contemporary jazz
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Today’s Jazz Stars Interpret Disney Classics
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Ever imagine The Bad Plus doing music from Disney’s Beauty and the Beast? How about Joshua Redman doing a cover of “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” from Toy…
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Torcuato Mariano Debut (1994)
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From 1993-1994, I produced a newsletter to promote the late night “new music program” for KBIA-FM. Following is an article I wrote for one of the newsletters: Rarely do…
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New Dimensions from Urban Elements
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Urban Elements is a quintet of musicians from Sweden and Chile. I sampled this release simply based on the name of the group and was impressed. This is what…
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Contemporary Jazz: How I Got Into It, Part 3
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This is the third part of a three-part series reminiscing on how I got started with contemporary jazz 20 years ago and highlights since. Part one is here; part…
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Contemporary Jazz: How I Got Into It, Part 2
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This is the second part of a three-part series reminiscing on how I got started with contemporary jazz 20 years ago. Part one is here. KBIA-FM, one of the…