jazz Festivals in the US, this year’s festival seems to be building on the injections of young talent and new ways of presenting music that marked the past few year’s triumphs. Newport has three stages (four if you count the intimate Storyville for solo performers) that keep the music and fun going from...2017-08-0154 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 579: A Conversation with Tedd Chubb"Ted Chubb is a very talented trumpeter, composer, improviser, bandleader and educator. Ted is the total package, and most of all, he is just one great guy." - Christian McBride Ted Chubb’s Gratified Never Satisfied allows the seasoned New Jersey trumpeter a chance to broaden his horizons, and he makes the most of it. Backed by a band that can sound throwback at one moment and perfectly modern in another, Chubb’s collection of four original tunes and four well-chosen covers should allow him some well-deserved wider recognition. Chubb, along with Bruce Williams (alto sax...2017-06-2338 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 572: A Conversation with Christian SandsI’m saying it here and now – Reach is the album that makes Christian Sands a star. Those “in the know” in jazz are already familiar with the 28 year old pianist, who has been a key member of Christian McBride’s Inside Straight band for the past five years. With the release of his first album for Mack Records (also McBride’s home), he shows that he is ready to be a leader in his own right.\ It was inevitable, as Sands has been tapped by Ben Williams, McBride, Ulysses Owens and Latin Jazz stars Los Hombres C...2017-05-0744 min
Morning Geeks!The 1 Billionth iPhone
Checking out the Arlo Smart Security Camera System Also reviewing the Scottevest Featherweight Morning Geeks! Episode 14 show notes: Stardate -306425.37 – CONTEST – Enter to Win an Exploding Kittens Card Game! – Happy Birthday Wil Wheaton, Martina McBride, Geddy Lee – Sega Portable Genesis – This person built his own mini- Nintendo – Replacing all […]
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Checking out the Arlo Smart Security Camera System
Also reviewing the Scottevest Featherweight
Morning Geeks! Episode 14 show notes: Stardate -306425.37
– CONTEST – Enter to Win an Exploding Kittens Card Game!
– Happy Birthday Wil Wheaton, Martina McBride, Geddy Lee
– Sega Portable Genesis
– This person built his own mini- Nintendo
– Replacing all your photos with Steve Buscemi
– Blizzard’s New Warcraft Statue
– Oregon Trail: American Settler Card Game
– The Fairy Penguin
New to This Week 7-29-2016
– Virus
– Jason Bourne
– The Hun...2016-07-2924 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 542: Previewing the Newport Jazz Festival with Danny MelnickThe Newport Jazz Festival continues to reinvent itself from year to year, and attendees at the Festival at Fort Adams State Park Friday, July 29 to Sunday July31 will get a chance to see and hear music from a veritable plethora of musical genres. It’s truly rare, in these days when “Jazz Festivals” are often “jazz” in name only, to be able to celebrate the latest groundbreaking acts and the most venerable classic groups in the same 72 hours. Last year saw promoters George Wein and Danny Melnick expanded the Festival to include a Friday slate of up and coming...2016-07-2856 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 540: Previewing the Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival with Danny MelnickThe 39th Freihofer's Jazz Festival will kick off the summer festival season in style at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center this coming weekend. "The Hang" has something for everyone to enjoy, and this year is no exception. Saturday June 25th brings something blue to the Main Stage with Eric Lindell and Shemekia Copeland, before bringing the new (Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah; Joey Alexander) and the old (Pieces of a Dream 40th anniversary tour and a Steps Ahead reunion). The ageless Chaka Khan was forced to cancel her appearance, but the always exciting Isley Brothers will bring their...2016-06-2256 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 538: Chick Corea @ 75This will be short, and to the point - Chick Corea is having a special birthday, and this is my card to him. Those who read this blog know that it was the music of Chick Corea, first with Return to Forever, and then moving backward in time, with Stan get, that was my first step intot he world of jazz. Check out this posting for more on this. But with Chick turning 75, I wanted to give you all an hour plus of his music, which comes so varied, with so many different collaborators, that...2016-06-121h 14
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 536: A Conversation with Dominick Farinacci Short Stories is more than an album title for the latest release from Dominick Farinacci, it’s the overriding theme of a diverse collection of material. The trumpeter has assembled an all-star band as his core collaborators – Larry Goldings on piano, organ and celesta; Christian McBride on double bass; Steely Dan and fusion veterans Steve Gadd on drums and Dean Parks on guitar; and two of the most sought out session men around in Jamey Haddad on percussion, and Gil Goldstein on accordion. Produced by the man who brought us George Benson’s Breezin’, Tommy LiPuma, the album contains wide rangi...2016-06-0441 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 534: International Jazz Day CelebrationApril 30th is the
day set aside as International Jazz Day around the world.
Beginning in 2012, UNESCO set aside the day as a celebration of “the virtues of
jazz as an educational tool, and a force for peace, unity, dialogue
and enhanced cooperation among people.”
I was fortunate enough to
attend the first International Jazz Day concert on the floor of the
United Nations that year. It was a fabulous event, bringing talent
form across the globe onstage for memorable performances. Click
here for my review of the event.
The past few years have had
celeb...2016-04-301h 16
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 528: A Conversation with Tony LustigIf you go to the New York Clubs, you’ve probably seen Tony Lustig capably filling the Baritone Sax chair in Big Bands lead by the likes of Wynton Marsalis, Christian McBride, Arturo O'Farrill, Gerald Wilson and, George Gee, amongst others. The release of his quintet album, Taking Flight, allows us to see another side of this talented musician.
Lustig has wisely surrounded himself with top musicians, with whom he shares roots from his days at Michigan State and Julliard. The rhythm section - Samora Pinderhughes (piano), Ben Williams (bass), and Ulysses Owens (drums) – is rock steady, and...2016-04-1147 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 508: A Conversation with Matt WilsonReknown jazz drummer Matt Wilson brings us on a joyful and adventurous romp through holiday music with his celebrated Christmas Tree-O during their 16 Days of Christmas North American Tour beginning November 30, 2015. You've never really heard “You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch” or “The Chipmunk Song” until you have heard them served-up with Christmas Tree-O's elfin sense of humor and dazzling musicianship.
The band features Wilson with longtime bandmates Jeff Lederer on saxophones and Paul Sikivie on bass. Reviewing their 2010 Palmetto recording Matt Wilson's Christmas Tree-O, DownBeat declares the group "provides Yuletide greetings so eloquent and mind-bending even the nastie...2015-12-031h 06
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 498: A Conversation with Don Vega about Monty AlexanderWhen we list the great piano players of the last fifty years, for some reason Monty Alexander seems too often to be forgotten. In a career spanning five decades, Alexander has built a reputation exploring and bridging the worlds of American jazz, popular song, and the music of his native Jamaica, finding in each a sincere spirit of musical expression. In the process, he has performed and recorded with artists from every corner of the musical universe and entertainment world. Who else can claim working with Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Ray Brown, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Clark Terry, Quincy...2015-10-0731 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 486: A Conversation with Buster Williams of the Heads of StateWe haven’t had a good jazz super-group in a couple of years now. The last time I could really put that tag on a group was the Five Peace Band, led by pianist Chick Corea and guitar legend John McLaughlin, who formed their first group together since playing with Miles Davis decades earlier. They added Kenny Garrett on saxophone, Christian McBride on bass, and Vinnie Colaiuta on drums for a terrific one-off album and tour.
This year’s candidate for super-group status comes from the appropriately named Heads of State. After years of playing in various combi...2015-06-241h 01
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 485: Previewing the Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival with Danny Melnick If it’s the start of summer, then it must be time for the Summer Jazz Festival season to begin in earnest, and for me that means the Freihofer’s Saratoga Jazz Festival at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center June 27-28. This year’s festival keeps with prior year’s thematic goals of presenting both marquee names and the up-and-coming stars of tomorrow, jazz next to classic R&B and blues. “The Hang,” and the Festival has come to be called, is in a wonderful setting. A USA Today and 10 Best readers’ poll has given Saratoga Performing Arts Center the...2015-06-2354 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 468: A Conversation with Jimmy Greene"Music has a unique way of communicating and healing. I'm so thankful that music is my profession - that I am able to write and arrange to create settings that convey the emotions I experience, not the least of which is the pain that my family and I have endured at a time when words fail." - Jimmy Greene
I first met Jimmy Greene when he was a budding young talent at the Hartt School of Music in the mid-Nineties. A protégé of the legendary Jackie McLean at Hartford’s Artist Collective, Greene played with strength and...2015-03-0340 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 435: A Conversation with Mark Whitfield about The Newport Now60 BandThirty years has now passed since a group of young jazz musicians were tagged with the title “The Young Lions”, and released a series of albums and performances that helped change the direction and flow of jazz. Mark Whitfield would have to be near the top of the Second Wave of Young Lions, along with Christian McBride, Carl Allen, Tim Warfield, Benny Green, Marlon Jordan and Roy Hargrove, all of whom appeared with him as The Jazz Futures in a live Newport Jazz Festival recording in 1993.
Whitfield had graduated from Boston's prestigious Berklee College in the Spri...2014-06-2731 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 430: A Conversation with Christian McBrideWhat can I say about Christian McBride, a man who is at the top of his craft? In addition to his virtuosity as a bass player, McBride is an educator, curator, XM radio host and composer-arranger. I also should add, he has the best Twitter feed in the business – sign up for @mcbridesworld ASAP.
The Philadelphia-born musician has performed alongside a diverse set of luminaries including Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Natalie Cole, Pat Metheny, James Brown, Sting, Brad Mehldau and Queen Latifah, among others. He now leads a working 18 piece Big Band, a Trio, a Quintet called Insid...2014-06-1149 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 402: A Few of My Favorite Things 2013Rather than attempt to make a conventional list of "Best of" CDs at the end of each year, I take stock of what artists impressed me the most, what CDs found their way back into the player most often, and whose music continued to move me after the initial novelty of a first listen wore off. Then I break these into a few handy categories, like "Memorable Reissues" or "Tribute Albums of Note". It seems unfair to me to match, say, John Coltrane's Sun Ship Session against Chris Potter's latest CD to say which is "better". The t...2014-01-0441 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 366: Previewing the Newport Jazz FestivalSince its beginning in 1954, the Newport Jazz Festival has delivered line-ups that have both showcased jazz history and predicted it, while the city of Newport has lent the festival an unparalleled home steeped in history and culture. When you throw in fans that really are more of a community than an audience, you have much more than just a series of concerts of a weekend.
The Festival left the friendly confines of Newport in 1972 for New York City, an decision which was corrected a decade later when it came back to Rhode Island, giving the New York fe...2013-07-2840 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 342: A Conversation with Lisa KirchnerIf it can be said that anyone has music in her D.N.A., that person would be Lisa Kirchner. The daughter of Pulitzer Prize-winning classical composer Leon Kirchner and coloratura soprano Gertrude Schoenberg, Lisa was raised in a home that appreciated Bach as much as Jimi Hendrix, Duke Ellington as much as Mozart. Ms. Kirchner made the most of that eclectic musical upbringing, successfully working on the New York stage, performing as a dancer, harmonizing with singers like Judy Collins, and leading her own jazz group.
With the release of Umbrellas in Mint, she...2013-04-1733 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 331: A Conversation with Chris Potter
The Sirens is acclaimed saxophonist Chris Potter's ECM debut as a leader, an album of mood and melody inspired by Homer's The Odyssey - both its epic atmosphere and its timeless humanity. Potter, who has been a featured player on ECM albums by the likes of Dave Holland and Steve Swallow, found the timeless tale a source of inspiration as he sought to create for his latest band a year ago.
Since then the music has been honed on the road, and captures the sense of wonder and excitement that faces the explorer as he...2013-01-2842 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 329: Happy 65th Birthday, Donald Fagen!“…Mr. Fagen's music is a rich-textured, harmonically oblique amalgam of rock, jazz and soul. It is, in a word, music for grown-ups—with lyrics to match. What is especially interesting about Mr. Fagen, though, is that unlike most of his contemporaries, he has always made music for grown-ups. Steely Dan, the group that he co-founded with Walter Becker in 1972, never did go in for kid stuff, and doesn't now. Jazz heavies like Wayne Shorter and Phil Woods have long popped up from time to time on Steely Dan's albums, playing solos that don't sound even slightly out of place.” – Terry Teac...2013-01-1059 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 325: A Conversation with Kenny BarronKenny Barron will be celebrating his 70thbirthday in 2013, and you can bet we’ll have a celebratory Podcast that day. One of our finest, most versatile and hard working pianists, Barron shows no sign of slowing down as he approaches this milestone.
He has a new CD set to come out in 2013, and he is currently playing a series of duets with his friend, bass legend Dave Holland. The pair will get the chance to settle in for a four night run at the Jazz Standard this week (December 13-16), giving jazz fans across the tri-state area an...2012-12-121h 08
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 323: Holiday Podcast #3 - A Conversation with Tim WarfieldThe last decade has seen Tim Warfield, Jr. become one of the most continuously interesting sax players around. After serving his time as a valued sideman with Christian McBride and Nicholas Payton, Warfield - along with his running mate Terrell Stafford – has emerged as a leader of some stature, playing originals and standards at a high level of expertise.
This makes the release of Tim Warfield’s Jazzy Christmas all the more exciting. Warfield has gathered a who’s who of players – Stafford on trumpet, Cyrus Chestnut on piano, Stefon Harris on vibes, Rodney Whitaker on bass...2012-12-101h 00
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 318: A Conversation with Marc JohnsonMarc Johnson is a criminally overlooked bass player.
Check out the Downbeat and JazzTimes polls, and you’ll find the established greats (Charlie Haden), the young hotshots (Esperanza Spalding) and the current mainstays (Christian McBride) all feted, By Johnson, whose innovative work spans the past thirty years, is overlooked. . His latest CD, his second close creation with his wife, pianist Eliane Elias, is called Swept Away (ECM), and stands as one of the finest collaborative jazz releases of the year.
From his time as the final bass player in the Bill Evans Trio, to...2012-12-0351 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 293: A Conversation with Ginny CarrThe art of the vocal jazz group has a long history. Early singing groups that came out of the swing era like the Andrews Sisters or the Boswell Sisters pioneered the idea of close vocal harmony taking the lead over an instrumental jazz band. Male groups such as the Ink Spots (”Stompin’ at the Savoy, “That Cat is High”) and Mills Brothers (“Tiger Rag”, “Chinatown My Chinatown”) certainly had elements of jazz in their singing as far back as 1931. The Four Freshman were highly influenced by the Big Bands of Woody Herman and Stan Kenton and had a hit with “Tuxedo Jun...2012-08-2241 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 282: Saratoga Jazz Festival Preview, Part I - A Conversation with Danny MelnickMy musical summer can begin on June 30th, with the 35th annual Freihofer’s Saratoga Jazz Festival takes place at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) in New York. If New Orleans is “The Big Easy”, then this festival should be known as “The Big Hang”, with two days of wonderful vibes, two stages of world-class music, food, crafts and general fun.
And who will be featured on the Main Stage this year? I’m glad you asked.
Saturday kicks off with Mario Abney & the Abney Effect, followed by Christian McBride & Inside Straight. Michel Camilo’s "Mano a Mano"...2012-06-2258 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 280: Jazzin' on Paul McCartney at 70Paul McCartney’s latest CD, Kisses on the Bottom (insert rear end joke here) was not really a jazz record, but with support from Diana Krall and her band, including Christian McBride, it was above-average Standards crooning. Calling it “the songs which inspired the songs”, he selected tunes that a young McCartney heard his father playing on piano when growing up in Liverpool.
Now at the age of 70, the man called “Macca” has attempted almost every type of music in his musical career, from rock and pop to oratorio and electronica. Putting aside his voluminous songwritin...2012-06-1854 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 275: Burlington Jazz Festival Preview
The 29th Discover Burlington Jazz Festival begins on June 1, kicking off the summer jazz festival season in the Northeast with a bang. For ten days, the college town on the banks of Lake Champlain will be the host for dozens of international and local jazz musicians, along with educational programs that make this a true destination festival for jazz lovers of all ages.
The Flynn MainStage will feature artists like Béla Fleck and the Marcus Roberts Trio; Ninety Miles Featuring Stefon Harris, Nicholas Payton and David Sánchez; Bonnie Raitt; Christian McBride & Inside Straight and Dianne Re...2012-05-211h 04
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 254: A Conversation with Charlie HunterCharlie Hunter has established himself as one of the premier modern fusion/jazz-rock artists. Hunter will often find a funk groove and turn it into an amplified, wah-wah pedal induced free jam that competes with saxophones, keyboards and even violins. Since the early 1990s, Hunter has released 17 acclaimed albums featuring his dizzying technical and virtuosic 8-string guitar playing. Hunter has collaborated with preeminent names such as Christian McBride, Michael Franti, Norah Jones, Kurt Elling, Mos Def and even took lessons from master guitarist Joe Satriani.
The guitar phenom's Solo Jam opens the "PDX Afrobeat Breakdown" at the PDX...2012-01-2746 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 251: A Few of My Favorite Things 2011I don't pretend to have the critical abilities to give you a "best of" list for any year in jazz, and there are always musical releases I fail to catch up with that likely would make a list. Instead, I've created a number of categories to give you some idea of my favorite recordings of 2011, and Podcast 251 features a selection or two from them. This year's Favorite Things include:
Notable Releases
Vince Mendoza - Nights on Earth
Rez Abbisi’s Invocation – Suno Suno
2012-01-2144 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 241: A Conversation with Tia FullerSaxophonist Tia Fuller definitely leaves an impression. Influenced by legends such as Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Stitt, and John Coltrane, her playing is dynamic and fluid as she navigates the trickiest of lines with a tone that is rich and meaty. It’s a sound that works well in the modern brand of straight-ahead bebop she writes for her quartet, but Fuller is also flexible enough to play in Beyoncé’s all-woman touring band, the Suga Mamas.
In demand as a session player with top talent like long-time friends E.J. Strickland and Sean Jones, Ms. Fuller has relea...2011-11-0747 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 227: A Conversation with Jeff "Tain" Watts
Drummer Jeff "Tain" Watts was appointed 2011 Detroit Jazz Festival artist in residence earlier this year. The dynamic drummer will be on a number of stages in a number of guises this labor day weekend in the Motor City. He plans to heat things up on opening night with a star-studded "Drum Club" featuring Joe Locke, Susie Ibarra, Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez and Pedro Martinez. Throughout the weekend, "Tain" will be seen on several stages - with his own band (featuring Marcus Strickland and Christian McBride), with Michigan State University's Jazz Orchestra, and in the Jazz Talk Tent p...2011-08-2649 min
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 164: Happy Birthday, Sting – Part 1 – Jazz Does Gordon SumnerRock musician Sting – born Gordon Sumner 58 years ago this month – is one of the jazzier pop stars of the past forty years. Although he reached fame first as the bass player of the punk rock-styled band The Police, his first professional gigs during college and during breaks from being a school teacher were in jazz groups. He played with local bands such as the Phoenix Jazzmen, the Newcastle Big Band, and Last Exit in the Newcastle ara of England.
His songwriting from 1977 to the present has tapped into jazz stylings from time to time, and his solo reco...2009-10-2930 minStraight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowPodcast 160: A Conversation with Terri Lyne CarringtonGoing from headliner to artistic director, Terri Lyne Carrington’s involvement with the Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival has reached its apex. A native of Medford, a Boston suburb, her deep musical network and knowledge make her an ideal choice to lead BeanTown as it expands its scope and moves towards becoming one of the nation's premier jazz festivals.
She is no stranger to multitasking. She has received Grammy nominations both as a performer (for her solo album, Real Life Story) and as a producer (for the Dianne Reeves album, That Day). Her extensive tour...2009-09-2449 minStraight No Chaser - A Jazz ShowChristian McBride Draws an Inside StraightIt's a real delight to welcome Christan McBride back into acoustic jazz. I've been a fan of the great bassist since his debut as a leader in 1994. Since then, he has been more than a little busy, lending his extensive talents to varying projects and combos, including the R&B tribute A Family Affair and the sprawling 3 CD set Live At Tonic, which found McBride adding violin, turntable and perhaps the kitchen sink to his basic group on long, meandering jams.
Kind of Brown (a tip of the cap to his mentor Ray Brown) finds McBride back on...2009-06-3000 min