“All this was community,” BeauSoleil’s Michael Doucet says. “This was not meant for the world, in a sense. It was just for the community to get together and have a good time and share.”
Famed film director Melvin Van Peebles joined the band The Heliocentrics to create music inspired by the sounds and signals of deep space exploration.
The Marsalis family is The First Family Of Jazz with father Ellis and sons Branford, Wynton, Delfeayo and Jason. Jason, the youngest brother, has been making great music for years as a jazz drummer. Recently, though, he broadened his percussion palette by mastering the vibraphone. We were pleased to host the newly-minted Jason Marsalis Vibes […]
Vocalist and pianist Karrin Allyson is a longtime friend and frequent studio session guest at KPLU. This year, she joined us on Halloween and began her live session with an appropriate song, a jazz version of “Spooky.” Following that, she and her old buddy, jazz host Dick Stein, talked about life, music and such things. […]
The saxophonist and composer, now 70, has always pushed boundaries. Harlem Stage celebrates his career with a two-day concert retrospective of his various groundbreaking ensembles.
On this 1986 episode of Piano Jazz, Jolly demonstrates his swinging piano style with a solo in “You, The Night And The Music.” Then, host Marian McPartland joins in for a performance of “Barbados.”
Borbetomagus’ Jim Sauter stabs at his feedback-ridden sax while Oneida’s Kid Millions enters a manic headspace with hydra-armed drum work. It’s improvised mayhem, but it seems to grin from ear to ear.
O’er the ramparts of 190-year-old Fort Adams, we watched the keyboardist and bandleader urge us to “Believe In Love,” accompanied by his Stay Human band, and then saunter away.
Saxophonist Miguel Zenón likes to stack beats on top of each other. But he doesn’t do it for the novelty: As he explains, he’s also trying to tell a story about multiple national identities.
Charley Patton’s music set the template for all the Delta Blues players who would come after him. Take a listen to “High Water Everywhere,” which Patton recorded in 1929. But Patton’s records weren’t made in the South; they were recorded in Grafton, Wisconsin by Paramount Records, a subsidiary of the Wisconsin Chair Company. Now it […]
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