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Read more: The Hot Box #023 – A to Z of Jazz Piano Part 9 – The Letters H & I
In the epic series of alphabetical pianists started early in 2017 we reached the letter H, in Hot Box 21, only to find such a plethora of riches that they spilled over the confines of a single Box. As luck would have it, the letter I has very few incumbents so we are able, in Hot Box 23 to play the missing H’s - or at least most of them - and both the I’s. And speaking of the letter I, we couldn’t resist the temptation to play a very early “Capetown jazz” piece from the South African star Abdullah Ibrahim that runs a little over 15 minutes!
Read more: The Hot Box #023 – A to Z of Jazz Piano Part 9 – The Letters H & I
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Read more: Talking Jazz with Donald Helme
Venues for jazz music come and go, generally because the owner of the venue gets tired of scrambling for enough audience to make money, or the old owner moves on and the new owner would rather build a block of flats on the site. The Fox Inn, at Ballymadun just outside Ashbourne, County Meath was one such venue, and I am put in minded to recount this particular Unreliable Memory by the death, in New York on November 22, of the singer and lyric writer extraordinaire, Jon Hendricks, at the fine old age of 96.
Jon had two week-long residencies at The Fox Inn in the late 1960’s, at a time when he was living, for about 5 years, in Britain. He was a veritable fount of jazz wisdom, extremely funny on and off stage, and he exuded an enthusiasm for life that was very infectious. That’s another way of saying that The Fox Inn was riotous when Jon was in town. Read on for a while and I will get around to further eulogising Mr Hendricks but first…..
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- Written by: Sean Brophy
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Read more: Jazz Mine No.136 Saturday 10th. December 2017
On episode 136 of Jazz Mine you can hear from Seth MacFarlane, Jacob Collier, In The Country, ICP Orchestra feat. Misha Mengelberg, Nina Simone, The Jive Aces feat. Toni Elizabeth Prima and many more ..........A wide range of jazz covering many ages & genres. Saturdays 5PM on dublincityfm.ie.
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- Written by: Werner Lewon
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On this edition I would like to show that , from the early years to our modern times, Jazz has and will alway ignore political, social, religious, cultural and linguistic boundaries and speaks to the listener IN ALL LANGUAGES in a spirit of openness and inclusion. Jazz simply learns us a lesson: that people and societies are at their most peaceful when they tolerate each other and work together. Music by Wolfgang Puschnig, Jelly Roll Morton, Charlie Parker, Machito, Dizzy Gillespie, Chano Pozo, Gerry Mulligan, Astor Piazolla, Abdullah Ibrahim, Jan Garbarek and the Indo-Pak Coaltion deliver the soundtrack for this mission.
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Read more: Jazz Mine No. 135 Saturday 2nd December 2017
On episode 135 of Jazz Mine you can hear from Chet Baker, Edel Meade, Julien & John, James Taylor Quartet, David's Angels ( Sweden ), Steely Dan and many more ..........A wide range of jazz covering many ages & genres. Saturdays 5PM on dublincityfm.ie.
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On this edition you can hear a handpicked selection of some of the finest String bass walking lines and solos in Jazz with contributions by Ray Brown, Niels Henning Oerstedt-Pedersen, Sam Jones, Percy Heath, Scott laFaro, Paul Chambers, Gary Peacock and Charlie Haden.
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Read more: Tales from the far Side 23.11.2017 Jazz with a Jamaican Touch
On this edition I am exploring "JAZZ JAMAICA" and like to introduce you to a couple of artists who are inspired by the rhythms of traditional Jamaican music and integrated them into the largely improvisational nature of Jazz. You can hear musicians like Monty Alexander, Ernest Ranglin, Vic Bennett, Harold McNair, Joe Harriott, the Jazz Warriors, Gary Crosby and the Jazz Jamaica All Stars as well as Courtney Pine. Please come on in for some lively sunshinemusic to fight those dull, dark and rainy November days.
Read more: Tales from the far Side 23.11.2017 Jazz with a Jamaican Touch