Peter Van Huffel, the Canadian-born saxophonist and composer, has long been a force to reckon with in the avant-garde jazz scene. Known for his work with bands like Gorilla Mask and his various collaborations with other innovative musicians, Van Huffel has consistently pushed the boundaries of jazz, incorporating elements of free improvisation, rock and classical music. His previous albums, such as Boom Crane (Fresh Sounds New Talent, 2014) and The Scrambling Ex (FMR, 2015), displayed his fearless approach to composition and performance. With his latest project, Callisto, and their album Meandering Demons, Van Huffel continues to chart new territories, delivering a collection that is as intense as it is pioneering.

Peter Van Huffel's Callisto: Meandering Demons

Suzanna Ross recently wrote a song, Upstairs, and she followed it with this French version, a l'etage. A Bossa Nova-inspired jazz song in the tradition of French-language bossa, a l'etage is reminiscent of French music during the 1960s and onwards. The song is a soft flowy piece, carried along by poetic lyrics, delicate chord changes, and acoustic guitar provided by Sean Harkness. The theme is romantic with lyrical descriptions as winter turns into spring.

a l'etage by Suzanna Ross

New music with Aurora Clara from Spain, Mark Lettieri, Japanese band Casiopea, James Morgan, Gary Husband, and Hadrien Feraud. Brazilian guitarist Mauro Hector with drummer Igor Willcox, Pianist Jesus Molina, bassist Mark Egan, guitarist Scott Henderson and Fernando Utreras. Playlist. Aurora Clara "The Last Candles" from Aurora Clara 4 (Youkali)...

The latest Aurora Clara, Mark Lettieri, Casiopea, Mauro Hector and Scott Henderson

A Kaleidoscopic View to Kaleida: The Echoes Interview. On the next Echoes, the British-American Duo, Kaleida talk about their album, In Arms. It’s an album fraught with biblical, personal and political references. Christina Wood: It was meant to have a double meaning. It was meant to be like holding...

Tuesday, July 16, 2024 – Echoes Program 2429B

Welcome Music Family! It's time for another great episode of the "First Instrument Jazz Show"! I've got a great show in store for you this week including new music from Alicia Olatuja, Roxana Amed, and Planet D Nonet,; and plenty more timeless music from artists such as Johnny Hartman, Gretchen Parlato, Alan Hampton, and Kat Edmonson. Come get lost in the music with me!

Alicia Olatuja, Johnny Hartman, Kat Edmonson and More

Ever heard of "fartlek"? It's a method of training for runners where they can play around with their speeds, very unstructured. That's sort of what this episode of One Man's Jazz turned out to be—all over the place in terms of style, tempos, musical variations and origins in the albums debuting. For instance, the Southeast Asian scene hits with a couple of freewheeling, open live sets with Philippines-based Rick Countryman, bassist Richard Alan Bates from Malaysia, and Japanese legend drummer Sabu Toyozumi. Guitarist Jessica Ackerley now making waves on the scene; there's music from a live set from 2019's FreeJazz Saar Festival by Germans Frank Paul Schubert (saxophone), Stefan Scheib (bass) and Klaus Kugel (drums) and the late and great bass clarinetist Michel Pilz. Two prominent English free-blowing saxophonists—Ron Caines and Martin Archer—hook up with their band Axis;, another recording in the Gauci Music Live at Scholes Street Studio series presents Open Question, featuring Daniel Carter. Bassist Kim Cass' new Levs with Matt Mitchell and Tyshawn Sorey will find its way onto best-of lists, and don't be surprised if Ephemeral Shapes by the prolific saxophonist Ivo Perelman with Aruán Ortiz on piano}} and Ramon Lopez on drums also appears on some of those lists. Topping all of that off is music from a trio celebrating its 47 years of making uncompromised music—BassDrumBone—Mark Helias, Gerry Hemingway and Ray Anderson.

Bassdrumbone, Kim Cass & Ivo Perelman

Kate Pierson of The B-52s has announced that she will be releasing a new solo album. It is called Radios and Rainbows and will be out on September 20 via SVR. She has released a video for her new song “Evil Love” which was directed by John Stapleton. Kate Pierson released her solo album Guitars and Microphones in 2015. Check out the video and tracklist below.

Kate Pierson of The B-52s to release new solo album, shares “Evil Love” video

On its way to becoming the stalwart fusion quartet it was in the '90s, Tribal Tech underwent more than a few personnel changes. (TT was more of a non-touring, studio entity in its early days.) One who held the keyboard chair for a scant two songs was Will Boulware. His presence on Dr. Hee (Relativity, 1987) was notable in that those two songs—"Seek and Find" and the above, "Solemn"—were written by him and they remain standouts in the TT canon for their interwoven complexity and modulating motifs. As bodacious as TT would become, it's still something of a gas to hear them straight-up, serving Boulware's wonderfully penned composition.

Tribal Tech: Solemn

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Florida’s buffet lovers are in for a shocker as the popular Royal Sushi Buffet & Hibachi in Port Richey has been temporarily shut down following a state inspection. This isn’t the first time the eatery has faced such trouble, but the recent closure has sparked quite a buzz among its loyal patrons and food enthusiasts alike.

Live roaches, flying objects in the kitchen and soiled shelves- Buffet closed again in Florida

We kick off the 864th Episode of Neon Jazz with new music from a Kansas City treasure, E.E Pointer with the song "Uprights" off his 2024 album Worm. From there, we go old school Kansas City with the great Andy Kirk. The rest of the show focuses on a host of veteran musicians with new work out like Rosemary Load, Jihee Heo, Lisa Rich, Gabriel Evan and Harry Skoler. In between, we hear from legends Mose Allison, Count Basie, Joe Henderson and Miles Davis. We tie all of it together with new music from Philip Weberndoerfer. Dig the jazz, my friends.

Mose Allison, Lisa Rich, Harry Skoler & Jihee Heo

This broadcast includes new releases from Monika Herzig, Bria Skonberg, Tianna Hall, Amanda Martinez and Charles Lloyd with birthday shoutouts to lyricist Dorothy Fields, guitarist Mary Osborne, Carmen Bradford, Cynthia Scott, Jeryl Johnston, Lisa Maxwell, Antoinette Montague, Betty Davis, Nicole Glover, Lauren Lee and Phoebe Snow, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear by seeing them live and online. Purchase their music so they can continue to distract, comfort, provoke and inspire.

New Releases By Monika Herzig's Sheroes, Bria Skonberg Plus A Celebration of Lyricist Dorothy Fields

Remixed, remastered, re-upped and re-amped from its original 2007 release, Rhythm Edge (CD Baby) immediately grabs you with its free-ranged, deep- rooted soulfulness and classic vigor. A gifted, Hudson Valley gentleman, multi-reedist Eric Person's serpentine and soaring tenor, alto, soprano, and flutes are veterans of many years with Chico Hamilton,...

Eric Person: Rhythm Edge

Guidance and Gratitude from trumpeter and composer Zachary Finnegan delivers nine highly-textured and involving selections. Each selection presents itself with a story background in its title and each is a multi-layered composition, a micro-symphony. It is intelligent music. "Urban Motion" is an energetic, perhaps frantic, landscape with an ostinato six-note...

Zachary Finnegan: Guidance and Gratitude

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Do your loved ones consult you regularly when they face a crisis? Intelligence is a branch of psychology that lacks a standard definition. Some scientists claim that it is a single ability and others state it comprises aptitudes and skills. Intelligent zodiac signs learn from their experiences and easily recognize and solve problems.

5 Most Intelligent Zodiac Signs

Louder

Bassist contributed to some of the band’s most definitive works – but ultimately couldn’t resist the call of another art form

“I was always the lowest common denominator”: Jeffrey Hammond’s five years with Jethro Tull

Anat Cohen's sprightly clarinet can naturally turn any song into a happy one, so what happens when she aims for that exact mood from the start? This one feels like a breezy summer morning translated straight into sound. If that sounds like an exaggeration, then you probably haven't heard it.

Anat Cohen Tentet: Happy Song

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Ah, cats. Those mysterious, aloof beings that grace our homes with their presence. We feed them, clean their litter, and sometimes, if we’re lucky, they let us pet them. But how do we know if our feline friends actually adore us?

Hidden Signs Your Cat Adores You

The Jeremy Edge Project just released their new single "The Black Sheep", as the lead single to their forthcoming album, and to celebrate we asked Jeremy to tell us about the track. Here is the story:. The Black Sheep started out as me simply experimenting with open D tuning and...

Singled Out: The Jeremy Edge Project's The Black Sheep

Apparently you can roll quite a long way in a decade, slowly or not. To jump from Slowly Rolling Camera's self-titled debut (Edition, 2014) to Silver Shadow feels like hearing two different bands entirely. Granted, just about any outfit would sound completely changed after switching from vocal songs to all-instrumental pieces. Besides that obvious shift in tone, though, this trio's electro-jazz-hop fusion has also come a long way in itself—and yet to those who might have followed them all along, the path leading from that point to this has been a series of perfectly understandable turns. You can hear a throughline of vivid and patient moods all along, while each album stakes out its own niche and their knack for soundscaping continues to evolve.

Slowly Rolling Camera: Silver Shadow

Chicago, IL

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Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

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Peder Simonsen & Jo David Meyer Lysne: Spektralmaskin

Strap yourselves in, spectral travelers, for a journey into the sonic labyrinth that is Peder Simonsen and Jo David Meyer Lysne's Spektralmaskin. This album is not...

Peder Simonsen & Jo David Meyer Lysne: Spektralmaskin

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