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Yazz Ahmed –
La Saboteuse (Naim): “Bahraini-British performer, Yazz Ahmed, is transforming what jazz means in 2017. This trumpet and flugelhorn-playing artist has worked with Radiohead and These New Puritans, experiments with electronic effects, and combines sounds from her shared heritage to author a new narrative for the genre. Part of the new wave of artists credited with stirring up the sound, including Kamasi Washington, Yussef Kamaal, Sons of Kemet and The Comet is Coming, Yazz Ahmed is thrilled by the possibilities of making something new. “I feel like I’m a part of modernising jazz and connecting it with audiences today,” Yazz says. “It’s exciting.” (https://yazzahmed.bandcamp.com/album/la-saboteuse-2) The full release is now available and the mixes and performances are quite wonderful throughout. Click here to listen to several songs from this exceptional blend.
Till Bronner & Bob James –
On Vacation (Masterworks): “Together with jazz legend and Grammy award winner Bob James, trumpeter Till Brönner – Germany’s most successful jazz musician – has transformed holiday moods into a multi-layered sound painting. Close your eyes and dream: “On Vacation is first and foremost a feeling for me and we have transformed this feeling into music,” explains BrönnerVirtuosic, full of creative love for refined details and at the same time of the greatest possible nonchalance, Brönner and James create an imaginative and sonorous music for inspiration, reflection and daydreaming. Confirming the cliché “Unity is Strength”, German trumpetist and singer Till Brönner and the American pianist Bob James have cowritten On Vacation, a work of smooth, hedonistic jazz. Before becoming the king of smooth jazz who has been sampled by every rapper on the planet (his Nautilus has ended up on over 400 tracks by the likes of Public Enemy, A Tribe Call
Tune in for our next All This Jazz broadcast, airing Saturday the 30th on Public Radio 89.5 KWGS-HD1 from 9pm till midnight! We ll offer a can’t-miss selection of modern jazz, both recent and classic, across a wide range of styles. And in the 3rd and thematic hour of our program, running from 11pm to 12am, our theme will be Notable Jazz Albums of 2020. We’ll thus hear standout releases by Maria Schneider, Conrad Herwig, Artemis (shown here), Bill Frisell, and more. And elsewhere in the program, listen for music by Sonny Rollins, Michael Dease, Eddie Henderson, Ellis Marsalis, Rudolph Johnson, and many more. Come on along, fellow jazz fans there’s No Cover, and No Minimum, and we ll be Loud & Clear on the good ol wireless at 89.5 FM…and also, FYI, streaming online..
Join Chris Cooke and Mike Jacobs this week at 1:00 PM on Jazz in the Afternoon Tuesday through Friday as they present some of the stellar jazz recordings of 2020.
It s been a hard year for everyone, but jazz artists kept their creative fires burning and delivered some inspired performances. We have over 60 artists lined up to spin this week including Dave Stryker, Lynne Arriale, Dena DeRose, Conrad Herwig and more. Join us!