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Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyNicole Glover has been getting some well-deserved exposure recently in the context of groups like the Artemis sextet and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. But this tenor saxophonist is best appreciated on her own albums, where she fronts a saxophone-bass-drums trio. While not a common jazz format, … Continue reading
Saxophonist Sam Vaughan has all the enthusiasm of youth. That’s in part because he’s not even old enough to knock back the suds and brown liquor shots favored at the
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify “Dave Brubeck Trio—Live from Vienna 1967” is a newly-discovered recording of the extraordinary evening when the iconic Dave Brubeck Quartet was forced to take the stage as a trio. On November 12th of that year, the Quartet was nearing the end of their last tour of Europe. … Continue reading
Matthew Alec & The Soul Electric – Cleveland Time (Cleveland Time): “Cleveland Time marks the first album release from the group that features Matthew Alec (tenor saxophone and EWI), Brian Woods (piano, keyboards, organs, plus vocals on “Give What You Take” and “Baby You Got Me”), Steven Forest Sanders (guitar, plus vocals on “Enigma Man”), Jared Lees (bass), Jeremiah Hawkins (percussion, plus drums on “Baby You Got Me”), and Leon Henault (drums). The album also features special guests Tom ‘Bones’ Malone (trombone and horn section on “Cleveland Time”), MINUS THE A...
RatieD. Courtesy Photo. When she was a girl living in Zimbabwe, Eugene musician Claire Ratidzo Dangarembwa, who performs as RatieD, would sing out loud in front of an arts theater near her high school. “I generally would sing out loud, all the time, everywhere,” RatieD tells me over the phone, on the occasion of her debut EP, Ink & Melodies, out now on music streaming services. No one from the arts theater heard RatieD, but she kept singing, inspired at the time by pop musicians like Avril Lavigne and hip hop from Common as much as the traditional music of Zimbabwe. “I believed in my...