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Wayne Escoffery
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Since moving to New York City in 2000, tenor saxophonist Wayne Escoffery has become one of the Jazz world’s most talented rising stars and in-demand sidemen. He began his professional NY career touring and recording with The Eric Reed Septet. In 2001 he became a steady member of the Mingus Big Band/Orchestra/Dynasty, The Lonnie Plaxico Group, and Abdulah Ibrahim’s Akaya.
Then in 2004 Grammy award winning producer, arranger and trumpet player Don Sickler asked Wayne to be a part of Ben Riley’s Monk legacy Septet; an innovative piano-less group dedicated to carrying on the legacy of jazz great Thelonious Monk
Sergio Di Gennaro: Blind Spots - Still Looking
by Neil Duggan
Italian pianist Sergio Di Gennaro brings Mediterranean lyricism to the fore on his second release as leader, Blind Spots -Still Looking. He forms a trio with double bassist Ares Tavolazzi and drummer Enzo Zirilli, with guest musician, saxophonist Emanuele Cisi adding an extra dimension on two tracks. A graduate with honors from ...
Alone
Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Moments with You; Alone; Rapture; The Ice Queen; The Shadow of Your Smile;
Blues for D.P.;
Stella by Starlight;
Since I Fell for You.
Wild Iris Brass Band, Maria Muldaur, Kieran Brown, Dawn Clement, Peter Lin, Anna Laura Quinn, Allan Harris & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast includes new releases from Wild Iris Brass Band, Maria Muldaur, Kieran Brown, Dawn Clement, Peter Lin, Anna Laura Quinn and Allan Harris, with birthday shoutouts to Mavis Staples, Carol Morgan, Carolyn Leonhart, Suzanne Pittson, Marina Albero, Iris Ornig and Honorable Man Billy Eckstine, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear--see ...
A Brief Guide To Ukrainian Jazz: Part 1
by Ian Patterson
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 The history of jazz in Ukraine can be traced fairly precisely according to academic, literature teacher and jazz journalist Alexander Yudin. Writing in The History Of European Jazz: The Music, Musicians And Audience in Context (Equinox Publishing, 2018), Yudin credits ...
Soul Jazz
Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Filthy McNasty;
Too Blue;
Mean Greens;
The Chicken;
Driftin';
Slow Drag;
Strasbourg/St. Denis;
Naima.
Suite For Africa
Label: Amfi Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Dancing Clouds; Suite for Africa Part 1: Spirit Africa, Spirit Liberia; Suite for Africa Part 2: Fifteen as
One; Suite for Africa Part 3: Forgotten Children; Faith, Is Her Name; Worldwide; Rain River; Paper
Kites.
Truth to Power
Label: HighNote Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Black Heart;
The Fabricator;
Truth to Power;
It's Alright;
Coming of Age;
Dsus;
Code Switching;
Soliloquy (for Sidney Poitier);
Lookin' for Leroy;
Blues on Stratford.
This Christmas
Label: Dot Time Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: This Christmas; Christmas Time is Here; It's Magic; Jingle Bells; Wonderful Christmastime; Star of Wonder.
Wayne Escoffery: Alone!
by David Bixler
In the summer of 2023 saxophonist Wayne Escoffery found himself in Europe processing changes in his personal life while at the same time nursing a broken finger that prohibited him from playing his horn. He used this time of reflection to compose the music presented on his new record Alone on Smoke Sessions Records, which features ...
