Robert Glasper: The Inauguration Session

January 20, 2009. Posted by Joshua Jackson.

Add new comment | Filed under: Barack Obama, Inauguration Day, Interviews, jazz, Jazz Alive, Jazz Community, Listening Post, pianist, President, Robert Glasper, studio session, Studio Sessions, Trio, United States of America, Video, wbgo

Listen to the complete studio session:

Download a song created for Inauguration Day 2009.
(Right-click, then "save link as")

Check out an exclusive video of "Enoch's (Inaugural) Meditation" below:

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Studio Session: "Question of Perspective" by Gilfema + 2

January 13, 2009. Posted by Joshua Jackson.

Add new comment | Filed under: Gilfema WBGO Studio Session Lionel Loueke Ferenc Nemeth, Listening Post, Studio Sessions, Video

Gilfema + 2 visited the WBGO Studios yesterday. The core ensemble is guitarist Lionel Loueke (GILles), drummer FErenc Nemeth, and bassist MAssimo Biolcati. The trio of internationalists - they are natives of Benin, Hungary, and Italy/Sweden, respectively - recently released their second recording for the independent label ObliqSound, and they've added clarinet and bass clarinet to their already distinctive sound. French-born Dutch clarinetist Joris Roelofs subbed for Israeli Anat Cohen, and John Ellis (American, if the name didn't immediately give it away) added some interesting reed sonority to Gilfema. Check them out above, on Ferenc Nemeth's "Question of Perspective."
-Josh

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Kurt Rosenwinkel: Village Vanguard Bonus Content

January 7, 2009. Posted by Joshua Jackson.

Add new comment | Filed under: blogger, digital music, experimental concept, Interviews, jazz, Jazz Alive, kurt rosenwinkel, Listening Post, music player, podcast, random access, revolutionary event, sessions, solo performance, Studio Sessions, thriving on a riff, toronto, village vanguard

WBGO is presenting Kurt Rosenwinkel live at the Village Vanguard tonight. If you listen to the NPR Music Player before the show, you would discover this interview and solo performance I did with Kurt last year. You can also hear some of the content separately. Here's a random access sample of Kurt Rosenwinkel's digital music. Kurt also talked On the Record about some important sessions that he did NOT lead.
After the show is over, we'll be offering Kurt's Live at the Village Vanguard performance as a podcast. A pretty revolutionary and completely experimental concept for jazz, right? Our idea caught the attention of Toronto blogger Peter Hum, who wrote about tonight's show in Thriving on a Riff.

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