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Guster Slings Hooks and Harmonies, With Bongos, In-Studio
Episode 54
The alternative rock band Guster, formed over bongos and acoustic guitars at Tufts University in 1991, has built its reputation on their striking voc…
2 years ago
Grace Cummings Channels Emotion Into Powerful Vocal Poetry
Episode 53
Grace Cummings, the Australian singer and songwriter from Melbourne, has a strikingly rich and commanding voice, the kind that can cut through a big …
2 years ago
Composer and Cornetist Graham Haynes Confounds Expectation
Episode 52
Graham Haynes, the Bahia, Brazil-based composer, cornetist, and bandleader, “expands and confounds what we understand as jazz and electronic music.” …
2 years ago
The Jazz Passengers Cover Themselves, In-Studio
Episode 51
New York’s The Jazz Passengers – despite the name – don’t just play jazz. Founded in 1987 by sax player Roy Nathanson and trombonist Curtis Fowlkes, …
2 years ago
Storyteller and Songwriter Alice Merton Plays In-Studio
Episode 50
Alice Merton burst out of the starting gate with her 2016 single "No Roots", a song that celebrated her nomadic upbringing in four different countrie…
2 years ago
Kiran Ahluwalia's Songs of Protest and Hope
Episode 49
Singer Kiran Ahluwalia was born in India, grew up in Canada, and is largely based here in New York. Her music reflects her transcontinental upbringin…
2 years ago
Shabaka's Latest Adventure: Connecting to Nature and Breath With Flutes
Episode 48
Shabaka Hutchings, now Shabaka, has been a crucial and connected London-based musician for years, leading arena dance-jazz band Sons of Kemet, cosmic…
2 years ago
José James Threads the Past Into Message-Music With Soul
Episode 47
José James has often been called a “jazz singer for the hip hop generation,” having come to jazz through tracing hip hop samples and over the course …
2 years ago
Community-Fueled Chamber-Pop By San Fermin
Episode 46
American indie rock-chamber collective, San Fermin, has been making lush, wide-angled Baroque-pop songs for more than a decade. The band was founded …
2 years, 1 month ago
Cameroonian Composer Blick Bassy's Folk, Soul and Electro Songscapes
Episode 45
France-based Cameroonian musician and composer Blick Bassy’s quiet and beautiful songs fall somewhere on the spectrum of R & B, pop, and folk, while …
2 years, 1 month ago