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

Washington, DC

Cellist Janel Leppin and guitarist Anthony Pirog are both sturdy pillars of Washington, DC's creative music scene. Musical and life partners for over twenty years, the couple have spent a long time working together as a duo as well as pursuing individual projects. The universe of their combined work encompasses spiritual jazz, folk song, surf rock, jazz-rock fusion, ambient, and modern classical among other genres.

The Continuing Adventures of Janel & Anthony

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

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

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

Instrumental in the development of jazz, Miles Davis is considered one of the top musicians of his era. Born in Illinois in 1926, he traveled at age 18 to New York City to pursue music. History began to be formed. 2 / 10. Miles Davis. Throughout his life, he was...

Retro Blast: Miles Davis' Cause Of Death

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

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

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

Newark, NJ

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Paterson, NJ

Morristown Minute

NEWARK, N.J. – Jasmine McGregor, 32, and Jhenelle Lewis, 35, both of Paterson, New Jersey, have pleaded guilty to conspiring with a physician to distribute oxycodone, a powerful opioid, without legitimate medical justification. The announcement was made today by U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger.

Paterson Residents Conspired with Physician to Illegally Distribute Opioids

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Total Apex Sports & Entertainment

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are two of the biggest celebrities in modern times. While much of the happenings between the two involved their marriage and divorce, there are bigger things for them to focus on. Most notably their children.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s Son Diagnosed With Rare Skin Condition

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

South Carolina State

Explore Beaufort SC

The mantis shrimp is one tough customer. Beautiful and deadly are two words you don’t typically use to describe shrimp, but the mantis shrimp is definitely in a class of its own; earning a reputation as the ‘savage boxer of the sea’ and one of the most fearsome creatures in the ocean. And, they're right at home here in South Carolina.

Savage Boxer of the Sea: The Deadly Beauty of Mantis Shrimp

Denver, CO

David Heitz

A dangerous drug that is being mixed into fentanyl is causing those who inject it to develop a rash of sores that resembles a case of flesh-eating bacteria. People experiencing homelessness around Denver can sometimes be seen with these bloody, weeping wounds. I recently mentioned this phenomenon to a fentanyl user who told me about the xylazine connection.

Denver homeless people suffer sores as xylazine enters fentanyl supply

Although reedman Rob Brown has a string of small group leadership outings to his name, dating back to his first, Breath Rhyme (Silkheart) in 1990, Oblongata may be one of his finest. The 2022 studio session reunites him with some of his most enduring collaborators, the same crew responsible for From Here To Hear (Rogue Art, 2019), as well as an outstanding appearance at the 2019 Vision Festival, namely trombonist Steve Swell, bassist Chris Lightcap and drummer Chad Taylor.

Rob Brown Quartet: Oblongata

PopCulture

Miller co-founded Mobdy Grape 1966 and was later voted one of rock's greatest guitarists of all-time.

'60s Rockstar Jerry Miller Has Died

Missouri State

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Fulton, MO

CJ Coombs

Updated on July 17, 2024, concerning two of the missing children listed below. Bringing them home: for 40 years, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) has been helping to locate missing children.

Seven teenagers have been missing in Missouri since June 2024

Sam Westreich, PhD

It’s not humans. How a survivor of a super-extinction repopulated our planet. There are more than 8 billion humans alive at this moment on Earth (unless something has gone horribly wrong). But humans aren’t the only dominant mammals.

For Millions of Years, Earth Was Dominated by a Single Vertebrate Genus

Florida State

Uncovering Florida

Most people are guilty of doing it at least once in their lives, many people do it by accident, some do it because they find it fun, and others do it for reasons like honoring loved ones. Regardless of the situation, just about everyone has released a balloon. The difference is that intentionally releasing balloons is now illegal by House Bill 321’s standards.

Law Signed By DeSantis Makes It Illegal To Release Balloons In Florida

Georgia State

Tallahassee, FL

Daily Coffee Press

The FBI is investigating the disappearance of a now 13-year-old girl who went missing from Florida last year and has ties to Georgia and Tennessee. A $15,000 reward is being offered to anyone with information that can lead to her location.

FBI Investigating Disappearance of 12-Year-Old Girl Who Has Ties to Georgia

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Lee Underwood: California Sigh

Lee Underwood's late father played trombone in a big band at the University of Colorado. Underwood recalls, \"Whenever he thought of those days, my dad would...

Lee Underwood's late father played trombone in a big band at the University of Colorado. Underwood recalls, "Whenever he thought of those days, my dad would...

Lee Underwood: California Sigh

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