Jazz88 celebrates the birthday of Clare Fischer, born on October 22, 1928. Fischer was an innovative arranger and an accomplished keyboardist and composer. His tunes Pensativa and Morning have become jazz standards. He worked with the vocal group the Hi-Los, trumpeter Donald Byrd, Dizzy Gillespie, and made several recordings of latin jazz and bossa nova under his own name as well. Herbie Hancock cited Fischer...Read More
Mere days away from releasing their sophomore album NORFSIDE drummer L.A. Buckner and his bandmates from BiG HOMiE are ready to celebrate an album that’s been years in the making. Buckner, alongside David Smith and percussionist Jamani Buckner, spoke about the songwriting process, the importance of releasing the album at an iconic venue (the Capri...Read More
Celebrated Danish vocalist Sinne Eeg is making her way to the Twin Cities for a show at Crooners on Thursday, October 17. Eeg was nice enough to hop on the phone with Sean from the Afternoon Cruise to talk about her upcoming performance at Crooners and about how she approaches singing with different size groups!...Read More
L.A. Buckner and BiG HOMiE – Fireflies Take That Back – Lake Rousseau 1980 Laufey – From the Start Judy Carmichael – I Don’t Know Enough About You Lakecia Benjamin – Phoenix Reimagined Yussef Dayes – Rust feat. Tom Misch Lizz Wright – Sweet Feeling Shelly Berg – Home With You Julian Lage –...Read More
Guitarist, Joel Shapira, is back at it with a quartet he last recorded with almost two decades ago. The new record is called Sleepless Montage and the band sounds really comfortable diving back into a new set of tunes penned by Shapira. I was first drawn to the title track at first cause of the...Read More
L.A. Buckner and BiG HOMiE – Fireflies Kavyesh Kaviraj – Lullaby Laufey – From the Start Take That Back – Playhouse Bats Khruangbin – Ada Jean Dayna Stephens – Scrutiny Zaccai Curtis – Let’s Do It Again Steve Turre – Mr. Kenyatta Cornelia Nilsson – John’s Abbey Emmet Cohen – Vibe Provider Loading…...Read More
Music is the ultimate conjurer of emotions. The sounds of “Fireflies” off of L.A. Buckner and BiG HOMiE’s forthcoming record “Norfside” conjures a lifetime of triumph into three and a half minutes of music like the groove downed three espressos before the second measure and as the group navigates the various sections there is a...Read More
Kavyesh Kaviraj – Lullaby Etienne Charles – Old School Ken Peplowski – Cabin in the Sky Michael Mayo – I Wish Mike Stern – Climate Emmet Cohen – Vibe Provider Jo Harrop – Traveling Light Samara Joy – You Stepped Out of a Dream Avery Sharpe – My Friend, Don’t Be Afraid to Ask...Read More
We are so lucky to have Zacc Harris in the Twin Cities. Harris is a top-flight guitarist, composer and educator. He also manages to run a premier record label that releases world-class music which represents our local scene and the larger international jazz scene. Through some scheduling miracle, Zacc Harris was able to connect with...Read More
Jazz88’s Peter Solomon spoke with Dale Alexander, a pianist and drummer based in Los Angeles, but originally from St. Paul, to get his thoughts on Bud Powell. The father of modern jazz piano was born September 27, 1924 and would be 100 years old. The image below was taken of Bud Powell in Europe in...Read More
