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Fire Music: When Jazz Speaks Out - Part 4
Episode 116
As our series dedicated to the amazing music that has come out of the struggle for the advancement of African-Americans come to an end, we focus on tunes inspired by the march on Selma, or dedicated …
Published on 5 years, 4 months ago
Fire Music: When Jazz Speaks Out - Part 3
Episode 116
As Martin Luther King put it in the opening address to the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival, "When life itself offers no order and meaning, the musician creates an order and meaning from the sounds of the e…
Published on 5 years, 4 months ago
Fire Music: When Jazz Speaks Out - Part 2
Episode 115
In the second part of this special dedicated to jazz and civil rights we look into music inspired by the bloody events that marked the advancement of the civil rights movement and by the victims of o…
Published on 5 years, 5 months ago
Fire Music: When Jazz Speaks Out - Part 1
Episode 115
Music often distills the truth in ways that make it hard to ignore. The history of jazz is intertwined with the struggle for the advancement of the African-American society that birthed it. Many of i…
Published on 5 years, 5 months ago
James Bond and other Secret Agents, Spies and Detectives - Part 2
Episode 112
In the first part of the show we focused on jazz inspired by the of music composed by James Barry for 007 flicks. Here we switch our attention to other great soundtrack composers like Lalo Schifrin o…
Published on 5 years, 5 months ago
Jazz for James Bond and other Secret Agents, Spies and Detectives - Part 1
Episode 114
For a reason or another, movies about detectives, secret agents or spies have gone mano a mano with jazz, and so this week we'll feature jazz inspired by adventurous characters. In this first segment…
Published on 5 years, 5 months ago
Sir Stevie: Jammin' on Stevie Wonder - Part 4
Episode 113
All good things come to an end, so here we are with the last part of our celebration of Stevie Wonder's 70th birthday in the key of jazz. In this final installment tributes by Geri Allen, Stephane Be…
Published on 5 years, 5 months ago
Sir Stevie: Jammin' on Stevie Wonder - Part 3
Episode 113
After a dive in renditions from the '70s during parts 1, here we mix things up with a combination of contemporary stunners, like the unique take of Alicia Hall Moran on "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" or…
Published on 5 years, 5 months ago
Sir Stevie: Jammin' on Stevie Wonder - Part 2
Episode 112
Stevie Wonder has often infused his performances with compelling renditions of jazz standards like Miles' "All Blues" or Coltrane's "Giant Steps". In return, countless jazz musicians have looked at h…
Published on 5 years, 5 months ago
Sir Stevie: Jammin' on Stevie Wonder - Part 1
Episode 112
Stevie Wonder has more entries in the "Real Book" than any other pop musician, The Beatles included. It is not surprising therefore that his Songbook has been mined by hundreds of jazz musicians, inc…
Published on 5 years, 6 months ago