It’s a slow Flow Friday with new music from Jeff Oster’s Next, Three Fields’ Home and David Franklin’s Playing with Shadows. Get ready for an all instrumental soundscape.
Playlists
Friday, May 15th, 2015-Echoes Program 1519E
Tag: Jazz
Playlists
Tuesday, May 12th, 2015-Echoes Program 1519B
Nels Cline is best known as the guitarist with Wilco, but long before he joined that band he had a burgeoning solo career as a an outside jazz guitarist.
Playlists
Friday, May 8th, 2015-Echoes Program 1518E
Relax and go with the Slow Flow on Echoes.
Playlists
Thursday, May 7th, 2015-Echoes Program 1518D
New music on Echoes from singer Heather Woods Broderick. She’s played with artists like Efterklang and Sharon Van Etten. We’ll also hear from trumpeter Jeff Oster’s new CD, Next.
Playlists
Thursday, April 30th, 2015-Echoes Program 1517D
On the next Echoes it’s film music siren, Lisbeth Scott in singer-songwriter mode and trumpeter Jeff Oster’s ambient jazz.
Reviews & Commentary
VINYL VIGILANCE-Muhal Richard Abrams’ Spiral
AACM founder Muhal Richard Abrams was in free flight in 1978 when he recorded his live album, Spiral.
Reviews & Commentary
Jack Bruce, Voice of Cream, Gone at 71
When I heard of Jack Bruce’s passing, the first thing I did wasn’t to grab one of his brilliant albums with Cream, but to pull his first two solo albums (absenting the free-jazz Things We Like album) off the shelf. While Eric Clapton retrenched into rootsy American rock after the dissolution of Cream and Blind…
Reviews & Commentary
In Memory of Charlie Haden 1937-2014
There was never any doubt of Charlie Haden’s commitment to the bass and to jazz. From the iconoclastic Ornette Coleman Quartet in the late 50s to his Quartet West ensemble, Haden has remained a steadfast force in jazz, constantly changing, but always remaining true to himself and his art. Charlie Haden died, on July 11,…
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Jazz & New Age Flute Player Paul Horn Takes Last Trip R.I.P.
To understand the importance of Paul Horn you have to cast back to a time, 1969, when there was no New Age music. Few artists in the west were thinking about a contemplative musical sound. There were no important albums outside of classical music that were pure solo flute and certainly none that plied the…
Reviews & Commentary
Ten Sun Ra Albums to Blow Your Mind
Calling Planet Earth: Sun Ra, the Original Space Musician: Upon hearing Sun Ra’s “Constellation” in a Downbeat Magazine blindfold test Brian Eno said, “I wish I had done it myself. I’m extremely envious that somebody else did it. I’d give that five [stars] actually.” Guitarist Syd Barrett reputedly blew his mind to The Heliocentric Worlds…