Jazz

jazz Remembrance 

LISTEN: A Requiem For Henry Grimes

April 18, 2020April 18, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp, Cecil Taylor, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Henry Grimes, Jazz, McCoy Tyner, On This Night, Pharoah Sanders, Reaching Fourth, Spirits Rejoice  Don Cherry, Thaiud, Unit Structures, Where Is Brooklyn?

COVID-19 continues to take its toll on the jazz community with the passing of a master bassist and freethinker

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Electronics Fusion jazz Remembrance 

LISTEN: RIP Lyle Mays–A Rock & Roll Globe Playlist

February 12, 2020February 12, 2020 Ron Hart 1 Comment American Garage, Christian McBride, ECM, Fusion, Jazz, Joni Mitchell, Lyle Mays, Offramp, Pat Metheny, Petra Haden, RIP, Vernon Reid

Digging into the discography of a man who changed the shape of jazz in the New Wave era

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Folk jazz 

ALBUMS: The Westerlies Offer a Real Change of Tune

February 11, 2020February 11, 2020 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments “Entropy”, “In the Mornin’, “Memories”, “The Kiss", 2020, Charles Ives, Herein Lies The Good, Jazz, Judee Sill, Robin Holcomb, The Westerlies

The acclaimed New York brass quartet continues to blur the lines between classic folk and modern jazz on third LP

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African Funk jazz 

LISTEN: “We’ve Landed” by Tony Allen and Hugh Masekela

January 24, 2020January 24, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2020, Africa, Fela Kuti, Hugh Masekela, Jazz, Rejoice, Tony Allen, World Circuit

Legendary African jazz masters have teamed up for the upcoming album Rejoice, out March 20 via the newly re-launched World Circuit Records.

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ALBUMS: A Double Shot of Dave Douglas

December 27, 2019December 27, 2019 Michael Toland 0 Comments 2019, Andrew Cyrille, Anna Webber, Carla Bley, Dave Douglas, Devotion, Engage, Greenleaf Label, Jazz, Kate Gentile, Nick Dunston, Tomeka Reid, Uri Caine

Two exquisite and exploratory new albums on the trumpet great’s Greenleaf label continue to showcase his fearlessness in flight

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ALBUMS: Keith Jarrett Solo In Munich

December 18, 2019December 22, 2019 Michael Toland 0 Comments ECM, Germany, Jazz, Keith Jarrett, Munich

The king of piano improvisation captured live in ECM’s fatherland

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Blues Electronic Experimental Folk Funk Gospel Hip Hop jazz North Americana Soul World 

All That Jazz…and More: Summer Brings Musical Magic To Montreal

June 24, 2019June 25, 2019 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments Jazz, Montreal, Music Festivals

RNRG’s exclusive preview of what’s ahead at this year’s wildly diverse Montreal International Festival on its 40th anniversary

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Electronics Experimental jazz 

ECM at a Half-Century

April 29, 2019April 29, 2019 Michael Toland 0 Comments 50th anniversary, Art Ensemble of Chicago, ECM, Jazz, Keith Jarrett, Paul Bley

Celebrating 25 classic albums spanning 50 years of the jazz label that refused to play by the rules

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Folk jazz Pop 

Hey Joni! Happy Birthday!

November 7, 2018November 7, 2018 Ron Hart 0 Comments 75th birthday, folk, Jaco Pastorius, Jazz, Joni Mitchell

Celebrating 75 years of a North American pop icon with an exclusive megamix

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Soul 

The Forgotten Sounds of Sudan

August 9, 2018August 9, 2018 j. poet 0 Comments Africa, James Brown, Jazz, Kamal Keila, Sudan

Kamal Keila and the music of Muslims and Christians

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