Notes From The SS WBGO

September 14, 2008. Posted by Amy Niles.

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Ahoy readers. Josh Jackson sends posts from the Village Vanguard so I have decided to do the same from the co-anchor chair during the drive. Read more

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Motian/Frisell/Lovano: Live at the Village Vanguard 9.3.08

September 3, 2008. Posted by Joshua Jackson.

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Listen to the archived concert event.
View photos from our night at the Village Vanguard.
Follow along on the live blog.
Check out the complete WBGO/NPR Music webcast series from the Vanguard.
-Josh

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Kenny Barron - Interview and Shuffle

August 27, 2008. Posted by Joshua Jackson.

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We're presenting pianist Kenny Barron tonight at the Village Vanguard. Barron's new recording, The Traveler, released yesterday. We talk about living with music, something that Kenny Barron has done for most of his life. Hear the honesty, humility, and everything else that makes Kenny Barron one of today's most well-regarded jazz musicians. It's all in this interview.

Now seems as good a time as any to tell you about an idea that has been germinating in my mind. I have been building a Frankenstein in WBGO's covert ops laboratory. It's a radio show/new media platform/chimera called Living With Music, and you will be hearing more about this in the coming months. One of the features is called Shuffle, where I invite a musician into the studio, ask them to bring their digital music player, set it to access their playlist randomly, and we improvise from there. I always thought it was a perfect vehicle for the broad listening habits of jazz musicians. Jazz covers of Sting and Radiohead, a string quartet playing a famous jazz tune, an original composition... that's just some of the stuff on Kenny Barron's iPod. So here's a sample of the feature, before it gets edited into a finely-crafted production for Living With Music. Let's call it a rough edit, if you care about the nitty gritty details of production terminology.
Check it out.
-Josh

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